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Series
Nate the Great volume 26
Publisher
Yearling Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Nate and his dog Sludge help Rosamond discover who has been tearing pages out of her books.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The rules of summer book club are simple: No sad books, No pressure, Yessssss, wine! Besties Laurel and Paris are excited to welcome Cassie to the group. This year, the book club is all about fill-your-heart reads, an escape from the chaos of the everyday--running a business, raising a family, juggling a hundred to-dos. Even the dog is demanding (but the bestest boy). Since Laurel's divorce, she feels like the Worst Mom Ever. Her skepticism of men...
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--
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Series
Language
English
Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. Set during World War II in Germany, Markus...
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Language
English
Description
January Scaller is the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke. In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn't the bustling hub she's been expecting. But in the face of German attacks, she's determined to make it a place where all of their neighbors feel safe and welcome. Katie Upwood is thrilled to be working at the library too, though she's only there until she heads off to university in the fall. But after the death of her beau on the front lines and unexpected...
10) The magic fish
Author
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Real life isn't a fairytale. But Ti��en still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Ti��en, he doesn't even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he's going through? Is there a way to tell them he's gay?"--
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
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Series
Ascendance of a bookworm (Manga) volume 1
Publisher
J-Novel Club
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Myne makes progress with her book-making endeavors, all so that she can read them herself. Her sickness turns out to be the Devouring after all, and she learns that curing herself will cost a lot of money. She ultimately decides to keep living as she has been thus far, selling her knowledge from her past life to make money. But despite her enthusiasm, the Devouring eats away at her more by the day, until she ends up collapsing in the middle of a...
Author
Series
Ascendance of a bookworm (Manga) volume 1
Publisher
J-Novel Club LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Lutz gets into an argument with his parents and runs away from home, furious that they refuse to accept him becoming a merchant. Their dispute quickly reaches the Gilberta Company, and only when Myne and the High Priest arrange a discussion between the involved parties is the matter peacefully resolved. At last, Myne can return her focus to making books-or so she thinks. After taking Wilma and Rosina as attendants, she finds herself dealing with...
Author
Series
Ascendance of a bookworm (Manga) volume 1
Publisher
J-Novel Club LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Myne resolved to make her own books two years ago, and now she's finally finished her first one! Lutz and Tuuli join the ecstatic bookworm's celebrations, but their time together is cut short by winter's arrival. Myne needs to endure the bitter season in the temple, away from her family--and her first job as a blue shrine maiden is no walk in the park."--
15) The starless sea
Author
Language
English
Description
"Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a rare book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues -- a bee, a key, and a sword -- that lead...
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