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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 608
Format: Paperback

When Death has a story to tell, you listen.

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.

Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager...

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Me Before You: A Novel

Jojo Moyes - Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 384
Format: Book

They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . .

Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life - steady boyfriend, close family - who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working...

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The Art of Racing in the Rain

Garth Stein - Harper
Pages: 321
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling novel from Garth Stein-a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of a dog's efforts to hold together his family in the face of a divisive custody battle.

Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly...

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A Man Called Ove: A Novel

Fredrik Backman - Atria Books
Pages: 352
Format: Book

Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon - the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell." But must Ove be bitter...

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Room: A Novel

Emma Donoghue - Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition
Format: Book

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up its where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.Room is home to Jack,...

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The Road

Cormac McCarthy - Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Book

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. 

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls...

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Atonement: A Novel

Ian McEwan - Alexandria Library
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with...
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MARLEY & ME.

John Grogan - William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Book

The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family in the making and thewondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life.

John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world....

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