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1. Diper överlöde

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Author:
Kinney, Jeff
NoveList Series:
Diary of a wimpy kid
Series:
Diary of a wimpy kid
Lexile measure:
1060L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Tagging along with his brother Rodrick's band, Löded Diper, Greg gets more than he bargained for when he gets a backstage pass to the rock 'n' roll lifestyle and wonders if he can help them become the legends they think they are.

2. The Paris apartment: a novel

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Author:
Foley, Lucy (Novelist)
Language:
English
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3.9 stars
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Jess needs a fresh start. She's broke and alone, and she's just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn't sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn't say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up, to find a very nice apartment, (could Ben really have afforded this?) he's not there. The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig...

3. The Lincoln highway

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Author:
Towles, Amor
Series:
Random House large print
Read with Jenna
Language:
English
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3.9 stars
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"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...

4. This tender land: a novel

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Author:
Krueger, William Kent
Series:
Instant volume club
Thorndike Press large print basic
Language:
English
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4.4 stars
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1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...

5. Cutting for stone: a novel

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Author:
Verghese, Abraham, 1955-
Series:
Thorndike Press large print core
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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"A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel -- an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with...

6. Tales of a fourth grade nothing / by Judy Blume

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Author:
Blume, Judy
NoveList Series:
Fudge books volume 1.
Series:
Fudge books volume 1
Lexile measure:
470L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Life with his little brother, Fudge, makes Peter Hatcher feel like a fourth grade nothing. Whether Fudge is throwing a temper tantrum in a shoe store, smearing mashed potatoes on the walls at Hamburger Heaven, or trying to fly, he's never far from trouble. He's an almost three- year-old terror who gets away with everything, and Peter's had it up to here! When Fudge walks off with Dribble, Peter's pet turtle, it's the last straw. Peter has put up with...

7. The Outsiders

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Author:
Hinton, S. E.
Series:
2018 Great American Read
Penguin classics
Lexile measure:
750L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society. "No one ever said life was easy. But Ponyboy is pretty sure that he's got things figured out. He knows that he can count on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. And he knows that he can count on his friends—true friends who would do anything for him, like Johnny and Two-Bit. But not on...

8. Winter turning

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Author:
Sutherland, Tui, 1978-
NoveList Series:
Wings of fire. Original series volume 7.
Series:
Wings of fire. Original volume 7
Lexile measure:
790L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Winter has been a disappointment to his royal IceWing family his whole life. When his sister, Icicle, runs away from Jade Mountain Academy, fleeing terrible crimes and possibly planning to commit more, Winter knows that they both need a second chance to make things right - if only he can find her. Winter's new clawmates, Moon, Qibli, and Kinkajou, won't let him make this dangerous journey alone. They don't seem to understand that IceWings, the most...

9. The truth about the Devlins

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Author:
Scottoline, Lisa
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English
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4.5 stars
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"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...

10. East of Eden

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Author:
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968
Series:
Penguin twentieth-century classics
Oprah's book club
Penguin Audio Classics
Lexile measure:
700L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
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The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900's in Northern California. East of Eden is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. Adapted for the 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan introducing James Dean and read by thousands as the book that brought...

11. Sparring partners

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Author:
Grisham, John
NoveList Series:
Jake Brigance novels
Series:
Jake Brigance novels
Pub. Date:
[2022]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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"Homecoming takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again--until...

12. The summons

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Author:
Grisham, John
Lexile measure:
900L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Knowing that the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the elder, a Virginia law professor, newly single, still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. Forrest is Ray’s younger brother, the family’s black sheep. The summons is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study....

13. Everyone in my family has killed someone

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Author:
Stevenson, Benjamin
NoveList Series:
Ernest Cunningham mysteries volume 1
Series:
Ernest Cunningham mysteries volume 1
Language:
English
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3.1 stars
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Knives Out and Clue meet Agatha Christie and The Thursday Murder Club in this fiendishly clever blend of classic and modern murder mystery. Ernie Cunningham, crime fiction aficionado, is a reluctant guest at his family reunion. Family reunions aren't for everyone, of course. But Ern's part of a notorious crime family--and three years ago, he witnessed his brother kill a man and immediately turned him in to the police. Now Ern's brother is being released...

14. The man in the iron mask

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Author:
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870
NoveList Series:
Three musketeers series volume 6.
Series:
Three musketeers volume 6
Lexile measure:
930L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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A simple retelling of the four Musketeers' final adventure during which they plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille believed to be Louis' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.

15. Mi hermano mayor

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Author:
Stark, Ulf, 1944-2017
Series:
Panorama.Libri inchiesta.Serie Oro
Barco de vapor volume 7
Publisher:
Ediciones SM
Pub. Date:
[1996]
Language:
Spanish
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16. The Burgess boys: a novel

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Author:
Strout, Elizabeth
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English
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3.1 stars
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Haunted by a freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a Legal Aid attorney who idolizes Jim, has always taken it in stride. But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan, the Burgess...

17. The escape

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Author:
Baldacci, David
NoveList Series:
John Puller novels volume 3.
Series:
John Puller novels volume 3
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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"When John Puller's older brother Robert inexplicably escapes from the military's most secure prison, where he's being held for national security crimes, Puller finds himself part of an investigation to hunt down his own brother. As he digs more deeply into the case, Puller discovers troubling details about his brother's conviction and that someone is out there who doesn't want the truth to ever come out." --

18. The beached ones

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Author:
Story, Colleen M., 1968-
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English
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"Daniel and his younger brother grew up in an abusive home. Daniel escaped. Now an established stunt rider, he intends to go back to rescue his brother. But then one jump goes horribly wrong . . . He recovers to find himself in Iowa, unscathed, yet his life has drastically changed. His best friend won't answer his calls. Even his girlfriend is hiding something. Increasingly terrified, he clings to the one thing he knows: He must pick up his brother...

19. The Stanislaski brothers: Mikhail and Alex

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Author:
Roberts, Nora
Publisher:
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date:
[2000]
Language:
English
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5 stars
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20. Carta sobre los ciegos para uso de los que ven

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Author:
Bellatin, Mario, 1960-
Series:
Narrativa hispánica
Publisher:
Alfaguara
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
Spanish
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Este libro es la evidencia de cómo la escritura se convierte en el recurso último para sobrevivir, cuando una palabra condenada, ciega y sorda, compartida entre dos hermanos ingresados en una institución -la Colonia de Alienados Etchepare- sostiene un mundo imposible, como el actual, volviéndolo verosímil. Se precisa una elocuencia casi metafísica para producir el diálogo que les permite ser parte de la vida; sin embargo, ambos deben asistir...
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