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Adults
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs Series)
by Richard K. Morgan
In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming...
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Adults
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire and chaos in his wake, weaves himself out of the shadows and into Moscow. Mikhail Bulgakov’s fantastical, funny,...
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Children 3-6 Children 6-10
Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille
by Jen Bryant (Author), Boris Kulikov (Illustrator)
Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read.
Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there...
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Teens & Young Adults
The Dark Prophecy (The Trials of Apollo)
by Rick Riordan
The Trials of Apollo, Book Two
Zeus has punished his son Apollo--god of the sun, music, archery, poetry, and more--by casting him down to earth in the form of a gawky, acne-covered sixteen-year-old mortal named Lester.
The...
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Teens & Young Adults
The Dangerous Art of Blending In
by Angelo Surmelis
Evan Panos's strict immigrant Greek mother sees him as a disappointment. His workaholic father is a staunch believer in avoiding any kind of conflict. And his best friend, Henry, has somehow become distractingly attractive over the summer....