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The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue by Karina Yan Glaser
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA New York Times best-selling series! Harlem's favorite family returns in the third installment in the Vanderbeerkers series, wherein the Vanderbeeker kids find themselves racing to save their mother's baking business from city closure. Illustrated with delightful black and white illustrations. For the Vanderbeeker kids of Harlem's 141st Street, spring break couldn't be off to a better start... -
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Hood Rat by K'wan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHood Rat (n.): A woman of questionable repute, one who has been known to "get around" in the 'hood.Yoshi is young, fine, and larcenous. She lives her life playing on men's hearts as well as their pockets. She learns the hard way that all that glitters isn't gold. Billy, a former high school basketball star, is at the end of her rope with the opposite sex... -
![Someone To Love Me by Anne Schraff]()
Someone To Love Me by Anne Schraff
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWelcome to Bluford High. This widely acclaimed teen series set in an urban high school features engaging, accessible writing and appealing, contemporary storylines.At first, Bobby Wallace was everything Cindy Gibson hoped for. He was friendly, seemingly mature, and hansome--the perfect escape from her problems in school and even bigger troubles at home... -
![Official Girl by Charmanie Saquea]()
Official Girl by Charmanie Saquea
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReneice “Neicey” Peake is a hardworking 18 year old that goes to school and works a 9 to 5. Losing her mother at a young age and never knowing who her father was forced her to be raised by her older brother, Ramone. Ramone did the best he could to keep his sister on the straight and narrow but, when he gets locked up, he leaves his sister to fend for herself... -
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![The Body on the Barstool by Lolli Powell]()
The Body on the Barstool by Lolli Powell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings2016 WISHING SHELF INDEPENDENT BOOK AWARDS BRONZE WINNER!New Yorker Erica "Ricki" Fontaine's n'er-do-well uncle has dropped dead and left her a dive bar in a small Ohio River town. With a lousy apartment, less-than-promising job prospects, and even worse romantic ones, the inheritance comes at just the right time. Ricki packs up her cat and heads for the Buckeye State... -
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Martin Marten by Brian Doyle
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDave is fourteen years old, eager, and headlong. He is about to start high school, which is scary and alluring. Martin is a pine marten, a small, muscled hunter of the deep woods. He is about to leave home for the first time, which is scary and thrilling...Categorized as:
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![When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà]()
When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsNear a village high in the Pyrenees, Domènec wanders across a ridge, fancying himself more a poet than a farmer, to “reel off his verses over on this side of the mountain.” He gathers black chanterelles, attends to a troubled cow. And then storm clouds swell, full of electrifying power. Reckless, gleeful, they release their bolts of lightning, one of which strikes Domènec. He dies... -
![Four Seasons in Japan by Nick Bradley]()
Four Seasons in Japan by Nick Bradley
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA heartwarming and profound novel about the power of books and connection between generations, that is also a love letter to Japan and its literature.Flo is sick of Tokyo.Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up and she's in a relationship that's run its course... -
![Pleasantview by Celeste Mohammed]()
Pleasantview by Celeste Mohammed
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCoconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these idyllic images represent the supposed easy life in Caribbean nations such as Trinidad and Tobago. However, the reality is far different for those who live there—a society where poverty and patriarchy savagely rule, and where love and revenge often go hand in hand... -
![Your Absence is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson]()
Your Absence is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most beloved novelists. A man comes to awareness in a church in rural Iceland, not knowing why he’s there or how he arrived... -
![The Dishwasher by Stéphane Larue]()
The Dishwasher by Stéphane Larue
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt’s winter in Montreal, 2002, when a graphic design student’s gambling addiction starts to drag him under... -
![Mink River by Brian Doyle]()
Mink River by Brian Doyle
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLike Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood and Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, Brian Doyle’s stunning fiction debut brings a town to life through the jumbled lives and braided stories of its people...Categorized as:
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![Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett]()
Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. The Starlings live in Everton, an ordinary enough New Hampshire town... -
![Wild Cat by Dandi Daley Mackall]()
Wild Cat by Dandi Daley Mackall
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI haven't done anything with my life. . . . I need to do something . . . like Mom and Dad and Hank do all the time. And I need to do it now.Meet 12-year-old Kat―short for Katharine. She thinks she has two weeks to do something worthy of being adopted by her wonderful foster family... -
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![Just Gus by McCall Hoyle]()
Just Gus by McCall Hoyle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsReturn to the world of devoted working dogs and the humans they love in a new book from the best-selling author of Stella. A boy and his dog learn that they are better together. Gus is a livestock guardian dog with one job—protecting his farm from coyotes and foxes. He likes keeping the sheep, the chickens, and his humans safe, and he’s very good at it...Categorized as:
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![Nero Corleone: A Cat's Story by Elke Heidenreich]()
Nero Corleone: A Cat's Story by Elke Heidenreich
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNero Corleone isn't your average cat. He's much worse. On a farm somewhere in Italy, a black kitten named Nero reigns supreme. There's not one animal on the farm that doesn't do exactly as Nero orders, even the dog. Then one day, Nero visits the house on the nearby hill, where a young German couple is vacationing, and there he has his first taste of the good life...Categorized as:
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![A Cat Called Alfie by Rachel Wells]()
A Cat Called Alfie by Rachel Wells
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings**The follow-up to the smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller, ‘Alfie the Doorstep Cat’. Alfie’s back - and more adventurous than ever!** Edgar Road used to be your typical London street; a road full of people who barely said a word to one another. Then Alfie came along – a big grey ball of fur who changed the lives of every family he met, and brought a community together... -
![Runaway by Dandi Daley Mackall]()
Runaway by Dandi Daley Mackall
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA new series by Dandi Daley Mackall, author of the best-selling Winnie the Horse Gentler series!I've run away seven times―never once to anything, just away from. Maybe that's why they call me a “runaway,” and not a “run-to.”Meet 16-year-old Dakota Brown. She used to love all things “horse” until she lost everything, including hope...Categorized as:
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![The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett]()
The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA darkly comic and warm-hearted novel about an old man on a cross-country mission to reunite with his high school crush—bringing together his adult daughter, two orphaned kids, and a cat who can predict death—from the beloved author of Rabbit Cake and Unlikely AnimalsAt sixty-three years old, million-dollar lottery winner PJ Halliday would be the luckiest man in Pondville, Massachusetts, if it...Categorized as:
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![The Plover by Brian Doyle]()
The Plover by Brian Doyle
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA compelling, marvelous novel by the acclaimed author of Mink River Declan O Donnell has left Oregon aboard his boat, the Plover, to escape the life that’s so troubled him on land. He sets course west into the Pacific in search of solitude...Categorized as:
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![A Fresh Beginning & Murder by Miranda Brickett]()
A Fresh Beginning & Murder by Miranda Brickett
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBook 1 of the Prairie Crocus Cozy Mystery Series.Clean, wholesome fun (& murder) for all ages!When Claudia Porter inherits a rundown farmhouse in a quaint prairie town, she hopes it will provide her with the fresh start she so desperately needs. Except then she discovers a body. Before she knows it, she's the prime suspect in a mysterious murder... -
![The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey]()
The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEverywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pipits – but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree and we’re staying and it is ours and you need to leave and now.Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Marnie, and this is where his story might have ended...Categorized as:
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![Littered with Trouble by Eryn Scott]()
Littered with Trouble by Eryn Scott
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLouisa Henry has had the worst year. She never imagined she would be a widow before the age of forty. To cope with the sudden loss of her husband, Lou moves across the country to live near her best friend in a town as cute as a button. Even though it means quitting her fancy New York editor job, she now owns the bookstore of her dreams. Well, almost... -
![The Hundred Names of Darkness by Nilanjana Roy]()
The Hundred Names of Darkness by Nilanjana Roy
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the sequel to her critically acclaimed, bestselling novel, The Wildings, Nilanjana Roy takes us back to the Delhi neighbourhood of Nizamuddin and its unforgettable cats - Mara, Southpaw, Katar, Hulo and Beraal. As they recover slowly from their terrible battle with the feral cats, they find their beloved locality changing around them...Categorized as:
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![Mud-Puddle Poodle by Tui T. Sutherland]()
Mud-Puddle Poodle by Tui T. Sutherland
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn exciting new series about those adorable pets that just won't behave -- it's Marley & Me for middle-grade readers!Rosie loves everything to be pretty and organized, so when she's finally allowed to get her own dog, she chooses an adorable, precious little poodle...Categorized as:
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![Duncton Stone by William Horwood]()
Duncton Stone by William Horwood
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUnder the cruel leadership of Quail, sectarian Newborns have taken control of the key systems of Moledom. But the loyal followers of the Stone have not given up. In Duncton Wood, home of spiritual truth and liberty, resistance lives on. Its champion is the timid Library aide Pumpkin, while in holy Uffington, Fieldfare inspires revolt...Categorized as:
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![Coyote Autumn by Bill Wallace]()
Coyote Autumn by Bill Wallace
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"You Can't Keep A Coyote! They're Wild...." Brad has always wanted a dog, so when he catches the little coyote, he decides to keep it. He couldn't have a dog when his family lived in a Chicago apartment, but now that they've moved to rural Oklahoma anything seems possible. Even rescuing an orphaned coyote pup...and keeping it a secret from his parents...Categorized as:
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![Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda]()
Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTender and intense, Honeybees and Distant Thunder is the unflinching story of love, courage and rivalry as three young people come to understand what it means to truly be a friend.In a small coastal town just a stone's throw from Tokyo, a prestigious piano competition is underway...Categorized as:
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![Someone to Look Up To by Jean Gill]()
Someone to Look Up To by Jean Gill
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBy IPPY and Global Ebook Award Winner Jean Gill A dog's life in the south of France. From puppyhood, Sirius the Pyrenean Mountain Dog has been trying to understand his humans and train them with kindness.How this led to their divorce he has no idea. More misunderstandings take Sirius to Death Row in an animal shelter, as a so-called dangerous dog learning survival tricks from the other inmates...Categorized as:
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![Transparent City by Ondjaki]()
Transparent City by Ondjaki
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn a crumbling apartment block in the Angolan city of Luanda, families work, laugh, scheme, and get by. In the middle of it all is the melancholic Odonato, nostalgic for the country of his youth and searching for his lost son. As his hope drains away and as the city outside his doors changes beyond all recognition, Odonato’s flesh becomes transparent and his body increasingly weightless...Categorized as:
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![Nop's Trials by Donald McCaig]()
Nop's Trials by Donald McCaig
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHere is the story of a family and two remarkable individuals -- Lewis Burkholder, a farmer in Virginia, and his young Border Collie, Nop. When the dog is stolen, Nop embarks on an ordeal of peril and hardship that he survives only through courage and love... -
![My Favorite Mistake by Georgina Bloomberg, Catherine Hapka]()
My Favorite Mistake by Georgina Bloomberg, Catherine Hapka
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTommi, Zara, and Kate are all elite riders on the A Circuit. Tommi, the billionaire heiress, is training a young horse to prove she can make horses a real career. But when her new beau, Alex, convinces her to skip a horse show to party in the Hamptons, the results could be disastrous. Zara, the celebutante wild child, is finally taking her riding seriously... -
![Il gatto che aggiustava i cuori by Rachel Wells]()
Il gatto che aggiustava i cuori by Rachel Wells
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis title will appeal to all fans of 'A Street Cat Named Bob'... -
![Fup by Jim Dodge]()
Fup by Jim Dodge
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFirst published in 1983, this story is set in the coastal hills of Northern California between 1880 and the present. The tale revolves around three characters: two humans and one duck. Jim Dodge is the author of "Not Fade Away" and "Stone Junction"... -
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![Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff]()
Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt is a literary event when a genuinely new fictional voice comes along. When that voice achieves its newness not through a certain formal facility but through the freshness of its vision, there is truly something to celebrate. Matt Ruff was only twenty-two when Fool on the Hill was first published, but with his novel he gave us a story that won over readers of every persuasion... -
![For Love of a Horse by Patricia Leitch]()
For Love of a Horse by Patricia Leitch
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook by Leitch,...Categorized as:
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![Where the Irises Bloom by Will Lowrey]()
Where the Irises Bloom by Will Lowrey
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the big city, everyone has a story — even the lost souls.Life on the streets can be tough for a kitten. Between neighborhood hooligans, trains and traffic whizzing past, unforgiving weather, and grumpy raccoons competing over scraps of food in the garbage cans, every day is a struggle to survive... -
![The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek]()
The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek's classic story collection. A child's collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly rightfielder's inexplicable death turns him into a martyr to baseball. Strains of Chopin floating down the tenement airshaft are transformed into a mysterious anthem of loss...Categorized as:
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![Gaby, Lost and Found by Angela Cervantes]()
Gaby, Lost and Found by Angela Cervantes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne amazing forever home for one amazing sixth grader."My name is Gaby, and I'm looking for a home where I can invite my best friend over and have a warm breakfast a couple of times a week. Having the newest cell phone or fancy clothes isn't important, but I'd like to have a cat that I can talk to when I'm home alone."Gaby Ramirez Howard loves volunteering at the local animal shelter...Categorized as:
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![Solomon's Tale: A Wise Cat Helps a Family in Crisis by Sheila Jeffries]()
Solomon's Tale: A Wise Cat Helps a Family in Crisis by Sheila Jeffries
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSolomon's Tale is a gripping story with strong emotion, humor, and gritty relationship themes. Sheila Jeffries has also woven a thread of spirituality throughout the tale, which focuses on reincarnation, angels, and how the soul survives death...Categorized as:
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![The Plot Chickens by Mary Jane Auch]()
The Plot Chickens by Mary Jane Auch
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHenrietta loves to read. When she clucks buk, buk, buk at the library, the librarian knows exactly what to recommend. Then Henrietta decides to write a book. With the help of her three aunties, she hatches a plot...Categorized as:
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![The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak]()
The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn a train filled with quietly sleeping passengers, a young man’s life is forever altered when he is miraculously seen by a blind man. In a quiet town an American teacher who has lost her Japanese lover to death begins to lose her own self. On a remote road amid fallow rice fields, four young friends carefully take their own lives—and in that moment they become almost as one...Categorized as:
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![Lety Out Loud by Angela Cervantes]()
Lety Out Loud by Angela Cervantes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReturn to the animal shelter featured in Gaby, Lost and Found, with a novel about friendship and finding your voice.Can Lety find her voice before it's too late?Lety Muñoz's first language is Spanish, and she likes to take her time putting her words together... -
![Oliver: The Cat Who Saved Christmas by Sheila Norton]()
Oliver: The Cat Who Saved Christmas by Sheila Norton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA friend who brings light at the darkest of times... Oliver the cat is a timid little thing, and rarely ventures from his home in the Foresters’ Arms.Then his life changes dramatically when a fire breaks out in the pub kitchen and he is left homeless and afraid. But, with the kindness of the humans around him, he soon learns to trust again... -
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![May We Shed These Human Bodies by Amber Sparks]()
May We Shed These Human Bodies by Amber Sparks
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings***Best Small Press Debut of 2012 -- The Atlantic Wire***May We Shed These Human Bodies peers through vast spaces and skies with the world's most powerful telescope to find humanity: wild and bright and hard as diamonds...Categorized as:
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![Off Course by Georgina Bloomberg, Catherine Hapka]()
Off Course by Georgina Bloomberg, Catherine Hapka
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEquestrians Tommi, Kate, and Zara are expected to perform at every horse show big or small. So with the biggest show of the season just weeks away, they should be in prep mode. But that's easier said than done. Kate and Zara are both dealing with boy drama. And a road trip steals Tommi's focus... -
![The Desperate Adventures of Zeno and Alya by Jane Kelley]()
The Desperate Adventures of Zeno and Alya by Jane Kelley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn orphaned African grey parrot who can speak 127 words. A girl so sick, she has forgotten what it means to try. Fate––and a banana nut muffin––bring them together...Categorized as:
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![Talitha Running Horse by Antje Babendererde]()
Talitha Running Horse by Antje Babendererde
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVon der Website des Autors:Die dreizehnjährige Tally, eine Lakota Halbblutindianerin, liebt Pferde über alles. Aber ihr Vater, mit dem sie im Reservat lebt, ist zu arm, um sich Pferde zu halten. Als in die Nachbarschaft ihrer Tante Charlene eine Familie zieht, die Appaloosas züchtet, lernt Tally endlich reiten...Categorized as:
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![The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud]()
The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWinner of the National Book Award for FictionBernard Malamud's first book of short stories, The Magic Barrel, has been recognized as a classic from the time it was published in 1959...Categorized as:
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![The Christmas Cat by Melody Carlson]()
The Christmas Cat by Melody Carlson
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter years abroad, Garrison Brown returns home to Vancouver to build a new life. When his beloved grandmother passes away a few weeks before Christmas, Garrison goes to her house to sort out her belongings, including six cats who need new homes. While Garrison hopes to dispense with the task quickly, his grandmother's instructions don't allow for speed...
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