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"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...
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"Time is running out for the Peculiar Children. With a dangerous madman on the loose and their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom are forced to stage the most daring of rescue missions. They'll travel through a war-torn landscape, meet new allies, and face greater dangers than ever. Will Jacob come into his own as the hero his fellow Peculiars know him to be? (Features more than 50 all-new Peculiar photographs.)"...
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"In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility--much like Maggie Hughes' parents. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don't include marriage to the poor French boy the next farm over. But Maggie's heart is captured by Gabriel Phénix. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents send the baby Elodie to an orphanage where she receives horrible treatment. Seventeen years later,...
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Angels walking ; 3
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"Despite needing a heart transplant, Mary Catherine moves to Uganda to work at an orphanage. The only problem is baseball player Marcus Dillinger, with whom she never meant to fall in love. Neither Marcus nor Mary Catherine's friends Tyler Ames and Sami Dawson know just how serious her condition is. Ultimately his correspondence with Mary Catherine leads him on a desperate mission to rescue her and get her to a US hospital. Meanwhile, Sami and Tyler...
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"...more than a page-turning narrative; it's an embrace of the Kinyarwanda greeting amahoro—'peace.'"—Oprah.com
An evocative page-turner and an eye-opening meditation on the ways we survive profoundly painful memories and negotiate the complexities of love."—Wally Lamb, author of I Know This Much is True
Finalist – National Reading Group—Great Group Reads 2018
Finalist – Foreword...
An evocative page-turner and an eye-opening meditation on the ways we survive profoundly painful memories and negotiate the complexities of love."—Wally Lamb, author of I Know This Much is True
Finalist – National Reading Group—Great Group Reads 2018
Finalist – Foreword...
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