Laurence Bouvard
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Never Let Me Go meets The Giver in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems.
Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Only the Wanderers — chosen male descendants of the...
Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Only the Wanderers — chosen male descendants of the...
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Maddie is a hard working high school senior, waiting to hear from the colleges she applied to, when on a whim she buys a lottery ticket and wins; suddenly she is the center of everybody's attention, including her struggling family, and not necessarily in a good way--only Seth Nguyen, her charming coworker at the local zoo, seems oblivious to her luck, and Maddie is not sure whether telling him will change their developing relationship.
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"Plagued by anxiety and a persistent feeling that there was more to life than paychecks and mortgages, Kim and her husband decide to uproot their lives and travel around the world. Just before their departure, they're given an unexpected gift that will shape their adventures: a yellow envelope containing a check and instructions to give the money away to those they encounter on their journey. Through Ecuador, India, Nepal, and beyond, the pair encounter...
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When her aunt gets into a car accident, Anise is forced to leave her friends and surfing behind to spend the summer in Nebraska to help care for her cousins. In doing so, she forms familial bonds and new friendships that challenge her feelings of abandonment by her mother. When Lincoln, a one-armed skater, dares her to swap her surfboard for a skateboard, Anise isn't one to shy away from a challenge.
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This winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize and national bestseller is “an innovative reimagining of the family saga . . . Celestial Bodies is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets" (The New York Times Book Review).
In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after...
In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after...
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"Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights the contradiction of the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants with the reality of racism and fear--both here and back home"--
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"Young and in love, their lives ahead of them, Tami Oldham and her fiancé Richard Sharp set sail from Tahiti under brilliant blue skies, with Tami's hometown of San Diego as their ultimate destination. But the two free spirits and avid sailors couldn't anticipate that less than two weeks into their voyage, they would sail directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. They found themselves battling pounding rain, waves...
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Car-En, a ringstation anthropologist on her first Earth field assignment, observes a Viking-like village in the Harz mountains. As Car-En secretly observes the Happdal villagers, she begins to see them as more than research subjects (especially Esper, a handsome bow-hunter). When Esper's sister is taken by an otherwordly sword-wielding white-haired man, she can no longer stand by as a passive witness. Knowing the decision might end her career, she...
9) The Guardian
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"The Sky Woman: From Ringworlds to Earth, an Epic Struggle of Love and Survival was so much fun, I'm already looking forward to its sequel, The Guardian." -Cemetery Dance Reclaimed Earth Book 2 In the year 2737, Earth is mostly depopulated in the wake of a massive supervolcano, but civilization and culture are preserved in vast orbiting ringstations. Tem, the nine-year-old son of a ringstation anthropologist and a Happdal bow-hunter, wants nothing...
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"September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. Gestapo boss Obersturmbannführer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester. The war's outcome is far from certain. Diplomats, refugees, and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, at one fifth of a square mile the world's smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome. A small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest is drawn...
11) Little women
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Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England. Born into poverty yet taught to live generously by their mother, the sisters encounter the classic struggles all girls face.
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THE GREAT WHITE BEAR Poum stuffs his face with bad berries and gets sick. Wanji and Cinksi head off on an expedition to find the plant remedy that only grows at the foot of the Spirit Bear cave. BEARS WILL BE BEARS Poum refuses to hibernate and wants to play instead. Can he fight his natural instinct to sleep or will he get himself into a world of trouble?
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NOSE FOR DANGER: Tork the puma is on the prowl and the wolf-cubs are forbidden from leaving the den. Wanji disobeys anyway and heads out with Cinksi and Wahi. The other wolf-cubs follow their trail to find them before their parents get home. ONE OF US: Cinksi, the young wildcat, wants to become a wolf-cub to be a part of the clan and be among friends.
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THE GREAT BERRY RACE: The wolf-cubs have organized a race to find the juicy berries Poum has mentioned. The winner who arrives first gets the most berries. Poum has to decide whether to continue to cheat or help a friend in need. EARTHQUAKE: An earthquake has destroyed Tap-Tap's dam and the young beaver is at risk of being easy prey. The wolf-cubs help her to rebuild her habitat.
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A QUESTION OF TERRITORY: Pahin accidentally attracts the renegade wolves after two wolf-cubs get into a fight over territory. They all learn that when friends disagree, it's their enemies that benefit. GOING FISHIN': While fishing, Cinksi and Wanji take cover from a looming storm. After the storm passes, they discover Tap-Tap stuck in a tree. They must save their beaver friend.
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SUMMER STORM: A snowstorm has appeared in the middle of the summer! Winona, a young adult she-wolf, is buried beneath the snow after saving the wolf-cubs. Our wolf-cubs must help save her! TOPA TO THE RESCUE: After challenging her sister Topa to cross over a waterfall because she thinks she is too careful, Yamni gets carried off by the river. It is up to Topa to save her sister.
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PAHIN THE RECKLESS: After Wanji makes fun of Pahin the porcupine for acting scared, Yamni challenges them to cross through the geysers and prove that girls are just as brave as boys. ON THE TRAIL: Because of an argument, Yamni and Wanji cannot join in on the hunting training. Luta and Ska, their cousins, take advantage of this to scare their friend Moose, the young elk.
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VOICE OF THE MOUNTAIN: It's a scorching summer and Cinksi has discovered a mountain that talks, located right in the territory of Tork the puma. Our friends discover the echo and play in spite of the heat. DELICIOUS BUT DANGEROUS: Pahin, the porcupine, is knocking down trees to pass the time in the summer heat. Wanji and his friends try to find him a place where his quills will not be a danger to them.
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TALL STORIES: Pahin tells a story of a scary beast guarding a fabulous cave. Wanji and Cinksi make Pahin take them to find the cave, but does it really exist? A DIFFICULT DECISION: Moose runs away because he is ashamed of his father, the head of the heard, who is refusing to fight a young rebel elk. All of his friends search to find him. He discovers that sometimes fighting is not the answer.
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THE FLOOD: Tap-Tap causes a flood and chases Akicita away from its territory. Ever since, the pack of Wicasa is mysteriously attacked and the region becomes very dangerous. SAVE TATONKA!: When warning Wanji and his friends that the block of ice they are playing on will soon break, Tatonka gets stuck trying to save Moose. Our heroes must do everything possible to save him!