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1) The hobbit, or, there and back again

Author

Tolkien, J.R.R

Series

Lord of the rings
Hobbit
Middle-Earth Universe

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Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon. Bilbo reluctantly joins their quest, unaware that on his...

2) A court of thorns and roses

Author

Maas, Sarah J

Series

A court of thorns and roses volume 1

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Book, eBook

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Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from stories, nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a fiery passion, the threats against the faerie lands grow: Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose Tamlin forever.

3) Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone

Author

Rowling, J. K

Series

Harry Potter (MinaLima edition) volume 1
Year ... at Hogwarts volume 1

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Colorado Blue Spruce
List
NYT - Children’s Series

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Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

4) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Author

Rowling, J. K

Series

Harry Potter (Original series) volume 7
Give-a-gift 2019
Year ... at Hogwarts volume 7

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With the future of the wizard world at stake, teenaged wizard Harry Potter enters into his final battle against the evil Lord Voldemort. Potter turns to friends, teachers, and other members of the Order of the Phoenix for help in defeating Voldemort's forces. The discovery of spies within the Order forces Harry and the others to choose their allies carefully.

5) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Author

Rowling, J.K

Series

Harry Potter (Original series) volume 6

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"The war against Voldemort is not going well: even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of The Daily Prophet looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet... As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate, and lose a few eyebrows in the process. The Weasley twins expand their business. Teenagers...

6) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Author

Rowling, J.K

Series

Harry Potter (Original series) volume 5
The Harry Potter volume Year 5

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There is a Door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror? Here are just a few things on Harry's mind: A Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey. A venomous, disgruntled house-elf. Ron as keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. The looming terror of the end-of-term Ordinary Wizarding Level exams ... and...

7) The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Author

Twain, Mark

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Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic...

8) Harry Potter and the goblet of fire

Author

Rowling, J.K

Series

Harry Potter (Illustrated series) volume 4

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Harry Potter wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. He wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush (and maybe do more than dream). He wants to find out about the mysterious event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for a hundred years. He wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. Unfortunately for Harry Potter,...

9) Treasure Island

Author

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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"Young Jim Hawkins and his friends set sail for Treasure Island, hoping to find the buried loot of Captin Flint, fiercest of all the pirates. But, unknown to them, the crew of their own ship is made up of Flint's former crew, led by the evil one-legged pirate Long John Silver. Once on the island Jim and his friends must find the buried treasure and escape before the pirates capture them. Robert Louis Stevenson's timeless tale of greed and gold remains...

10) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Author

Rowling, J. K

Series

Harry Potter (Original series) volume 3

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Colorado Blue Spruce

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During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.

11) Catching fire

Author

Collins, Suzanne

Series

Hunger Games trilogy volume 2
The Hunger Games

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By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

12) The Hunger Games

Author

Collins, Suzanne

Series

Hunger Games trilogy volume 1
The Hunger Games volume no. 1
Thorndike Press large print The literacy bridge

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Colorado Blue Spruce
NYT - Children’s Series

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In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the other districts in line by forcing them to send one boy and one girl to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death. Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is selected for the games. But she has been close to death before, and survival,...

13) The book thief

Author

Zusak, Markus

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International Jewish Day (August 2, 2021)
Jewish American Heritage
NYT - Young Adult Paperback

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Death himself narrates the World War II-era story of Liesel Meminger from the time she is taken, at age nine, to live in Molching, Germany, with a foster family in a working-class neighborhood of tough kids, acid-tongued mothers, and loving fathers who earn their living by the work of their hands. The child arrives having just stolen her first bookalthough she has not yet learned how to readand her foster father uses it, The Gravediggers...

14) Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets

Author

Rowling, J. K

Series

Harry Potter (MinaLima edition) volume 2
Year ... at Hogwarts volume 2

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"For Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls' bathroom. But then real trouble begins--someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects ... Harry Potter himself?"--Page...

15) Insurgent

Author

Roth, Veronica

Series

Divergent trilogy volume 2

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Book, CD, eBook, Large Print, Local Library Checkout Only

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"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"--

16) Throne of Glass

Author

Maas, Sarah J

Series

Throne of glass novels volume 1

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Book, CD, eBook

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After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.

17) Anne of Green Gables

Author

Montgomery, L. M

Series

Anne of Green Gables volume 1
Baby's Classics
Great classics for children
Mackin classics
More Series...

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Testing for Tom Sawyer bug

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As soon as Anne Shirley arrived at the snug, white farmhouse called Green Gables, she knew she wanted to stay forever. But would the Cuthberts send her back to the orphanage? Anne knows she's not what they expected -- a skinny girl with decidedly red hair and a temper to match. If only she could convince them to let her stay, she'd try very hard not to keep rushing headlong into scrapes or blurt out the very first thing she had to say. Anne was...

18) Lord of the flies: a novel

Author

Golding, William

Series

Penguin great books of the 20th century
A Putnam Capricorn book Cap 14
Penguin classics

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Nobel Laureates

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As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island has been labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, and even a vision of the apocalypse. But above all, it has earned its place as one of...

19) The ballad of songbirds and snakes

Author

Collins, Suzanne

Series

Hunger Games trilogy volume prequel

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Revisit the world of Panem sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus...