The Bad Times of Irma Baumlein
By: Carol Ryrie Brink
3.81
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Irma's lie about having the biggest doll in the world leads her into deeper and deeper trouble
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1. A Good Marriage
By: Stephen King , Jessica Hecht
3.84
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
What happens when, on a perfectly ordinary evening, all the things you believed in and took for gra… read more
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- fiction
"Time takes it all in the end..."-Stephen King, A Good Marriage
2. Open
By: J.R. Moehringer , Andre Agassi
4.31
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever … read more
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"Control what you can control."-J.R. Moehringer, Open
"We talk about things. We talk about nothing."-J.R. Moehringer, Open
"The most animated talks we have are about…things"-J.R. Moehringer, Open
"When they hand me the trophy I think about vomiting into it"-J.R. Moehringer, Open
3. Jane and Prudence
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reun… read more
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4. The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
4.49
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War 2, from the acclaime… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
"I don't want to just survive"-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
"This book made me love reading."-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
"Saying something stupid doesn't make you stupid," Susan said. " Luckily for all of us."-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
"We'd escaped. Mam, Hitlers bombs, my one-room prison. Everything. Crazy or not, I was free."-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
5. The Borrowers Afield (The Borrowers #2)
By: Joe Krush , Beth Krush , Mary Norton
3.72
Format: None pages, Paperback
Driven out of their cozy house by the rat catcher, the Borrowers find themselves homeless. Worse, t… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
6. The Stormy Petrel
By: Mary Stewart
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rose Fenemore is taking a break from her Cambridge teaching post in an isolated cottage on the isla… read more
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7. Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
This Nebula Award-winning sequel to Parable of the Sower continues the story of Lauren Olamina in s… read more
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8. What Katy Did (Carr Family, #1)
By: Susan Coolidge
2.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Grade 5-8-Twelve-year-old Katy is constantly making and quickly breaking resolutions about how she … read more
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9. Heidi
By: Johanna Spyri , Beverly Cleary , None
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness t… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
"...if you take big steps and climb with all your little might!"-Johanna Spyri, Heidi
"Let's enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot."-Johanna Spyri, Heidi
"we could not pray for anything any more, because we would feel that He always knows of something better."-Johanna Spyri, Heidi
"God does not give us what we ask for, even when we pray and pray and pray, if He knows there is something better for us."-Johanna Spyri, Heidi
10. Beezus and Ramona (Ramona, #1)
By: Beverly Cleary
3.15
Format: 252 pages,
Nine-year-old Beezus Quimby has her hands full with her little sister, Ramona. Sure, other people h… read more
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11. Prodigal Summer
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.00
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Prodigal Summerweaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabi… read more
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12. Home for the Holidays
By: Heather Vogel Frederick
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
This Christmas season, join the girls of the mother-daughter book club for a variety of holiday-the… read more
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- childrens
- fiction
- contemporary
13. A Place to Hang the Moon
By: Kate Albus
4.57
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
Set against the backdrop of World War II, Anna, Edmund, and William are evacuated from London to li… read more
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- childrens
- fiction
"The librarian chuckled. “I suppose there are rather a lot of orphan stories out there."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
"Besides which, I really ought to send her a book instead. Though she’s not much of a reader."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
"Fibs, you must know, are entirely acceptable when they serve the purpose of getting one to the library."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
"It is often the case that, at times of great anxiety, when the diversion of a good story should seem most welcome, one is least equipped to focus one’s mind on reading."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
14. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
By: Alan Bradley
3.82
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiri… read more
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- fiction
"Simple pleasures are best."-Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
"It was as black in the closet as old blood."-Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
"...silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities."-Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
"I was me, I was Flavia. And I loved myself, even if no one else did."-Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
15. Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (The Diary of a Bookseller, #3)
By: Shaun Bythell
4.11
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of she… read more
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16. The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.23
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Pandemic lockdowns have Ruth Galloway feeling isolated from everyone but a new neighbor—until Nelso… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"It's a locked room mystery,' says Tony. 'Like in the books.' 'Nothing,' says Nelson, 'is like it is in the books."-Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)
"The churches are all closed. She was surprised how shocked she'd been to hear this news. Judy might be a lapsed Catholic, but she'd always assumed that, all her life, mass would be carrying on somewh…"-Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)
"The air is so sweet and pure that it almost takes her breath away. It's as if nature is conspiring to make lockdown a less terrifying experience. Ruth has already noticed herself becoming interested …"-Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)
"There are no commuters, no children jostling for school buses, no taxis, no old men in hats driving in the centre of the road. It should feel like heaven but, as Nelson drives through the old city ga…"-Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)
17. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 1
By: Beth Brower
4.31
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
“I’ve arrived in London without incident. There are few triumphs in my recent life, but I count thi… read more
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18. Secrets of the Octopus
By: Sy Montgomery
4.43
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex anima… read more
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19. More Was Lost
By: Eleanor Perényi
4.16
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
She writes about her marriage to a Hungarian baron, their life of a Ruthenian estate, and the devas… read more
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20. The Bad Times of Irma Baumlein
By: Carol Ryrie Brink
3.81
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Irma's lie about having the biggest doll in the world leads her into deeper and deeper trouble read more
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