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The Dark Road
Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of Confucius. They have a daughter, but desperate for a son to carry on his illustrious family line, Kongzi gets Meili pregnant again without waiting for official permission.
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- 9781594205439
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- 375p; bw, pbk
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- 895.1352 JIA d
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah…
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- 9780375422300
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- 153 pages.: illus.; 23 cm.
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- 741.5 SAT p
The Beginning of Everything
Golden boy Ezra Faulkner believes everyone has a tragedy waiting for them—a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. His particular tragedy waited until he was primed to lose it all: in one spectacular night, a reckless driver shatters Ezra’s knee, his athletic career, and his social life. No longer a front-runner for Homecoming King, Ezra finds himself at…
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- 9780062275509
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- 335p; bw; pbk
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- 823 SCH b
Just Juice
Juice Faulstich lives with her Pa and Ma and her four sisters way of in the hills. Working with her comes easy to Juice, but letter and numbers don't make any sense to her, so she's starting thrid grade all over again.
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- 0590033832
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- 138p; ill; bw; pbk
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- 823 HES j
V for Vendetta
In the near future, England has become a corrupt, totalitarian state, opposed only by V, the mystery man wearing a white porcelain mask who intends to free the masses through absurd acts of terrorism.
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- 9781779511195
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- 290 pages.: illus.; 24 cm
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- 741.5 MOO v
Nemesis
Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives. Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director during the summer of 1944. A javelin thrower and weightlifter, he is disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his…
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- 9780307745415
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- 280p; bw; pbk
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- 823 ROT n
Tears of a Tiger
After a car accident kills Robert, Andy's best friend and teammate on the Hazelwood High Tigers, Andy doesn't know if he can go on. He's consumed with guilt for driving the night of the accident after a long evening of drinking and partying. With perceptiveness and compassion, Sharon M. Draper portrays an African-American teenager who feels driven to consider suicide in the wake of a devastatin…
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- 9780689806988
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- 180p; bw; pbk
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- Hazelwood High
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- 823 DRA t
The Storyteller
Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother’s death. When Josef Weber, an elderly man in Sage’s grief support group, begins stopping by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship. Despite their differences, they see in each other the hidden scars th…
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- 9781476751580
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- 512p; bw; pbk
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- 823 PIC t
Milkweed
He’s a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham. He’s a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He’s a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He’s a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels. He’s a boy who wants to be a Nazi some day, with tall shiny jackboots and a gleaming Eagle hat of his own. Until the day that suddenl…
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- 0439676959
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- 208p; bw; pbk
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- 823 SPI m
The Kid Who Only Hit Homers
Sylvester loved baseball, but he wasn't what you'd call a good hitter.
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- 9780316139878
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- 151p ; ill ; bw ; pbk
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- 823 CHR k
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