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The giver
THE GIVER is the classic award-winning novel that inspired the dystopian genre and a major motion picture adaptation for 2014 starring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift. It is the future. There is no war, no hunger, no pain. No one in the community wants for anything. Everything needed is provided. And at twelve years old, each member of the community has their prof…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780007263516
- Collation
- 245 p. ; 20 cm
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- Call Number
- 823 LOW g
The hobbit
Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home; then one day the wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and enlist his services – as a burglar – on a dangerous expedition to raid the treasure-hoard of Smaug the dragon. Bilbo’s life is never to be the same again. Seldom has any book been so widely read and loved …
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- 9780007458424
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- 354 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm
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- 823 TOL h
The graveyard book
CLB02648Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead. There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a grav…
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- First Edition
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780060530945
- Collation
- 312 p. ; ill. ; 19 cm
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- 823 GAI g
The Land of Stories - A grimm warning
Connor Bailey thinks his fairy-tale adventures are behind him - until he discovers a mysterious clue left by the famous Brothers Grimm. With help from his classmate Bree and the outlandish Mother Goose, Conner sets off on a mission across Europe to crack a two-hundred-year-old code. Meanwhile, Alex Bailey is training to become the next Fairy Godmother... but her attempts at granting wishes n…
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- 9780316406826
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- 469 p. ; ill. ; 19.5 cm
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- Call Number
- 823 COL l
The bell jar
The story chronicles the breakdown of Esther Greenwood, a bright, beautiful, enormously talented college student coming of age in 1950s America, as she navigates the pressures of society along with her own ambitions. While at a prestigious, competitively won position at a New York City magazine one summer, Esther finds herself struggling with the looming expectations of marriage, motherhood, an…
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- 9780060837020
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- 244 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm
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- 823 PLA b
The super secret octagon valley society
After passing an intense exam, Edwin Edgefield becomes one of the lucky few to attend an exclusive weekend at the mysterious high-tech institute of the uber-famous-ultrabazillionaire-genius-recluse Onasander Octagon. Edwin hopes he'll meet other kids like him--kids who will accept him even though he's got a photographic memory, genius-level math skills, and some very specific personality quirks…
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- First Edition
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781368102216
- Collation
- 309 p. ; ill. ; 21 cm
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- 823 DEL s
Return to the dallergut dream department store
It has been a year since Penny first walked through the doors of DallerGut Dream Department Store, and surviving a year at the store means one thing... She is now an official employee of the dream industry! She can finally take the express commuter train to the Company District, where all the dream production companies are located and discover how all raw dream materials and testing equipment a…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781035412778
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- 265 p. ; 21,5 cm
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- 813 LEE r
Miss kim knows and other stories
Eight women. Eight stories. One reality. A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman suffers domestic violence. A woman is gaslit. A woman is discriminated against at work. A woman grows old. A woman becomes famous. A woman is hated, and loved, and then hated again. Written in Cho Nam-Joo’s masterful, razor-sharp prose, Miss Kim Knows brings together the lives …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781398522916
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- 224 p. ; 21,5 cm
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- 813 JOO m
Butter
Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation’s imagination but Kajii refuses to speak with the press. That is, until journalist Rika Machida writes a letter asking for her recipe for beef stew and Kajii can’t resist writing back…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780008511715
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- 452 p. ; 20 cm
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- 823 YUZ b
The Inheritance Games #3: The final gambit
ONE LAST GAME. Against all odds, Avery has survived nearly a year of secrets, schemes, and love lost and found at Hawthorne House. She's weeks away from fulfilling the terms of Tobias Hawthorne's will and inheriting his billions. ONE MORE PLAYER. Avery thinks she knows all the family secrets, but when a familiar face arrives with shocking news and a plea for help, it's clear there is one l…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780241573631
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- 384 p. ; 19,5 cm
- Series Title
- The Inheritance Games
- Call Number
- 813 BAR t
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