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Why is this a pick?: I loved the suspense. Teen drama, girls figuring out their place in life, and family secrets all play into the conclusion of this great book. |
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Why is this a pick?: With the shipwreck of the circus ship, the animals swim to shore and find a village to explore. As they find camouflaged places to hide, the villagers realize the animals are not so scary and they end up helping hide them. A fun story with beautiful illustrations. |
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Why is this a pick?: When Fernando spots Marlena across the Piazza San Marco, it is love at first sight. A year later he manages to meet her and convince the American chef to marry him and move to Venice. Romance and great recipes. |
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Why is this a pick?: A brilliant and quirky story of a likeable Texas mortician who befriends a widow that no one can stand, then murders her and manages to hide the crime for months! With Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. |
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Why is this a pick?: An edge of your seat thriller based on the real-life rescue of 6 American diplomats from Iran during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. Directed by and starring Ben Affleck. |
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Why is this a pick?: A subtle and sophisticated exploration of life, the strength of humanity, and survival in an unforgiving world, Fish is a story that will teach those who doubt that, when hope is almost extinguished, miracles can happen. |
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Why is this a pick?: Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler. |
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Why is this a pick?: Excitement, great characters, surprising plot twists. You won't be able to put it down! |
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Why is this a pick?: Lifelong illness, a surprise discovery, tension with Dad and Mom, a road trip with friends. This movie has much to say about growing up, facing tough situations and moving forward. I loved it. |
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Why is this a pick?: From repurposing a book into a purse to creating desktop organizers, you'll love this book. Great ideas, fun pictures and easy directions. |
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Why is this a pick?: Three years after her return from the Ever After, May Bird, now thirteen, draws her scattered friends--Pumpkin, Fabbio, Beatrice, and Lucius--out of hiding to take a final stand against Evil Bo Cleevil, as May herself makes ready to live up to the prophecy that placed the fate of the Ever After, and her own world, in her hands. |
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Why is this a pick?: Using his own childhood for inspiration (and leaving the lawyers behind), bestselling author John Grisham sets A Painted House in 1950s rural Arkansas. During harvest time, together with hired Mexicans and hill people, seven-year-old Luke Chandler picks cotton on his family's rented 80 acres. |
