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2007.
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English
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Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.
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Yo-kai watch volume 3
Language
English
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Nate Adams is just an average kid until the mysterious Whisper gives him the Yo-kai Watch, which allows him to see Yo-kai of all shapes and forms.
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Cemetery of forgotten books volume 1
Language
English
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A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written. Barcelona, 1945-just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child,...
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English
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"A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades...
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift over slavery has ripped the Butler household apart. Now, to pay off debts, Pierce Butler wants to cash in his slave "assets", possibly including Emma.
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Series
The Kindaichi case files volume 5
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
When underachiever Hajime Kindaichi's parents, finding themselves short of cash, enter a treasure-hunting contest, they discover things are more dangerous than they expected, especially if the mythical Mountain Goblin is really involved.
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