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  • From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the…

    Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death…

    By Katherine Boo rating of short cover   ( 19093customer ratings) Random House Publishing Group, February 2012 Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
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  • In the National Book Award–winning Goblin Secrets, a boy joins a theatrical troupe of goblins to find his missing brother.In the town of Zombay, there is a witch named Graba who has clockwork chicken…

    Goblin Secrets

    By William Alexander rating of short cover   ( 588customer ratings) Margaret K. McElderry Books, March 2012 Fiction - Young Adult, Fantasy
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  • Winner of the 2012 National Book Award for Poetry.To read David Ferry’s Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and…
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    Bewilderment

    Phoenix Poets By David Ferry rating of short cover   ( 90customer ratings) University of Chicago Press, August 2012 Fiction & Literature, Poetry
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  • Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz’s first book, Drown, established him as a major new writer with “the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet” (Newsweek). His first novel, The Brief…

    This Is How You Lose Her

    By Junot Diaz rating of short cover   ( 18710customer ratings) Penguin Group US, September 2012 Fiction, Short Stories
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  • In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter’s college tuition, and…
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    A Hologram for the King

    By Dave Eggers rating of short cover   ( 9customer ratings) McSweeney's, August 2012 Fiction, Literary
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  • Aferocious firefight with Iraqi insurgents at "the battle of Al-Ansakar Canal"-three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare caught on tape by an embedded Fox News crew-has transformed the…

    Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel

    By Ben Fountain rating of short cover   ( 5804customer ratings) HarperCollins, May 2012
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  • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA lyrical and authentic book that recounts the story of a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas in the 1980's, as each member of the family…
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    The Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir

    By Domingo Martinez rating of short cover   ( 622customer ratings) Lyons Press, July 2012
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  • How do you find someone who doesn’t want to be found? A girl searches for her missing addict brother while confronting her own secrets in this darkly lyrical novel.Rachel has always idolized her older…

    Out of Reach

    By Carrie Arcos rating of short cover   ( 581customer ratings) Simon Pulse, October 2012 Kids & Teens, Fiction
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  • The compelling tale of a girl who must save a group of bonobos--and herself--from a violent coup. The Congo is a dangerous place, even for people who are trying to do good. When one girl has to follow…
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    Endangered

    By Eliot Schrefer rating of short cover   ( 769customer ratings) Scholastic Inc., October 2012 Kids & Teens, Fiction
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  • In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race…

    Bomb

    By Steve Sheinkin rating of short cover   ( 1519customer ratings) Roaring Brook Press, September 2012 Kids & Teens, Non-Fiction
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