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Author
Pub. Date
2004
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
10 books in a cloth bag ; 15 x 20 cm + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
HL 530L
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container
Language
English
Description
"Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in a refugee camp, and when an opportunity for Omar to get an education comes along, he must decide between going to school every day or caring for his nonverbal brother in this intimate and touching portrayal of family and daily life in a refugee camp" --
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
10 books (408 pages : map), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
Martin County Public Library. A cloth bag containing 10 copies of the title, including: regular print, 1 audio book, 1 large print copy, may also include a folder.
Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
GN 350L
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in bookbag
Language
English
Description
"Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. As sidekick and supervillain, Nimona and Lord Blackheart are about to wreak some serious havoc. Their mission: prove to the kingdom that Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin and his buddies at the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone thinks they are. But as small acts of mischief escalate into a vicious...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
8 books (339 pages) in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title, that may also include a folder.
When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be--until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father's past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
8 books (353 pages) in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title, that may also include a folder.
A family's journey from pre-war Vietnam, through pirate attacks in the open sea, to a new home in Fort Smith, Arkansas, where poverty and discrimination could not prevent the author from graduating from Harvard Medical School.
Author
Series
Night Soldiers volume 3
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
6 books, 1 reading guide ; in canvas bag (45 x 36 cm).
Language
English
Description
Overview: September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler's Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His mission: to transport the national gold reserve to safety, hidden on a refugee train to Bucharest. Then, in the back alleys and black-market bistros of Paris, in the tenements of Warsaw, with partizan guerrillas in the frozen forests of the Ukraine, and at Calais Harbor during an attack...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1190L
Physical Desc
8 books (452 pages) in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm), + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title and 1 discussion folder.
On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Lexile measure
1010L
Physical Desc
8 books (452 pages) in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm), + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title and 1 discussion folder.
Thirty-five years ago, when "searching for America" was not yet the cliche it has since become, Steinbeck hit the highways with his French poodle, Charley. In a custom-built camper he named Rosinante after Don Quixote's steed, the two traveled the country--10,000 miles and 34 states. Their varied experiences comprise several slices of small-town, back-roads Americana. Steinbeck...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Berkley trade paper edition.
Physical Desc
8 books (422 pages) in a bag ; 36 x 45 cm
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title and a folder containing book sign out sheets.
The Meisenheimer family struggles to find their place among the colorful residents of their new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more than music, and a spiteful, bicycle-riding dwarf.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
8 books (439 pages) in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title, that may also include a folder.
Widowed teacher Nell Stillman raises her son in the small town of Harvester, Minnesota, finding solace and escape in books.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
8 books (xix, 228 pages) in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title.
On the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. Kalanithi chronicles his transformation from a naïve medical student into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
10 books (310 pages) in a cloth bag ; 42 x 50 cm + 1 folder (30 x 25 cm)
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title, that may also include a folder with miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
10 books (xii, 302, 15 pages) in a bag ; 37 x 41 cm + 1 folder (30 x 25 cm)
Language
English
Description
A bag with ten copies of the title that may also include miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
8 books (290, 15 pages) in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title, that may also include a folder.
"For years, Maggie Sheets has been an invisible hand in the glittering homes of wealthy New York City clients, scrubbing, dusting, mopping, and doing all she can to keep her head above water as a single mother. Everything changes when a former employer dies leaving Maggie a staggering inheritance. A house in Sag Harbor. The catch? It comes with an inhabitant: The deceased's...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in bookbag
Language
English
Description
1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...