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2) Traveler
Author
Series
Traveler (L.E. DeLano) volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Teen author Jessa learns that she and one of her characters, Finn, are Travelers with the ability to slide between realities, and that Finn is determined to prevent her dying in yet another realm.
3) Lottery
Author
Language
English
Description
Having learned essential life skills from his grandmother that helped him overcome his low IQ, Perry finds himself without a caregiver at the age of thirty-one and wins a fortune by playing the lottery, a windfall that brings him more family than he everwanted.
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Language
English
Description
Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.
Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence-a procedure that has already...
Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence-a procedure that has already...
Author
Language
English
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Description
In order to escape his family, Dylan Taggart has decided to hike the Appalachian Trail - all 2,190 miles of it. By his calculations, by the time he's done, he'll be 18 and be able to make his own decisions about his future, and they won't involve the school for psychologically challenged students that his mother has chosen. Dylan quickly learns that he's not prepared enough for this hike, and is constantly saved by a fellow teen hiker everyone calls...
Author
Series
McCray Family novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
"Todd has been working for years at the local animal shelter when he learns that it's being shut down. With his best friend, Laura, he struggles to place the animals in homes before the shelter closes, and Todd becomes torn between a dairy job close to home and a dog-trainer job three hours away, a decision that is further complicated when he realizes that he and Laura may be more than friends."--Publishers Weekly.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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Description
When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a six-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and devotion as they raise two children of their own.
11) Tricky
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Does your past define you forever? That's the question LAPD homicide detective Niels Madsen must answer after he gets in the middle of a standoff between two uniformed officers and Cisco, an intellectually disabled man. Cisco is found armed and standing over the body of a man with Down syndrome. Cisco swears the dead man was his good friend, and he didn't hurt him, but in his earlier life, Cisco had been a gang member, a brilliant and brutal killer....
13) Of mice and men
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Series
Language
English
Description
A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression
A Penguin Classic
Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they...
A Penguin Classic
Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A murdered woman. A grieving husband. And their son---a mentally handicapped adult with a history of violent outbursts. A very simple case. Or is it?" -- Cover verso.
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Cynnie has had to deal with her mother's alcoholism and stream of boyfriends all her life, but when her grandparents take custody of her brother, who has Down Syndrome, Cynnie becomes self-destructive and winds up in court-mandated Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In Massachusetts, eighteen-year-old Lyn, who has grown up in the public eye as the daughter of seven gladiators, wants nothing less than to follow her mother's path, but her only way of avoiding marriage to the warrior who killed her last stepfather may be to face him in the arena.
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Venus Black, a straitlaced, straight-A student is the last person anyone would expect to get in trouble, but when she is arrested for committing a shocking crime, it is clear that there was more going on in Venus's world than anyone knew. When she is released from a juvenile detention center five years later, she assumes a new identity in the hope of escaping the pain of her past, the mother that disappointed her, and her criminal...
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