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1) The giver
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English
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In this new graphic novel edition, readers experience the haunting story of twelve-year-old Jonas and his seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment, through the brilliant art of P. Craig Russell that truly brings The Giver to life. Witness Jonas' assignment as the Receiver of Memory, watch as he begins to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community, and follow the explosion of color into his world like never before....
2) Late bloomer
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English
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Twenty years have passed since the incident involving six lonely children at a secret playground in Indigo Valley, Pennsylavania which left the town bully dead and ten-year-old Cady Jordan seriously injured. Now Cady has returned to the valley to care for her ailing grandmother Lola, the only person Cady has ever truly loved. While Cady has grown into attractive, intelligent, but overly cautious young woman, she has no memory of her childhood tragedy....
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"After years of following her best friend's lead, Mary Davies finds a whimsical trip back to Austen's Regency England paves the way towards a new future"--
Working as an engineer, Mary Davies genuinely enjoys her job and her colleagues-- particularly a certain good-looking and intelligent consultant. But she knows something is missing in her ordered life. When Mary's estranged childhood friend, Isabel Dwyer, offers her a two-week stay in a gorgeous...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Nine-year-old Sam Paretta is dead, killed in a plane crash. Even though it's been fourteen months since the accident, his mother, Telly, still grieves over the loss. But suddenly, her husband swears they never had a child and her psychiatrist insists she's delusional. Worst of all, there is absolutely no evidence to prove Sam ever existed. Haunted by the memories of her son, Telly's search for the truth propels her into a dark mind-shattering conspiracy...
Series
Bourne trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
Once again, Jason Bourne emerges from hiding and into chaos. His return this time prompted inadvertently by London-based reporter Simon Ross. Ross's writing is unveiling Operation Blackbriar--an upgrade to Project Treadstone--in a series of newspaper columns which have woken, and profoundly disturbed, Bourne's former masters. Bourne must uncover and eradicate the sources of their paranoia, before they eradicate him. Clawing his way out of madness,...
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Mrs. Crumble assigns each student to bring a different ingredient so the class can bake a Super-Duper Round the World Chocolate Cake. When Josh forgets his ingredients at home, his magic backpack saves the day by flying Josh to Uncle William's cocoa plantation in Ghana.