{"id":42,"date":"2015-01-06T19:34:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T19:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:22:41","slug":"book-sets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/book-sets\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Sets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Central Plains Library System Book Sets<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To borrow any of these book sets, please contact Denise at denise.cpls@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Invented Modern Forensics<\/em><\/strong> by Bruce Goldfarb — 7 copies
Donated by Hastings Public Library<\/em>
Readers are transported to a time when forensic science was in its infancy, and a woman named Frances Glessner Lee emerged as a force to be reckoned with. Lee revolutionized the way investigators approached criminal investigations.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Adventures of Beanboy<\/strong><\/em> by Lisa Harkrader — 10 copies (Grades 5-7)
Never underestimate the power of the bean. Tucker MacBean has been drawing comic books almost as long as he\u2019s been reading them. When his favorite comic has a contest for kids, he hopes he has finally found a way to fix his family\u2014all he has to do is create the winning superhero sidekick . . . Introducing \u201cBeanboy\u201d\u2014the first comic book character to truly harness the power of the bean for good. He is strong, he is relentless, he can double in size overnight (if given enough water).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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All the Colors of the Dark<\/em><\/strong> by Chris Whitaker — 10 copies
1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the smalltown of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges\u2014Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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All the Gallant Men<\/strong><\/em> by Donald Stratton and Ken Gire — 10 copies + CD
In this extraordinary never-before-told eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack\u2014the only memoir ever written by a survivor of the USS Arizona\u2014<\/em>ninety-four-year-old veteran Donald Stratton finally shares his unforgettable personal tale of bravery and survival on December 7, 1941, his harrowing recovery, and his inspiring determination to return to the fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anatomy of a Miracle<\/strong><\/em> by Jonathan Miles — 10 copies
A profound new novel about a paralyzed young man\u2019s unexplainable recovery\u2014a stunning exploration of faith, science, mystery, and the meaning of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rendered paraplegic after a traumatic event four years ago, Cameron Harris has been living his new existence alongside his sister, Tanya, in their battered Biloxi, Mississippi neighborhood where only half the houses made it through Katrina. One stiflingly hot August afternoon, as Cameron sits waiting for Tanya during their daily run to the Biz-E-Bee convenience store, he suddenly and inexplicably rises up and out of his wheelchair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And Then There’s Margaret<\/em><\/strong> by Carolyn Clarke — 10 copies
Donated by Hastings Public Library<\/em>
When Allison Montgomery’s beloved father-in-law and long-time confidant passes away, her mother-in-law, Margaret, ‘temporarily’ moves in. From rearranging the furniture and taking over the kitchen, to undermining and embarrassing Allie at every turn, , Margaret turns Allie’s life upside down causing her to bounce between a sincere desire to support her grieving mother-in-law and an intense urge to simply push her out of the nearest window.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Antidote <\/em><\/strong>by Karen Russell — 10 copies
2026 One Book One Nebraska<\/a><\/em>
The Antidote<\/em> opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing\u2014not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Bend in the River<\/strong><\/em> by Susan Gibbs — 12 copies
Donated by Klyte Burt Memorial Library<\/em>
Orphaned by the sudden deaths of her parents in 1877, seventeen-year-old Emma Jorden has to abandon her Kansas home. Lost on the featureless prairie and near death she is rescued by Shea Hawkshadow, a half-breed Cheyenne warrior. Following an impulsive love affair, Emma and Shea marry. When the consequences of their unconventional marriage spark ridicule then quickly escalate to attempted murder, they risk a journey across the western frontier. However, many trials await the couple in their search for a life free from persecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Berry Pickers<\/em><\/strong> by Amanda Peters — (10 copies)
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever <\/em><\/strong>by Barbara Robinson — 10 copies (Grades 3-6)
The Herdmans are the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie, steal, and swear. So no one is prepared when this outlaw family invades church one Sunday and decides to take over the annual Christmas pageant. None of the Herdmans has ever heard the Christmas story before. They will make this year\u2019s pageant the most unusual anyone has seen and, just possibly, the best one ever.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Between Earth and Sky<\/em><\/strong> by Amanda Skenandore — 10 copies
On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma\u2019s childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harry\u2014or Asku, as Alma knew him\u2014was the most promising student at the \u201csavage-taming\u201d boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil. 
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Between the Lines<\/em><\/strong> by Nikki Grimes — 10 copies (Grades 7-9)
One Book for Nebraska Teens 2024<\/a><\/strong>
Darrian dreams of writing for the New York Times<\/em>. To hone his skills and learn more about the power of words, he enrolls in Mr. Ward\u2019s class, known for its open-mic poetry readings and boys vs. girls poetry slam. Everyone in class has something important to say, and in sharing their poetry, they learn that they all face challenges and have a story to tell.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Birchbark House<\/em><\/strong> by Louise Erdrich — 10 copies (Gr. 3-6)
One Book for Nebraska Kids 2023<\/a><\/strong>
This story is seen through the eyes of the spirited, 7-year-old Ojibwa girl Omakayas, or Little Frog, so named because her first step was a hop. The sole survivor of a smallpox epidemic on Spirit Island, Omakayas, then only a baby girl, was rescued by a fearless woman named Tallow and welcomed into an Ojibwa family on Lake Superior’s Madeline Island.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Black Elk Speaks<\/em><\/strong> by John G. Neihardt — 14 copies
Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people on their journey. Whether appreciated as the poignant tale of a Lakota life, as a history of a Native nation, or as an enduring spiritual testament, Black Elk speaks is unforgettable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bob<\/strong><\/em> by Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead — 10 copies (Grades 3-7)
It\u2019s been five years since Livy and her family have visited Livy\u2019s grandmother in Australia. Now that she\u2019s back, Livy has the feeling she\u2019s forgotten something really, really important about Gran\u2019s house. It turns out she\u2019s right. Bob, a short, greenish creature dressed in a chicken suit, didn\u2019t forget Livy, or her promise. He\u2019s been waiting five years for her to come back, hiding in a closet like she told him to. He can\u2019t remember who\u2015or what\u2015he is, where he came from, or if he even has a family. But five years ago Livy promised she would help him find his way back home. Now it\u2019s time to keep that promise. Clue by clue, Livy and Bob will unravel the mystery of where Bob comes from, and discover the kind of magic that lasts forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Bones of Paradise<\/strong><\/em> by Jonis Agee — 12 copies + CD
The award-winning author of The<\/strong><\/em><\/span> River Wife<\/span><\/strong><\/em> returns with a multigenerational family saga set in the unforgiving Nebraska Sand Hills in the years following the massacre at Wounded Knee\u2014an ambitious tale of history, vengeance, race, guilt, betrayal, family, and belonging, filled with a vivid cast of characters shaped by violence, love, and a desperate loyalty to the land.
Ten years after the Seventh Cavalry massacred more than two hundred Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, J.B. Bennett, a white rancher, and Star, a young Native American woman, are murdered in a remote meadow on J.B.\u2019s land. The deaths bring together the scattered members of the Bennett family: J.B.\u2019s cunning and hard father, Drum; his estranged wife, Dulcinea; and his teenage sons, Cullen and Hayward. As the mystery of these twin deaths unfolds, the history of the dysfunctional Bennetts and their damning secrets is revealed, exposing the conflicted heart of a nation caught between past and future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Book <\/strong><\/em>Thief <\/i><\/b><\/span> by Markus Zukas — 15 copies + CD (Grades 7 & up)
By her brother\u2019s graveside, Liesel Meminger\u2019s life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Grave Digger\u2019s Handbook and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor’s wife’s library, wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times. When Liesel’s foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel’s world is both opened up, and closed down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Book Woman’s Daughter<\/em><\/strong> by Kim Michele Richardson —
7 copies
Donated by Ravenna Public Library<\/em>
In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Born to Run<\/em><\/strong> by Bruce Springsteen — 10 copies
Donated by Boone Central High School, Albion<\/em>
The revelatory and wildly bestselling memoir by legendary rock star Bruce Springsteen.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Boys in the Boat<\/em><\/strong> by Daniel James Brown — 4 copies
It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did, going on to shock the world by defeating the German team rowing for Adolf Hitler. The emotional heart of the tale lies with Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not only to regain his shattered self-regard but also to find a real place for himself in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Briar Club<\/em><\/strong> by Kate Quinn — 10 copies
Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation\u2019s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Calamity of Souls<\/em><\/strong> by David Baldacci — 10 copies
Jack Lee is a white lawyer from Freeman County, Virginia, who has never done anything to push back against racism\u2014until he decides to represent Jerome Washington, a Black man charged with brutally killing an elderly wealthy white couple. Doubting his decision, Lee fears that his legal skills may not be enough to prevail in a case where the odds are already stacked against both him and his client.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Chasing Fireflies<\/em><\/strong> by Charles Martin — 4 copies
Donated by Ravenna Public Library<\/em>
A Novel of Discovery. Chase Walker discovers, learning the truth about who you are can be as elusive\u2014and as magical\u2014as chasing fireflies on a summer night.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Christmas by the Book<\/em><\/strong> by Anne Marie Ryan — 10 copies
In small-town England, two booksellers facing tough times decide to spread some Christmas cheer through the magic of anonymous book deliveries in this uplifting holiday tale for book lovers everywhere.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Christmas Pig<\/em><\/strong> by J.K. Rowling — 10 copies (Grades 3-4)
Jack loves his childhood toy, Dur Pig. DP has always been there for him, through good and bad. Until one Christmas Eve something terrible happens — DP is lost. But Christmas Eve is a night for miracles and lost causes, a night when all things can come to life… even toys.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Cicada Summer<\/em><\/strong> by Maureen Leurck — 10 copies
People keep a house alive, not the other way around.<\/em> Alex Proctor has seen the truth of this in every empty, rundown property she\u2019s bought and renovated since her divorce almost three years ago. She\u2019s also experienced the thrill of making each one into a home. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Coop Knows the Scoop<\/strong><\/em> by Taryn Souders — 10 copies (Grades 3-8)
The whole town is talking about what’s buried beneath the playground…
<\/span>Windy Bottom, Georgia is usually a peaceful place. Coop helps his mom at her caf\u00e9 and bookstore, hangs out with his grandpa, bikes around with his friends Justice and Liberty, and is determined to live up to his dad’s legacy. Windy Bottom is full of all kinds of interesting people, but no one has ever caused a problem. Until now. And somehow, Gramps is taking all the blame! It seems like there are a lot of secrets that were buried in their small town after all…Will Coop and his friends get to the bottom of the mystery and clear Gramps’s name before it’s too late?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Count Me In<\/strong><\/em> by Varsha Bajaj — 10 copies (Grades 5-7)
Karina Chopra would have never imagined becoming friends with the boy next door–after all, they’ve avoided each other for years and she assumes Chris is just like the boys he hangs out with, who she labels a pack of hyenas. Then Karina’s grandfather starts tutoring Chris, and she discovers he’s actually a nice, funny kid. But one afternoon something unimaginable happens–the three of them are assaulted by a stranger who targets Indian-American Karina and her grandfather because of how they look. Her grandfather is gravely injured and Karina and Chris vow not to let hate win. When Karina posts a few photos related to the attack on social media, they quickly attract attention, and before long her #CountMeIn post–“What does an American look like? #immigrants #WeBelong #IamAmerican #HateHasNoHomeHere”–goes viral and a diverse population begin to add their own photos. Then, when Papa is finally on the road to recovery, Karina uses her newfound social media reach to help celebrate both his homecoming and a community coming together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cracker!: the Best dog in Vietnam<\/em><\/strong> by Cynthia Kadohata — 20 copies + CD (Grades 5-9)
Cracker is one of the United States Army’s most valuable weapons: a German shepherd trained to sniff out bombs, traps, and the enemy. The fate of entire platoons rests on her keen sense of smell. She’s a Big Deal, and she likes it that way. Sometimes Cracker remembers when she was younger, and her previous owner would feed her hot dogs and let her sleep in his bed. That was nice, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crescendo<\/strong> <\/em>by Allen Cheney and Julie Cantrell — 11 copies (Non-fiction)
Donated by Ravenna Public Library<\/em>
More than eighty years ago, a musical prodigy with a brilliant mind was born into a poor, uneducated, and abusive family in rural South Georgia. At three years of age, Fred Allen could play Mozart sonatas on the piano without missing a note. But in spite of his obvious talent, Fred\u2019s parents discouraged him from expressing his creativity and intelligence, even going so far as locking him away from the old piano in their home. Forced to fend for himself through his adolescent years, Fred knew that if he was ever to make something of himself, he would need to find a way to rise above his broken background. With incredible effort, and a few miracles along the way, Fred managed to do just that, eventually earning acceptance into The Julliard School in New York City. While simultaneously attending Juilliard, Union Theological Seminary, and Columbia University, he also began directing a local church choir, where he caught the attention of the music industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dancing with the Octopus<\/em><\/strong> by Debora Harding (10 copies)
One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended over the city. Debora survived. She identified her attacker to the police and then returned to her teenage life in a dysfunctional home where she was expected to simply move on. Denial became the family coping strategy offered by her fun-loving, conflicted father and her cruelly resentful mother.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Don’t Forget to Write<\/em><\/strong> by Sara Goodman Confino — 10 copies
When Marilyn Kleinman is caught making out with the rabbi\u2019s son in front of the whole congregation, her parents ship her off to her great-aunt Ada for the summer. If anyone can save their daughter\u2019s reputation, it\u2019s Philadelphia\u2019s strict premier matchmaker. Either that or Marilyn can kiss college goodbye.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dust-Covered Days of Dorrie Archer<\/strong><\/em> by Barbara Eymann Mohrman — 10 copies (Grades 3-7)
Dorie Archer’s carefree childhood days became filled with darkness\u2014no fresh air, no sunshine, no rain, no work for the farmers, and no money. Dorie\u2019s gripping story brings to life the everyday activities of a Nebraska girl and her family during the Dust Bowl as they struggled to survive the enormous challenges of one of the most trying times in Nebraska history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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End of Your Life Book Club<\/em><\/strong> by Will Schwalbe — 6 copies
Donated by Ravenna Public Library
<\/em>During her treatment for cancer, Mary Anne Schwalbe and her son Will spent many hours sitting in waiting rooms together. To pass the time, they would talk about the books they were reading. Once, by chance, they read the same book at the same time\u2014and an informal book club of two was born. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Escape: The Story of the Great Houdini<\/em><\/strong> by Sid Fleischman —
12 copies + CD (Grades 3-7)
How did he walk through walls, escape drowning, and shatter iron chains that were tightly wrapped around him? The rare photos in this book might help you figure it out. So might the exclusive update about the rumor that Houdini was poisoned. But just remember, a true magician never reveals his tricks. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Everlost<\/em> <\/strong>by Neal Shusterman — 20 copies (Grades 7-9)
Nick and Allie don\u2019t survive the car accident, but their souls don\u2019t exactly get where they\u2019re supposed to go either. Instead, they\u2019re caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things and places that no longer exist. It\u2019s a magical, yet dangerous place where bands of lost kids run wild and anyone who stands in the same place too long sinks to the center of the Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew — Three Women Search for Understanding<\/strong><\/em> by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner — 8 copies
Donated by Auld Public Library, Red Cloud<\/em>
When an American Muslim woman befriends two other mothers, one Jewish and one Christian, they decide to educate their children about their respective religions. None of them guessed their regular meetings would provide life-changing answers and form bonds that would forever alter their struggles with prejudice, fear, and anger. Personal, powerful, and compelling, The Faith Club<\/strong><\/em> forces readers to face the tough questions about their own religions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fallen Creed<\/em><\/strong> by Alex Kava — 10 copies
An early October snowstorm isn’t the only thing that blindsides K9 handler Ryder Creed and his scent dog, Grace. Suddenly the trackers become the trapped. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The False Prince<\/strong><\/em> by Jennifer Nielsen — 10 copies (Grades 3-7)
In a discontented kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king’s long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince. Four orphans are recruited to compete for the role, including a defiant boy named Sage. Sage knows that Conner’s motives are more than questionable, yet his life balances on a sword’s point — he must be chosen to play the prince or he will certainly be killed. But Sage’s rivals have their own agendas as well.As Sage moves from a rundown orphanage to Conner’s sumptuous palace, layer upon layer of treachery and deceit unfold, until finally, a truth is revealed that, in the end, may very well prove more dangerous than all of the lies taken together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Family Game<\/em><\/strong> by Catherine Steadman — 10 copies
Harriet Reed, a novelist on the brink of literary stardom, is newly engaged to Edward Holbeck, the heir of an extremely powerful family. And even though Edward has long tried to severe ties with them, news of the couple\u2019s upcoming marital bliss has the Holbecks inching back into their lives. As Harriet is drawn into their lavish world, the family seems perfectly welcoming. So when Edward\u2019s father, Robert, hands Harriet a tape of a book he\u2019s been working on, she is desperate to listen. But as she presses play, it\u2019s clear that this isn\u2019t just a novel. It\u2019s a confession.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The First Ladies<\/em><\/strong> by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray — 10 copies + 1 LP
The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart her work. She marches on as an activist and an educator, and as her reputation grows she becomes a celebrity, revered by titans of business and recognized by U.S. Presidents. Eleanor Roosevelt herself is awestruck and eager to make her acquaintance.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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First Lie Wins <\/em><\/strong>by Ashley Elston — 12 copies
Evie Porter has everything a nice Southern girl could want: a doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence, a tight group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Five Little Indians<\/em><\/strong> by Michelle Good — 10 copies
Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn\u2019t want them.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Flower Sisters<\/em><\/strong> by Michelle Collins Anderson — 9 copies
Donated by Auld Public Library, Red Cloud<\/em>
Daisy Flowers is fifteen in 1978 when her free-spirited mother dumps her in Possum Flats, Missouri. Sentenced to spend the summer living with her grandmother, the wry and irreverent town mortician, Daisy draws the line at working for the family business, Flowers Funeral Home. Instead, she maneuvers her way into an internship at the local newspaper where, sorting through the basement archives, she learns of a mysterious tragedy from fifty years earlier\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Four Blue Stars in the Window<\/strong><\/em> by Barbara Eymann Mohrman —
10 copies
This is the story of hard-scrabble life in rural Oakdale, Nebraska (population 851) starting in the heyday of the 1920s. Chriss Eymann, a newly arrived Swiss immigrant and his wife, Hattie Mae, raised ten children on the Dust Bowl-ravaged plains during the 1930s in the depths of the Great Depression. But their greatest sacrifice was yet to come\u2014when they sent four young sons off to war in the South Pacific and Europe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Four Winds<\/strong> <\/em>by Kristin Hannah — 12 copies + CD
Elsa Martinelli had finally found the life she’d yearned for. A family, a home and a livelihood on a farm on the Great Plains. Fearful of the future, when Elsa wakes to find her husband has fled, she is forced to make the most agonizing decision of her life. Fight for the land she loves or take her beloved children, Loreda and Ant, west to California in search of a better life. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Frozen River<\/em><\/strong> by Ariel Lawhon — 10 copies
Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fuzzy Mud<\/em><\/strong> by Louis Sachar — 12 copies + CD (Grades 5-7)
Fifth grader Tamaya Dhilwaddi and seventh grader Marshall Walsh have been walking to and from Woodridge Academy together since elementary school. But their routine is disrupted when bully Chad Hilligas challenges Marshall to a fight. To avoid the conflict, Marshall takes a shortcut home through the off-limits woods. Tamaya, unaware of the reason for the detour, reluctantly follows. They soon get lost. And then they find trouble. Bigger trouble than anyone could ever have imagined. What they uncover might affect the future of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Girls in Stilt House<\/em><\/strong> by Kelly Mustian — 10 copies
Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her hard life on the swamp and her harsh father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side of the Trace. As the two girls are drawn deeper into a dangerous world of bootleggers and moral corruption, they must come to terms with the complexities of their tenuous bond and a hidden past that links them in ways that could cost them their lives.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Giver of Stars<\/strong><\/em> by Jojo Moyes — 10 copies + 1 LP + CD
Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve, hoping to escape her stifling life in England.  But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice’s greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who’s never asked a man’s permission for anything. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky.

What happens to them\u2013and to the men they love\u2013becomes an unforgettable drama of loyalty, justice, humanity, and passion. These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention. And though they face all kinds of dangers in a landscape that is at times breathtakingly beautiful, at others brutal, they’re committed to their job: bringing books to people who have never had any, arming them with facts that will change their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Glass Castle<\/em><\/strong> by Jeannette Walls — 5 copies
Donated by the Grand Island Public Library<\/em>
The Glass Castle<\/em> is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Golden Sower Little Blue Stem Book Set<\/em><\/strong> — 1 copy of each title
Ten picture books nominated for the 2025-2026 Golden Sower Award.
2 complete sets.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Golden Sower Honeybee Book Set<\/em><\/strong> — 3 copies of each title
Ten chapter books nominated for the 2025-2026 Golden Sower Award.
1 set with 2 copies of each title.
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Golden Sower Meadowlark Book Set<\/em><\/strong> — 2 copies of each title
Ten novels nominated for the 2025-2026 Golden Sower Award.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Golden Sower Bald Eagle Book Set<\/strong> — 2 copies of each title
Ten novels nominated for the 2025-2026 Golden Sower Award.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Good Omens<\/em><\/strong> by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett — 10 copies
Donated by Hastings Public Library<\/em>
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter<\/em>, Witch<\/em> (the world’s only completely<\/em> accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Great Alone<\/em><\/strong> by Kristin Hannah — 4 copies
Donated by Grand Island Public Library<\/em>
Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America\u2019s last true frontier.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Great Plains Bison<\/em><\/strong> by Dan O’Brien — 10 copies
Nebraska Public Media Book Club Kit<\/a><\/strong>
This book traces the history and ecology of this American symbol from the origins of the great herds that once dominated the prairie to its near extinction in the late 19th century and the subsequent efforts to restore the bison population. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society<\/em><\/strong> by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows — 11 copies
January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she\u2019s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Happiest Man on Earth<\/em><\/strong> by Eddie Jaku \u2013 10 copies
Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed in November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested, and taken to a concentration camp. Published as Eddie turns 100, this is a powerful, heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful memoir of how happiness can be found even in the darkest of times.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Hattie Big Sky<\/em><\/strong> by Kirby Larson — 20 copies + CD (Grades 6-9)
For most of her life, sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks has been shuttled from one distant relative to another. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she summons the courage to leave Iowa and move all by herself to Vida, Montana, to prove up on her late uncle\u2019s homestead claim. Under the big sky, Hattie braves hard weather, hard times, a cantankerous cow, and her own hopeless hand at the cookstove. Her quest to make a home is championed by new neighbors Perilee Mueller, her German husband, and their children. For the first time in her life, Hattie feels part of a family, finding the strength to stand up against Traft Martin\u2019s schemes to buy her out and against increasing pressure to be a \u201cloyal\u201d American at a time when anything\u2014or anyone\u2014German is suspect. Despite daily trials, Hattie continues to work her uncle\u2019s claim until an unforeseen tragedy causes her to search her soul for the real meaning of home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here One Moment <\/em><\/strong>by Liane Moriarty — 10 copies + 1 LP
The plane is jam-packed. Every seat is taken. So of course, the flight is delayed! Flight attendant Allegra Patel likes her job\u2014she\u2019s generally happy with her life, but today is her twenty-eighth birthday. She can think of plenty of things she\u2019d rather be doing than placating a bunch of grumpy passengers. Suddenly a woman none of them know stands up. She makes predictions about how and when everyone on board will die. Some dismiss her. Others will do everything they can to make sure her prophecies do not come to pass. All of them will be forever changed.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Holes<\/em><\/strong> by Louis Sachar — 20 copies + CD (Grades 4-7)
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys\u2019 detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hoot<\/em><\/strong> by Carl Hiaasen — 10 copies + CD (Grades -7)
Everybody loves Mother Paula’s pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the awkward new kid and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owls’ fate cemented in pancake batter?
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House in the Pines<\/em><\/strong> by Ana Reyes — 10 copies
Maya was a high school senior when her best friend, Aubrey, mysteriously dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man named Frank whom they\u2019d been spending time with all summer. Seven years later, to save herself, Maya must understand a story written before she was born, but time keeps running out, and soon, all roads are leading back to Frank\u2019s cabin….<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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How to Stitch an American Dream<\/em><\/strong> by Jenny Doan — 10 copies
Over the last decade, the Doan family business has grown from Jenny’s corner shop to become the largest supplier of pre-cut quilting fabric. In this memoir, Jenny reveals the full the behind-the-scenes story of the remarkable success she’s so well-known for today: the Missouri Star Quilt Company.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Hunger Games<\/strong><\/em> by Suzanne Collins \u2013 13 copies (Grades 7 and up)
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, “The Hunger Games,” a fight to the death on live TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am Malala<\/em><\/strong> by Malala Yousafzai & Christina Lamb — 20 copies
Donated by St. Paul Library<\/em>
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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I Have a Poem the Size of the Moon<\/strong><\/em> by Matt Mason — 12 copies
A book of poems about Nebraska. Not cornfields, not cows: cities, highways, long drives and the political conversations simmering.
‘Between Meteors and Fireflies In a drought year, corn stubble bends
into Headlines: ‘Farmers pray for rain.’ Tumbleweeds take time to harmonize
and choreograph, somewhere between meteors and fireflies…”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I Love You, Michael Collins<\/strong><\/em> by Lauren Baratz-Logsted — 10 copies (Grades 4 and up)
It’s 1969 and the country is gearing up for what looks to be the most exciting moment in U.S. history: men landing on the moon. Ten-year-old Mamie’s class is given an assignment to write letters to the astronauts. All the girls write to Neil Armstrong (“So cute!”) and all the boys write to Buzz Aldrin (“So cool!”). Only Mamie writes to Michael Collins, the astronaut who will come so close but never achieve everyone else’s dream of walking on the moon, because he is the one who must stay out in space with the ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’d Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life<\/em><\/strong> by Anne Bogel — 10 copies
Donated by Hastings Public Library<\/em>
For so many people, reading isn’t just a hobby or a way to pass the time–it’s a lifestyle. Our books shape us, define us, enchant us, and even sometimes infuriate us. Our books are a part of who we are as people, and we can’t imagine life without them.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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If I Stay<\/em><\/strong> by Gayle Forman — 15 copies (Grades 9 and up)
In the blink of an eye everything changes. Seventeen \u00adyear-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall what happened afterwards, watching her own damaged body being taken from the wreck. Little by little she struggles to put together the pieces- to figure out what she has lost, what she has left, and the very difficult choice she must make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks<\/em><\/strong> by Rebecca Skloot — 15 copies
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells\u2014taken without her knowledge in 1951\u2014became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can’t afford health insurance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In an Instant<\/em><\/strong> by Suzanne Redfearn — 10 copies
Life is over in an instant for sixteen-year-old Finn Miller when a devastating car accident tumbles her and ten others over the side of a mountain. Suspended between worlds, she watches helplessly as those she loves struggle to survive.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Invention of Hugo Cabret<\/em><\/strong> by Brian Selznick — 10 copies
(Grades 4-7)
Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo’s undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting<\/em><\/strong> by Clare Pooley —
9 copies
Donated by Auld Public Library, Red Cloud<\/em>
Every day Iona, a larger-than-life magazine advice columnist, travels the ten stops from Hampton Court to Waterloo Station by train, accompanied by her dog, Lulu.  Every day she sees the same people. Of course, they never speak. Seasoned commuters never do.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key<\/em><\/strong> by Jack Gantos — 20 copies
(Grades 5-8)
Joey Pigza’s got heart, he’s got a mom who loves him, and he’s got “dud meds,” which is what he calls the Ritalin pills that are supposed to even out his wild mood swings. Sometimes Joey makes bad choices. He learns the hard way that he shouldn’t stick his finger in the pencil sharpener, or swallow his house key, or run with scissors. Joey ends up bouncing around a lot – and eventually he bounces himself all the way downtown, into the district special-ed program, which could be the end of the line. As Joey knows, if he keeps making bad choices, he could just fall between the cracks for good. But he is determined not to let that happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Keepsake<\/em><\/strong> by Kristina Riggle — 8 copies
Donated by Hastings Public Library<\/em>
Two sisters raised by a hoarder deal with old hurts and resentments, and the very different paths their lives have taken.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Killers of the Flower Moon <\/em><\/strong>by David Grann — 10 copies
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A Lantern in Her Hand<\/em><\/strong> by Beth Streeter Aldrich — 19 copies
Abbie Mackenzie dreamed of becoming a fine lady like her aristocratic grandmother, devoting herself to music and art. But at eighteen Abbie found a different dream, turning away from the promise of a comfortable life as a doctor\u2019s wife to marry handsome, quiet Will Deal. Together, they eagerly accepted the challenge of homesteading in Nebraska territory, where the prairies stretched as far as the eye could see, and only the strongest survived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last Suppers<\/em><\/strong> by Mandy Mikuleneak — 10 copies
Set in 1950s Louisiana, this beautifully written and emotionally moving novel evokes both The Help<\/em><\/strong> and Dead Man Walking<\/em><\/strong> with the story of an unforgettable woman whose quest to provide meals for death row prisoners leads her into the secrets of her own past.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lemons<\/strong><\/em> by Melissa Savage — 10 copies (Grades 3-7)
Lemonade Liberty Witt\u2019s mama always told her: When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. But Lem can\u2019t possibly make lemonade out of her new life in Willow Creek, California\u2014the Bigfoot Capital of the World\u2014where she\u2019s forced to live with a grandfather she\u2019s never met after her mother passes away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lessons in Chemistry<\/em><\/strong> by Bonnie Garmus — 10 copies + 1 LP
Chemist Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average<\/em> woman. But it\u2019s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel\u2013prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with\u2014of all things\u2014her mind. True chemistry results. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Life She Was Given<\/em><\/strong> by Ellen Marie Wiseman — 10 copies
On a summer evening in 1931, Lilly Blackwood glimpses circus lights from the grimy window of her attic bedroom. Lilly isn\u2019t allowed to explore the meadows around Blackwood Manor. Momma insists it\u2019s for Lilly\u2019s own protection, that people would be afraid if they saw her. But on this unforgettable night, Lilly is taken outside for the first time\u2014and sold to the circus sideshow.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lightning <\/strong><\/em>Thief <\/i><\/b>by<\/span> Rick Riordan \u2013 10 copies + CD (Grades 5-9)
Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school…again. And that’s the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he’s angered a few of them. Zeus’s master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Lincoln Highway<\/strong><\/em> by Amor Towles — 10 copies + 1 Large Print + CD
In June 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett’s intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden’s car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett’s future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction\u2014to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles’s third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Lion of Mars<\/strong><\/em> by Jennifer L. Holm — 10 copies (Grades 3-7)
Bell is just like any other kid. He loves cats, eats all kinds of cake, and is curious about everything. Oh, and he lives on another planet!  Living on Mars comes with a ton of rules. Like don\u2019t go outside without a buddy. Always keep a glow stick in your pocket. And no contact with the kids in the other settlements. Ever<\/span>. Then a virus breaks out among the grown-ups, and the children are the only ones who can help. Suddenly it’s up to Bell – a regular kid in a very different world – to uncover the truth and save his family … and possibly unite an entire planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Long March Home<\/em><\/strong> by Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee
— 10 copies 2025 One Book One Nebraska<\/a>
Jimmy Propfield joined the army for two reasons: to get out of Mobile, Alabama, with his best friends Hank and Billy and to forget his high school sweetheart, Claire. Life in the Philippines seems like paradise–until the morning of December 8, 1941, when news comes from Manila: Imperial Japan has bombed Pearl Harbor. Within hours, the teenage friends are plunged into war as enemy warplanes attack Luzon, beginning a battle for control of the Pacific theater that will culminate with a last stand on the Bataan Peninsula and end with the largest surrender of American troops in history.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A Lost Lady<\/em><\/strong> by Willa Cather – 12 copies
First published in 1923, \u201cA Lost Lady\u201d by American author and Pulitzer-prize winner Willa Cather, is the story of the lovely and enigmatic Marian Forrester and her life in the Western American town of Sweet Water. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Love at First Light<\/em><\/strong> by Stephanie Grace Whitson — 10 copies
In 1868 Nebraska, as part of the Ladies Cemetery Improvement Society, a well-to-do young woman who feels unlovable encounters a disfigured warrior who has given up hoping for anything beyond a life in the shadows.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Love of My Life<\/em><\/strong> by Rosie Walsh — 5 copies
Donated by Valentine Public Library<\/em>
Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she\u2019d do anything for them. But almost everything she’s told them about herself is a lie. When the very darkest moments of Emma\u2019s past finally emerge, she must somehow prove to Leo that she really is the woman he always thought she was . . .but first, she must tell him about the other<\/em> love of her life.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mad Honey<\/strong><\/em> by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan — 11 copies
Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life\u2014living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher\u2014was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined that she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in and taking over her father\u2019s beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start. And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. Their paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl in school, and Lily can\u2019t help but fall for him, too. With Ash, she feels happy for the first time. Yet at times, she wonders if she can trust him completely. . . .Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Olivia is adamant that her son is innocent. But she would be lying if she didn\u2019t acknowledge the flashes of his father\u2019s temper in Ash, and as the case against him unfolds, she realizes he\u2019s hidden more than he\u2019s shared with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Magic Misfits<\/strong><\/em> by Neil Patrick Harris — 12 copies (Grades 3-7)
When street magician Carter runs away, he never expects to find friends and magic in a sleepy New England town. But like any good trick, things change instantly as greedy B.B. Bosso and his crew of crooked carnies arrive to steal anything and everything they can get their sticky fingers on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Maid<\/em><\/strong> by Nita Prose — 10 copies + 1 LP
Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. But Molly\u2019s orderly life is upended the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find it in a state of disarray and Mr. Black himself dead in his bed.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Maid’s Diary<\/em><\/strong> by Loreth Anne White — 10 copies
Kit Darling is a maid with a snooping problem. She\u2019s the \u201cinvisible girl,\u201d compelled to poke into her wealthy clients\u2019 closely guarded lives. It\u2019s a harmless hobby until Kit sees something she can\u2019t unsee in the home of her brand-new clients: a secret so dark it could destroy the privileged couple expecting their first child. This makes Kit dangerous to the couple. In turn, it makes the couple\u2015who might kill to keep their secret\u2015dangerous to Kit.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A Man Called Ove<\/em><\/strong> by Fredrik Backman — 10 copies + CD
A Major Motion Picture starring Tom Hanks–A Man Called Otto<\/em>
Meet Ove. He\u2019s a curmudgeon\u2014the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him \u201cthe bitter neighbor from hell.\u201d But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn\u2019t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mary Jane <\/em><\/strong>by Jessica Anya Blau — 10 copies
In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family\u2019s subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she\u2019s glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. Caught between the lifestyle she\u2019s always known and the future she\u2019s only just realized is possible, Mary Jane will arrive at September with a new idea about what she wants out of life, and what kind of person she\u2019s going to be.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Max and the Midknights<\/strong><\/em> by Lincoln Peirce — 10 copies (Grades 3-7)
Max wants to be a knight! Too bad that dream is about as likely as finding a friendly dragon. But when Max’s uncle Budrick is kidnapped by the cruel King Gastley, Max has to act…and fast! Joined by a band of brave adventurers–the Midknights–Max sets out on a thrilling quest: to save Uncle Budrick and restore the realm of Byjovia to its former high spirits!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Measure<\/em><\/strong> by Nikki Erlick — 8 copies
It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Midnight Library<\/strong><\/em> by Matt Haig — 12 copies + 1 Large Print + CD
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Most Agreeable Murder<\/em><\/strong> by Julia Seales — 8 copies
Donated by Auld Public Library, Red Cloud<\/em>
Feisty, passionate Beatrice Steele has never fit the definition of a true lady, according to the strict code of conduct that reigns in Swampshire, her small English township: She is terrible at needlework, has absolutely no musical ability, and her artwork is so bad it frightens people. Nevertheless, she lives a perfectly agreeable life. But she harbors a dark secret: She is obsessed with true crime. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Mystery of Hunting’s End<\/strong><\/em> by Mignon Eberhart — 10 copies
The Sand Hills of Nebraska, where Mignon G. Eberhart lived as a newlywed, inspired the setting of this 1930 chiller. Smack in the middle of the rolling desolation is Hunting\u2019s End, a weekend lodge owned by the rich Kingery family. To that place socialite Matil Kingery invites a strange collection of guests\u2014the same people who were at the lodge when her father died of \u201cheart failure\u201d exactly five years ago. She intends to find out which one of them murdered him. Posing as another guest is the dapper young detective, Lance O\u2019Leary. At his recommendation Matil has engaged Nurse Sarah Keate to care for Aunt Lucy Kingery at Hunting\u2019s End\u2014not a pleasant assignment, as it turns out. Gathered at the lodge, Matil\u2019s guests are shut off from the outside by a November snowstorm. A collie named Jericho mopes around, and a stray cat seems to herald new, clearly unnatural deaths. What a trap to spring on people used to good wine and fresh-cut flowers at dinner!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Never Give Up<\/em><\/strong> by Tom Brokaw — 10 copies
Tom\u2019s father, Red, left school in the second grade to work in the family hotel\u2014the Brokaw House, established in Bristol, South Dakota, by R. P. Brokaw in 1883. Eventually, through work on construction jobs, Red developed an exceptional talent for machines. Tom\u2019s mother, Jean, was the daughter of a farmer who lost everything during the Great Depression. They met after a high school play, when Jean played the lead and Red fell in love with her from the audience. Although they didn\u2019t have much money early in their marriage, especially once they had three boys at home, Red\u2019s philosophy of \u201cNever give up\u201d served them well.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Night Road<\/strong><\/em> by Kristin Hannah — 7 copies
For eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her children\u2019s needs above her own, and it shows\u2014her twins, Mia and Zach\u2014are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. One decision will change the course of their lives. In the blink of an eye, the Farraday family will be torn apart and Lexi will lose everything. In the years that follow, each must face the consequences of that single night and find a way to forget\u2026or the courage to forgive.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Night Watch<\/em><\/strong> by Jayne Anne Phillips — 10 copies
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn\u2019t spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital\u2019s entrance by a war veteran who has forced himself into their world. There, far from family, a beloved neighbor, and the mountain home they knew, they try to reclaim their lives.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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None of This is True<\/em><\/strong> by Lisa Jewell — 10 copies
Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix\u2019s children\u2019s school. Josie has been listening to Alix\u2019s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life. Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Not If I Save You First<\/em><\/strong> by Ally Carter — 10 copies (Grades 7-9)
One Book for Nebraska Teens 2023<\/a><\/strong>
This novel is about a girl stranded in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness with the boy who wronged her… as an assassin moves in.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Number the Stars <\/em><\/strong>by Lois Lowry — 8 copies (Grades 5-7)
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark, nearly seven thousand people, across the sea to Sweden. The heroism of an entire nation reminds us that there was pride and human decency in the world even during a time of war.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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O Pioneers<\/em><\/strong> by Willa Cather — 15 copies
\u201cO Pioneers!\u201d introduces us to the Bergsons, a family of Swedish-American immigrants who live in the fictional farm town of Hanover, Nebraska at the beginning of the 20th century. The story centers on the life of Alexandra Bergson, who inherits the family farm with her mother and three brothers when her father dies. Many years of crop failures force the Bergson\u2019s neighbors to give up and sell their farms, something that Alexandra\u2019s brothers Oscar and Lou wish to do but which Alexandra and her mother are unwilling to do. Instead Alexandra convinces the family to mortgage their homestead in order to buy up the surrounding acreage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Old Yeller<\/em><\/strong> by Fred Gipson — 18 copies (Grades 3-6)
A timeless American classic and one of the most beloved children\u2019s books ever written, Old Yeller<\/em> is a Newbery Honor Book that explores the poignant and unforgettable bond between a boy and the stray dog who becomes his loyal friend. This novel is an eloquently simple story that is both exciting and deeply moving. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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One Golden Summer<\/em><\/strong> by Carley Fortune — 10 copies
Good things happen at the lake. That\u2019s what Alice\u2019s grandmother says, and it\u2019s true. Alice spent just one summer there at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen\u2014it\u2019s where she took that photo, the image that changed her life. Now Alice lives behind a lens. As a photographer, she\u2019s most comfortable on the sidelines. She\u2019s been itching for something more, and when Nan falls and breaks her hip, Alice comes up with a plan for them both: another summer in that magical place. But as soon as they settle in, their peace is disrupted by the roar of a familiar yellow boat, and the man driving it.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margo<\/em><\/strong> by Marianne Cronin — 10 copies
Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson lives on the Terminal Ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital. Though the teenager has been told she\u2019s dying, she still has plenty of living to do. Joining the hospital\u2019s arts and crafts class, she meets the magnificent Margot, an 83-year-old, purple-pajama-wearing, fruitcake-eating rebel, who transforms Lenni in ways she never imagined.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Orphan Train<\/em><\/strong> by Christina Baker Kline — 12 copies + 1 LP + CD
Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to \u201caging out\u201d out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse…
As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren\u2019t as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our Missing Hearts<\/strong><\/em> by Celeste Ng — 10 copies
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left the family when he was nine years old without a trace. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, his family’s life has been governed by laws written to preserve \u201cAmerican culture\u201d in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn\u2019t know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn\u2019t wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Parachute Kids<\/em><\/strong> by Betty C. Tang — 10 copies (Grades 3-6)
One Books for Nebraska Kids 2024<\/a>
After a fun-filled vacation in California, Mom and Dad announce that the family is staying and enroll the children in school. When their parents\u2019 visas expire, the children are left in their rental house while their parents return to Taiwan to sort out a legal reentry to the United States. (Middle Grade Graphic Novel)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Paul, Big, and Small<\/strong><\/em> by David Glen Robb — 10 copies + CD
(Grades 9 and up)
Paul Adams has always been short, but he\u2019s an excellent rock climber. And his small size means he can hide from the bullies that prowl the halls of his high school. Top on his list of \u201cPeople to Avoid\u201d are Conor, from his Language Arts class, Hunter, who hangs around the climbing gym, and Lily Small, who happens to be the tallest girl in school. But he might be able to be friends with a new kid from Hawaii who insists that everyone call him \u201cBig.\u201d He\u2019s got a way of bringing everyone into his circle and finding the beauty in even the worst of situations. When the three of them\u2014Paul, Big, and Small\u2014are assigned to the same group project, they form an unlikely friendship. And Paul realizes that maybe Lily isn\u2019t so bad after all. He might even actually like her. And maybe even more<\/span> than like her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peak<\/em><\/strong> by Roland Smith — 20 copies (Grades 7-9)
After fourteen-year-old Peak Marcello is arrested for scaling a New York City skyscraper, he’s left with two choices: wither away in Juvenile Detention or go live with his long-lost father, who runs a climbing company in Thailand. But Peak quickly learns that his father’s renewed interest in him has strings attached. Big strings. As owner of Peak Expeditions, he wants his son to be the youngest person to reach the Everest summit–and his motives are selfish at best. Even so, for a climbing addict like Peak, tackling Everest is the challenge of a lifetime. But it’s also one that could cost him his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prairie Forge<\/strong><\/em> by James J. Kimble — 10 copies
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt called for the largest arms buildup in our nation’s history. A shortage of steel, however, quickly slowed the program\u2019s momentum, and arms production fell dangerously behind schedule. The country needed scrap metal. Henry Doorly, publisher of the Omaha World-Herald, had the solution. Prairie Forge tells the story of the great Nebraska scrap drive of 1942\u2014a campaign that swept the nation and yielded five million tons of scrap metal, literally salvaging the war effort itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prayers for the Stolen<\/em><\/strong> by Jennifer Clement — 5 copies
Donated by Grand Island Public Library<\/em>
Ladydi Garcia Mart\u00ednez is fierce, funny, and smart. She was born into a world where being a girl is a dangerous thing. In the mountains of Guerrero, Mexico, women must fend for themselves, as their men have left to seek opportunities elsewhere.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Projekt 1065<\/strong><\/em> by Alan Gratz — 12 copies (Grades 4-7)
Infiltrate. Befriend. Sabotage.World War II is raging. Michael O’Shaunessey, originally from Ireland, now lives in Nazi Germany with his parents. Like the other boys in his school, Michael is a member of the Hitler Youth.But Michael has a secret. He and his parents are spies. When Michael learns about Projekt 1065, a secret Nazi war mission, things get even more complicated. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Reclaiming the Sky: <\/em><\/strong>911 and the Untold Story of the Men and Women Who Kept America Flying<\/em> by Tom Murphy — 5 copies Donated by Central Community College – Grand Island<\/em>
On the morning of September 11, 2001, thousands of airline and airport professionals headed off for what they assumed would be just another day on the job. Of course it was anything but. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Remarkably Bright Creatures<\/em><\/strong> by Shelby Van Pelt — 10 copies + 1 LP
After Tova Sullivan\u2019s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn\u2019t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors\u2014until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Rescue Josh McGuire<\/strong><\/em> by Ben Michaelsen — 17 copies
(Grades 5-9)
Ever since Josh’s older brother died, his father has been drinking too much and taking his anger out on Josh. But when he orphans a bear cub, it’s more than Josh can stand. Josh insists on rescuing the bear cub–only to find that he must surrender it to game officials. Knowing the cub will be sent to a research lab, Josh makes a defiant choice. Taking only his brother’s motorcycle, the cub, and his dog, Josh runs away to the mountains, vowing to stay until the hunting laws are changed. But the mountains hold unexpected menace, and Josh’s bid for justice soon becomes a battle to survive.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House<\/strong><\/em> by Kate Andersen Brower — 6 copies
America\u2019s First Families are unknowable in many ways. No one has insight into their true character like the people who serve their meals and make their beds every day. Full of stories and details by turns dramatic, humorous, and heartwarming.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The River We Remember<\/em><\/strong> by William Kent Krueger —
10 copies + 1 LP
On Memorial Day in Jewel, Minnesota, the body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. The investigation falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Runaway King<\/strong><\/em> by Jennifer A. Nielsen — 10 copies
(Grades 3-7)
Just weeks after Jaron has taken the throne, an assassination attempt forces him into a deadly situation. Rumors of a coming war are winding their way between the castle walls, and Jaron feels the pressure quietly mounting within Carthya. The stunning second installment of The Ascendance Series<\/em><\/strong> takes readers on a roller coaster ride of treason and murder, thrills and peril, as they journey with the Runaway King<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Running Naked: Surviving the Legacy of Family in Rural Nebraska<\/em><\/strong> by Colby Coash– 10 copies
A former Nebraska state senator hails from the heart of rural Nebraska\u2014tiny Bassett, Nebraska, population 1,010\u2014where his father and grandfather owned and operated the fertilizer plant, the backbone of the rural community. Born into the tapestry of small-town existence, Coash\u2019s narrative unfolds against the backdrop of tight-knit neighbors and the enduring spirit of the American small town.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Schwa Was Here<\/em><\/strong> by Neal Shusterman — 13 copies + CD (Grades 7-9)
They say his clothes blend into the background, no matter where he stands. They say a lot of things about the Schwa, but one thing\u2019s for sure: no one ever noticed him. Except me. My name is Antsy Bonano, and I was the one who realized the Schwa was \u201cfunctionally invisible\u201d and used him to make some big bucks. But I was also the one who caused him more grief than a friend should. So if you all just shut up and listen, I\u2019ll tell you everything there is to know about the Schwa, from how he got his name, to what really happened with his mom. I\u2019ll spill everything. Unless, of course, \u201cthe Schwa Effect\u201d wipes him out of my brain before I\u2019m done\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Shack<\/em><\/strong> by Wm. Paul Young — 10 copies + 1 Large Print
Mackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Shiloh<\/em><\/strong> by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor — 20 copies (Grades 3-7)
When Marty Preston comes across a young beagle in the hills behind his home, it’s love at first sight\u2014and also big trouble. It turns out the dog, which Marty names Shiloh, belongs to Judd Travers, who drinks too much and has a gun\u2014and abuses his dogs. So when Shiloh runs away from Judd to Marty, Marty just has to hide him and protect him from Judd. But Marty’s secret becomes too big for him to keep to himself, and it exposes his entire family to Judd’s anger. How far will Marty have to go to make Shiloh his?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Silver Arrow<\/em><\/strong> by Lev Grossman — 15 copies (Grades 3-7)
Kate and her younger brother Tom lead dull, uninteresting lives. And if their dull, uninteresting parents are anything to go by, they don’t have much to look forward to. Why can’t Kate have thrilling adventures and save the world the way people do in books? Even her 11th birthday is shaping up to be mundane — that is, until her mysterious and highly irresponsible Uncle Herbert surprises her with the most unexpected, exhilarating, inappropriate birthday present of all time.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Slacker<\/em><\/strong> by Gordon Korman — 10 copies (Grades 3-7)
Cameron Boxer is very happy to spend his life avoiding homework, hanging out with his friends, and gaming for hours in his basement. It’s not too hard for him to get away with it . . . until he gets so caught up in one game that he almost lets his house burn down around him. Oops. It’s time for some serious damage control — so Cameron and his friends invent a fake school club that will make it seem like they’re doing good deeds instead of slacking off. The problem? Some kids think the club is real — and Cameron is stuck being president. Soon Cameron is part of a mission to save a beaver named Elvis from certain extinction. Along the way, he makes some new friends — and some powerful new enemies. The guy who never cared about anything is now at the center of everything . . . and it’s going to take all his slacker skills to win this round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Slammed<\/strong><\/em> by Colleen Hoover — 10 copies
Following the unexpected death of her father, eighteen-year-old Layken becomes the rock for both her mother and younger brother. She appears resilient and tenacious, but inside, she’s losing hope. Then she meets her new neighbor Will, a handsome twenty-one-year-old whose mere presence leaves her flustered and whose passion for poetry slams thrills her. Not long after a heart-stopping first date during which each recognizes something profound and familiar in the other, they are slammed to the core when a shocking discovery brings their new relationship to a sudden halt. Daily interactions become impossibly painful as they struggle to find a balance between the feelings that pull them together and the forces that tear them apart. Only through the poetry they share are they able to speak the truth that is in their hearts and imagine a future where love is cause for celebration, not regret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sold on a Monday<\/strong><\/em> by Kristina McMorris — 9 copies
2 CHILDREN FOR SALE<\/strong> The sign is a last resort. It sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931 but could be found anywhere in an era of breadlines, bank runs and broken dreams. It could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices. For struggling reporter Ellis Reed, the gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family\u2019s dark past. He snaps a photograph of the children, not meant for publication. But when it leads to his big break, the consequences are more devastating than he ever imagined. At the paper, Lillian Palmer is haunted by her role in all that happened. She is far too familiar with the heartbreak of children deemed unwanted. As the bonds of motherhood are tested, she and Ellis must decide how much they are willing to risk to mend a fractured family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spare <\/em><\/strong>by Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex — 10 copies
It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother\u2019s coffin as the world watched in sorrow\u2014and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling\u2014and how their lives would play out from that point on.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Spark<\/strong><\/em> by Sarah Beth Durst — 12 copies (Grades 3-6)
Storm beasts and their guardians create perfect weather every day, and Mina longs for a storm beast of her own. But when the gentle girl bonds with a lightning beast\u2014a creature of fire and chaos\u2014everyone\u2019s certain it\u2019s a mistake. Everyone but Mina and the beast himself, Pixit. Quickly enrolled in lightning school, Mina struggles to master a guardian\u2019s skills, and she discovers that her country’s weather comes at a devastating cost\u2014a cost powerful people wish to hide. Mina\u2019s never been the type to speak out, but someone has to tell the truth, and, with Pixit\u2019s help, she resolves to find a way to be heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spirit of Steamboat<\/em><\/strong> by Craig Johnson — 10 copies
Sheriff Walt Longmire is in his office reading A Christmas Carol<\/em><\/strong> when he is interrupted by a ghost of Christmas past: a young woman with a hairline scar and more than a few questions about his predecessor, Lucian Connally. With his daughter Cady and under-sheriff Moretti otherwise engaged, Walt’s on his own this Christmas Eve, so he agrees to help her.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Stella<\/strong><\/em> by McCall Hoyle — 10 copies (Grades 3-4)
Told from Stella’s perspective, this story is about a special dog who must find the courage to overcome her fears in order to help save a young girl with epilepsy. Ever since she was a puppy, Stella was trained to use her powerful beagle nose to sniff out dangerous chemicals and help her handler keep people safe. But during a routine security inspection, Stella misses the scent of an explosive. The sound of the blast is loud and scary. Unable to go back to work because of her anxiety, Stella is retired as a working dog. When a young girl name Cloe wants to adopt Stella, the beagle knows this is her last chance to prove her worth. But how? When Stella smells a strange chemical inside Cloe’s body, a scent that surges just before the girl has a seizure, Stella’s nose makes the connection. But how can Stella warn her new family without them thinking she’s having an anxiety attack? How can she convince others that she can be a new kind of service dog and hopefully save Cloe’s life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stick Dog<\/strong><\/em> by Tom Watson — 10 copies (Grades 3-7)
Introducing everyone’s new best friend: Stick Dog! He’ll make you laugh . . . he’ll make you cry . . . but above all, he’ll make you hungry. Follow Stick Dog as he goes on an epic quest for the perfect burger. With hilarious stick-figure drawings, this book has a unique perspective, as the author speaks directly to the reader throughout the story in an engaging and lively way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stranded<\/em><\/strong> by Ben Mikaelsen — 15 copies (Grades 4-7)
A compelling, emotionally satisfying novel of a young girl’s determination to do the right thing and to prove herself to her peers and her parents. When Koby, who lost her foot in an accident at the age of eight, aids a mother whale about to give birth, she sets off a chain of events that changes the course of her life forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stranger in the Woods<\/em><\/strong> by Michael Finkel — 6 copies
Christopher Knight is the man who lived alone for 27 years in the Maine woods, surviving by committing more than 1,000 nighttime burglaries of area cabins to secure food and supplies for his well-hidden outdoor camp.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Stripped Bare<\/strong><\/em> by Shannon Baker — 5 copies
Kate Fox is living the dream. She’s married to Grand County Sheriff Ted Conner, the heir to her beloved Nebraska Sandhills cattle ranch, where they live with Kate’s orphaned niece, Carly. One night Kate answers a shattering phone call from Roxy at the Bar J. Carly’s granddad Eldon, owner of the ranch, is dead and Ted has been shot and may never walk again. Kate knows she must find the killer before it’s too late…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stupid Fast<\/strong><\/em> by Geoff Herbach — 12 copies + CD (Grades 7-12)
I, Felton Reinstein, am Stupid Fast. Seriously. The upper classmen used to call me Squirrel Nut, because I was little and jumpy. Then, during sophomore year, I got tall and huge and so fast the gym teachers in their tight shorts fell all over themselves. During summer, three things happened all at once. First, the pee-smelling jocks in my grade got me to work out for football, even though I had no intention of playing. Second, on my paper route the most beautiful girl I have ever seen moved in and played piano at 6 a.m. Third, my mom, who never drinks, had some wine, slept in her car, stopped weeding the garden, then took my TV and put it in her room and decided she wouldn\u2019t get out of bed. Listen, I have not had much success in my life. But suddenly I\u2019m riding around in a jock\u2019s pick-up truck? Suddenly I\u2019m invited to go on walks with beautiful girls? So, it\u2019s understandable that when my little brother stopped playing piano and began to dress like a pirate I didn\u2019t pay much attention. That I didn\u2019t want to deal with my mom coming apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tailspin<\/em><\/strong> by John Armbruster — 9 copies
Donated by Broken Bow Public Library<\/em>
World War II tail gunner Gene Moran fell four miles through the sky without a parachute and lived. Captured by the Germans, he survived a harrowing eighteen months as a prisoner of war, including a six-hundred-mile death march in 1945 across Central Europe. When Gene returned home, he kept those memories locked up for nearly seventy years. But when John, a young history teacher, learns of Gene’s amazing fall, he’s desperate to learn more. Finally, Gene agrees.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Things Don’t Break on Their Own<\/em><\/strong> by Sarah Easter Collins —
10 copies + 1 LP
Twenty-five years ago, a young girl left home to walk to school. Her younger sister soon followed. But one of them arrived, and one of them didn\u2019t. Her sister\u2019s disappearance has defined Willa\u2019s life. Everyone thinks her sister is dead, but Willa knows she isn\u2019t. Because there are some things that only sisters know about each other\u2014and some bonds only sisters can break. Willa sees fragments of her sister everywhere \u2014 the way that woman on the train turns her head, the gait of that woman in Paris. If there\u2019s the slightest resemblance, Willa drops everything, and everyone, and tries to see if it is her.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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This I Know<\/em><\/strong> by Eldonna Edwards — 10 copies
Eleven-year-old Grace Carter has a talent for hiding things. She\u2019s had plenty of practice, burying thoughts and feelings that might anger her strict Evangelical pastor father, and concealing the deep intuition she carries inside. The Knowing, as Grace calls it, offers glimpses of people\u2019s pasts and futures. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Thunder Dog<\/strong>: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog & the Triumph of Trust<\/em> by Michael Hingson & Susy Flory — 5 copies
Donated by Ravenna Public Library<\/em>
When one of four hijacked planes flew into the World Trade Center’s North Tower on September 11, 2001, Michael Hingson was sitting down for a meeting. His guide dog, Roselle, was at his feet. In that moment, Michael chose to trust Roselle’s judgment and not to panic. They were a team.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Thursday Murder Club <\/em><\/strong>by Richard Osman — 10 copies
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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To the Stars Through Difficulties<\/strong><\/em> by Romalyn Tilghman — 12 copies
Andrew Carnegie funded fifty-nine public libraries in Kansas in the early 20th century\u2015but it was frontier women who organized waffle suppers, minstrel shows, and women’s baseball games to buy books to fill them. Now, a century later, Angelina returns to her father’s hometown of New Hope to complete her dissertation on the Carnegie libraries.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Touching Spirit Bear<\/em><\/strong> by Ben Mikaelsen — 20 copies + CD
(Grades 6-8)
After severely injuring Peter Driscal in an empty parking lot, mischief-maker Cole Matthews is in major trouble. But instead of jail time, Cole is given another option: attend Circle Justice, an alternative program that sends juvenile offenders to a remote Alaskan Island to focus on changing their ways.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Treasured Grace<\/em><\/strong> by Tracie Peterson — 8 copies
Donated by Ravenna Public Library<\/em>
Grace Martindale has known more than her share of hardship. After her parents died, raising her two younger sisters became her responsibility. A hasty marriage to a minister who is heading to the untamed West seemed like an opportunity for a fresh start, but a cholera outbreak along the wagon trail has left Grace a widow in a very precarious position.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tuck Everlasting<\/em><\/strong> by Natalie Babbitt — 16 copies (Grades 5-8)
Doomed to\u2015or blessed with\u2015eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street<\/strong><\/em> by Karina Yan Glaser — 12 copies (Grades 3-7)
The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It’s practically another member of the family. So when their reclusive, curmudgeonly landlord decides not to renew their lease, the five siblings have eleven days to do whatever it takes to stay in their beloved home and convince the dreaded Beiderman just how wonderful they are. And all is fair in love and war when it comes to keeping their home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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West with Giraffes<\/em><\/strong> by Lynda Rutledge — 10 copies
It\u2019s 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California\u2019s first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. Inspired by true events, the tale weaves real-life figures with fictional ones.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Whalebone Theatre<\/em><\/strong> by Joanna Quinn — 10 copies
One blustery night in 1928, a whale washes up on the shores of the English Channel. By law, it belongs to the King, but twelve-year-old orphan Cristabel Seagrave has other plans. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Wild Robot<\/strong><\/em> by Peter Brown — 6 hardback copies + 9 paperback copies (Grades 3-7)
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is–but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island’s unwelcoming animal inhabitants. As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home–until, one day, the robot’s mysterious past comes back to haunt her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wildfire<\/strong><\/em> by Rodman Philbrick — 10 copies + CD (Grades 3-7)
Flames race toward Sam Castine’s summer camp as evacuation buses are loading, but Sam runs back to get his phone. Suddenly, a flash of heat blasts him as pine trees explode. Now a wall of fire separates Sam from his bus, and there’s only one thing to do: Run for his life. Run or die. Lungs burning, Sam’s only goal is to keep moving. Then, when he least expects it, he encounters Delphy, an older girl who is also lost. Their unlikely friendship grows as they join forces to find civilization.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Wink<\/strong><\/em> by Rob Harrell — 10 copies + CD (Grades 4-7)
Twelve-year-old Ross Maloy just wants to be normal. Not to have a rare eye cancer, not to lose his hair, not to have to wear a weird hat or have a goopy eye full of ointment. Just normal.<\/i> But with a sudden and horrifying diagnosis, Ross can’t help standing out. His new life is medical treatments that feel straight out of a video game, vision loss in one eye, disappearing friends who don’t know what to say to “the cancer kid,” cruel bullying, and ultimately, friendships new and old that rise above everything. Just when Ross starts to feel like he’s losing his footing, he discovers how music, art, and true friends can change everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Winter Garden<\/em><\/strong> by Kristin Hannah — 8 copies
Donated by Ravenna Public Library<\/em>
Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when their beloved father falls ill, Meredith and Nina find themselves together again.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Wish You Were Here<\/strong><\/em> by Jodi Picoult — 10 copies + CD
Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She’s not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the Gal\u00e1pagos\u2014days before her thirtieth birthday. Right on time. But then a virus that felt worlds away has appeared in the city, and on the eve of their departure, Finn breaks the news: It’s all hands on deck at the hospital. He has to stay behind. You should still go, he assures her, since it would be a shame for all of their nonrefundable trip to go to waste. And so, reluctantly, she goes. Almost immediately, Diana’s dream vacation goes awry. The whole island is now under quarantine, and she is stranded until the borders reopen. Completely isolated, she must venture beyond her comfort zone. Slowly, she carves out a connection with a local family when a teenager with a secret opens up to Diana, despite her father’s suspicion of outsiders. Diana finds herself examining her relationships, her choices, and herself\u2014and wondering if when she goes home, she too will have evolved into someone completely different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wishtree<\/strong><\/em> by Katherine Applegate — 10 copies (Grades 4-8)
Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red is the neighborhood “wishtree”\u2015people write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red’s branches. Along with a crow named Bongo and other animals who seek refuge in Red’s hollows, this wishtree watches over the neighborhood. You might say Red has seen it all. Until a new family moves in. Not everyone is welcoming, and Red’s experience as a wishtree is more important than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, Kansas<\/em><\/strong> by Jim Minick\u2013 9 copies
In 1955 the small town of Udall, Kansas, was home to oil field workers, homemakers, and teenagers looking ahead to their futures. But on the night of May 25, an F5 tornado struck their town without warning. It remains the deadliest tornado in the history of Kansas.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Woman in the Window <\/em><\/strong>by A. J. Finn — 5 copies + 1 LP
Donated by Grand Island Public Library<\/em>
Anna Fox lives alone\u2014a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn\u2019t, her world begins to crumble and its shocking secrets are laid bare.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Woman of No Importance<\/em><\/strong> by Sonia Purnell — 5 copies
Donated by Grand Island Public Library<\/em>
In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: “She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her. “The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill’s “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.” She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Women<\/em><\/strong> by Kristin Hannah — 20 copies + 1 LP
Women can be heroes.<\/em> When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances \u201cFrankie\u201d McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Yellowface<\/em><\/strong> by R. F. Kuang — 10 copies
Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece. So what if June edits the novel and sends it to her agent as her own work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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