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1. The Count of Monte Cristo

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Author:
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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Book, Audio CD, Hoopla eAudiobook, Hoopla eBook, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
Overview: Alexandre Dumas's novel of justice, retribution, and self-discovery - one of the most enduringly popular adventure tales ever written - appears here in a newly revised translation. "This novel tells the story of Edmond Dantes, wrongfully imprisoned for life in the supposedly impregnable sea fortress the Chateau d'If. After a daring escape, and after unearthing a hidden treasure revealed to him by a fellow prisoner, he devotes the rest...

2. The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

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Author:
Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001
Series:
Hitchhiker series volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Book, Audio CD, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
It's an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent...until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur's best friend has just announched that he's an alien. After that, things get much, much worse. With just a towel, a small yellow fish, and a book, Arthur has to navigate through a very hostile universe in the company of a gang of unreliable aliens. Luckily the fish is quite...

3. Kindred

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Author:
Butler, Octavia E.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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"Dana, a 1970s black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether...

4. The picture of Dorian Gray and other stories

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Author:
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Book, Adult Literacy Book, Audio CD, Hoopla eAudiobook, Hoopla eBook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
A remarkably handsome youth, Dorian Gray, meets Lord Henry Wotton and is corrupted into a life of terrible evil. Granted eternal youth, Dorian Gray lives a wild, dissipated life while his portrait grows old and haggard. Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations,...

5. Remarkably bright creatures: a novel

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Author:
Van Pelt, Shelby
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Book, Audio CD, Book Club Kit, Hoopla Flex (Garfield) eAudiobook, Large Print, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook, Playaway
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"For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago"-- After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old...