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1. 21 lessons for the 21st century

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Author:
Harari, Yuval N.
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4.5 stars
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GCP NewCas Non Fiction
909.82 HAR
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How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal with the epidemic of fake news? Are nations and religions still relevant? What should we teach our children? As technology advances faster than our understanding of it, hacking becomes a tactic of war, and the world feels more polarized than ever, Yuval Harari addresses the challenge of navigating life in the face of constant and disorienting change and raises the important...

2. The adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi: a novel

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Author:
Chakraborty, S. A.
Series:
Amina al-Sirafi novels volume 1.
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GCP Parachute Fiction
FIC CHA ADV
GCP Rifle Fiction
FIC CHA ADV
GCP Silt Fiction
FIC CHA ADV
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"Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, she's survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural. But when she's tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman, she's offered a job...

3. Alanna: the first adventure

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Author:
Pierce, Tamora
Series:
Song of the lioness volume 1.
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4.7 stars
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Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page, learning many hard lessons along her path to high adventure. "From now on I'm Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I'll be a knight." And so young Alanna of Trebond begins the journey to knighthood. Though a girl, Alanna has always craved the adventure and daring allowed only for boys; her twin brother, Thom, yearns to learn...

4. Avalanche dreams: a memoir of skiing, climbing, and life

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Author:
Dawson, Louis W., 1952-
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"In this riveting memoir, renowned mountaineer Lou Dawson shares a tumultuous coming-of-age journey, from the flatlands of Texas to the Colorado mountains, steeped in the counterculture revolution of the 1960s. Amidst the towering peaks, Lou discovers an enduring love for alpine sports: scaling cliffs, topping summits, skiing powder snow. However, as the avalanches fall and lifestyle choices veer, his pursuit of adrenaline becomes a poignant struggle...

5. The best way to bury your husband

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Author:
Casale, Alexia
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GCP NewCas Fiction
FIC CAS BES
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After killing her husband-a truly terrible man, Sally finds herself leading an extremely unusual self-help group of women who have come together to heal the damage their husbands have done-and to work out a plan to get rid of the bodies and get away with it. "When Sally kills her husband with a cast-iron skillet, she's more fearful of losing her kids than of disposing of a fresh corpse. That just wouldn't be fair--not after twenty years of marriage...

6. The Briar Club: a novel

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Author:
Quinn, Kate
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5 stars
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"The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era"-- "Washington, D.C., 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation's capital, where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious...

7. The Buddhist on death row: how one man found light in the darkest place

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Sheff, David
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy explores the transformation of Jarvis Jay Masters who became one of America's most respected Buddhist practitioners during his two decades in solitary confinement in San Quentin"--

8. El cementerio de los cuentos sin contar

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Author:
Alvarez, Julia
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GCP New Castle World Languages
ESP ALV CEM
GCP Parachute World Languages
ESP ALV CEM
GCP Rifle World Languages
ESP ALV CEM
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"Alma Cruz ha decidido ponerle punto final a su carrera de escritora, pero teme acabar como su amiga, una exitosa novelista arrastrada a la locura por un libro que jamás terminó de escribir. Por eso, cuando hereda un modesto terreno en República Dominicana, se le ocurre sepultar allí sus decenas de manuscritos inconclusos. Quiere que descansen en paz en la misma tierra donde yacen sus raíces. Pero a diferencia de Alma, los protagonistas de sus...

9. Challenger deep

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Author:
Shusterman, Neal
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3.5 stars
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GCP Carbon Young Adult
YA SHU CHA
GCP Glenwd Young Adult
YA SHU CHA
GCP NewCas Young Adult
YA SHU CHA
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Caden Bosch is caught between two worlds: one as an artist on a ship heading for the deepest point on Earth and the other as a brilliant high-school student. His powerful story shares the journey of a teenage boy struggling with schizophrenia -- Publisher.

10. Clockwork angel

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Author:
Clare, Cassandra
Series:
Infernal devices volume 1.
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4.6 stars
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GCP Glenwd Young Adult
YA CLA CLO
GCP Silt Young Adult
YA CLA CLO
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When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Gray's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.

11. The comfort book

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Author:
Haig, Matt, 1975-
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158.1 HAI
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158.1 HAI
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"A small book for anyone in search of hope, looking for a path to a more meaningful life, or in need of encouragement. "Happiness occurs when you forget who you're expected to be. And what you're expected to do. Happiness is an accident of self-acceptance. It's the warm breeze you feel when you open the door to who you are." Years ago, Matt Haig began writing notes to his future self. These notes were meant as gifts to his future self: offerings of...

12. Consent: a memoir of unwanted attention

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Author:
Freitas, Donna
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GCP Glenwd Non Fiction
362.88 FRE
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"Donna Freitas has lived two lives. In one life, she is a well-published author and respected scholar who has traveled around the country speaking about Title IX, consent, religion, and sex on college campuses. In the other, she is a victim, a woman who suffered and suffers still because she was stalked by her graduate professor for more than two years. [...] In Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention, Donna Freitas delivers a forensic examination...

13. The Count of Monte Cristo

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Author:
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870
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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...

14. The darkness outside us

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Author:
Schrefer, Eliot, 1978-
Series:
Darkness outside us volume 1.
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4.2 stars
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Earth's population is divided between only two existing countries which cannot manage to cooperate in any way, until a distress signal arrives from Titan's first settler and neither can afford to rescue her on their own if they act separately. Ambrose wakes up on board with successfully reaching his sister the primary thought in his mind until he notices several strange circumstances: he doesn't remember the launch, the ship's OS is voiced by his...

15. The dissonance

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Author:
Hamill, Shaun
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"In high school, the three were students of the eccentric Professor Marsh, trained in a secret system of magic known as the Dissonance, which is built around harnessing negative emotions: alienation, anger, pain. Then, twenty years ago, something happened that shattered their coven, scattering them across the country, stuck in mundane lives, alone. But now, terrifying signs and portents (not to mention a pointed Facebook invite) have summoned them...

16. Doc Holliday: a family portrait

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Author:
Tanner, Karen Holliday, 1940-
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GCP NewCas Colorado Coll.
COLO BIO HOL
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"In Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, Karen Holliday Tanner reveals the real man behind the legend. Shedding light on Holliday’s early years, in a prominent Georgia family during the Civil War and Reconstruction, she examines the elements that shaped his destiny: his birth defect, the death of his mother and estrangement from his father, and the diagnosis of tuberculosis, which led to his journey west. The influence of Holliday’s genteel upbringing...

17. Fablehaven

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Author:
Mull, Brandon, 1974-
Series:
Fablehaven volume 1.
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4.6 stars
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GCP NewCas Juvenile
J MUL FAB
GCP Rifle Juvenile
J MUL FAB
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When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate in Connecticut, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.

18. Fight Club

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Author:
Palahniuk, Chuck
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4.9 stars
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The rise of a terrorist organization, led by a waiter who enjoys spitting in people's soup. He starts a fighting club, where men bash each other, and the club quickly gains in popularity. It becomes the springboard for a movement devoted to destruction for destruction's sake. Overview: The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club. Chuck Palahniuk's outrageous and startling debut novel that exploded American literature and...

19. The four winds

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Author:
Hannah, Kristin
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4.2 stars
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FIC HAN FOU
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FIC HAN FOU
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"Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she...

20. Go as a river

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Author:
Read, Shelley
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4.1 stars
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FIC REA GO
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FIC REA GO
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"Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family's peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado--the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land and determined to live as he chooses. Victoria encounters Wil by chance on a street corner, a meeting that profoundly alters both of their young lives, unknowingly igniting as much passion...