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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... full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused...
2) No, David!
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Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
c1998
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English
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A young boy is depicted doing a variety of naughty things for which he is repeatedly admonished, but finally he gets a hug.
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English
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"Marco Carrera is 'the hummingbird,' a man with an almost supernatural ability to remain still amid the chaos of an ever-changing world. Though his life is rife with emotional challenges-suffering the death of his sister and the absence of his brother; caring for his elderly parents; raising his granddaughter when her mother, Marco's own child, is no longer capable; loving an enigmatic woman-Marco carries on with a noble stoicism that belies an intensity...
4) Be a maker
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Illustrations and simple, rhyming text invite the reader to make everything from a tower to a charitable donation, alone or with neighbors.
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Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of the novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With the decline in their status, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards.
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Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad," but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."
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Español
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"A través de sus páginas, conocemos la extraordinaria historia de Julian Mantle, un abogado de éxito que, tras sufrir un ataque al corazón, debe afrontar el gran vacío de su existencia. Inmerso en esta crisis existencial, Julian toma la radical decisión de vender todas sus pertenencias y viajar a la India. Es en un monasterio del Himalaya donde aprende las sabias y profundas lecciones de los monjes sobre la felicidad, el coraje, el equilibrio...
10) Me first
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1992
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English
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Pinkerton the pig always manages to be first until he rushes for a sandwich and it turns out to be not the edible kind.
11) Replay
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English
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Jeff Winston has many opportunities to relive his life until he gets it right.
12) Jack and Santa
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English
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"When Jack finds himself on the naughty list, he worries that Santa will bring him coal. But Jack wants presents-lots of them. Will Jack be able to prove to Santa that he's not so bad after all?"-- Provided by publisher.
13) Slowly slowly
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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First edition.
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English
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A poetic meditation on how you can see more when you slow down.
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English
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"Shimmering with rage and sparkling with subtle humor, Billie Starr's Book of Sorries showcases Edgar Award-nominee Deborah E. Kennedy's singular voice as Jenny, a heroine in the vein of Olive Kitteridge and Miles Roby in Empire Falls, and shines a light on the town of Benson, Indiana, where lakes, grudges, and family rifts run deep - but so does a mother's love. Sometimes, a woman has to rescue herself. Jenny Newberg, Queen of Bad Decisions, is about...
18) A boy like you
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Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Encourages every boy to embrace all of the things that make him unique, and to be curious, brave, kind, thoughtful, and more.
19) Fortunate son
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English
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Sharing a close bond in spite of very different backgrounds, Eric, a handsome white man of privilege, and Tommy, an impoverished black youth with poor health, are separated by tragedy and reunited by a common enemy years later.
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Gallup Press
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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Using the metaphor of a bucket, Felix's grandfather explains how being kind is the most fulfilling way to go about one's life and encourages him not to be dissuaded by those who choose a different path in this inspiring tale about how one person's actions can impact those of others.
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