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Crazy Rich Asians
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Less : a novel
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Clock dance
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There there
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China rich girlfriend : a novel
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My year of rest and relaxation
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French exit : a tragedy of manners
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Pachinko
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The death of Mrs. Westaway
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An American marriage
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Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel
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The woman in the window
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Warlight
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The incendiaries
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Feared
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Texas Ranger
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Pieces of her.
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Give me your hand
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Tailspin
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The great alone
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The fallen
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Nine perfect strangers
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Juror #3
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Where the crawdads sing
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The female persuasion
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Walking shadows
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The reckoning.
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Holy ghost
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Bad blood : secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup
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Calypso
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Girl, wash your face : stop believing the lies about who you are so you can become who you were meant to be
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21 lessons for the 21st century
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Small fry
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Becoming.
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The plant paradox : the hidden dangers in "healthy" foods that cause disease and weight gain
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The Library Book
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The fifth risk
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Sapiens : a brief history of humankind
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Natural causes : an epidemic of wellness, the certainty of dying, and killing ourselves to live longer
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These truths : a history of the United States
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The mirage factory : illusion, imagination, and the invention of Los Angeles
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Who is Michael Ovitz? : a memoir
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Winners take all : the elite charade of changing the world
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Heartland : a memoir of working hard and being broke in the richest country on Earth
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I'll be gone in the dark : one woman's obsessive search for the Golden State Killer
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Wasted : tales of a GenX drunk
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White fragility : why it's so hard to talk to white people about racism
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The real Lolita : the kidnapping of Sally Horner and the novel that scandalized the world
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Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
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House of Trump, house of Putin : the untold story of Donald Trump and the Russian mafia
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Whiskey in a teacup : what growing up in the South taught me about life, love, and baking biscuits
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Good and mad : the revolutionary power of women's anger
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Leadership in turbulent times
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The Browns of California : the family dynasty that transformed a state and shaped a nation
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Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime
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You're on an airplane : a self-mythologizing memoir
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Educated : a memoir
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Everything Trump touches dies : a Republican strategist gets real about the worst president ever
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A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership
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Kitchen confidential : adventures in the culinary underbelly
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War on peace : the end of diplomacy and the decline of American influence
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Fashion Climbing : A Memoir with Photographs.
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Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret
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Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
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The coddling of the American mind : how good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure
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Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city
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From the corner of the oval
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Fire and fury : inside the Trump white house
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Every day is extra
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Factfulness : ten reasons we're wrong about the world--and why things are better than you think
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The Hate U Give
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To all the boys I've loved before
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Smile
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Drama
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Sisters
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Sabrina
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Always and forever, Lara Jean
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P.S. I still love you.
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Ghosts
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The Hunger Games
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The sea of monsters
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Lumberjanes Vol 1
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The burning maze
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The Titan's curse
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The battle of the Labyrinth
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The last Olympian
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Children of Blood and Bone
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The fault in our stars
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The dark prophecy (The trials of Apollo, book 2)
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The lost hero
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The son of Neptune
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The mark of Athena
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Bridge of clay
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One of us is lying
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The hidden oracle
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Turtles all the way down
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The blood of Olympus
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Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, book 1 : the sword of summer.
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I am not your perfect Mexican daughter
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The Ship of the Dead
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Eleanor & Park
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The Hammer of Thor
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Divergent
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Wildcard
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Muse of nightmares
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Everything, everything
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Sadie
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The Prince and the Dressmaker
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Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda
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What If It's Us
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War storm
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Kingdom of ash
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Demigods & magicians : Percy and Annabeth meet the Kanes.
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The elite
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If I stay : a novel
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The cruel prince
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Hey, kiddo
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A court of mist and fury
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Scythe
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Stargirl
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Babymouse
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Pokémon adventures
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Green eggs and ham
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Dork diaries : tales from a not-so-fabulous life
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My little pony. Friendship is magic
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The cat in the hat
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The thank you book
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The Baby-sitters Club. a graphic novel
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The Baby-sitters Club. a graphic novel
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There is a Bird on Your Head!
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One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish
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Captain Underpants and the revolting revenge of the radioactive robo-boxers : the tenth epic novel
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Are you my mother?
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Dork diaries. Tales from a not-so-happy heartbreaker
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Fox in socks
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Captain Underpants and the terrifying return of Tippy Tinkletrousers : the ninth epic novel
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I am invited to a party!
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Elephants cannot dance!
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Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets
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October 19, 2018
By Keith Chaffee, Librarian
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