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Featured Des Moines Register Fiction 05/04/08 Selection
Click to search this book in our catalog Miracle At Speedy Motors
by Alexander McCall Smith

Library Journal : The title of this ninth novel in the popular "The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" series is somewha...
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Featured Des Moines Register Nonfiction 05/04/08 Selection
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by Julie Andrews

Library Journal : Andrews's memoir looks to be the first in a series chronicling this much-loved star's life, as it ...
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Featured Iowa Children's Choice Awards 2007-2008 Selection
Click to search this book in our catalog Project Mulberry: A Novel
by Linda Sue Park

Publishers Weekly: In this contemporary novel, Park (A Single Shard) creates a Korean-American seventh-grader...
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Featured ALA Best Books for Young Adults Selection
Click to search this book in our catalog Rooftop
by Paul Volponi

Publishers Weekly: After 17-year-old Clay's parents catch him smoking pot, they pull him from Long Island City High ...
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Featured Hugo Awards Selection
Click to search this book in our catalog Blue Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson

Library Journal : This third book in Robinson's hard-science Mars trilogy follows 1992 Nebula winner Red Mars (LJ 11...
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Featured Pulitzer Prize Selection
Click to search this book in our catalog Master of the Senate
by Robert A. Caro

Library Journal : Lyndon Johnson's 12 years in the Senate (1949-61) were his happiest years, according to his wife, ...
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Featured Oprah's Book Club Selection
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Featured Horn Book Picture Book Awards Selection
Click to search this book in our catalog The Fortune Tellers
by Lloyd Alexander

Publishers Weekly : The hands of fate deftly propel this original folktale. A seedy fortune-teller profits from gull...
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