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Where the Crawdads Sing

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  • Inspirational and magical, this is the story of a boy who grows up determined to save the world from its most savage ecological predator: man himself.
    Book, 2010New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2010], ©2010. — FICTION Wil
  • Inspired by true events surrounding the destruction of the town of Iola in the 1960s, Go as a River is a story of deeply held love in the face of hardship and loss, but also of finding courage, resilience, friendship, and, finally, home--where least…
    Book, 2023New York : Spiegel and Grau, [2023] — FICTION Rea
  • Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in…
    Book, 2018New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018. — FICTION Han
  • Fifteen-year-old Pearl is squatting in an abandoned boathouse with her father, a disgraced college professor, and two other grown men, deep in the swamps of the American South. Despite the isolation, Pearl feels at home with her makeshift family;…
    Book, 2018New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. — FICTION Pin
  • This story begins in the 1960 and explores how Mimi Miller comes of age, over and over again. As the years go by, the unthinkable starts to seem inevitable. Anna Quindlen's novel takes us through the changing eras of Mimi and her family, as secrets…
    Book, 2017New York : Random House, 2017. — FICTION Qui
  • Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At 14, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is…
    Book, 2017New York, New York : Riverhead Books, 2017. — FICTION Tal
  • A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his…
    Book, 2008New York : Ecco, [2008], ©2008. — FICTION Wro
  • It is 1987, and only one person has ever truly understood 14-year-old June Elbus - her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather,…
    Book, 2012New York : Dial Press, 2012. — FICTION Bru