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Was the Book Better? March 2023
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Where the crawdads sing
by Delia Owens
Viewed with suspicion in the aftermath of a tragedy, a beautiful hermit who has survived for years in a marsh becomes targeted by unthinkable forces. A first novel by the New York Times best-selling author of Cry of the Kalahari.
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Where the crawdads sing /
Viewed with suspicion in the aftermath of a murder, Kya Clark, who has survived alone for years in a marsh near the North Carolina coast, becomes targeted by unthinkable forces
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Little women /
Tells the story of the four March sisters, Jo, Beth, Amy, and Meg, who come of age during the American Civil War while their father is away serving as a minister to the troops
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Little women /
Follows the lives of the four March sisters as they grow from kids into young women
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The silver linings playbook
by Matthew Quick
Embracing a philosophy that life is a movie produced by God, neural health patient Pat Peoples endeavors to win back his estranged wife by making strategic sacrifices and coordinating their communications through a depressed widow. A first novel.
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Silver linings playbook
When Pat is released from a mental health facility after being treated for bipolar disorder, he meets a recent widow and the two develop a unique friendship
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Pride and prejudice
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the romantic entanglements of her four sisters, and her feelings for a brooding gentleman
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Pet sematary : a novel
by Stephen King
When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true. Despite Ludlow's tranquility, an undercurrent of danger exists here. Those trucks on the road outside the Creed's beautiful old home travel by just a little too quickly, for one thing...as is evidenced by the makeshift graveyard in the nearby woods where generations of children have buried their beloved pets. Then there are the warnings to Louis both real andfrom the depths of his nightmares that he should not venture beyond the borders of this little graveyard where another burial ground lures with seductive promises and ungodly temptations. A blood-chilling truth is hidden there--one more terrifying than death itself, and hideously more powerful. As Louis is about to discover for himself sometimes, dead is better
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Pet sematary /
The Creeds move next door to a pet cemetery, which is built over old Native American burial grounds with the power of resurrection
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The Grapes of wrath
by John Steinbeck
The book about a migrant family seeking a better life in California during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s was not only banned, it was burned by people citing vulgar words and sexual references, nevertheless the Nobel Prize committee later indicated that the work was one of the prime reasons that its author won the top award in literature. Reissue.
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It : a novel
by Stephen King
It began--and ended--in 1958 when seven children searched in the drains beneath Derry for an evil creature, but in 1985, Mike, once one of those children, makes six phone calls and disinters an unremembered promise that sets off the ultimate terror
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It
The monster a group of friends feared as children makes a return and he is very real
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It /
Childhood friends must reunite to fight an evil demon posing as a clown after having successfully defeated him as children
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Room : a novel
by Emma Donoghue
A 5-year-old narrates a riveting story about his life growing up in a single room where his mother aims to protect him from the man who has held her prisoner for seven years since she was a teenager. 125,000 first printing.
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Room /
Follows twenty-year-old Joy and her five-year-old son Jack as they live in a single room underground, captives of a man they call Old Nick
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Hidden figures /
Follows three African American women working as human computers for NASA during the space race of the 1950s and 1960s
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The black phone : stories
by Joe Hill
A compilation of short fiction includes the tales of Imogene, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud theater, and Francis, an unhappy, hopeless human turned giant locust seeking revenge on his Nevada hometown
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Black phone /
When a thirteen-year-old boy is kidnapped by a child killer and locked in a soundproof basement, he begins receiving phone calls on a disconnected phone from the killer's past victims
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Princess bride [videorecording]
Buttercup loves Westley, but when he is captured by pirates, she is chosen by the evil Prince to be his bride, beginning a series of fantastic efforts to free her
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Gone with the wind
by Margaret Mitchell
The tumultuous romance of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler is set against the backdrop of the elegance of the antebellum South, the ravages of the Civil War and the desperate struggle of Reconstruction, in a new edition of one of the world's most famous novels. Reprint.
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Gone with the wind
Follows the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara set against the American Civil War and the subsequent Reconstruction
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Me before you
by Jojo Moyes
Taking a job as an assistant to extreme sports enthusiast Will, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident, Louisa struggles with her employer's acerbic moods and learns of his shocking plans before demonstrating to him that life is still worth living
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Me before you /
After losing her job in a tea shop, a woman is hired to be a companion to a wealthy paralyzed man thinking about ending his life
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The time traveler's wife : a novel
by Audrey Niffenegger
Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel
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Persuasion
Anne Elliot is persuaded to break off an engagement to Capt. Wentworth, but tensions are resumed when they meet again eight years later
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Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of Ring
Based on J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpiece, The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring is an epic adventure of good against evil, the power of friendship and individual courage. The saga centers around an unassuming Hobbit named Frodo Baggins who" inherits a Ring that would give a dark and powerful lord the power to enslave the world. This Special Edition 4xDVD set contains over 30 minutes of new and extended scenes, feature length commentaries by the director and writers, casdt, and the product"on and design teams, two full discs of multiple behind-the-scenes documentaries, and tons more. BJS. DVD Disc
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Sense and sensibility
Two sisters, one practical and conventional and the other emotional and sentimental, find that only through compromise of their mutual differences can they get along and find the husbands they wish
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Doctor Sleep : a novel
by Stephen King
Returns fans to the characters and territory of The Shining in the story of a middle-aged Dan Torrance, who after decades as an itinerant alcoholic uses his remnant powers to assist the dying before coming to the aid of a 12-year-old girl being tortured by a tribe of murderous paranormals. By the award-winning author of 11/22/63. 1,500,000 first printing.
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Doctor Sleep /
After decades as an itinerant alcoholic, middle-aged Dan Torrance uses his remnant powers to assist the dying before coming to the aid of a twelve-year-old girl being tortured by a tribe of murderous paranormals
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The two towers : being the second part of The lord of the rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
Frodo must carry the One Ring through the ghostly borders of Mordor, Land of the Enemy, and back to the Fire that can destroy its evil powers, in the second volume in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. (A New Line Cinema film, the second in three feature films based on The Lord of the Rings trilogy, starring Viggo Mortenson, Hugo Weaving, Liv Tyler, Orlando Bloom, John Rhys-Davies, Sean Bean, Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, & Ian Holm)
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Lord of the rings
While Frodo Baggins and his friend Samwise continue on to Mordor to destroy the one ring, their allies launch assaults on Isengard, Helm's Deep, and the corrupt wizard, Saruman
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