Focused

by Alyson Gerber

Clea can’t control her thoughts.  She knows she needs to focus…but how can she do that when the people around her are always chewing gum loudly or making other annoying noises?  It’s starting to be a problem-not just in school, but when Clea’s playing chess or just hanging out with her best friend.  Other kids are starting to notice.  When Clea fails too many tests, her parents take her to be tested, and she finds out that she has ADHD.  Clea knows life can’t continue the way it’s going.  She’s just not sure how you can fix a problem that’s all in your head.  But that’s what she’s going to have to do, to find a way to focus. 

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Hope and other Punchlines

 by Julie Buxbaum

Abbi Hope Goldstein is like every other teenager, with a few smallish exceptions: her famous alter ego, Baby Hope, is the subject of internet memes, she has asthma, and sometimes people spontaneously burst into tears when they recognize her.  Abbi has lived almost her entire life in the shadow of the terrorist attacks of September 11.  Now, fifteen years later, she is desperate for anonymity and decides to spend the summer incognito at Knights Day Camp.  Too bad, Noah Stern has a similar plan.Share This Post With People You Know:
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Chances Are…

By Richard Russo

One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha’s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties.  They couldn’t have been more different then, or even today. But, each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since a Memorial Day weekend right here on the Vineyard in 1971.  Now, forty-four years later, as this new weekend unfolds, three lives and that of a significant other are displayed in their entirety while the distant past confounds the present like a relentless squall of surprise and discovery. Share This Post With People You Know:
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Window on the Bay

By Debbie Macomber

When a single mom becomes an “empty nester,” she spreads her wings to rediscover herself–and her passions–in this heartwarming novel from #1 NY Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Share This Post With People You Know:
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One Good Deed

By David Baldacci

The #1 NY Times bestselling author introduces an unforgettable new character: Archer, a straight-talking WWII soldier fresh out of prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Share This Post With People You Know:
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The Lager Queen of Minnesota

By J. Ryan Stradel

The Lager Queen of Minnesota serves up a cast of lovable, quintessentially Midwestern characters eager to make their mark in a world that’s often stacked against them.  In this deeply affecting, humorous, emotional family saga, resolution can take generations, but when it finally comes, we’re surprised, moved, and delighted. Share This Post With People You Know:
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Crisis in the Red Zone

By Richard Preston

The 2013-2014 Ebola epidemic was the deadliest ever-but the outbreaks continue.  Now comes a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, an urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses. Share This Post With People You Know:
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Earth

By Ben Bova

A wave of lethal gamma radiation is expanding from the core of the Milky Way galaxy at the speed of light, killing everything in its path.   The countdown to when the death wave will reach Earth and the rest of the solar system is at two thousand years.  Humans were helped by Predeccessors, but a policy of exiling discontented young people to the outer planets has led to a deep divide between the new worlds and the homeworld, and those tensions are about to explode into open war. Share This Post With People You Know:
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Sophia Princess Among Beasts

By James Patterson

A princess who has lost her mother and father finds herself in a terrifying world that urgently needs a queen.  The kingdom is hers, until she is plunged into a nightmarish realm populated by awful beasts.  The people look to Sophia for protection.  They will all perish unless she can unlock an ancient secret as profound as life and death itself.  Share This Post With People You Know:
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