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Count Down To New Years
OBD Short Story Collections - ADULT
Short Stories for Adults
Top Shelf Tuesdays
OBD Short Story Collections - ADULT
Short Stories for Adults
Top Shelf Tuesdays
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"Across a range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, Novak's assured prose and expansive imagination introduce readers to people, places, and premises that are hilarious, insightful, provocative, and moving-often at the same time. In One More Thing, a boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes - only to discover that claiming the winnings may unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins -...
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"Twenty years ago, gregarious Lorelei and mousy Holly became fast friends as students in the same college psychology seminar. Taught by an expert in control and human behavior, the two students also grew close to their charismatic professor. But in one twisted moment of gaslighting, their friendship flamed out and Lorelei's once-promising future fell apart. Flashforward, Holly has everything Lorelei ever wanted, while Lorelei is a lonely cat lady....
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Creepy tales! volume 2
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"A young rabbit is frightened by his underwear"--
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Can I be your dog? volume 1
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A dog looking for a home sends letters to prospective owners on Butternut Street, with surprising results.
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Breaking news volume 1
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"In this story (told in the form of a television broadcast), bears emerge from hibernation demanding to be fed."
8) Gaston
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Gaston and friends volume 1
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"A proper bulldog raised in a poodle family and a tough poodle raised in a bulldog family meet one day in the park."--Title page verso.
10) Real friends
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Friends (Hale) volume 1
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When her best friend Adrienne starts hanging out with the most popular girl in class, Shannon questions with whether she and Adrienne will stay friends, and if she is part of the clique.
11) Bone Gap
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Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.
12) Shiloh
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When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
13) Wedgie & Gizmo
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Funny Middle Grade Reads (SCPL-YS)
K&T - Pets
OBD Books for Second and Third Graders - YOUTH
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K&T - Pets
OBD Books for Second and Third Graders - YOUTH
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While his human Elliot adjusts to his new home and stepfamily, Gizmo, an evil genius guinea pig, searches for a new evil lair where he can plot to take over the world, but Gizmo is constantly thwarted by Elliot's little stepsister Jasmine (who likes to play dress-up), Abuela (who may or may not like to eat cavies), and Wedgie (a Corgi superhero and Gizmo's nemesis).
16) We are okay
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After leaving her life behind to go to college in New York, Marin must face the truth about the tragedy that happened in the final weeks of summer when her friend Mabel comes to visit.
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2022 Caudill Award Nominees
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
OBD Father's Day (June) - YOUTH
Rebecca Caudill Award Nominees 2022
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
OBD Father's Day (June) - YOUTH
Rebecca Caudill Award Nominees 2022
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Twelve-year-old Coyote and her father rush to Poplin Springs, Washington, in their old school bus to save a memory box buried in a park that will soon be demolished.
18) Hello, universe
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AANHPI 2022 - Kids
AANHPI Grade School
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (teens)
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AANHPI Grade School
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (teens)
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Lives of four misfits are intertwined when a bully's prank lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a well and Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest to find and rescue him.
Virgil feels out of place in his crazy-about-sports family. Valencia is deaf, smart, and loves everything about nature. Kaori is a self-proclaimed psychic, whose little sister, Gen, is always following her around. And Chet wishes the weird kids would just stop being...
19) Wish
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"Eleven-year-old Charlie Reese has been making the same secret wish every day since fourth grade. She even has a list of all the ways there are to make the wish, such as cutting off the pointed end of a slice of pie and wishing on it as she takes the last bite. But when she is sent to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to live with family she barely knows, it seems unlikely that her wish will ever come true. That is until she meets Wishbone,...
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2023 Lincoln Award Nominees
2024 FPPL Summer Reading YA Mysteries
AMPL Native American Heritage Month
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2024 FPPL Summer Reading YA Mysteries
AMPL Native American Heritage Month
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"Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths." --
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