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Clinton - NYT Critics 100 Best Books
Clinton - NYT Readers' 100 Best Books
Jones Library - Matt's Picks
Clinton - NYT Readers' 100 Best Books
Jones Library - Matt's Picks
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Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalyptic world.
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That time I got reincarnated as a slime volume 21
Publisher
Yen On, an imprint of Yen Press
Pub. Date
2017-
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"Living alone and never having had a girlfriend, 37-year-old Satoru Mikami is dissatisfied with how his life has turned out. But after dying at the hands of a robber, he awakens to a fresh start in a new world...as a slime monster"-- Provided by publisher.
3) Aleph
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Aleph marks a return to the author's beginnings. In a frank and surprising personal story, one of the world's most beloved authors embarks on a remarkable and transformative journey of self discovery. Facing a grave crisis of faith, and seeking a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he decides to start over: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the world. On this journey through Europe, Africa, and Asia, he will again meet Hilal,...
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2014.
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"No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, every time Harry dies, he always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes - until now. As Harry nears the end of his eleventh life, a little girl appears by his bedside. "I nearly missed you, Doctor August," she says. "I need to send a message." This is the story of what Harry does next, and what he did before, and how he...
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Daniel has spent centuries falling in love with the same girl. Life after life, crossing continents and dynasties, he and Sophia (despite her changing name and form) have been drawn together, and he remembers it all. Daniel has "the memory", the ability to recall past lives and recognize souls of those he's previously known. It is a gift and a curse. For all the times that he and Sophia have been drawn together throughout history, they have also been...
6) Avalon High
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Having moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with her medievalist parents, high school junior Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School where several students may or may not be reincarnations of King Arthur and his court.
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Dark Lord Davi volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
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"Davi has done this all before. She's tried to be the hero and take down the all-powerful Dark Lord. A hundred times she's rallied humanity and made the final charge. But the time loop always gets her in the end. Sometimes she's killed quickly. Sometimes it takes a while. But she's been defeated every time. This time? She's done being the hero and done being stuck in this endless time loop. If the Dark Lord always wins, then maybe that's who she needs...
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Todd Family volume 1
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Clinton - NYT Critics 100 Best Books
Clinton - NYT Readers' 100 Best Books
Springfield - Time Loop Stories
Clinton - NYT Readers' 100 Best Books
Springfield - Time Loop Stories
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"What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards...
10) A dog's purpose
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Dog's purpose volume 1
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This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog's search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, this touches on the universal quest for an answer to life's most basic question: Why are we here? Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Bailey's search for his new life's meaning leads him into the loving arms of 8 year...
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Fallen novels (Lauren Kate) volume 3
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Desperate to unlock the curse that condemns her love for Daniel, Luce revisits her past incarnations trying to understand her fate, but Daniel is chasing her throughout the centuries in order to keep her from rewriting their history.
12) Winter's heart
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In the continuing Wheel of Time saga, Rand and Min are on the run, while Black Tower leader Mazrim Taim is exposed, a Seanchan princess arrives in Ebou Dar and the schemers of the White Tower are beset by rebels.
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In his groundbreaking first book, Your Soul's Plan, Robert Schwartz brought the idea of pre-birth planning into the mainstream. Now, his brilliant sequel Your Soul's Gift delves even deeper by exploring the pre-birth planning of spiritual awakening, miscarriage and abortion, caregiving, abusive relationships, sexuality, incest, adoption, poverty, suicide, rape, and mental illness. There's even a chapter about the pre-birth planning we do with our...
14) Fallen
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Fallen novels (Lauren Kate) volume 1
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Suspected in the death of her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Luce is sent to a Savannah, Georgia, reform school where she meets two intriguing boys and learns the truth about the strange shadows that have always haunted her.
15) Unforgiven
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Fallen novels (Lauren Kate) volume 5
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Learning that Lilith has been in Hell since he broke her heart, Cam meets with Lucifer and makes a deal to become his slave for eternity if he cannot win back Lilith's heart in two weeks.
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Publisher
Yen On
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Yui Nuir was reincarnated into a noble family of tailors in another world, and when her lack of skill in the art of enchanting fabric through needlework results in her being disowned by her family, a nobleman named Rodin Calostira recognizes her innate talents and takes her in.
17) She
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In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as an adventure only, is I suppose one of the most wonderful and mysterious experiences ever undergone by mortal men, I feel it incumbent on me to explain what my exact connection with it is. And so I may as well say at once that I am not the narrator but only the editor of this extraordinary history, and then go on to tell how it found its way into my hands. Some years ago I, the editor, was
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Fallen novels (Lauren Kate) volume 4
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While searching for the place where the angels fell to earth to stop Lucifer from erasing the past, Luce and Daniel make a startling discovery about their love.
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Princess Ziska is a beautiful woman who captures the eye of an acclaimed painter who feels eerily connected to her through distant yet unexplained memories. He's haunted by a shared history, love and betrayal that's centuries old.
Armand Gervase is a celebrated artist who's living in the lap of luxury. His most popular work shows an Egyptian woman, who in a fit of rage, is about to kill her lover. When Armand meets the dynamic Princess Ziska, he...
20) Cloud atlas
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
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Based on the novel by David Mitchell. An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present, and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives with diverse settings, from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
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