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  • Wanjiku, Child of Mine

    by J.L. Powers, Ciiku Ndungu-Case ...
    Illustrated by Karen Vermeulen ...
    A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionA CBC Spring 2024 Showcase SelectionLibrarian Favorites: Third to Fifth GradeNo matter where she goes, or how big she grows, Wanjikũ knows her name.In the lush Kenyan countryside, a young Gikũyũ girl helps her grandmother with daily tasks. Here, as she tends to the cows, carries water, and plays in the fruit trees and sugarcane, she is called W... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Broken Circle

    by J. L. Powers, M. A. Powers ...
    For young Adam Jones, inheriting the family business is more than a rotten hand. It's downright skeletal."The Powerses' worldbuilding and writing will keep [readers] hooked. They will find themselves questioning what is fact and what is fiction and cheering Adam on as he journeys in this new, strange world. A gripping, philosophical paranormal thriller." — Kirkus ReviewsAdam wants nothing more ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Abyss

    by John Glasby, J.L. Powers ...
    With the discovery of the hyperdrive, mankind at last possessed the means of going out to the stars. Four expeditions had already gone by the fine the fifth starship left Pluto for Vega. Carrying its complement of scientists and military personnel, they arrived at the solar system of Vega to find one planet sufficiently like Earth to allow them to land.Here, they discovered mystery. The ruins of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Things I'll Never Say

    Stories About Our Secret Selves

    by Ann Angel, Ron Koertge, Chris Lynch, Ellen Wittlinger, Louise Hawes, Cynthia Leitich Smith, J. L. Powers, Varian Johnson, Mary Ann Downing Rodman, Zoe Marriott0, Kerry Cohen1, erica l. kaufman2, E. M. Kokie3 ...
    Fifteen top young-adult authors let us in on provocative secrets in a fascinating collection that will have readers talking.A baby no one knows about. A dangerous hidden identity. Off-limits hookups. A parent whose problems your friends won’t understand. Everyone keeps secrets—from themselves, from their families, from their friends—and secrets have a habit of shaping the lives around them. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Amina: Through My Eyes

    by J.L. Powers, Lyn White ...
    Series Book 2 - THROUGH MY EYES
    A moving story of one child's life in a conflict zone, in Mogadishu, Somalia.Amina lives on the edges of Mogadishu. Her family's house has been damaged in Somalia's long civil war, but they continue to live there, reluctant to leave their home. Amina's world is shattered when government forces come to arrest her father because his art has been officially censored, deemed too political. Then rebel ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • This Thing Called the Future

    by J.L. Powers ...
    Fourteen-year-old Khosi yearns for this thing called the future-- something better than sickness and superstition in a shanty town. Does she want too much? A stunning YA coming-of-age story set in post-apartheid South Africa.Khosi lives with her beloved grandmother, her little sister, and her weekend mother in a matchbox house on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. In this shantytown, ... Read more

    $18.95 USD

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    by H.M. Ward ...
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    $9.99 USD

  • The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    Five Novels in One Outrageous Volume

    by Douglas Adams ...
    Series series Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    In one complete volume, here are the five classic novels from Douglas Adams’s beloved Hitchhiker series.Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read)Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galac... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Water for Elephants

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    by Sara Gruen ...
    Over 10 million copies sold worldwide! * Now A Broadway Musical Starring Grant Gustin and Isabella McCalla#1 New York Times Bestseller * A Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, & USA Today Bestseller"This colorful headlong tale of a Depression-era circus simply can't be beat." **—**Stephen KingA Major Motion Picture starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, a... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Twice Shy

    by Sarah Hogle ...
    Can you find real love when you've always got your head in the clouds?Maybell Parish has always been a dreamer and a hopeless romantic. But living in her own world has long been preferable to dealing with the disappointments of real life. So when Maybell inherits a charming house in the Smokies from her Great-Aunt Violet, she seizes the opportunity to make a fresh start.Yet when she arrives, it ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Bookish and the Beast

    by Ashley Poston ...
    Series series Once Upon a Con
    An enchanting YA romance from the New York Times best-selling author of The Dead Romantics**.**A tale as old as time is made new in Ashley Poston's fresh, geeky retelling of Beauty and the Beast.Rosie Thorne is feeling stuck—on her college application essays, in her small town, and on that mysterious General Sond cosplayer she met at ExcelsiCon. M... ... Read more

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  • Foundation and Earth

    by Isaac Asimov ...
    Series Book 5 - Foundation
    The fifth novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation seriesTHE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATIONGolan Trevize, former Councilman of the First Foundation, has chosen the future, and it is Gaia. A superorganism, Gaia is a holistic planet with a common consciousness so intensely united that every dewdrop, every pebble, every being, can speak for ... Read more

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