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Imaginative Nicholas Allen stops using the word pen and instead calls that writing instrument a frindle. With Nicholas's encouragement, his friends also begin calling pens frindles. Soon, Nicholas's word is being used all over town much to the disgust of his teacher, Mrs. Granger. Illustrated with b&w drawings. AUTHOR: Andrew Clements, Brian Selznick, John Fleming
PUBLISHER: Random House Audio Publishing Group
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Snowfall by Mitchell Smith
Set several hundred years in the future, in a post-apocalyptic world where society has regressed by millennia, SNOWFALL tells the story of the Trappers, a band of mountaineering North Americans who must fight their way across brutal, enemy-ridden terrain to reach warmer territory. AUTHOR: Mitchell Smith
PUBLISHER: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Wall by John Hersey
A novel of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and reporter. Written in the form of a diary, it relates the conditions of the doomed Jews of Poland during World War II from the perspective of a Resistance fighter living behind the wall that sealed the Warsaw Ghetto off from the rest of the city. AUTHOR: John Hersey
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Floating in My Mother's Palm by Ursula Hegi
Glowing with the beauty and trouble of unconventionality, with the quest to transcend human tragedy, Floating in My Mother's Palm presents an absolutely correct postwar Germany with all its forbidden questions and mysterious behavior, all its squalor, loss, and longing ( Los Angeles Times ). AUTHOR: Ursula Hegi
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Bangkok by Joe Cummings
Ninth edition of a traveller's guidebook to Bangkok, first published in 1992. Provides facts about the country, facts for the visitor, transport information, suggested itineraries, and information on things to see and do. Also outlines entertainment, accommodation, history, climate, flora and fauna and shopping, region by region. Includes basic language and phrases, maps, full-colour photos, glossaries and index. AUTHOR: Joe Cummings
PUBLISHER: Lonely Planet Publications
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Tiger Cruise by Douglas Morgan
A Navy destroyer in the Persian Gulf is boarded by pirates. The destroyer is carrying tigers --Navy slang for the wives, children, and other dependents of Naval personnel. The presence of these innocents has made the destroyer a tempting target because of their hostage value. Now the seasoned ship's captain, Andrew Warner, finds himself pitted against the pirate leader, brilliant and fearless Michael Prasetyo. Warner finds that the tigers make suprisingly good soldiers in the desperate battle for survival that ensues. AUTHOR: Douglas Morgan
PUBLISHER: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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