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Rebecca Montaño-Smith
Assistant Manager, Village Branch

These are the books that I buy and give away. These are the books that I recommend over and over again. Some are new, some are old but all of them made the cut.

Bitterblue
by Cashore, Kristin.

Length: 563 p. :

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Publisher: Dial Books, New York : c2012.
by Cashore, Kristin.

Length: 563 p. :

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Publisher: Dial Books, New York : c2012.
Blue latitudes : boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before
by Horwitz, Tony

Length: 480 p. :

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Publisher: H. Holt, New York : c2002.
by Horwitz, Tony

Length: 480 p. :

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Publisher: H. Holt, New York : c2002.
Code name Verity
by Wein, Elizabeth.

Length: 343 p. ;

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Publisher: Hyperion Books, New York : 2012.
by Wein, Elizabeth.

Length: 343 p. ;

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Publisher: Hyperion Books, New York : 2012.
Dumbing us down : the hidden curriculum of compulsory schooling
by Gatto, John Taylor.

Length: xiv, 104 p. ;

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Publisher: New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC : 2001.
by Gatto, John Taylor.

Length: xiv, 104 p. ;

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Publisher: New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC : 2001.
God is not great : how religion poisons everything
by Hitchens, Christopher.

Length: 307 p. ;

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Publisher: Twelve, New York : 2007.
by Hitchens, Christopher.

Length: 307 p. ;

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Publisher: Twelve, New York : 2007.
Graceling
by Cashore, Kristin.

Length: 471 p. :

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Publisher: Harcourt, Orlando : c2008.
by Cashore, Kristin.

Length: 471 p. :

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Publisher: Harcourt, Orlando : c2008.
How I live now
by Rosoff, Meg.

Length: 194 p. ;

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Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books, New York : 2004.
by Rosoff, Meg.

Length: 194 p. ;

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Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books, New York : 2004.
How to talk so kids will listen & listen so kids will talk
by Faber, Adele.

Length: xiv, 345 p. :

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Publisher: Scribner Classics, New York : 2012.
by Faber, Adele.

Length: xiv, 345 p. :

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Publisher: Scribner Classics, New York : 2012.
In the land of white death : an epic story of survival in the Siberian Arctic
by Alʹbanov, Valerian Ivanovich.

Length: xx, 205 p. :

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Publisher: Modern Library, New York : 2000.
by Alʹbanov, Valerian Ivanovich.

Length: xx, 205 p. :

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Publisher: Modern Library, New York : 2000.
Me talk pretty one day
by Sedaris, David.

Length: 272 p. ;

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Publisher: Little, Brown & Co. Boston : 2000.
by Sedaris, David.

Length: 272 p. ;

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Publisher: Little, Brown & Co. Boston : 2000.
Midnight in the garden of good and evil : a Savannah story
by Berendt, John

Length: 388 p. ;

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Publisher: Random House, New York : c1994.
by Berendt, John

Length: 388 p. ;

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Publisher: Random House, New York : c1994.
Nick & Norah's infinite playlist
by Cohn, Rachel.

Length: 183 p. ;

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Publisher: Knopf, New York : c2006.
by Cohn, Rachel.

Length: 183 p. ;

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Publisher: Knopf, New York : c2006.
Patterns of home : the ten essentials of enduring design
by Jacobson, Max

Length: 282 p. :

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Publisher: Taunton Press : Newtown, CT : c2002.
by Jacobson, Max

Length: 282 p. :

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Publisher: Taunton Press : Newtown, CT : c2002.
The checklist manifesto : how to get things right
by Gawande, Atul.

Length: x, 209 p. ;

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Publisher: Metropolitan Books, New York, N.Y. : 2010.
by Gawande, Atul.

Length: x, 209 p. ;

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Publisher: Metropolitan Books, New York, N.Y. : 2010.
The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white mother
by McBride, James

Length: xiii, 228 p. :

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Publisher: Riverhead Books, New York : 1996.
by McBride, James

Length: xiii, 228 p. :

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Publisher: Riverhead Books, New York : 1996.
The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks : a novel
by Lockhart, E.

Length: 345 p. ;

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Publisher: Hyperion, New York : c2008.
by Lockhart, E.

Length: 345 p. ;

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Publisher: Hyperion, New York : c2008.
The history of swimming : a memoir
by Powers, Kim.

Length: 289 p. :

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Publisher: Carroll & Graf : New York : c2006.
by Powers, Kim.

Length: 289 p. :

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Publisher: Carroll & Graf : New York : c2006.
The knife of never letting go
by Ness, Patrick

Length: 479 p. ;

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Publisher: Candlewick Press, Cambridge, Mass. : c2008.
by Ness, Patrick

Length: 479 p. ;

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Publisher: Candlewick Press, Cambridge, Mass. : c2008.
The shock doctrine : the rise of disaster capitalism
by Klein, Naomi

Length: 558 p. ;

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Publisher: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt , New York : 2007.
by Klein, Naomi

Length: 558 p. ;

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Publisher: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt , New York : 2007.
The wonderful story of Henry Sugar and six more
by Dahl, Roald.

Length: 231 p. ;

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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York : 2001.
by Dahl, Roald.

Length: 231 p. ;

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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York : 2001.
White oleander : a novel
by Fitch, Janet

Length: 390 p. ;

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Publisher: Little, Brown and Co., Boston : c1999.
by Fitch, Janet

Length: 390 p. ;

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Publisher: Little, Brown and Co., Boston : c1999.