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Bardugo, Leigh. Shadow and bone.
Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.
Blackstock, Terri. Smoke screen.
Nate Beckett has spent his life fighting wildfires instead of the lies and rumors that drove him from his Colorado hometown. His mother begs him to come to Carlisle now that his father has been released from prison, but it isn’t until he’s sidelined by an injury that he’s forced to return and face his past. But that means facing Brenna too. Fourteen years ago, Nate was in love with the preacher’s daughter. When Pastor Strickland discovered Brenna had defied him to sneak out with Nate, the fight between Strickland and Nate’s drunken dad was loud — and very public. Strickland was found murdered later that night, and everyone accused Roy Beckett. When the church burned down, people assumed it was Nate getting even for his father’s conviction. He let the rumors fly and left Carlisle without looking back.
Crichton, Michael. The lost world.
Jurassic Park, the primordial zoo, has been closed and the dinosaurs it once housed have been destroyed, but six years later there are rumors that some of them may have survived.
McPherson, Brennan S. The hunter and the Valley of Death : a parable of surrender – Psalm 23.
A man wakes up in the Valley of Death and realizes he’s given up everything to attempt to kill Death so that he can bring his love back to life — but when he fails, who will be there to rescue him?.
Sepetys, Ruta. Between shades of gray.
A knock comes at the door in the dead of night, and Lina’s life changes in an instant. With her young brother and mother, she is hauled away by the Soviet secret police from her home in Lithuania and thrown into a cattle car en route to Siberia. Separated from her father, Lina secretly passes along clues in the form of drawings, hoping they will reach his prison camp. But will her letters, or her courage, be enough to reunite her family? Will they be enough to keep her alive?.
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel). Roverandom.
While on holiday in 1925, four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost his beloved toy dog on the beach at Filey in Yorkshire. To console him, his father, J.R.R.Tolkien, improvised a story about Rover, a real dog who is magically transformed into a toy and is forced to seek out the wizard who wronged him in order to be returned to normal. This charming tale, peopled by a sand-sorcerer and a terrible dragon, by the king of the sea and the Man-in-the-Moon.
Tyndall, MaryLu. The reliance.
Tormented by his wife’s apparent demise, Edmund Merrick sails away to drown his sorrows-only to find himself trapped in the dark world of a demented Frenchman. When his mind clears from its rum-induced haze, will Edmund find the will to escape? Seemingly abandoned by her husband, Charlisse is thrown into the clutches of the vengeful pirate Kent. Will she be swept away by the undertow of treachery and despair? Can Edmund and Charlisse steer their way to the faith-filled haven they so desperately seek, or will they ultimately lose their love and lives to the sea?.
Weber, Mary. The evaporation of Sofi Snow.
Seventeen-year-old Sofi battles behind the scenes of Earth’s Fantasy Fighting arena helping her younger brother, Shilo, and when a bomb destroys part of the arena, she dreams Shilo survives on the forbidden ice-planet.

Did you read and love Little Women?

 

Did you read and love Little Women by Louisa May Alcott?

Or maybe saw the movie and now you’re curious about what happened next?

The story doesn’t end there! Check out these books and linger longer in the world created by Louisa May Alcott.

 

March by Geraldine Brooks is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a story inspired by the father character in “Little Women” and drawn from challenged by his experiences.

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Did you know that Little Women is part of a series?

  1. Little Women
  2. Good Wives
  3. Little Men
  4. Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag
  5. Jo’s Boys

Want to read them now? Check out an eBook! Or have a listen to the Little Women audiobook. You will find eBooks & audiobooks HERE

Learn more about the author in the biography — Invincible Louisa : the story of the author of Little Women.

Or check out the graphic novel called Louis May Alcott, that presents graphic adaptations of seven stories, poems, and fairy tales by Louis May Alcott.

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I don’t remember the title but …

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Can’t remember what that book was called or who wrote it?

 

If you remember that the cover was ORANGE, or you’re just looking for a recommendation, check out these novels!

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Christie, Agatha. At Bertram’s Hotel.
When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she’s looking for at Bertram’s Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service, and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer. Yet, not even Miss Marple can foresee the violent chain of events set in motion when an eccentric guest makes his way to the airport on the wrong day.
Herbert, Frank. Dune.
Paul Atreides, the son of a betrayed duke, is given up for dead on a desert planet and adopted by the nomadic people who live there.
Lee, Tosca Moon. A single light : a thriller.
Six months after vanishing into an underground silo with sixty others, Wynter and Chase emerge to find the area abandoned. There is no sign of Noah and the rest of the group that was supposed to greet them when they emerged – the same people Wynter was counting on to help her locate the IV antibiotics her gravely ill friend, Julie, needs in order to live. As the clock ticks down on Julie’s life, Wynter and Chase embark on a desperate search for medicine and answers. But what they find is not a nation on the cusp of recovery thanks to the promising new vaccine Wynter herself had a hand in creating, but one decimated by disease. What happened while they were underground? With food and water in limited supply and their own survival in question, Chase and Wynter must venture further and further from the silo. Aided by an enigmatic mute named Otto, they come face-to-face with a society radically changed by global pandemic, where communities scrabble to survive under rogue leaders and cities are war zones. As hope fades by the hour and Wynter learns the terrible truth of the last six months, she is called upon once again to help save the nation she no longer recognizes – a place so dark she’s no longer sure it can even survive.
Moser, Nancy. Washington’s lady : a novel of Martha Washington and the birth of a nation.
A fictionalized account of the life of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, the first first lady of the United States, who was married twice, with four children from her first marriage, before becoming widowed and later meeting and marrying Colonel George Washington in 1795.
Parks, Carrie Stuart. Fragments of fear.
Evelyn McTavish’s world came crashing down with the suicide of her fiance. As she struggles to put her life back together and make a living from her art, she receives a call that her dog is about to be destroyed at the pound. Except she doesn’t own a dog. The shelter is adamant that the microchip embedded in the canine with her name and address makes it hers. Evelyn recognizes the dog as one owned by archaeologist John Coyote because she was commissioned to draw the two of them. The simple solution is to return the dog to his owner — but she arrives only to discover John’s murdered body. As Evelyn herself becomes a target, she crosses paths with undercover FBI agent Sawyer Price. The more he gets to know her, the more personally invested he becomes in keeping her safe. Together, they’re desperate to find the links between so many disparate pieces.
Sepetys, Ruta. The fountains of silence : a novel.
Madrid, 1957. Tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the welcoming guise of sunshine and wine while Spanish citizens are gripped by a dark secret. Daniel Matheson, the son of an oil tycoon, hopes to connect with the country of his mother’s birth through the lens of his camera. Photography — and fate — introduce him to Ana, a hotel maid, whose family is suffering under the fascist dictatorship of General Franco. Daniel and Ana’s lives and hearts collide as they unite to uncover the hidden darkness within the city – a darkness that could engulf them all.

 

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Do you like surprises or trying new things?

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Too soon?! Nah…

See something that looks good? Login + Hold It! Ms. Penner will check it out for you and send you a Schoology message once your library books are ready for pick-up at the Grab + Go library table in the front entry of the school.

Bunn, T. Davis. Outbreak.
The waters off the West African coast are a menacing red, full of algae thick enough to stand on in places. In nearby villages, mysterious deaths start to occur — and the panic mounts. But before an alarm can be sounded, the sea currents shift, the algae vanishes, and the deaths stop. Everyone is relieved when things return to normal, and local government officials are happy to sweep the publicity nightmare under a rug. An American biological researcher, Avery Madison, is dispatched by his employer to piece together exactly what happened, having long feared an ecological disaster just like this could occur. He’s had little evidence to go on before now, and what he finds in West Africa is rapidly disappearing. But Avery knows the danger hasn’t disappeared — it has just moved on. When parts of the Caribbean start turning a familiar red right before hurricane season kicks into high gear, the implications are clear. If Avery and his colleagues can’t convince the world of what’s about to happen, toxic destruction could be loosed on American soil. Will their efforts prove too late?.
Cook, Robin. Pandemic.
When multiple people collapse and die with a transplanted heart and unusual DNA matches, medical examiner Jack at first fears a flu epidemic, until he digs deeper. His investigation leads to a company that is experimenting with gene-editing biotechnology. Jack is drawn into the underground organ transplant market with danger at every corner.
Crichton, Michael. The Andromeda strain. 
Four American scientists, chosen in advance for their experimental achievements in the fields of clinical microbiology, epidemiology, pathology, and electrolyte chemistry, are summoned under conditions of total news blackout and utmost urgency to Wildfire’s secret laboratory five stories beneath the Nevada desert. There — surrounded by banks of the most sophisticated computer-assisted equipment, and sealed off from the outside world except for a telecommunications link with the national security apparatus — they work against the threat of a worldwide epidemic to find an antidote to the unknown microorganism that has inexplicably killed all but two inhabitants (an elderly derelict and an infant) of the tiny Arizona town where the satellite was retrieved. Step by step they begin to unravel the puzzle of the Andromeda Strain, until, terrifyingly, their microbacterial “adversary” ruptures the hypersterile seal of the laboratory and their already desperate search for a biomedical answer becomes a split-second race against an atomic deadline.
Dashner, James. The fever code.
Once there was a world’s end. The forests burned, the lakes and rivers dried up, and the oceans swelled. Then came a plague, and fever spread across the globe. Families died, violence reigned, and man killed man. Next came WICKED, who were looking for an answer. And then they found the perfect boy. The boy’s name was Thomas, and Thomas built a maze. Now there are secrets. There are lies. And there are loyalties history could never have foreseen. This is the story of that boy, Thomas, and how he built a maze that only he could tear down.
Dekker, Ted. The circle series.
Black — Red — White — Green (with new alternate ending) — Bonus: original ending of Green — An interview with Ted Dekker. Collects all four novels in Ted Dekker’s Circle series, which follows the adventures of Thomas Hunter, who after suffering a head injury, falls asleep and each time he wakes up finds himself in a new reality and tries to save the world from a deadly virus.
Lee, Tosca Moon. The line between : a thriller.
When Wynter Roth is turned out of New Earth, a self-contained doomsday cult on the American prairie, she emerges into a world poised on the brink of madness as a mysterious outbreak of rapid early onset dementia spreads across the nation. As Wynter struggles to start over in a world she’s been taught to regard as evil, she finds herself face-to-face with the apocalypse she’s feared all her life — until the night her sister shows up at her doorstep with a set of medical samples. That night, Wynter learns there’s something far more sinister at play and that these samples are key to understanding the disease. Now, as the power grid fails and the nation descends into chaos, Wynter must find a way to get the samples to a lab in Colorado. Uncertain who to trust, she takes up with former military man Chase Miller, who has his own reasons for wanting to get close to the samples in her possession, and to Wynter herself.
Liparulo, Robert. Germ. 
The germ – an advanced form of the Ebola virus – has been genetically engineered to infect only those people whose DNA matches the codes embedded within it. Those whose DNA is not a match simply catch a cold. But those who are a match experience a far worse fate. Within days, their internal organs liquify. The release of the virus will usher in a new era of power where countries are left without defense.
Wells, Robison E. Blackout.
A mysterious virus is spreading through America, infecting teenagers with incredible powers — and a group of four teens are about to find their lives intertwined in a web of danger and catastrophic destruction.

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