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Jan-Feb 2015

Which Relationships titles will you

choose?

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Jan-Feb 2015

Which Relationships titles will you

choose?

One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens—both named Will Grayson—are about to cross paths. As their worlds collide and intertwine, the

Will Graysons find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, building

toward romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history’s most fabulous

high school musical.

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Jan-Feb 2015

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choose?

Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held in a Mumbai jail cell after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion?

It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to each question -- from the day he was found as a baby in the clothes donation box of a Delhi church to his employment by a faded Bollywood star to his adventure with a security-crazed Australian army colonel to his career as an overly creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal.

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Jan-Feb 2015

Which Relationships titles will you

choose?"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."

So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.

Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas---this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart.

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Jan-Feb 2015

Which Relationships titles will you

choose?Bono met his wife in high school, Park says.So did Jerry Lee Lewis, Eleanor answers.I'm not kidding, he says.You should be, she says, we're 16.What about Romeo and Juliet?Shallow, confused, then dead.I love you, Park says.Wherefore art thou, Eleanor answers.I'm not kidding, he says.You should be.

Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.

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March-April 2015

Which Fantasy/SciFi title will you

choose?

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March-April 2015

Which Fantasy/SciFi title will you

choose?It's been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister, Penryn, will do anything to get her back. Anything, including making a deal with an enemy angel.

Raffe is a warrior who lies broken and wingless on the street. After eons of fighting his own battles, he finds himself being rescued from a desperate situation by a half-starved teenage girl. Traveling through a dark and twisted Northern California, they have only each other to rely on for survival.

Together, they journey toward the angels' stronghold in San Francisco where Penryn will risk everything to rescue her sister, and Raffe will put himself at the mercy of his greatest enemies for the chance to be made whole again.

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March-April 2015

Which Fantasy/SciFi title will you

choose?

Since childhood, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who refuse to stay dead. But now her father, the Abhorson, is missing, and Sabriel must cross into that world to find him.

With Mogget, whose feline form hides a powerful, perhaps malevolent spirit, and Touchstone, a young Charter Mage, Sabriel travels deep into the Old Kingdom. There she confronts an evil that threatens much more than her life and comes face-to-face with her own hidden destiny. . . .

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March-April 2015

Which Fantasy/SciFi title will you

choose?Set in the far future amidst a sprawling feudal interstellar empire where planetary dynasties are controlled by noble houses that owe an allegiance to the imperial House Corrino, Dune tells the story of young Paul Atreides as he & his family accept control of the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the "spice" melange, the most important & valuable substance in the cosmos.

The story explores the complex, multilayered interactions of politics, religion, ecology, technology & human emotion, as the forces of the empire confront each other for control of Arrakis.

Published in 1965, it won the Hugo Award in 1966 & the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel. Dune is frequently cited as the world's best-selling science fiction novel.

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March-April 2015

Which Fantasy/SciFi title will you

choose?Finnikin of the Rock and his guardian, Sir Topher, have not been home to their beloved Lumatere for ten years. Not since the dark days when the royal family was murdered and the kingdom put under a terrible curse. But then Finnikin is summoned to meet Evanjalin, a young woman with an incredible claim: the heir to the throne of Lumatere, Prince Balthazar, is alive.

Evanjalin is determined to return home and she is the only one who can lead them to the heir. As they journey together, Finnikin is affected by her arrogance . . . and her hope. He begins to believe he will see his childhood friend, Prince Balthazar, again. And that their cursed people will be able to enter Lumatere and be reunited with those trapped inside. He even believes he will find his imprisoned father.

But Evanjalin is not what she seems. And the truth will test not only Finnikin's faith in her . . . but in himself.

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May-June 2015

Which Funny titles will you choose?

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May-June 2015

Which Funny titles will you choose?

Up until senior year, Greg has maintained total social invisibility. He only has one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time—when not playing video games and avoiding Earl's terrifying brothers— making movies, their own versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics. Greg would be the first one to tell you his movies are terrible, but he and Earl don't make them for other people. Until Rachel.

Rachel has leukemia, and Greg's mom gets the genius idea that Greg should befriend her. Against his better judgment and despite his extreme awkwardness, he does. When Rachel decides to stop treatment, Greg and Earl make her a movie, and Greg must abandon invisibility and make a stand. It's a hilarious, outrageous, and truthful look at death and high school.

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May-June 2015

Which Funny titles will you choose?

Fifteen-year-old Matt Gratton and his two best friends, Coop and Sean, always set themselves a summertime goal. This year's? To see a real-live naked girl for the first time — quite a challenge, given that none of the guys has the nerve to even ask a girl out on a date.

But catching a girl in the buff starts to look easy compared to Matt's other summertime aspiration: to swim the 100-yard butterfly (the hardest stroke known to God or man) as a way to impress Kelly West, the sizzling new star of the swim team.

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May-June 2015

Which Funny titles will you choose?

Fifteen-year-old Virginia Shreves has a larger-than-average body and a plus-size inferiority complex. She lives on the Web, snarfs junk food, and follows the "Fat Girl Code of Conduct." Her stuttering best friend has just moved to Walla Walla (of all places). Her new companion, Froggy Welsh the Fourth (real name), has just succeeded in getting his hand up her shirt, and she lives in fear that he'll look underneath.

Then there are the other Shreves: Mom, the successful psychologist and exercise fiend; Dad, a top executive who ogles thin women on TV; and older siblings Anaïs and rugby god Byron, both of them slim and brilliant. Delete Virginia, and the Shreves would be a picture-perfect family. Or so she's convinced. And then a shocking phone call changes everything.

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May-June 2015

Which Funny titles will you choose?

Shakespeare Shapiro has always hated his name. His parents bestowed it on him as some kind of sick joke when he was born, and his life has gone downhill from there, one embarrassing incident after another. Entering his senior year of high school, Shakespeare has never had a girlfriend, his younger brother is cooler than he is, and his best friend's favorite topic of conversation is his bowel movements.

But Shakespeare will have the last laugh. He is chronicling every mortifying detail in his memoir, the writing project each senior at Shakespeare's high school must complete. And he is doing it brilliantly. And, just maybe, a prize-winning memoir will bring him respect, admiration, and a girlfriend . . . or at least a prom date.

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Jan-June 2015

Which Portuguese titles will you

choose?

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Jan-February 2015

Which Portuguese relationships

titles will you read?Margarida Fonseca Santos, em Uma questão de azul-escuro, aborda de uma forma bastante sensível e intimidativa um tema muito actual, o Bullying, que é um comportamento consciente, intencional, deliberado, hostil e repetido, de uma ou mais pessoas, cuja intençãoé ferir os outros.

Luís é um menino do primeiro ciclo que, um dia, aopassar no Beco da Agonia, um local pouco iluminado, foisurpreendido por dois rapazes mais velhos que o agrediram, deixando-lhe o corpo cheio de manchas azuis.

Toda a história se desenrola a partir do momento em quea professora de ginástica descobre…

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Jan-June 2015

Which Portuguese relationships

titles will you read?Um homem desconhecido tenta salvar da morte um suicida. De seguida, espalha a mensagem que a sociedade moderna se tornounum manicómio global. O seu discurso fresco e irreverente conquistaas pessoas, habituadas a frases feitas e ao «politicamente correcto», ao mesmo tempo que as assusta. O que pensar de um estranho com ar de pedinte que fala da importância de vender sonhos ao serhumano? Uma ideia maravilhosa, mas invulgar… Numa época em quenos habituamos ao ritmo e às exigências desmesuradas de um relógio que não pára, libertarmo-nos das grilhetas da rotina e recuperarmos a consciência do que é, de facto, importante nesta vidapode ser assustador. Mas é fundamental!

Ao longo deste romance poderá seguir os passos de um Vendedor de Sonhos, uma personagem fascinante que nos deixa na dúvida se se trata de um sábio ou do mais louco dos seres?! Uma história que o fará chorar, rir, e, certamente, mudar a sua vida.

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March-April 2015

Which Portuguese fantasy title will

you read?A acção desenrola-se em torno de um pacato distribuidor de pizas e de umamisteriosa rapariga ruiva que de repente se vêem no outro lado da cidade [do Porto] e que acabam por chegar a uma ilha em forma de chifre que não vem em mapa nenhum - a Ilha do Chifre de Ouro! Uma aventuraempolgante e enternecedora, a confirmar as (re)conhecidas qualidades literárias de Álvaro Magalhães.

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May-June 2015

Which Portuguese funny title will

you choose?

Vivaldo Bonfim é um escriturário entediadoque leva romances e novelas para a repartiçãode finanças onde está empregado. Um dia, enquanto finge trabalhar, perde-se na leitura e desaparece deste mundo. Esta é a suaverdadeira história — contada na primeirapessoa pelo filho, Elias Bonfim, que irá àprocura do seu pai, percorrendo clássicos da literatura cheios de assassinos, paixõesdevastadoras, feras e outros perigos feitos de letras.