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Adult-YA Crossover
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Search results: The best new books - Books that are targeted at adults but are likely to be of interest/suitable for teens
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Sarah's Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay
Hardcover: Jun 2007
Paperback: 30 Sep 2008
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| Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode. |
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Brother, I'm Dying
by Edwidge Danticat
Hardcover: Sep 2007
Paperback: 9 Sep 2008
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| From the best-selling author of The Dew Breaker, a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that centers around the men closest to Danticat's heart - her father, Mira, and his older brother, Joseph. |
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The Pirate's Daughter
by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: 5 Aug 2008
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| In 1946, a storm-wrecked boat carrying Hollywood’s most famous swashbuckler shored up on the coast of Jamaica, and the glamorous world of 1940’s Hollywood converged with that of a small West Indian society. |
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
Hardcover: Feb 2007
Paperback: 5 Aug 2008
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| The devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and became a soldier. |
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Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
by Ann Brashares
Hardcover: Jan 2007
Paperback: 8 Apr 2008
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| With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer. |
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Sold
by Patricia McCormick
Hardcover: Sep 2006
Paperback: 1 Apr 2008
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| Although Lakshmi's family is desperately poor her life still contains simple pleasures; but, when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all the family’s crops, Lakshmi’s stepfather sends her away to take a job to support her family. When she arrives at “Happiness House”, full of hope, she learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution. An exceptional novel suitable for teens and adults. |
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Secondhand World
by Katherine Min
Hardcover: Oct 2006
Paperback: 12 Feb 2008
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| Isadora Myung Hee Sohn, known as Isa, worships her mother, an exceptional beauty. Isa’s father, a scientist and professor, and an orphan, is haunted by the war in which he served as a South Korean soldier and by a painful secret that he keeps from his wife. Still mourning the death of Isa’s younger brother her parents are traditional enough to prize their dead son over their living daughter; to them, Isa only half exists. Recommended for older teens and adults. |
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Nineteen Minutes: A Novel
by Jodi Picoult
Hardcover: Mar 2007
Paperback: 5 Feb 2008
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| Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens -- until the day its complacency is shattered by a shocking act of violence. In the aftermath, the town's residents must not only seek justice in order to begin healing but also come to terms with the role they played in the tragedy. |
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