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Alice I Have Been
by Melanie Benjamin
Hardcover: Jan 2010
Paperback: 1 Jan 2011
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Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole –and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling.

Up from the Blue : A Novel
by Susan Henderson
Paperback: 1 Oct 2010
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An extraordinary debut from a talented new voice, Up from the Blue untangles the year in Tillie's life that changed everything: 1975, the year her mother disappeared.

The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein : A Novel
by Peter Ackroyd
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 7 Sep 2010
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When two nineteenth-century Oxford students—Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley—form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world's most accomplished and prolific authors.

The Chosen One
by Carol Lynch Williams
Hardcover: May 2009
Paperback: 31 Aug 2010
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Kyra has grown up in an isolated fundamentalist community never questioning that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters. But when the Prophet decrees that she must marry her sixty-year-old uncle - who already has six wives - she must make a desperate choice in the face of violence and her own fears of losing her family forever.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind : Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
by William Kamkwamba
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 1 Aug 2010
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is the immensely engaging and inspiring true account of an enterprising African teenager who constructed a windmill from scraps to create electricity for his entire community.

Everything Asian : A Novel
by Sung J. Woo
Hardcover: Apr 2009
Paperback: 20 Jul 2010
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David King was twelve years old when he moved from Korea to New Jersey. In loosely-connected tales, we follow David as he adapts to his new country.

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The riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and betrayed by passion and desire for a world beyond her own.
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