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Books You Need That AREN’T Romance
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items Are you tired of all the cheesy romance novels? Here’s some different options if your looking for a new read or looking to expand your taste!
Evvy Hoffmeister is thirteen years old when her family brings her to Loon Lake Sanatorium to get cured of tuberculosis (TB). Evvy is frightened by her new surroundings; the rules to abide are harsh and the nurses equally rigid. But Evvy soon falls in...
Breathing Room - by Marsha Hayles (Paperback)
At the age of twenty-four, in 1913, Adolf Hitler was eking out a living as a painter of pictures for tourists in Munich. Nothing marked him in any way as exceptional, but he did possess certain distinguishing characteristics: a capacity to hate, an i...
Hitler's Charisma: Leading Millions into the Abyss|Paperback
Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one ...
Educated: A Memoir - by Tara Westover (Paperback)
Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities? Dozens of children respond to this peculiar ad in the newspaper and are then put through a series of mind-bending tests, which readers take along with them. Only four children--two boys and tw...
The Mysterious Benedict Society ( Mysterious Benedict Society) (Reprint) (Paperback) by Trenton Lee Stewart
Eleven-year-old Melody is not like most people. She can't walk. She can't talk. She can't write. All because she has cerebral palsy. But she also has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She's t...
Out of My Mind (Paperback) - by Sharon M Draper
TW Drug Use
A captivating and powerful exploration of the opioid crisis—the deadliest drug epidemic in American history—through the eyes of a college-bound softball star. Edgar Award-winning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a visceral and necessary no...
Heroine, (Paperback)
The Alchemist is a story of following one's dreams to find one's purpose in life. The main character, Santiago, is a Spanish shepherd boy who leaves behind his job and family to search for his Personal Legend, a hidden treasure that he believes is bu...
Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist (Anniversary 25) (Paperback)
The first time Melanie Ross meets April Hall, she's not sure they have anything in common. But she soon discovers that they both love anything to do with ancient Egypt. When they stumble upon a deserted storage yard, Melanie and April decide it's the...
The Egypt Game - by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Paperback)
In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her drea...
The Midnight Library: A GMA Book Club Pick
The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic is a chick-lit novel by Sophie Kinsella, the first book in the Shopaholic series. It follows Becky Bloomwood, a financial journalist who is in debt due to her shopping addiction. The book follows Becky as she tri...
Shopaholic Confessions of a Shopaholic, Book 1, (Paperback)
What sixteen-year-old Elizabeth has lost so far: forty pounds, four jean sizes, a boyfriend, and her peace of mind. As a result, she’s finally a size zero. She’s also the newest resident at Wallingfield, a treatment center for girls like her—girls wi...
What I Lost by Alexandra Ballard, Paperback
Everyone in fifteen-year-old Bella's life needs something from her. Her mom needs her to help around the house, her dad needs her to not make waves, her ex needs her to not be so much. The only person who never needed anything from her was her grandm...
The Glass Girl - Target Exclusive Edition - by Kathleen Glasgow (Hardcover)
Robie is an experienced traveler. She's taken the flight from Honolulu to the Midway Atoll, a group of Pacific islands where her parents live, many times. When she has to get to Midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in Hawaii, she gets on the...
The Raft - by S A Bodeen (Paperback)
Newly minted doctor Jane McGill is in hell.
Not literally, of course. But between her drug addict patients, sleepless nights on call, and battling wits with the sadistic yet charming Sexy Surgeon, Jane can’t imagine an afterlife much worse than her ...
The Devil Wears Scrubs (Dr. Jane McGill)
Notes from the Midnight Driver is a 2006 young adult novel by Jordan Sonnenblick. It's a realistic fiction story about a teen named Alex who is sentenced to community service at a nursing home after being arrested for underage DUI. There, he befriend...
Notes from the Midnight Driver, (Paperback) - Walmart.com
Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father ...
Girl In Pieces By Kathleen Glasgow - By Kathleen Glasgow ( Paperback )