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The One and Only Ruby By Katherine Applegate Cover Image
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By Katherine Applegate
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The Graveyard Book By Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illustrator), Margaret Atwood (Foreword by) Cover Image
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By Sophie Beer
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City of the Dead (City Spies #4) By James Ponti Cover Image
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The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise By Dan Gemeinhart Cover Image
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All Kinds of Families By Suzanne Lang Cover Image
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The Great Big Book of Families By Mary Hoffman, Ros Asquith (Illustrator) Cover Image
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Sisters of the Neversea By Cynthia L. Smith Cover Image
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Love Is Love By Michael Genhart, Ken Min (Illustrator) Cover Image
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  • What Can I Say?: A Kid's Guide to Super-Useful Social Skills to Help You Get Along and Express Yourself; Speak Up, Speak Out, Talk about Hard Things, and Be a Good Friend By Catherine Newman Cover Image
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    For Every One By Jason Reynolds Cover Image
  • What My Daddy Loves By Raissa Figueroa, Raissa Figueroa (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Daditude: The Joys & Absurdities of Modern Fatherhood By Chris Erskine Cover Image
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    The Force: A Novel By Don Winslow Cover Image
  • Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You By Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jonny Sun (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Franklin Smoke: Wood. Fire. Food. [A Cookbook] By Aaron Franklin, Jordan Mackay Cover Image
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    The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse By Charlie Mackesy Cover Image
  • Grandpa Loves Me! (Marianne Richmond) By Marianne Richmond Cover Image
  • Whoops . . . I'm Awesome: A Workbook with Activities, Art, and Stories for Embracing Your Wonderfully Awesome Self By Melissa Villaseñor Cover Image
  • A First Time for Everything By Dan Santat Cover Image
  • The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder By David Grann Cover Image
  • Because I'm Your Dad By Ahmet Zappa, Dan Santat (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • How to Be a Person: 65 Hugely Useful, Super-Important Skills to Learn before You're Grown Up By Catherine Newman Cover Image
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    Drawn Together By Minh Lê, Dan Santat (Illustrator), Dan Santat (Cover design or artwork by) Cover Image
  • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike By Phil Knight Cover Image
  • Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties By Beth Kobliner Cover Image
  • Oh, the Places You'll Go! (Classic Seuss) By Dr. Seuss Cover Image

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A Thousand Steps By T. Jefferson Parker Cover Image

A Thousand Steps (Paperback)

By T. Jefferson Parker
$18.99

In this assured and surprising coming of age novel by mystery writer T. Jefferson Parker, 16-year old Matt navigates the counter culture of the tie-dyed ’60s in Laguna California with its hippie buses, psychedelic drug scene and groovy love-ins while hunting desperately for his teenaged sister, whom he is sure has been kidnapped. So strongly is the time period written, you can practically smell the marijuana wafting around the beach scene as the songs of Dylan get blasted on the radio. A superb novel about the time, place and folks of the late 60s. Far out!

(Adult Mystery) - Reviewed by Maureen 


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