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1) The 100
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Albany Co. Public Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION MORGAN
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YA FICTION MORGAN
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When 100 juvenile delinquents are sent on a mission to recolonize Earth, they get a second chance at freedom, friendship, and love, as they fight to survive in a dangerous new world.
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Albany Co. Public Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION GRAHAME-SMITH
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YA FICTION GRAHAME-SMITH
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Reveals the hidden life of the 16th U.S. president, who was actually a vampire hunter, obsessed with the complete elimination of the undead, and uncovers the role vampires played in the birth, growth and near-death of the nation.
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On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days too.
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Albany Co. Public Library - Biography
B HAMILTON
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B HAMILTON
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Ron Chernow tells the story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow's biography argues that the political and economic greatness of today's America is the result of Hamilton's countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. Chernow here recounts...
5) Alias Grace
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A fictionalized account of Grace Marks, a maid who murdered her employer and his mistress in Canada in 1843. A stablehand who was her accomplice and who claimed she put him up to it was hung for the crime, while she ended up in a lunatic asylum. The novel analyzes the question: was she actually less guilty, crazy, or smarter?
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Albany Co. Public Library - Young Adult Graphic Novels
YA GN YANG
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YA GN YANG
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Albany Co. Bookmobile - Young Adult Graphic Novels
YA GN YANG
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YA GN YANG
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Alternates interrelated stories about three characters, including a Chinese American trying to participate in popular culture; a Chinese folk hero attempting to be worshipped as a god; and a teenager who is so ashamed by his Chinese cousin's behavior that he changes schools.
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Albany Co. Public Library - Juvenile Fiction
J FICTION MONTGOMERY
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J FICTION MONTGOMERY
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Albany Co. - Rock River Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J M767AGG
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J M767AGG
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Albany Co. Public Library - Juvenile Audio Visual Collection
J CD FICTION MONTGOMERY
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J CD FICTION MONTGOMERY
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Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. When Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables farm on Prince Edward Island, she surprises everyone: first of all, she is a girl. Marilla Cuthbert and her brother, Matthew, had specifically asked for an orphan boy. She has bright red hair that won't...
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Margaret Simon likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. She's just moved from New York City to the suburbs and is anxious to fit in with her new friends. They swear they'll tell each other everything--first bras, first kisses, first periods... everything. But some things are just too private to talk about, even with your friends, and especially when you're the new girl. Lucky for Margaret, she's got someone else to...
9) Avalon High
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Albany Co. Public Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION CABOT
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YA FICTION CABOT
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Having moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with her medievalist parents, high school junior Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School where several students may or may not be reincarnations of King Arthur and his court.
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Albany Co. - Rock River Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J SN31B #1
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J SN31B #1
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Albany Co. Bookmobile - Juvenile Fiction
J FICTION SNICKET
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J FICTION SNICKET
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After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune. Illustrations.
11) The BFG
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Albany Co. Public Library - Juvenile Fiction
J FICTION DAHL
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J FICTION DAHL
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Albany Co. - Rock River Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J D137BF
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J D137BF
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Albany Co. Public Library - Juvenile Audio Visual Collection
J CD FICTION DAHL
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J CD FICTION DAHL
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Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants -- rather than the BFG -- she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that they are flush-bunking off in England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she...
12) Big little lies
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Albany Co. Public Library - Fiction
FICTION MORIARTY
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FICTION MORIARTY
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Albany Co. - Centennial Branch - Fiction
FICTION MORIARTY
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FICTION MORIARTY
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Albany Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
CD FICTION MORIARTY
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CD FICTION MORIARTY
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A murder... a tragic accident... or just parents behaving badly? What's indisputable is that someone is dead. But who did what? Big Little Lies follows three women, each at a crossroads: Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She's funny and biting, passionate, she remembers everything and forgives no one. Her ex-husband and his yogi new wife have moved into her beloved beachside community, and their daughter is in the same kindergarten class as...
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Albany Co. Public Library - Young Adult Audio Visual Collection
YA CD FICTION BOYNE
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YA CD FICTION BOYNE
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Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
14) City of bones
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Albany Co. Public Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION CLARE
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YA FICTION CLARE
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Albany Co. - Rock River Branch - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION CLARE
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YA FICTION CLARE
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Albany Co. Bookmobile - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION CLARE
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YA FICTION CLARE
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Albany Co. Public Library - Young Adult Audio Visual Collection
YA CD FICTION CLARE
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YA CD FICTION CLARE
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Summary
Suddenly able to see demons and the Shadowhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
15) The cold dish
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Albany Co. Public Library - Mystery Collection
MYSTERY JOHNSON
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MYSTERY JOHNSON
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Albany Co. - Centennial Branch - Mystery Collection
MYSTERY JOHNSON
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MYSTERY JOHNSON
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Albany Co. - Rock River Branch - Mystery Collection
MYSTERY JOHNSON
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MYSTERY JOHNSON
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Albany Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
MP3CD MYSTERY JOHNSON
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MP3CD MYSTERY JOHNSON
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Albany Co. Public Library - Large Print Collection
LP MYSTERY JOHNSON
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LP MYSTERY JOHNSON
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Summary
After twenty-five years as sheriff of Absaroka County, Walt Longmire's hopes of finishing out his tenure in peace are dashed when Cody Pritchard is found dead near the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Two years earlier, Cody has been one of four high school boys given suspended sentences for raping a local Cheyenne girl. Somebody, it would seem, is seeking vengeance, and Longmire might be the only thing standing between the three remaining boys and...
16) The color purple
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"The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then from the sisters to each other, the novel draws readers into the experiences of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery, and Sofia"--
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Albany Co. Public Library - Fiction
FICTION KWAN
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FICTION KWAN
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Albany Co. - Rock River Branch - Fiction
FICTION KWAN
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FICTION KWAN
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Envisioning a summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that strongly opposes their son's relationship with an American girl.
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Albany Co. Public Library - Fiction
FICTION REID
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FICTION REID
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Albany Co. - Rock River Branch - Fiction
FICTION REID
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FICTION REID
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Albany Co. - Centennial Branch - Audio Visual Collection
CD FICTION REID
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CD FICTION REID
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"Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....
19) Dear Edward
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Albany Co. - Centennial Branch - Fiction
FICTION NAPOLITANO
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FICTION NAPOLITANO
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Albany Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
CD FICTION NAPOLITANO
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CD FICTION NAPOLITANO
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"One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured vet returning from Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. Halfway across the country, the plane crashes. Edward...
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Albany Co. Public Library - Mystery Collection
MYSTERY CHRISTIE
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MYSTERY CHRISTIE
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Albany Co. Bookmobile - Mystery Collection
MYSTERY CHRISTIE
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MYSTERY CHRISTIE
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Albany Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
CD MYSTERY CHRISTIE
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CD MYSTERY CHRISTIE
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Summary
The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything...until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet under the searing heat of the Egyptian sun, nothing is ever quite what...