Amy's Staff Picks


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Book cover for "The rest of the story"
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Emma finds herself confused about herself and who she is when she speds the summer with her mother's relatives who she hasn't seen since her mom disappeared when she was a little girl.
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Average Rating:
4 stars
Book cover for "The tattooist of Auschwitz"
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Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion....
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Sloane isn't expecting to fall in with a group of friends when she moves from New York to Florida--especially not a group of friends so intense, so in love, so all-consuming.
Book cover for "The time traveler's wife"
Star rating for The time traveler's wife
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.
Book cover for "The unexpected everything"
Star rating for The unexpected everything
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
When a scandal surrounding her father upsets all her carefully laid plans for her future, Andie must learn to accept a new relationship with her father and to embrace a little chaos in her life. "Seventeen year old Andie always has a plan, but when her father suffers a political scandal, her summer med school program is taken away from her, and a new guy comes into the picture, she finds a lot of unexpected things can happen when you're busy making...
Book cover for "What happened to goodbye"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Following her parents' bitter divorce as she and her father move from town to town, seventeen-year-old Mclean reinvents herself at each school she attends until she is no longer sure she knows who she is or where she belongs.
Book cover for "What light"
Star rating for What light
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
When Sierra falls for Caleb, a boy who made a terrible mistake years before, she is determined to help him find forgiveness, despite the disapproval and suspicions they meet.
Book cover for "When it's real"
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5 stars
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In return for the money to put her brothers through college, seventeen-year-old Vaughn poses as the fake girlfriend of bad-boy pop star Oakley Ford to help overhaul his image, sure that she can resist his magnetism, but she may be fooling herself.