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SPECIAL NOTE: This book was the subject of the Friends of the Gordon Cooper Library's Sixth Annual "One Book, One Town" community reading project. The author, Jonathan Waterman, spoke at the Roaring Fork High School Auditeria on October 14, 2010.
Booklist Review
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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.
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After her sister's sudden death, seventeen-year-old Vanessa investigates a series of inexplicable drownings off the coast of Winter Harbor, Maine, and uncovers an unimaginable secret that changes everything.
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SPECIAL NOTE: The author of this title, Sandra Dallas, spoke at a special event at the Parachute Branch Library on September 16, 2010. The event was part of the Grand Opening celebrations for the newly remodeled and expanded branch.
Set in the high country of Colorado during the Depression, this is the story of an unforgettable friendship between two women--eighty-six-year-old Hennie Comfort and seventeen-year-old Nit Spindle--and the deepest hardships and darkest secrets they shared with each other.
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The powerful story of a small Colorado town after a devastating avalanche, and the life changing effects it has on the people who live there. Set in 1920.
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SPECIAL NOTE: This book is the subject of Colorado Mountain College's Common Reader Program. The author, Kevin Michael Connolly, spoke at the local CMC campuses at the beginning of November. The Garfield County Libraries partnered with CMC on this project and have books available at all libraries as well as audiobooks and ebooks available to download through our Overdrive system.
Publisher's Weekly Review
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Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she’s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she’s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what’s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss’s family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins’s groundbreaking The Hunger Games trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.
