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61) The lost city of Z (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon

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Interweaves the story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who vanished during a 1925 expedition into the Amazon, with the author's own quest to uncover the mysteries surrounding Fawcett's final journey and the secrets of what lies deep in the Amazon jungle.

62) Five skies (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Carlson, Ron

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Working together on a summer construction project high in the Rocky Mountains, drifter Arthur Key, shiftless Ronnie Panelli, and foreman Darwin Gallegos reveal details about their pasts and beliefs in cautious and profound ways.

63) Beautiful boy (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): a father's journey through his son's addiction

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Sheff, David

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The story of one teenager's descent into methamphetamine addiction is told from his father's point of view, describing how a varsity athlete and honor student became addicted to the dangerous drug and its impact on his family.

64) The princess bride (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure : the "good parts" version, abridged

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Goldman, William

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Presents the timeless love story between a farm boy named Westley and the beautiful Princess Buttercup.

65) The testaments (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Atwood, Margaret

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More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by...

66) The hound of the Baskervilles (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Doyle, Arthur Conan

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Wordsworth classics

67) En el tiempo de las mariposas (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Alvarez, Julia

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Gives a fictionalized account of four sisters in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of General Trujillo.

68) One hundred years of solitude (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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García Márquez, Gabriel

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Harper Perennial modern classics

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Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.

69) Hunger games: The ballad of songbirds and snakes (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Hunger Games trilogy volume prequel

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It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given...

70) Mudbound (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): a novel

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Jordan, Hillary

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In 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississipi Delta.

71) The handmaid's tale (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor

72) The prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Spark, Muriel

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Harper Perennial modern classics

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A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorities because of her unorthodox teaching methods

73) The book thief (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Zusak, Markus

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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

74) To kill a mockingbird (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): [a novel]

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Lee, Harper

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The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.

75) Cloud Atlas (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Mitchell, David

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A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagans California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified "dinery server" on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation -- the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each others echoes down the...

76) Victoria & Abdul (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): the true story of the Queen's closest confidant

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Basu, Shrabani

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"In the twilight years of her reign, after the devastating deaths of her two great loves--Prince Albert and John Brown--Queen Victoria meets tall and handsome Abdul Karim, a humble servant from Agra waiting tables at her Golden Jubilee. The two form an unlikely bond and within a year Abdul becomes a powerful figure at court, the Queen's teacher, her counsel on Urdu and Indian affairs, and a friend close to her heart. This marked the beginning of the...

77) Solaris (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Lem, Stanisław

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A scientist examining the ocean that covers the surface of the planet Solaris is forced to confront the incarnation of a painful, hitherto unconscious memory, inexplicably created by the ocean.

78) Fahrenheit 451 (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Bradbury, Ray

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"In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear ... This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author; a wealth of critical...

79) Gone girl (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): a novel

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Flynn, Gillian

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On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and plans are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears. As the police begin to investigate, the town golden boy parades a series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter--but is he really a killer?

80) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Shaffer, Mary Ann

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Reader's circle)

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As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.