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FICTION
 The
Raw Shark Texts
by Steven Hall
If Jaws were to be swallowed and regurgitated by a certain Viennese
psychoanalyst, what he spit out might look something like Steven Hall's Raw
Shark Texts. An unsettling and defiantly original rumination on memory,
love, and death, the story occasionally takes the form of a postmodern thriller
in the midst of an identity crisis.
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NONFICTION
When
a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
by Peter Godwin
A simultaneous history of his homeland's decline and his own father's failing health, journalist Peter Godwin writes a haunting memoir of his return to Zimbabwe during Robert Mugabe's oppressive rule. As he digs into the country's past, he is also confronted with truths that force him to examine his own identity as a dispossessed white African.
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PICTURE BOOKS
 Wolf!
Wolf!
by John Rocco
This clever take on Aesop's fable "The Boy Who Cried 'Wolf!'" is told from the wolf's perspective and is set in China, thus John Rocco's gorgeous Asian-flavored illustrations. Too old to chase animals, the wolf tends a vegetable garden, but when he keeps hearing a shepherd yell, "Wolf!" he
investigates and hatches a plan to take home a little meat.
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YOUNG ADULT/INDEPENDENT READER
 Diary
of a Wimpy Kid
by Jeff Kinney
Jeff Kinney began publishing the online version of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" in 2004. Since then it has been viewed by 20 million readers. Now, middle schooler Greg Heffley's hilarious journal is being turned into three books. It includes the wonderful drawings that illustrate Greg's thoughts about being one of the weaklings in his school.
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