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1) Candide
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Candide is about a man who believes in the philosophy that: "what happens, happens for the best in the end." that was taught to him by his personal philosopher Dr. Panlosss. Candide goes through many, many trials and everyone he meets has had something terrible happen to them. He searches the world over for his love Cundgonde. And in the end finds that the simplest things in life: love, friends, and health are all that matters.
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"Wise and funny . . . [A] near-perfect collection."
-Entertainment Weekly
Rebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both foreign and domestic, crafting stories as rich as novels. A student plagiarizes a paper and holds fast to her alibi until she finds herself complicit in the resurrection of one professor's shadowy past. A dinner party becomes the occasion for the dissolution...
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"With her penchant for seeing the best in everyone, Hope Irvine sees a world full of good people in hard places. When her father accepts a position traveling in a chapel car as an on-the-rail missionary, she is determined to join him in his efforts and put her musical skills to good use by serving the mining families of West Virginia, saving their souls, and bettering their lives. Luke Hughes shares Hope's love of music and her love of God, but as...
6) Sunny
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Most people would say there is nothing good about trudging to school on a rainy day. Most people would say that being carried away by the wind and dropped into the middle of a tumultuous sea is a very bad sort of situation. No, most people wouldn't like that at all. But, Sunny isn't most people. Sunny likes to look on the bright side. And when things get exceedingly bleak? Well, isn't that what friends are for?--
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"With Candide, Voltaire bumptiously skewered the fashionable misinterpretation of the doctrine of philosophical optimism, unerringly offending kings, scientists, fanaticals, publishers, journalists, and even priests; composed in a mere three days, Candide's capacity to amuse, disgust, and surprise endures today, roughly ninety thousand days later. Theo Cuffe's new translation is invaluable for those English-speaking readers who cannot understand French,...
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Three generations. Seven days. One big secret. The author of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake unfolds a mother-daughter story told by three women whose time to reckon with a life-altering secret is running out. Gina Zoberski wants to make it through one day without her fastidious mother, Lorraine, cataloguing all her faults, and her sullen teenage daughter, May, snubbing her. Too bad there's no chance of that. Her relentlessly sunny disposition annoys...
9) Seraphin
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After losing his dreary job as a train ticket puncher, optimistic Serafin learns he has inherited a dilapidated house and car and, with his friend Plume, sets out to repair them.
10) The bright side
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When an unhoused boy enters school, he runs afoul of rules and finds himself alone, but finds that he has imagination, resilience, and can define "the bright side" for himself.
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"When Maribel's family has to move in with Tía Carmen because Papi lost his job, Maribel and her sister feel unsettled. It's not always easy sharing a room or being in a house full of loud cousins, but Papi reminds the girls that it's only por un ratito--just for a little while. In the meantime, there is always someone to play with, the mealtimes are filled with music and laughter, and bedtime is for snuggling in tight"--Provided by publisher.
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"It's the morning walk to school and it doesn't feel right. The day has started gloomy, when it's normally bright. And, so begins a series of changes that turns young Miles' day upside down. Once friendly and familiar, everything on that school walk now seems distant, sad, or stressed. The weather. The community workers. Even the neighbor's dog, Daisy. At school, things don't lighten up for Miles. There, he's introduced to a series of new rules meant...
15) Pasture bedtime
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"In this partially-illustrated early chapter book, 11-year-old Charlie tries his hardest to keep his life quiet and organized amid the chaos of life on the farm with his veterinarian mother."--
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"Based on a viral video comes the story of one boy's positive energy and how a sunny outlook can turn everything around. It's a new day and Ayaan has woken up on the wrong side of the bed, where nothing feels quite right. What if he doesn't know the answer at school? What if he messes up? But as he sets out that morning, all it takes is a few reminders from his mom and some friends in the neighborhood to remind him that a new day is a good day because......
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"A collection of near-future, optimistic SF stories where some of the genre's brightest stars and most exciting new talents portray the possible roads to a better tomorrow. Definitely not a plethora of Pollyannas (but neither a barrage of dystopias), SHINE will show that positive change is far from being a foregone conclusion, but needs to be hard fought, innovative, robust and imaginative..."--P. [4] of cover.
18) Por un ratito
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"Cuando la familia de Maribel se tiene que mudar con la tía Carmen porque papi perdió su trabajo, Maribel y su hermana se sienten dudosas. No siempre es fácil compartir una habitación o estar en una casa llena de primos ruidosos, pero papi les recuerda a las niñas que es solo por un ratito. Mientras tanto, siempre hay alguien con quien jugar, la hora de comer está llena de música y carcajadas y la hora de dormir es para acurrucarse....