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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
An enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings electricity, and a future, to his family- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2010
- ISBN: 9780061730320
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The Bride's Farewell
On the morning of her wedding, Pell Ridley creeps out of bed in the dark, kisses her sisters goodbye and flees - determined to escape a future that offers nothing but hard work and sorrow.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2010
- ISBN: 9780141323404
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Everything Matters!
You alone know that the world will end thirty-six years after your birth. Do you succumb to nihilistic apathy? Use your singular knowledge to save mankind? To what end do you live your life?- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2010
- ISBN: 9780670020928
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The Good Soldiers
In the tradition of "Black Hawk Down," The Good Soldiers takes an unforgettable look at the heroes and the ruined soldiers fighting in the Iraq War- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2010
- ISBN: 9780374165734
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The Kid's Are All Right: A Memoir
The poignant, harrowing story of four siblings--Amanda, Liz, Dan, and Diana Welch--who despite their wrenching loss and subsequent separation, retained the resilience and humor that both their mother and father endowed them with--growing up as lost souls, taking disastrous turns along the way, but eventually coming out right side up and being together again.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2010
- ISBN: 9780307396044
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The Magicians
As a senior in high school Quentin Coldwater became preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. After graduating from college and being admitted into a highly exclusive, secret society of magic in upstate New York, he makes a stunning discovery: Fillory is real.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2010
- ISBN: 9780670020553
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My Abandonment
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild," Rock's "My Abandonment," inspired by a true story and told through the startlingly sincere voice of his young protagonist, offers a riveting and unsettling account of a girl and her father who live off the grid.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2010
- ISBN: 9780151014149
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Soulless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel
Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette.- Horror, Thriller
- Alex Awards 2010
- ISBN: 9780316056632
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Stitches: A Memoir
David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot, the fourteen-year-old boy had not been told that he had cancer and was expected to die.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2010
- ISBN: 9780393068573
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Tunneling to the Center of the Earth
Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2010
- ISBN: 9780061579028