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The Map From Here to There
by Emery Lord (Author)
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Booktalk: It’s senior year, and Paige Hancock is finally living her best life. She has a fun summer job, great friends, and a super charming boyfriend who totally gets her. But senior year also means big decisions. Weighing “the rest of her life,” Paige feels her anxiety begin to pervade every decision she makes. Everything is exactly how she always wanted it to be–how can she leave it all behind next year? In her head, she knows there is so much more to experience after high school. But in her heart, is it so terrible to want everything to stay the same forever?

Snippet: Of all the places to spend a hot August day in suburban Indiana, Cinema 12 had to be one of the best. Snacks, ice-cold air conditioning, and endless opportunities for screenwriting analysis. At least, I thought so when I got the job in July.

Area 51 (Odysseys in Mysteries)
by Ken Karst (Author)
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Booktalk: An in-depth study of Area 51, examining legends, popular reports, and scientific evidence that supports or refutes the mysterious phenomena reputed to occur there.

Snippet: When Bob Lazar told a television reporter in 1989 that he’d been researching captured flying saucers at a United States military base in the Nevada desert, trying to figure out what made them fly so fast, “Area 51” suddenly became the key code name for government conspiracies.

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