Published : 2021 || Format : print || Location : Colombia ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ What was it about the country that kept everyone hostage to its fantasy? The previous month, on its own soil, an American man went to his job at a plant and gunned down fourteen coworkers, and last spring alone there were four different school shootings. A nation at war with itself, yet people still spoke of it as some kind of paradise.. Thoughts : Infinite Country follows two characters - young Talia, who at the beginning of this book, escapes a girl’s reform school in North Colombia so that she can make her previously booked flight to the US. Before she can do that, she needs to travel many miles to reach her father and get her ticket to the rest of her family. As we follow Talia’s treacherous journey south, we learn about how she ended up in the reform school in the first place and why half her family resides in the US. Infinite Country tells the story of her family through the other protagonist, El
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13 rue Thérèse by Elena Mauli Shapiro
The 13th Hour by Richard Doetsch
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Allegiant (Divergent, #3) by Veronica Roth
American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar
Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón
April 16th: Virginia Tech Remembers by Roland Lazenby
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2) by Patrick Ness
Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
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Based upon Availability by Alix Strauss
The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb
Behemoth (Leviathan, #2) by Scott Westerfeld
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Blindness by José Saramago
Blue Heaven by C. J. Box
Bohemia by V. S. Naipaul
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Boxers and Saints by Gene Luen Yang
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
The Boy Who Could See Demons by Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bringing Adam Home by Les Standiford
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Curtis
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
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Calling Dr. Laura by Nicole J. Georges
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi
Child of Dandelions by Shenaaz Nanji
City of Ashes (Mortal Instruments, #2) by Cassandra Clare
City of Bones (Mortal Instruments, #1) by Cassandra Clare
City of Glass (Mortal Instruments, #3) by Cassandra Clare
City of Thieves by David Benioff
The City Son by Samrat Upadhyay
Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman
The Coffins of Little Hope by Timothy Schaffert
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Columbine by Dave Cullen
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Creepers by David Morrell
Cross Currents by John Shors
The Curiosity by Stephen Kiernan
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
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Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
Dance Lessons by Aine Greaney
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Denial: A Memoir of Terror by Jessica Stern
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Books 1 to 5) by Jeff Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Books 7 to 8) by Jeff Kinney
The Dinner by Herman Koch
The Dispatcher by Ryan David Jahn
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Drama by Raina Telgemeier
Drawn in Blood by Andrea Kane
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben (Leif Reads)
The Elephant's Journey by José Saramago
Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
Everything I Never Wanted to be by Dina Kucera
Expecting Better by Emily Oster
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Family by J. California Cooper
Far to Go by Alison Pick
The Fates will Find their Way by Hannah Pittard
The Fault in our Stars by John Green
The Fellowship of the Ring (Lord of the Rings, #1) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Finny by Justin Kramon
Fireworks over Toccoa by Jeffrey Stepakoff
First You Try Everything by Jane McCafferty
Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada and Jamar Nicholas
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
The Four Ms. Bradwells by Meg Waite Clayton
Frangipani by Célestine Vaite
The Free by Willy Vlautin
The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell
French Milk by Lucy Knisley
From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess by Meg Cabot
Full Moon at Noontide: A Daughter's Last Goodbye by Ann Putnam
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The Game-On! Diet by Krista Vernoff and Az Ferguson
Gathering of Waters by Bernice McFadden
The Geometry of Sisters by Luanne Rice
Gingerbread Girl by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover
The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Girl With All The Gifts by M. R. Carey
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Glorious by Bernice L. McFadden
The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky
Goliath (Leviathan, #3) by Scott Westerfeld
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Good Daughter by Jasmin Darznik
Good Neighbors by Ryan David Jahn
The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
Green River Killer by Jonathan Case and Jeff Jensen
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
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Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch
The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling
Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton
Haunted Ground by Erin Hart
Hell-Heaven by Jhumpa Lahiri
Hello Goodbye by Emily Chenoweth
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Hidden Wives by Claire Avery
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
A House at the Edge of Tears by Vénus Khoury-Ghata
The House at the End of Hope Street by Menna van Praag
How to be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman
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I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
In the Bed Department by Anne Enright
In the Sea There are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda
In the South by Salman Rushdie
In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard
Inferno by Dan Brown
Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Irma Voth by Miriam Toews
The Isolation Door by Anish Majumdar
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Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry
The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1) by Patrick Ness
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The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
Letters in the Attic by Bonnie Shimko
Leviathan (Leviathan, #1) by Scott Westerfeld
Liar by Justine Larbalestier
Life of Pi by Yann Martel (audiobook)
The Lion's Game by Nelson DeMille
The London Train by Tessa Hadley
The Lonely Hearts Club by Elizabeth Eulberg
The Long Goodbye by Meghan O'Rourke
The Lost Girls by Jennifer Baggett, Holly Corbett, Amanda Pressner
Lost In Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Lucille by Ludovic Debeurme
The Lumby Lines (Lumby, #1) by Gail Fraser
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The Magic Circle by Jenny Davidson
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Make it Stay by Joan Frank
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit by Mark Seal
Marbles by Ellen Forney
The Martian by Andy Weir
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb by George Rabasa
Missoula by Jon Krakauer
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3) by Patrick Ness
The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
My Name Is Memory by Ann Brashares
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Naked by David Sedaris
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
Navigating Early by Claire Vanderpool
Never Knowing by Chevy Stevens
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Night of Many Dreams by Gail Tsukiyama
Night Runner by Max Turner
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
One Plus One by Jojo Moyes
Open Season by Linda Howard
The Overnight Socialite by Bridie Clark
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Planning to Live by Heather Wardell
Push by Sapphire
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Radio Shangri-La by Lisa Napoli
Rainwater by Sandra Brown
Read, Remember, Recommend by Rachelle Rogers Knight
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Relish by Lucy Knisley
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Repeat it Today with Tears by Anne Peile
Room by Emma Donoghue
Russell Wiley is Out to Lunch by Richard Hine
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Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
Say you're one of them by Uwem Akpan
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
A Secret Gift by Ted Gup
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin
The Secret of Lies by Barbara Forte Goode
The Shawl by Louise Erdrich
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
The Silent Land by Graham Joyce
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
Sisters by Raina Telgemeier
Slow Death by Rubber Duck by Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie
Smile by Raina Telgemeier
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
Someone Else's Garden by Dipika Rai
The Sonderberg Case by Elie Wiesel
South of Superior by Ellen Airgood
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Stealing Lumby (Lumby, #2) by Gail Fraser
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
Stitches by David Small
The Story of the Human Body by Daniel E. Lieberman
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
Stuff by Randy Frost
Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden
Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart
Sunbolt by Intisar Khanani
Switching Time by Richard Baer
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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Things Your Dog Doesn't Want You to Know by Hy Conrad and Jeff Johnson
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki
A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres
A Thread of Sky by Deanna Fei
Tina's Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary by Keshni Kashyap
The Truth According To Us by Annie Barrows
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
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Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Unwholly (Unwind, #2) by Neal Shusterman
Unwind (Unwind, #1) by Neal Shusterman
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The Vampire Diaries (#1 and #2) by L. J. Smith
Vietnamerica by GB Tran
A Village After Dark by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
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A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
The Walking Dead (Vols 1 to 8) by Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead (Vols 9 to 23) by Robert Kirkman
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
What the Zhang Boys Know by Clifford Garstang
When I Found You by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Wherever Nina Lies by Lynn Weingarten
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
A Window Opens by Elisabeth Egan
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El-Saadawi
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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Yo! by Julia Alvarez
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri and Randy DuBurke
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