All Points West July 2025 - GVPL Summer Challenge

Great reads to help you get your bingo on GVPL's 2025 Summer Challenge.

Updated July 11, 2025
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All Points West July 2025 - GVPL Summer Challenge

Great reads to help you get your bingo on GVPL's 2025 Summer Challenge.

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Beartown
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove returns with Beartown--an instant New York Times bestseller--about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything. People say Beartown is finished. A...

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Cleat cute : a novel
Wilsner, Meryl
Paper Book
* USA TODAY BESTSELLER * A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two soccer teammates are at odds before falling in love as their team gears up for the World Cup. Grace Henderson has been a...

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Everything is tuberculosis : the history and persistence of our deadliest infection
Green, John
Paper Book
Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! * #1 Washington Post bestseller! * #1 Indie Bestseller! * USA Today Bestseller! John Green, acclaimed author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the...

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Grand dishes : recipes and stories from grandmothers of the world
Miari, Anastasia
Paper Book
This is not a book about what it's like to be old. It's about what it's like to have lived. There is no food quite like a grandmother's time-perfected dish. Inspired by their own grandmothers - and the love they shared through the food they served - Anastasia Miari and Iska...

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Mapping the interior
Jones, Stephen Graham
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones, brings readers a spine-tingling journey through a young boy's haunted home. Winner of the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Long Fiction! "A triumph. So emotionally raw, disturbing,...

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Runaway wives and rogue feminists : the origins of the women's shelter movement in Canada
Goodhand, Margo
Paper Book
In the supposedly enlightened '60s and '70s, violence against women was widespread. It wasn't talked about, and women had few, if any, options to escape their abusers. Yet in 1973 -- with no statistics, no money and little public support -- five disparate groups of Canadian women quietly opened...

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Shark Girl
Beaton, Kate
Paper Book
An Indie Bestseller! A laugh-out-loud picture book from bestselling comics creator Kate Beaton about a brave shark girl bent on revenge after a greedy fishing captain messes with her waters - perfect for fans of We Don't Eat Our Classmates. ...

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Water moon : a novel
Sotto, Samantha
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A woman inherits a pawnshop where you can sell your regrets, and then embarks on a magical quest when a charming young physicist wanders into the shop, in this dreamlike fantasy novel. FEATURES A UNIQUE ORIGAMI JACKET that folds into a boat, joining the...

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