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Thanks to the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, the Falmouth Public Library now provides access to Peterson’s Test Prep, an online resource that allows you to take practice tests. Yes, it has the PSAT, ACT, SAT, and ASSET tests, as well as the MCAT, LSAT, and GRE. For those new to the United States, it offers practice content for the TOEFL and US Citizenship exam. For those considering careers instead of college, there are practice tests for licensing exams in fields from nursing to law enforcement to cosmetology.

1) The hobbit, or, There and back again

Author

Tolkien, J. R. R

Series

(John Ronald Reuel),Lord of the rings
Hobbit
Middle-Earth Universe

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway

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Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return. He becomes a thief for a band of dwarves and soon finds himself in the midst of a war with the evil goblins and wargs, and is forced to make a decision between the call of duty and the pull of the simple life.

2) Treasure Island

Author

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Kindle, Large Print, Music CD, Playaway

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While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger. Portrayal of good versus evil, as the young boy accompanies Long John Silver and his band of pirates in search of the buried treasure.

3) The adventures of Tom Sawyer

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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge,...

4) The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Classic collection)
Bantam classic
Penguin classics
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Book, Audiobook CD, Audiobook MP3-CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print, Playaway

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"This edition prints the first and only text of Mark Twain's masterpiece ever based on his complete manuscript - including its first 663 pages, half the book, lost for over a hundred years until discovered in 1990 in a Los Angeles attic. Using this newly restored manuscript, the editors have recovered thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation which were misread, "corrected," or simply overlooked by Mark Twain's "typewriter copyist"...

5) A wrinkle in time

Author

L'Engle, Madeleine

Series

Time quintet volume 1
Murphy family volume 1
Thorndike Press large print mini-collections
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Women in Sci-Fi Fantasy

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Kit, Large Print, Playaway

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Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. It was a dark and stormy night Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. "Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught...

6) The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe

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Series

(Clive Staples),Chronicles of Narnia) volume 2
Thorndike Press large print mini-collections
(Clive Staples),Chronicles of Narnia) volume 1
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Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist its ruler, the golden lion Aslan, in defeating the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.

7) People of the book: a novel

Author

Brooks, Geraldine

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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A fictionalized account of the turbulent history of the Sarajevo Haggadah, an illuminated manuscript which has survived into the twentieth century thanks to people of various faiths who risked their lives to safeguard it. Hanna Heath, a manuscript conservator hired to restore the manuscript in 1996 Sarajevo, finds and pursues clues to crucial moments in the book's history.

8) The call of the wild

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Dover thrift editions
Scholastic classics
Whole story
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Book, Audiobook CD, CD + Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway

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"The Call of the Wild, considered by many London's greatest novel, is a gripping tale of a heroic dog who, thrust into the brutal life af the Alaska Gold Rush, ultimately faces a choice between living in man's world and returning to nature. Adventure and dog-story enthusiasts as well as students and devotees of American literature will find this classic work a thrilling, memorable reading experience"--Cover p. [4].

9) The Count of Monte Cristo

Author

Dumas, Alexandre

Series

Timeless Classics
Signet classic
Barnes and Noble classics
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The Count of Monte Cristo is the tense and exciting story of Edmond Dantes, a man on the threshold of a bright career and a happy marriage, who is imprisoned in the island fortress of the Chateau d'If on a false political charge. After staging a dramatic escape, he finds the fabulous treasure of Monte Cristo which makes him wealthy. He then sets upon the course of revenge against his old enemies.

10) The wind in the willows

Author

Grahame, Kenneth

Series

Scribner Library books for young readers
A yearling book
BBC Children's
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The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger. Since its beginnings as a series of stories told to Kenneth Grahame's young son, The Wind in the Willows has gone on to become one of the best-loved children's books of all time. The timeless story of Toad, Rat, Mole, and Badger, brought to vivid life by Ernest H. Shepard's illustrations, has delighted readers of all ages for more than...

11) Life of Pi: a novel

Author

Series

Wheeler large print compass

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Falmouth The Fanger Collection

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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After the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan, and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.

12) Lord of the flies: a novel

Author

Golding, William

Series

Penguin great books of the 20th century
A Wideview/Perigee book
Penguin classics deluxe edition

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"William Golding's unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to this Classics Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry. As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island has been labeled a...

13) Peter Pan

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Series

Great classics for children
B and N signature editions
Puffin chalk
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Book, Audiobook CD, CD + Book, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Large Print, Playaway

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Peter Pan teaches Wendy and her brothers to fly to Never-Never Land, where they share some exciting adventures with Indians and pirates.

14) Pippi Longstocking

Author

Lindgren, Astrid

Series

Puffin modern classics
Recorded Books contemporary classics
SBS volume TX215
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Pippi moves into in a house at the edge of a Swedish village with a horse, a monkey, a suitcase full of gold, and no grown-ups to tell her what to do. She has upside-down braids and is wild and funny and her crazy ideas have a way of making anything exciting! Naturally, the children next door, Tommy and Annika are curious about their new neighbor. The three children have the most rollicking adventures on their own, with horses and monkeys, the circus,...

15) Split second

Author

Baldacci, David

Series

Sean King and Michelle Maxwell-book 1

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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Two Secret Service agents, one of them retired, have each had similar experiences losing presidential candidates while assigned to protect them. As the two discredited agents enter a maze of lies, secrets, and deadly coincidences, they uncover a shocking truth: that the separate acts of violence that shattered their lives were really a long time in the making --and are a long way from over.

16) Robinson Crusoe / by Daniel Defoe

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Arcturus Children's Classics
Classics Club library
Oxford world's classics
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Book, Audiobook CD, Book Set, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic

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Contemporary fiction. 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance . . . reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self . . . ' Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the...

17) Station eleven

Author

Mandel, Emily St. John

Series

Thorndike Press large print peer picks

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of "King Lear." Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur's chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded...

18) Moby Dick, or, The whale

Author

Melville, Herman

Series

100 greatest books ever written
The Modern Library
Modern Library classics
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Book, eBook, Large Print