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Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture...
2) The innocent
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Series
Will Robie novels volume 1
Language
English
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Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.
3) Family honor
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Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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PI Sunny Randall of Boston searches for a rich man's daughter who ran away to be a prostitute. After finding her Sunny must guard her because the girl is on a hit list. She witnessed a conspiracy involving state government.
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author—a rich and compelling novel about a mismatched marriage and its consequences, spanning three generations
They seemed like the perfect couple—young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment Pauline, a stranger to the Polish Eastern Avenue neighborhood of Baltimore (though she lived only twenty minutes away),...
They seemed like the perfect couple—young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment Pauline, a stranger to the Polish Eastern Avenue neighborhood of Baltimore (though she lived only twenty minutes away),...
5) Runner
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Series
Jane Whitefield novels volume 6
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
441 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Jane Whitefield comes out of retirement to help a young woman who is trying to escape an abusive relationship with her real estate mogul boyfriend who will do anything to get her and their unborn child back.
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Morgan Kinneson, a member of an abolitionist family in 1864, heads south after the murder of a slave in his care in search of his brother, a Union doctor who has gone missing in the midst of the Civil War, pursued by a group of escaped convicts who want the mysterious stone that has fallen into Morgan's hands.
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
210 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Widowed Christmas tree farmer Christopher Byrne and widowed librarian Catherine Tierney are brought together when Christopher returns to the Manhattan street corner where he last saw his sixteen-year-old son, who ran away the year before.
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Series
Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his nephew Greg is arrested in New York City and then escapes, Bill Smith, along with his partner Lydia Chin, sets out to find Greg and arrives in a small New Jersey town, where he is confronted by dark secrets, both the town's and his own.
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English
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"Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom had experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Devastatingly, her father was in charge of the plant, and the meltdown may have been his fault. Was he drunk when it happened? Thousands of people are forced...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
545 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Caroline Leavitt is at her mesmerizing best in this haunting, nuanced portrait of love, sisters, and the impossible legacy of family. It s 1969, and sixteen-year-old Lucy is about to run away to live off the grid in rural Pennsylvania, a rash act that will have vicious repercussions for both her and her older sister, Charlotte. As Lucy s default caretaker for most of their lives, Charlotte s youth has been marked by the burden of responsibility, but...
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Bellevue-Sur-Mer novels volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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The beautiful town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and the plush red carpets of Cannes, is home to Theresa, Carol, William, Benjamin, and Sally: five retired expats who have pooled their resources to set up La Mosaïque, a divine little restaurant. But there is trouble in paradise: the friends are desperately struggling to make ends meet. It will take every bit of their talent and gumption to save La Mosaïque. With fussy customers,...
12) Allie and Bea
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Bea has barely been scraping by since her husband died. After falling for a telephone scam, she loses everything and is forced to abandon her trailer. With only two-thirds of a tank in her old van, she heads toward the Pacific Ocean with her caton a mission to reclaim whats rightfully hers, even if it means making others pay for what she lost. When fifteen-year-old Allie's parents are jailed for tax fraud, she's sent to a group home. But when her...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It was 1970 when thirteen-year-old runaway Kit Walker was abducted by Manny Romero, a smooth-talking, low-level criminal, who first coddled her and then groomed her into his partner-in-crime. Before long, Kit and Manny were infamous for their string of gas station robberies throughout Texas, making a name for themselves as the Texaco Twosome.
Twenty years after they meet, Kit has scraped together a life for herself and her daughter amongst the pecan...
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Little River, New York, 1994: April Sawicki is living in a run-down motorhome, flunking out of school, and picking up shifts at the local diner. But when April realizes she's finally had enough--enough of her selfish, absent father and barely surviving in an unfeeling town--she decides to make a break for it. Stealing a car and with only her music to keep her company, April hits the road, determined to live life on her own terms. She manages to scrape...
15) Punkzilla
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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"Punkzilla" is on a mission to see his older brother "P", before "P" dies of cancer. Still buzzing from his last hit of meth, he embarks on a days-long trip from Portland, Ore. to Memphis, Tenn., writing letters to his family and friends. Along the way, he sees a sketchier side of America and worries if he will make it to see his brother in time.
16) Hopepunk
Author
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After her sister runs away, teenager Hope Cassidy rebels against her conservative family by starting a rock band with her former crush, Danny, who is kicked out of his house when he comes out to his family"--
Growing up in a conservative Christian household, Hope Cassidy spent her whole life being told that the devil speaks through Led Zeppelin. Her sister, Faith, can't be honest about dating the record shop cashier, Mavis. When their youngest sister...
17) Runaway
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Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Glasgow, 2015. Jack Mackay dares not look back on a life of failure and mediocrity. The heavy-hearted sixty-seven-year-old is still haunted by what might have been. His recollections of the terrible events that befell him and his friends some fifty years earlier, and how he did not act when it mattered most is a memory he has tried to escape his entire adult life. London, 2015. A man lies dead in a one-room flat. His killer looks on, remorseless....
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Series
Publisher
Kersey Creek Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
146 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On a winter night twelve years earlier, a young runaway, Kelli, walked onto the porch of an oceanfront cottage. The woman who lived there, Margie, took her in and gave her the gifts of safety and security. Twelve years later, Margie dies. And Dylan arrives. Now Kelli must make decisions that will affect both their futures"--Page [4] cover.
19) Tess of the road
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Tess Dombegh journeys through the kingdom of Goredd in search of the World Serpents and finds herself along the way"--
Author
Series
Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
269 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the help of a troupe of free-spirited freegans, three very clever internet hackers and a bunch of singing vegans, Melbourne baker Corinna and her luscious Daniel go head-to-head with a sinister religious cult on a mission and a band of Romanies out for revenge in a wild and wonderful chase to find two missing runaways.
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