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"Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple—it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept...
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Publisher Annotation: It?s 2002, a year after 9/11. It?s an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who?s tired of being stereotyped. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. She?s tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments?even the physical violence?she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. So she?s built up protective...
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2019
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English
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"Lizzie St. Claire wants to be invisible. Forced to move out of her home, she and her mom now live in a transitional housing shelter, Good Hope, until they can get back on their feet.Lizzie just wants to keep her head down at Good Hope and her new school, so she doesn't have to admit the real reason she and her mom lost everything.But when Lizzie finds herself at the nearby Birchwood Stables, some new friends-along with the arrival of a frightened...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007
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1st ed.
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389 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Driving home one night Peyton Shields is run off the road. She fears ahe is being stalked, but no one believes her, not even her husband who accuses her of having an affair with an ex-boyfriend. Peyton begins to wonder if her jealous husband might be the one who wants her dead..
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2019.
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English
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"When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she'll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she begins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she's thinking...and what she's hiding."--
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Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2023]
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67 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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Mina is a talented figure skater who is looking forward to trying the new challenge of pairs skating, but with shy boy Luke, she is beginning to have second thoughts, so they will have to overcome their trust issues to become a successful team.
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American Girl Pub
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2014.
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168 p.
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English
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Josefina discovers that she has a gift for healing when she tends an orphaned baby goat, finds the courage and creativity to mend her family's broken trust in an americano trader, and seeks to keep her family whole and happy when T́ía Dolores plans to leave.
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Hopeless novels volume 1
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Sky, a senior in high school, meets Dean Holder, a guy with a promiscuous reputation that rivals her own. From their very first encounter, he terrifies and captivates her. Something about him sparks memories of her deeply troubled past, a time she's tried so hard to bury. Though Sky is determined to stay far away from him, his unwavering pursuit and enigmatic smile break down her defenses and the intensity of the bond between them grows. But the mysterious...
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Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2014.
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First Atria paperback edition.
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309 p.
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English
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It’s 1998, and Sylvie Patterson, a bookish student at a Northern California boarding school, falls in love with a spirited, elusive classmate named Gabe. Their headmaster, Dr. Adrian Keller, is a charismatic medical researcher who has staked his career on the therapeutic potential of lucid dreaming: By teaching his patients to become conscious during sleep, he helps them to relieve stress and heal from trauma. Over the next six years, Sylvie and...
11) Goblin magic
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Kingdom of Wrenly volume 17
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Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2021.
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First Little Simon edition.
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119 pages ; illustrations ; 19 cm.
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English
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The people of Wrenly have always believed that goblins are dangerous creatures who were stripped of their magical powers by wizards after the Goblin Battles; and when Prince Lucas and Clara follow a young goblin, Zark, who has come from the wizard Grom, they find themselves captured by the goblin leader Golart, who has taken over Hobsgrove--but Grom has a plan, and it requires that the children put their trust in Zark.
12) Breathless
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Anchor Books, a Division of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
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341 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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"Journalist Cecily Wong is in over her head. She's come to Mount Manaslu, the eighth highest peak in the world, to interview internationally famous mountaineer Charles McVeigh on the last leg of a record-breaking series of summits. She's given up everything for this story--her boyfriend, her life savings, the peace she's made with her climbing failures in the past--but it's a career-making opportunity. It could finally put her life back on track....
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Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
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275 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Two families arrive in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for a once-in-a-lifetime vacation. The resort town is known for its stunning views, exotic wildlife, and welcoming locals, and Jenna has organized the trip to celebrate her husband's fiftieth birthday--she's been looking forward to it for months. Their friends the Solomons can be overbearing at times, but Jenna is sure everything is going to be just perfect--and the margarita refills delivered by the...
14) It devours!
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Welcome to Night Vale novels volume 2
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HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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From the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a mystery exploring the intersections of faith and science, the growing relationship between two young people who want desperately to trust each other, and the terrifying, toothy power of the Smiling God. Nilanjana Sikdar is an outsider to the town of Night Vale. Working for Carlos, the town's top...
15) The end of her
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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"Stephanie and Patrick are adjusting to life with their colicky twin babies. The girls are a handful, but Stephanie doesn't mind being a stay-at-home mom, taking care of them while Patrick does the nine to five to pay the bills. When a woman from Patrick's past drops in on them unexpectedly, raising questions about his late first wife, Stephanie supports her husband wholeheartedly. She knows the car accident all those many years ago was just that--an...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
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Center Point Large Print edition.
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494 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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From USA Today bestselling author and Christy Award Hall of Fame inductee Tamera Alexander comes the story of two women from different centuries living in the same house who share strikingly similar journeys. Claire Powell's life is turned upside down when her beloved husband admits to a "near affair." But when Stephen accepts a partnership with an Atlanta law firm without consulting her and buys a historic Southern home sight-unseen--it pushes their...
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Frankie Elkin novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself "death," but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances--the childhood spent with a violent father--no one could find sympathy for "the Beautiful Butcher" who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously...
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