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From the author of Gap Creek-an international best-seller and winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award-comes the gripping story of two brothers struggling against each other and the confines of their mountain world in 1920s Appalachia.
The Powell brothers-Muir and Moody-are as different as Cain and Abel. Muir is an innocent, a shy young man with big dreams. Moody, the older and wilder brother-embittered by the death of his father, by years...
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Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge. The San Francisco Chronicle praised Strout's "magnificent gift for humanizing characters." Now the acclaimed author returns with a stunning novel as powerful and moving as any work in contemporary literature. Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim...
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Innocent and unsure, Theresa Brubaker has lived much of her 25 years trapped in a body she loathed. Never becoming used to the unwanted attention from the opposite sex, her precious beauty was treasured by everyone but herself- that is, until an extraordinary man opens her heart to the wonderful possibilities of love. Sensitive and caring, Brian Scanlon seeks to unleash the butterfly wrapped in Theresa's cocoon of inhibitions. But trust...
5) Goldilicious
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IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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A little girl and her brother play with her imaginary gold-horned unicorn that can float on water, fly, and turn herself into a fairy princess.
7) Aqualicious
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IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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At the beach, Pinkalicious and her brother help a tiny mermaid, a merminnie, to go back home.
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Unwanteds volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
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The magical world of Artim�e is gone and the Unwanteds are looking to Alex Stowe for answers, but while his twin brother Aaron continues to build his army in Quill, a very dangerous common enemy is revealed.
10) The wild child
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Dominic Renbourne agrees to take his twin brother Kyle's place at Warfield Manor, where he is to woe Lady Meriel Grahame, the wealthy heiress Kyle intends to marry, but Dominic never dreamed he would fall in love with the beautiful but sad young woman who is trying to escape from a world that terrifies her.
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The death of Vernon Proctor, the oldest of three illiterate brothers living on primitive farm in upstate New York, sets off a wave of suspicion and accusations in the community, and complicates the work of state trooper Del Graham, who must look at Creed and the feeble-minded Audie as suspects.
13) Saint maybe
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In 1965 the Bedloe family lives on a quiet street in Baltimore. Seventeen-year-old Ian has dreams for the future, until the night when he meddles in his older brother's life--and from that careless moment on, nothing can ever be the same.
14) Zen shorts
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IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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When Stillwater the bear moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways.
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Faced with evidence of stunning prosecutorial misconduct, a San Francisco judge has ordered a new trial for the Maxwell brothers' father, Lawrence, who was convicted of killing their mother twenty-one years before. A prison snitch soon turns up dead, with Lawrence the only suspect, and Leo teams up with hotshot attorney Nina Schuyler to defend Lawrence against murder charges both old and new. Working the streets while Nina handles the action in the...
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Children of the red king volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Charlie Bone and his friends find Ollie Sparks, an invisible boy living in the academy's attic, and promise to make him visible again with the help of his older brother, Mr. Boldova.
17) The lost man
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Two brothers meet at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. In an isolated belt of Western Australia, they are each other's nearest neighbor, their homes four hours' drive apart. The third brother lies dead at their feet. Something caused Cam, the middle child who had been in charge of the family homestead, to die alone in the middle of nowhere. So the eldest brother returns with his younger sibling to the family...
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