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61) Summer Nights
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Is this really goodbye for the recent graduates of Westerly High as they get ready to start their new lives? High school is over, graduation already fading into memory. Kip, Anne, Beth Rose, Emily, and Molly are getting ready for one last party before they head off in different directions. Anne has a great new job that will take her all over the world. But it means leaving Con, the boy she loves, behind. Kip is going off to college, a thrilling-and...
62) The Disenchanted
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Mitch Davis has devoted his life to two things-his family and the building and funding of rehabilitation centers.Now in his early sixties and the latter in the forefront, Mitch is set to open his twenty-fifth location. Not only is the number monumental but so is the location-his home state of Michigan.Yet, an even bigger deal than both, Mitch finds himself face to face with Alice's son, Caleb. Allowing Mitch the chance at closure he desperately needed...
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Back in the days when Shakespeare still meant something to a lot of people, I wanted to be a great dramatic actress. Before I knew it I was in Hollywood... So begins this remarkable novel, in which Margaret Spencer tells us of her own journey from the vaudeville stage of the Midwest, to performing as a child in Buenos Aires, through sexual awakenings to Broadway success, and her arrival, against her will, in the Hollywood of 1927. I was only one among...
64) Overslept
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Follow the scandalous escapades of four students on the ultimate college trip. Pete is a cool, thug-turned-scholar attempting to evade the endless womanizing he could inherit from his no-show father. Alexis is the sassy, sexy sister with attitude to spare. All she's ever wanted was an honest and dependable brother. For Devan, as the first from his family to go to college, this could be his only opportunity to prove himself and escape his small town....
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Winner, IP Picks Best Junior Prose, 2010, Arlo and the Vortex Voyage is a fascinating fantasy. When Arlo and Kate go rock-climbing, the last thing they expect is to be caught up in a vortex and transported through to another universe. The absence of television and junk food is the least of their problems.
66) At the Soups
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She eased the door shut behind her. Even so, pulling it closed slowly by inches, the hinges squeaked a little and on settling the latch bolt clicked loudly into place, like a soft gunshot. At least to her ears.She stood there for a moment, very still, her ear to the cold, blue plywood door and listened for any sound from within the apartment. Nothing. It was perfectly silent. She turned then, hitched her tote bag higher up on her shoulder and set...
67) Not Waving
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It's the shiny happy 80s in Los Angeles, but Vida's mood couldn't be blacker. Never mind her writer's block, recent suicide attempt or the painful scrutiny of her colleagues, there's drinking to be done! When a cut-rate psychic releases a recurring nightmare, Vida decides it's time for a Vegas road trip. May the gods help anyone in her path...First written in 1991, this novel captures the early voice of a writer who would go on to compose more self-assured...
68) The Still Point
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Dance Moms meets Little Fires Everywhere in award winning author Tammy Greenwood's addictive new novel set in the hyper cutthroat world of ballet girls and their mothers as they compete for a prestigious prize…
"The Still Point is a must-read full of love, hope, desire and jealousy – a vivid, compelling and deeply nuanced look at a place where lives are forever shaped and changed." –Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of Just...
69) A Cold Retreat
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As a child, Penny dreams of being a princess. She knows life isn't exactly like fairy tales, but she hopes it can be similar.
The future isn't so kind to Penny. The princess in her reality turns out to be evil. Battered and bruised, she hits rock bottom.
Years have passed, but the past cannot be forgotten. Now someone is intent on making the men pay for what they have done.
This is a chilling tale of revenge that explores the impact of not being...
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Jane Rule's second novel follows a group of friends through New York and abroad as they explore the freedoms-and limitations-of sexuality in a time of stifling social convention Katherine George-Kate to her intimates-is captain of her high school debating and swimming teams. But beneath her high-achieving exterior is a young woman on a quest for meaning and fulfilling relationships. Through her decades-long correspondence with Esther, the woman...
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Aunque la cabeza aún no le falla, los ojos de Elizabeth ya no son lo que eran. Como ya no es capaz de enfrascarse en sus adorados libros ni de contemplar los cuadros que la conmueven, llena ese vacío con música y los recuerdos de su familia, en especial de su amada hermana gemela, Emily. Cuando por azar se descubren los diarios de su padre después de un accidente, el pasado se vuelve omnipresente.
Con la ayuda de Morgan, una adolescente problemática...
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"Rule number one in the music business: never start a band with any members of your family.Sure, it'll start off just fine, everyone having fun, with big dreams of success and gold records, but then you realize you're stuck in a stinking, too-small tour bus with your siblings for the fifth year running, and your brother hates you. Next thing you know, the band implodes just as it's reaching its highest success, your family won't talk to you anymore,...
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Now available in one volume-three novels from Billy Coffey.
When Mockingbirds Sing.
What marks the boundary between a miracle from God and the imagination of a child?
Leah is a child from Away, isolated from her peers because of her stutter. But then she begins painting scenes that are epic in scope, brilliant in detail, and suffused with rich, prophetic imagery. When the event foreshadowed in the first painting dramatically comes true, the town...
75) Jinky
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For one young teen growing up in Scotland, there are only three things that really matter in life—movies, Celtic Football Club, and a genuine connection. However, two out of three is simply not enough.
After Bobby's mum loses her battle with cancer, the teen faces a life of loneliness. Abandoned long ago by his alcoholic father, he finds himself under the watchful eye of his stern yet loving aunt, Deirdre. And school life isn't much better with...
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Meet Daisy-May Lynn, fifteen years old. Bright and motivated, starting goalie for her high school's soccer team. The kind of young woman who often hears, "You've got so much going for you!" The kind of young woman who doesn't believe a word of it.
In less than a week, Daisy will celebrate her sixteenth birthday. Before that can happen, she will have to make it through a long, lonely and torturous night that will tell her some important...
77) Crooked River
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Like the other patients in the "Institution," Boots must write how he came to be there. He recounts all the sordid details, starting with losing his job at the toilet paper factory. His ex-girlfriend, Celine, was engaged to be married, and his best friend, Cornmeyer, had become civilized by a woman. For a long day and night, Boots travelled Greater Moncton in his battered old Chevette, trapped in painful memories, trying and failing to find connection...
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From an author praised for her "genuinely perceptive portrayals of human relationships," a historical saga about the consequences of a wartime affair (Irish Independent).
He survived the carnage of war. But it was bitter conflict on the home front that tore his life apart . . .
After a year of fighting in the Boer War, Corporal Russ Hazelwood-missing his wife and tired of long, passionless nights-seeks solace in the arms of an African woman....
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A rollicking coming-of-age comedy set in 1970s New Jersey, from a multiple award–nominated author. In this hilarious and biting novel, seventeen-year-old Frank Grimaldi wants one thing more than anything else-to have sex before he graduates. Too bad his crazy teachers, his insane parents, the Catholic Church, and the Mafia are all standing in the way . . . From the author of Bad Apple and the Anthony Award finalist Devil's Food, this is an involving...
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Modern Man: Life's Like That is a comedy about the pressures and expectations on men as they try to find their way in the world. The main character is called Modern Man because he is a kind of generic interpretation of the 'Average Joe,' neither especially gifted nor a total moron.Everybody faces challenges and Modern Man has his fair share. The humour comes from how he deals with them. The reader will probably identify personally with some of his...
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