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2) Finally seen
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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When ten-year-old Lina Gao leaves China to live with her parents and sister, after five years apart, she must reckon with her hurt, anger, and curiosity and find a way to get her bearings in this new country--and the almost-new family that comes along with it.
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"The Able McLaughlins" is a novel by Margaret Wilson that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924. It follows a family of Scotch Covenanters who settled the American prairies in the 1860s. The McLaughlin's oldest son Wully has just returned from the Civil War planning to marry his sweetheart Christie McNair, but for some reason, she won't talk to him anymore. Wully finds himself hurt and perplexed until he finds out that the cause of her rejection is the terrible...
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Kaiser Friedrich II. hatte aus drei Ehen fünf eheliche Kinder - und außerdem historisch aktenkundig mindestens dreizehn außereheliche. Soweit sie in diesem Roman auftreten, handeln alle so wie es die vorhandenen Quellen jener Zeit darstellen - die erfundene Romanhandlung fügt sich allein in die Lücken der Überlieferung, ohne den realen Gang der Historie zu verändern. Oft bleibt hier glücklicherweise genügend Raum für eine Deutung der Ereignisse...
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Ellie's upbringing in colonial Africa in the 1960s and 70s-stiff whiskies, keeping up appearances and English gardens amidst the African Bush-was marked by a troubled relationship with a violent father she didn't really know. So when she returns there after her father's death, for the first time in twenty-five years, it means facing a past she thought she had put behind her. But even as childhood memories threaten to paralyze her, Ellie sets out to...
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A Sydney family's picture-perfect life is upended in an unputdownable new novel from the bestselling author of The Mothers.
What if the worst day of your life turns out to be the making of you?
Lillian heard her daughter's footsteps hurry up the passage. She ran her fingers underneath her eyes, ready to greet her son. But when Kate appeared in the doorway her face was white. 'Mum,' Kate said. 'You'd better come. It's the police.'
With two bright...
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"Remembering the Christmas House" is a coming-of-age, short novel, about a 6 year-old's experiences as she grows up. She faces hope, excitement, joy, and the security of a loving and supportive family. But her life has challenges, obstacles, and disasters that must be faced and overcome. This is a book, that one of my readers told me, that everybody can see themselves in this story. Despite having to face horrific adversity, she grows up, overcomes,...
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"A Mother's Tale of Financial Triumph" follows the journey of Sarah, a dedicated mother dealing with the daunting undertaking of handling excessive debt while residing with her in-legal guidelines. Despite the overpowering occasions, Sarah is determined to offer a higher lifestyles for her youngsters. As she navigates the complexities of familial relationships and economic strain, Sarah discovers her very own resilience and resourcefulness. Through...
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The move to a lovely seaside cottage unravels the McLuckie family's tight spool of emotions The McLuckie family has not been so lucky. After losing two wives, Mr. McLuckie has been left with one child from each love: ten-year-old Walter and fourteen-year-old Sylvia. He decides to move the family to a new home, a ramshackle seaside cottage called the Gravedigger's Cottage, where they can start anew. But soon Mr. McLuckie starts acting strangely,...
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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." -Leo Tolstoy
As a writer, Celia Bayley's insights into the ways of the human heart made her famous. And why not? She had married a handsome war hero and produced three successful children. Yet, as her family gathers for her funeral, the diaries and notebooks and letters she left behind paint a very different picture, one that shocks those who loved her and will...
11) Center Line
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To escape their abusive father, five brothers take to the road Shawn and his brothers sit around the kitchen table, eating dinner and kidding around. They're just like any other teenagers having a good time-until a groan comes from the living room, and the boys go dead silent. Their father is waking up, and he is angry. When Dad finds out that one of Shawn's brothers scratched the car, he flies into a rage, slapping his son around until the boy has...
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Both overlooked in the middle of a big, noisy family, Jenny and her grandpa will always have each other to confide in . . . right? No one in Jenny Pennoyer's family understands her at all-no one, that is, except her grandfather, who lives in an apartment in the basement of her family's home. Jenny and her grandfather have been close ever since she was born, when Grandpa, newly widowed, found that a baby was just the thing he needed to get back...
13) Tomber
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Tomber raconte le délabrement d'une famille cubaine qui partage pourtant le même espace. Au pays, la faim et la privation agissent comme un détonateur. Le père communiste, la mère gravement malade, la fille résignée et le fils rancunier deviennent tous des ennemis méconnaissables, même si aucun d'entre eux ne comprend vraiment comment et pourquoi cela est arrivé. Tomber pose un regard frais et actuel sur le Cuba contemporain pétri...
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When an estranged mother reappears after thirteen years, a dysfunctional family is forced to confront their past.
When 25-year-old Ben calls his twin sister, Reese, to tell her their father has cancer, she drops everything and races back to their childhood home in Nebraska. A few days later and thirteen years since walking out of their lives without a word their estranged mother, Bernice, arrives on the doorstep. Remember Us chronicles the family's...
15) Barbara
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Secrecy surrounded Barbara's birth. A bright country girl, she gained a full scholarship as a medical student. One evening, five male coeds violated her and left her pregnant. The university told her not to reveal the incident, as the boy's families contributed large endowments. She promised herself that one day, she would seek revenge.
Joe, a young medical student, learned about the incident and offered to help her. They fell in love, and Barbara...
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Diego, un joven de dieciocho años, vive en un pequeño pueblo de la sierra riojana con su abuela, el único familiar que ha conocido. Su madre murió al nacer él y nunca supo quién fue su padre.
A la hora de decidir ir a la universidad, debe mudarse a Madrid, la gran ciudad, donde le espera una nueva vida en un ambiente desconocido y apasionante para él. Deberá enfrentarse solo a un mundo que, sospecha, se le hará demasiado grande sin el apoyo...
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In the spirit of novels by Nick Hornby and Tom Perrotta, a smart, funny debut about a disillusioned young man whose fledgling leap from postadolescence to adulthood lands him back in an already overburdened family nest.
Calvin Moretti can't believe how much his life sucks. He's a twenty-four-year-old film school dropout living at home again and working as an assistant teacher at a preschool for autistic kids. His insufferable go-getter older brother...
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Heilig Abend im Killer Tal.
Und Alex möchte das Fest mit all seinen Freunden feiern. Doch wer das Killer Tal kennt weiß dass es nichts schwierigeres gibt als einen Heiligen Abend vor zu bereiten.
Alex und seine Freunde geraten so von einer Katastrophe in die nächste.
Lustige Weihnachtsgeschichte zur Killer Tal Krimi Reihe.
Denn das Killer Tal-es gibt es wirklich!
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Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of Lewis Carroll's complete works. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.
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Novels: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, Sylvie and Bruno; Concluded Stories: A Tangled Tale, Bruno's Revenge and Other Stories, What the Tortoise Said to...
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Captain Guy Halliday, Old Etonian, is a Cavalry Officer in the Royal Wessex Dragoon Guards, who sees action at the Battle of the Somme in July 1916. Brought up in idyllic rural Somerset by formidable parents, Guy, like Shakespeare's Romeo, looks forward to a blissful life with Giselle, the lovely lady who is later to become his wife. However, different and unexpected turns force him to change tack. His life ultimately centres on his three children,...
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