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Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Pub. Date
1899.
Language
English
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A follow-up to the earlier novel for younger readers, Betty Leicester, this charming holiday tale visits our young heroine as she returns to London with mixed feelings. Though she missed her adopted city when staying with relatives in a quaint coastal town in New England, after her return to the U.K., she finds herself pining for America. To ease her mind, she throws herself into enjoying the elegant holiday celebrations she attends.
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For too many years, Prudence Aldrich has been numbing the pain in her life with random sexual encounters. Her marriage to cold, self-centered Nick is, not surprisingly, on the rocks. But after several dangerous experiences with strangers, Prudence finally realizes she needs therapy to stop her self-destructive behavior, and so she checks into the Serenity Hills rehab center. Prudence blames herself for her irresponsible behavior and is filled with...
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English
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Losing her father. Finally, back on her feet. Then, knocked down again. Or, knocked up? Madison Davis has big dreams. At 15, she's a straight-A student, the editor-in-chief of her high school newspaper, and she plans to go to Harvard to study journalism. The tragic loss of her father two years earlier devastated her world, but she has rebuilt it, as have her mother and younger sister. Now, she's back on track to make her dreams come true, along with...
Author
Publisher
Houlston and Son
Pub. Date
1832.
Language
English
Description
The Governess; Or, The LIttle Female Academy was originally written by Sarah Fielding and is widely considered to be the first novel written for children. Mary Martha Sherwood published this revised edition in 1820, replacing the story of "Barbarico and Benefico" with "The History of the Princess Rosalinda" and also omitting "The Princess Hebe."
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Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Mina’s life is going according to plan, she’s acing AP Calc and is perfectly content with her non-existent social life. Though only a high school junior, Mina knows time is an investment and she’s putting all her capital into academics. Oliver is ready to burn down his old life and start from scratch – complete with a new name and emancipation papers – in L.A. When the two are thrown together through circumstance and develop an unexpected...
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English
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"It was like I was living with a split personality. One side of me wanted not to care about what people thought, but the other half, wanted nothing more than, to be liked."
To outsiders, Kinsley appears to have it all together, but is that really the case? Society has led her to believe that being herself is not okay, that she has to put up a perfect illusion for the rest of the world to see because she is too afraid of being, rejected as her true...
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English
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Treacherous.Evil.Dark.Dorcha Wood is all of these.And none of them. The people of Felmore talk of Dorcha Wood in whispers, if they speak of it at all. There is danger in the dark forest. Monstrous things, remnants of the Aos Sí, lurk in the shadows, hunting the unwary should one be careless enough to cross those borders.But to seventeen-year-old Fiadh, Dorcha Wood is home. A haven. It speaks to her in the rustle of the wind through the leaves, in...
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English
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The heart and the soul are tarnished now, but only you know why or how.First it hurts, then it numbs, after a while, you're in love with crumbs…When sixteen-year-old Simone Wheeler is accepted into the elite Camp Kamama-a place of self-discovery for the morbidly obese-she instantly despises the food rations, obstacle course, and powwows, where each girl must stand in front of her peers to expose her darkest secrets. But the Appalachian Mountains...
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English
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Sarton Women's Literary Award, NC Author Project Award, Story Monsters Ink Certificate of Excellence.It has been a long and difficult year for the Decker family, especially for sixteen-year-old Brooke. Her grades have plummeted. She deliberately breaks curfew. She makes out with boys she hardly knows.And now her father has totally lost it. When Tim Decker signs up his family of three to be contestants on a Hollywood reality show, Brooke's life turns...
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In Lady in the Window by Maryann Ridini Spencer (SelectBooks), thirtysomething Kate Grace is a successful lifestyle writer for a popular magazine in New York City. She has everything she could ever want —a loving family, friends, and the man of her dreams. But when several unforeseen events threaten to upend her world, a friend comes to the rescue, offering Kate respite to mend her broken heart in the ancient, magical paradise that is Hanalei, Kauai....
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"Satisfying fare for fans of romantic and family dramas." - Kirkus Reviews Sixteen-year-old Paige Williams can't stop self-sabotaging. Not when her dad gets sick, not when her relationship implodes, not even when her parents send her to another-freaking-state for the summer to live with her sister. Paige just wants to have fun, spray paint a few walls, and block out everything stressful, including her growing concern that she might be sick as well....
12) Nine Days
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Publisher
[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Andy Qwinn has always loved everything about water. She trains all year to keep her spot on her high school's swim team. She volunteers at an aquarium. And she earns extra money as a science tutor to help her reach her dream of going away to college and working to protect marine animals and their ocean homes.In a family where artistic abilities are coveted above everything else, being placed on the varsity swim team as a freshman or earning an internship...
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Wind Trail Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
Description
Sam Morneau is Melissa Parker’s best friend. He’s also a member of The Kind of September, basically the hottest boy band on the planet. After two and a half years, Mel is all too familiar with the day-to-day occurrences that come with being a member of the band’s inner circle, including hectic schedules, passionate fans, and gossip-mongering celebrity girlfriends. Now, with the release of the group’s third album just weeks away, their lives...
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Words of Passion
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Wizard of Oz meets Avatar meets The Abyss On the outside, Rigel is a super-bright, nerdy, high school grad, eagerly anticipating a future as an astronaut. On the inside, she's extremely stubborn, emotionally closed, and terrified of water. When she discovers she has a rare heart disease that needs immediate treatment, all her meticulous plans rocket into outer space. And when treatment begins in Florida, things go mysteriously awry and she...
Author
Publisher
[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Hearts are like balloons. Sometimes they inflate... Sometimes they deflate... May Falkner's past two years have been a craptastic road. When her father suddenly passes away, May needs to find a job to help out her mom and possibly find some laughter along the way. Working at the bookstore helps with that problem. It also leads her to cross paths with Nico Evitts, who begins as just a co-worker, but becomes so much more. When life finally seems like...
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English
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Welcome to Bainbridge Avenue in the Bronx, NY, where fourteen-year-old Vicki's life takes a bumpy turn. She's got a lot on her plate – sharing a cramped room with her siblings, worrying about her mom who can't catch a break, and dreaming about a dad who's nowhere to be found. But things start to change when Vicki makes friends with Rosa, the super’s daughter in Apartment 1A, who introduces to her to the building’s basement – a world full...
18) Luv Ya Bunches
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Series
Flower power books volume 1
Language
English
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What do Katie-Rose, Yasaman, Milla, and Violet have in common? Other than being named after flowers, practically nothing. Katie-Rose is a film director in training. Yasaman is a computer whiz. Milla is third in command of the A list. And Violet is the new girl in school. They're fab girls, all of them, but they sure aren't friends. And if evil queen bee Medusa—'scuse me, Modessa—has her way, they never will be. But this is the beginning
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Mallory McDonald books volume 13
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English
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Mallory McDonald is going green! As an official member of the Fern Falls Elementary Environmental Committee, Mallory is super excited to make her school and home more environmentally friendly. She's even selected to be class representative for the all-school Green Fair. But the minute Mallory goes green, everything goes wrong. No one wants her "expert" opinion on how to help the environment. Her classmates don't want to participate in the Green
...20) Warm Hearts Day
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Owl diaries volume 5
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English
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Warm Hearts Day is approaching and Eva has been making lots of fun gifts and treats for her friends, but as the big party at the Old Oak Tree nears, she realizes that she has neglected to make any gifts for her family.
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