Scott Shina
4) Back roads
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A novel on a dysfunctional family in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town. The mother is in jail for killing the father and the four children are on their own. They are supported by the eldest, Harley Altmyer, 20, who is having an affair with the mother of a friend of his sister.
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The Frasers volume 1
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From bestselling author Ana Leigh comes the first in a dazzling new series, as the rugged Fraser men find love and passion in the Wild West.
When Yankee beauty Rebecca Elliot discovers that single women aren't allowed on the wagon train bound for California, she takes desperate measures. Spying handsome Clay Fraser, she puts her flirty plan into action and wakes, the next morning, with a wedding band on her finger.
Clay Fraser, a former Confederate...
6) Double helix
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Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.
7) Liar
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Fourteen-year-old Alex has heard lies all his life. His mother has rarely told him the truth. Instead, she filled his childhood with broken promises, neglect and abuse. Confused and angry, Alex has found plenty of trouble in his life. Now on probation, Alex has just moved to his grandparents' home in a small Oregon town. If he can't stay out of trouble here, he will be sent to a "training camp" for delinquents. On his first day at the high school,...
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In this funny, perceptive memoir, Golf Digest writer and ESPN commentator Darren Kilfara lives the dream of many American golf enthusiasts. While a student at Harvard, Kilfara convinces the school that he needs a year of study in Scotland. Once there, he purchases a student pass to the courses of St. Andrews for a mere $150. Taking full advantage, Kilfara plays the most legendary courses in the world and gains an entirely new perspective on life.
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This astonishing novel was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly and Newsweek. Contained within is the story of Edgar Mint, the half-Apache, mostly orphaned child who overcomes a serious childhood injury to embark on a life of tragedies, including a boarding school for Native Americans and a dysfunctional Mormon foster family.
10) Finding Caruso
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Kim Barnes is an award-winning memoirist and a poet whose works have appeared in many literary magazines. In Finding Caruso, she creates an unforgettable novel of two brothers and the complex ties that bind them. Alternately dark and violent, heartbreaking and tender, it is a coming-of-age tale that is both timeless and contemporary.
11) 'NSync
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Traces the lives and careers of today's hottest starts- Great for reluctant readers- Attractive full-color covers and candid photos- Completely up-to-date biographies
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Recognized by the Texas Institute of Letters, critically acclaimed author Robert Flynn is a treasure of the Lone Star State. The Sounds of Rescue, the Signs of Hope is his masterpiece. World War II pilot Greg Wallace is shot down over the Pacific. Luckily, he bails out and makes his way to land to await rescue. But with each day that passes, it grows less likely that a rescuer will ever come.
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Jack and Christy have been best friends for over seven years. They play basketball and tennis together, they swim and skate together--even if Chris is better than Jack at everything. But now it's the summer before high school, and not everything is fun and games. Always a tomboy, Chris is suddenly turning into a world-class beauty. She starts wearing a pleated skirt to play tennis, instead of her usual "I stink, therefore I rant" -shirt. She even...
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A family of six disintegrates after a daughter is raped by a high-school student. It happens to the wealthy Mulvaneys in upstate New York. The disgrace--there is some question if it was rape--sends the father to drink and financial ruin, the girl leaves home, the others follow. By the author of What I Lived For.
15) The vanishings
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Left Behind (Young adult). The kids volume 1
Left behind the kids volume 1
Left Behind. The kids volume 1
Left behind the kids volume 1
Left Behind. The kids volume 1
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English
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Four young friends, Judd, Vicki, Lionel, and Ryan, band together to find faith and fight the evil forces that threaten their lives when they are left behind on Earth after God's Rapture.
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Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.
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Left Behind (Young adult). The kids volume 3
Left behind the kids volume 3
Left Behind. The kids volume 3
Left behind the kids volume 3
Left Behind. The kids volume 3
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English
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This series is based on the best-selling adult Left Behind series. Readers will see the Rapture and Tribulation through the eyes of four kids who have been left behind.
18) Second chance
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Left Behind (Young adult). The kids volume 2
Left behind the kids volume 2
Left Behind. The kids volume 2
Left behind the kids volume 2
Left Behind. The kids volume 2
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Lionel rushes to Chicago to try to save his Uncle Andre.
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Left Behind (Young adult). The kids volume 4
Left behind the kids volume 4
Left Behind. The kids volume 4
Left behind the kids volume 4
Left Behind. The kids volume 4
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English
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This series is based on the best-selling adult Left Behind series. Readers will see the Rapture and Tribulation through the eyes of four kids who have been left behind.
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Judson Moon, age thirteen, is sworn in as President of the United States on January 20, 2001.
A year after winning the presidential election of 2000, 12-year-old Judson is dodging assassination attempts and facing off with a crazed South American dictator. Sometimes Judson wishes he were just a regular kid back in Madison, Wisconsin. This funny story educates readers about the White House and government.