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Sophie is starting a new school year. Shopping for it with her best friend should be fun, but nothing seems to fit, which is a major issue to a high school girl. But her biggest problem is the secret she's keeping. And she's about to find out that she won't be able to keep things under wraps for much longer. This page-turning novel explores the tangled web of choices, secrets, and love that all teen girls navigate. Melody Carlson enjoys a huge audience...
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After her seven-year-old niece, Holly, becomes the ward of an Amish aunt, Rachel Milligan sets out to do whatever it takes to ensure that Holly has the loving family she needs. Rachel never imagined that she and her seven-year-old niece would spend the week before Christmas on a quaint Amish farm in Ohio. But with so many unexpected occurrences of late, perhaps she shouldn't have been surprised. With her young niece Holly in tow, Rachel anxiously...
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After a time of heartache and loss, Simone Winthrop discovers a tantalizing letter from her French great-grandmother, which seems to suggest that she is heir to a family treasure. Ever practical, Simone assumes the claim is baseless, but her best friend encourages her to find out for sure. Despite her deep-rooted fear of flying, Simone boards a jet to travel to Paris at Christmastime to uncover the truth. During the long flight, Simone meets the...
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Returning home for her father's funeral, big-city reporter Megan McCallister is brutally attackedconfirming her suspicions that her father's mysterious death was no accident. But only her childhood friend, Garret Larsson, believes her theory. The teenager she once knew has grown into a brave, honorable manbut can he keep her alive long enough to find the truth? Garret needs Megan to leave town, but he wants her to stay. He knows about the...
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The girls of the Dating Games club have learned a lot this year - about boys, dating, friendship, and themselves. Now the school year is wrapping up, and the biggest date of all looms on the horizon: prom. With this new challenge comes a lot of extra pressure and expectations. Everyone wants the perfect dress, the perfect date, the perfect dance. But what happens when things don't go according to plan? Teen readers have found friends in these vibrant...
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The Ski Trip Is the Least of Their Worries.
Follow Morgan, Amy, Carlie, and Emily as they navigate grown up issues while trying to still have fun and friends just like any other kids.
Raising Faith: Morgan trusts God to provide her with ski trip funds and works hard to earn the needed money. But when everything blocks her efforts, from her school activities to her grandmother's life-threatening heart attack, it's a test of faith against the odds.
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When the girls set out to raise the money to go on a 3-day ski trip with the church youth group, Morgan is confident that God will provide the funds. But while everyone else finds a way to afford the trip, Morgan's plans are derailed by her grandmother's illness, school, Christmas activities, even jealousy … and when Grandma suffers a heart attack, Morgan's faith is severely tested. Will God provide what's really important? The girls of 622 Harbor...
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Emma Burcelli has given up on romance. Not just because she's suffered over a decade of dating disasters. Not because her parents' marriage ended on New Year's Eve. No, Emma concludes that love is officially dead when her grandfather Poppi passes away, leaving the last true romantic's other half, Nona Burcelli, devastated. Emma helps by working in the family's bookstore, which Nona insists must be completely decked out in sweetheart d�ecor as Poppi...
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"Ginny Masters manages a Seattle boutique hotel but is tired of the rat race. Jacqueline Bowman manages her grandfather's fishing lodge in western Washington, but she longs for city life. Eager for a change, these women swap jobs for the summer, but it's not quite so simple to find the happiness--and love--they're searching for"--
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Contains: Premiere: Paige has always been outgoing and fashion-obsessed, while her sister, Erin, would rather stay behind a camera in comfy jeans and a tee. But after Paige's fashion "helps" find their way onto the local news, the sisters' passions collide when they are offered their own fashion TV show. It soon becomes clear this unlikely partnership has plenty of room for success-and even more for failure.
Catwalk: The high ratings of the sisters'...
12) The jerk magnet
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Life at Kingston High volume 1
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When sixteen-year-old Chelsea Martin's future stepmother gives her a total makeover, she attracts all of the wrong boys and drives away many girls, but her friend Janelle keeps telling Chelsea to be true to herself, while helping her find a way to catch the eye of Nicholas, the one "non-jerk" at school.
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Celebrate your little one's birth, baptism, dedication, or just say "I love you" with this adorable book of blessings featuring 41 delightful rhyming poems.
Baby's First Book of Blessings lets tiny ones know God's blessings are all around them. From "Comfy Laps" to "Furry Friends," and "My Front Porch" to "Bathtub Bubbles," these charming rhymes will fill the hearts of little girls and boys with happiness:
I count my eyes,
One and two.
God blesses...
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"Dora Chase is an eighty-year-old widow whose family finds her frustratingly independent. Her son no longer trusts her judgment and constantly pressures her to sell her rural home and rundown farm to a huge computer firm. When a young stranger shows up, Dora is suspicious, but before long Armando Garcia wins her trust. And Armando supports Dora's independence, causing the conflict within her bickering family to escalate. Dora's son abhors Armando's...
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True colors (Melody Carlson) volume 8
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TH1NK Books
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2006
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A Mexican-American high school senior deals with the separation and divorce of her parents and their effects on her relationship with them and with God.
16) Cherished wish
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Allison chronicles volume 2
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c1998
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Fourteen-year-old Allison finds herself the center of a custody battle between her glamorous, but neglectful, movie star mother and her long-absent artist father who wants her to live with him in a small Oregon town.