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1) The innocent
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Will Robie novels volume 1
Language
English
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Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.
2) Standoff
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English
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Ambitious TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving through New Mexico when she hears over the radio that Sabra Dendy, the 17 year-old daughter of Fort Worth multimillionaire Russell Dendy, has been kidnapped.ááTiel calls her editor and learns that Sara was "kidnapped" by her boyfriend Ronnie and is pregnant.ááTiel is at a gas station store when an armed couple robs the cashier and orders all the customers to the floor.ááThe girl goes into labor
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 4
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English
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One of the bestselling Christian novelists of our time, Janette Oke's books have been described as stories that never go out of style. Her readers have enjoyed and benefited from the spiritual insights and practical faith in God that accompany her homey stories. This books is the moving story of a 15-year-old who, unable to tolerate her drinking father's abuse, joins a wagon train heading West.
4) Covet
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Series
Crave (Wolff) volume 3
Language
English
Description
I may have reached my breaking point. As if trying to graduate from a school for supernaturals isn't stressful enough, my relationship status has gone from complicated to a straight-up dumpster fire. Oh, and the Bloodletter has decided to drop a bomb of epic proportions on us all ... Then again, when has anything at Katmere Academy not been intense? And the hits just keep coming. Jaxon's turned colder than an Alaskan winter. The Circle is splintered...
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"When a fourteen-year-old runs away, her parents turn to social media to find her--launching a public campaign that will expose their darkest secrets and change their family forever, in this suspenseful and gripping debut for fans of Reconstructing Amelia and Gone Girl. Don't try to find me. Though the message on the kitchen white board is written in Marley's hand, her mother Rachel knows there has to be some other explanation. Marley would never...
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Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn't say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: A white baby had died while under the care of a church-going black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it? She wouldn't say. Mary survived six years in baby jail before being dumped in a group home. The house isn't really...
7) Trollhunters
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"You are food. Those muscles you flex to walk, lift, and talk? They're patties of meat topped with chewy tendon. That skin you've paid so much attention to in mirrors? It's delicious to the right tongues, a casserole of succulent tissue. And those bones that give you the strength to make your way in the world? They rattle between teeth as the marrow is sucked down slobbering throats. These facts are unpleasant but useful. There are things out there,...
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DC icons volume 2
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English
Description
The Nightwalkers are terrorizing Gotham City, and Bruce Wayne is next on their list ... Bruce will walk the dark line between trust and betrayal as the Nightwalkers circle closer.
The Nightwalkers are terrorizing Gotham City, and Bruce Wayne is next on their list. On the way home from his 18th birthday party, Bruce makes an impulsive choice and is sentenced to community service at Arkham Asylum. Madeline, an inmate at the asylum, has ties to the...
10) The tender years
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Prairie Legacy volume 1
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English
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A girl on the Prairies is torn between loyalty to her parents and to a friend. Virginia is very much taken by adventurous Jenny, but her parents consider Jenny a bad influence and wish she would end the friendship. Virginia keeps stalling and is dragged into trouble by Jenny.
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In an unnamed Third World country, in the not-so-distant future, three "dumpsite boys" make a living picking through the mountains of garbage on the outskirts of a large city. One unlucky-lucky day, Raphael finds something very special and very mysterious. So mysterious that he decides to keep it, even when the city police offer a handsome reward for its return. That decision brings with it terrifying consequences, and soon the dumpsite boys must...
12) Middlesex
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So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty...
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Series
Echoes and empires volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Snarky seventeen-year-old Josslyn Drake gets infected by a dangerous piece of forbidden magic and teams up with wanted criminal Jericho Nox to remove the spell corrupting her soul.
Josslyn Drake knows only three things about magic: it is rare, illegal, and always deadly. Then she is caught up in a robbery gone wrong at the Queen's Gala and infected by a dangerous piece of magic--one that allows her to step into the memories of an infamously evil...
16) The last song
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English
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Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father--a former concert pianist and teacher--moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father ... until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. An unforgettable story of love on...
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Bartholomew Lampion grows up a prodigy, blinded by surgery required to save him from a fast-spreading cancer, but he regains his sight at the age of thirteen and sets out to transform the lives of everyone around him.
This is the story of a young boy who loses his sight and then mysteriously regains it. It is the story of a courageous band of seekers, and a relentless killer. It is the story of all that is right with the world and all that is terribly...
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Brutally raped and murdered by a deceptively mild-mannered neighbor, Susie begins with a compelling description of her death. During the next ten years, she watches over her family and friends as they struggle to cope with her murder. She observes their disintegrating lives with compassion and occasionally attempts, sometimes successfully, to communicate her love to them. Although the lives of all who knew her well are shaped by her tragic death,...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
After her mother commits suicide, pregnant Thumbelina, a 14-year-old, six-foot blonde is placed in a foster home. But a girl in a similar predicament convinces Thumbelina to run away and the novel describes them trying to make it on their own. A first novel.