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"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue-in Marilyn's case that her daughter become...
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Lorien legacies volume 1
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700L
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English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.
Friendships and a beautiful girl are distracting to a teenager who is hiding on Earth while he waits to develop the powers he will need to rejoin the other six...
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Lowcountry Tales volume 9
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English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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"Best friends since the first day of classes at The College of Charleston, Ashley Anne Waters and Mary Beth Smythe, now 23 years old, live in Ashley's parents' beach house rent-free. Ashley is a gallery assistant who aspires to become an artist. Mary Beth, a gifted cook from Tennessee, works for a caterer while searching for a good teaching job. Though they both know what they want out of life, their parents barely support their dreams and worry for...
5. Watching you
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English
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3.4 stars
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"Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol, England; home to doctors and lawyers and old-money academics. It's not the sort of place where people are brutally murdered in their own kitchens. But it is the sort of place where everyone has a secret. And everyone is watching you. As the headmaster credited with turning around the local school, Tom Fitzwilliam is beloved by one and all--including Joey Mullen, his new neighbor, who...
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HL: High-Low 800L
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English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to...
9. Vic
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GLB Worldwide
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English
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Vic: Terror Incognita is the 4th novel in the action adventure series The Incredible Adventures of Vic Challenger. Vic is preparing for a work related trip up the Amazon river. Vic and her friend Lin Li don't think this will be a picnic. They expect tough conditions, hot weather, mosquitos, wild animals. They can handle it. It's what they do. Readers love to hear about visits to rugged locales. But, do they really know what to expect? Over 50,000...
10. Chicago poems
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Series:
Early Poetry of Carl Sandburg volume 1
Language:
English
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Chicago Poems is an early collection of poems by American poet Carl Sandburg. This little volume includes the following poems: Chicago, Sketch, Masses, Lost, The Harbor, They Will Say, Mill-Doors, Halsted Street Car, Clark Street Bridge, Passers-by, The Walking Man of Rodin, Subway, The Shovel Man, A Teamster's Farewell, Fish Crier, Picnic Boat, Happiness, Muckers, Blacklisted, Graceland, Child of the Romans, The Right to Grief, Mag, Onion Days, Population...
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Scarlet Alchemist volume 1
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English
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In an alternate Tang Dynasty China, aspiring royal alchemist Zilan, who has the ability to resurrect the dead, arrives in the capital to compete against the best alchemists in the country and becomes drawn into the dangerous political games of the royal family.
Zilan dreams of becoming a royal alchemist, of providing for her family by making alchemical gold and gems for the wealthy to eat in order to stay young forever. Instead she lives in an impoverished...
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Daniel Rinaldi volume 2
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English
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There's trouble brewing in the woods of Beauville, and the only witness isn't talking. When Pru Marlowe is called to a forest clearing to help with an illegally trapped bear, she finds a colleague passed out drunk, his pet ferret locked in his truck. When one of her old running buddies turns up dead as well and then the town's pampered pets begin to disappear, Pru can't tell if her heavy-drinking colleague is involved-or how much the ferret, a wise...
13. Mathilda Savitch
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Now including an excerpt from Victor Lodato's novel, EDGAR AND LUCY, which Lena Dunham praises as "an unusual and intimate epic." A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR BEST BOOK OF 2009 A BOOKLIST BEST BOOK OF 2009 A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2009 WINNER OF THE PEN USA AWARD FOR FICTION A fiercely funny and touching debut novel about a young girl trying to find out the truth behind her sister's death I have a sister who died. Did I tell you this already?...
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99 Pages or Less Publishing LLC
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English
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At Sandy Furlow Middle School, something strange is happening. Johnny and Alex have realized that every day that passes, another little boy or girl goes missing. It turns out that the evil witch Ms. Eisenstein is back! This time she came with an army to destroy Johnny and his sidekick Alex for good. What Johnny and Alex don't realize is that Ms. Eisenstein has a secret weapon that will turn all the little boys and girls from Sandy Furlow Middle School...
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Midnight Tales volume 2
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English
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From the author of one of the Best Fantasy Books of All Time (Time Magazine), comes a heart-pounding tale of adventure and romance… A monster hunter in a castle. Werewolves in a dark forest. And a young woman trapped between the two. Ruby will do anything to escape the infamous dungeons of Midnight Castle. She dares to dream of reaching the safety of her grandmother's house. But in order to get there, she'll need to outrun hunters and monsters alike...
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Killer Thriller volume 1
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English
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A string of murdered girls. An innocent man behind bars. A serial killer still on the hunt. From USA Today best-selling author Pamela Crane comes a dark thriller about the monsters that hide in plain sight. In a freak collision when she was twelve, Mia Germaine faced death and the loss of her father. A heart transplant from a young murder victim saved her life, but not without a price. Twenty years later, chilling nightmares about an unresolved homicide...
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"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped...
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"My name is Amanda Blackwood and I'm a survivor of human trafficking." Even now the words sound like fiction, especially as the horrors fade from recent memory. It's been 20 years since I escaped that fate, beating the odds. Most don't survive. I know that now, I didn't know that then.At the age of 19, my life took a drastic turn down a very dark path. I married a much older man in an attempt to escape my already dramatic life and was looking for...
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Being a wizard is hazardous to your health. Things not to do when being tracked by murderers:#1 Do not drag the girl you're in love with into your deadly mess.#2 Do not accept a bag full of money.#3 If you do accept said bag of money, don't be dumb enough to shove it down the back of your pants.#4 Do not get into a battle with the evil lunch lady.#5 Do not start a war in a tourist hotspot.#6 Do not let your dad find out you're a wizard.#7 Do NOT under...