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Dutton
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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"On her second birthday in 1967, Bernice McFadden died in a car crash near Detroit, only to be resuscitated after her mother pulled her from the flaming wreckage. Firstborn Girls traces her remarkable life from that moment up to the publication of her first novel, Sugar. Growing up in 1980s Brooklyn, Bernice finds solace in books, summer trips to Barbados, and boarding school to escape her alcoholic father. Discovering the works of Alice Walker and...
2. Some luck
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Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through the early 1950s"--Provided by publisher.
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English
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"From the author of the best-selling and universally adored No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series--a stand-alone, big-hearted, and often heartbreaking novel about unrequited love and the unexpected places it takes us. At age 4, Thursday chooses her own name. At age 6, she falls in love with her best friend, James, with whom she happily spends all her time. But in the adult world, things are not so simple: at the same time that Thursday's mother finds...
4. Rapunzel
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English
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In the story of Rapunzel a childless couple awaits the arrival of their firstborn. One day, the husband is caught stealing the salad greens, called Rapunzel that his wife craves from the yard of the evil witch next door. The witch strikes a deal with the man, obtaining their firstborn child in return for all the Rapunzel the wife can eat. The child, growing up in captivity with the witch turns into a beautiful maiden with a voice of gold, and extraordinarily...
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Falling Kingdoms volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"A fantasy about three kingdoms on the brink of war and the destiny of one princess"--Provided by publisher.
6. Found
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English
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A fresh new look for the bestselling Firstborn series-the second installment in the continuing Baxter Family Drama from America's number one inspirational novelist, Karen Kingsbury. Revisit the Baxter family in all their life-changing events, or share the series with someone who hasn't discovered it yet. Driven by his wife's dying wish-to find their firstborn son-John Baxter sets about the search of a lifetime. But when the answers finally come, they...
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Publisher:
Kensington
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
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The Dark Swan series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Richelle Mead is together at last in this complete bundle! Just typical. No love life to speak of for months, then all at once, every horny creature in the Otherworld wants to get in your pants... Storm Born—Book One
Eugenie Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits and fey who cross into the mortal world. Mercenary, yes, but a girl's got to eat. Her most...
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Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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"Winter 1939: Danusha and her family are forced to flee their home when the Nazis invade Poland. Danusha's mother, Anna, changes her name and secures a position as a housekeeper in a German doctor's mansion in Kraków where Gestapo meetings are hosted in the kitchen... Her secret is their salvation, but what Danusha remembers most is the solitude, with only her baby brother and the girl in the mirror for company. All Anna ever wanted was a firstborn...
9. Thorn Queen
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Series:
Dark Swan volume 2
Language:
English
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Eugenie Markham is a shaman for hire, paid to bind and banish creatures from the Otherworld. But after her last battle, she's also become queen of the Thorn Land. It's hardly an envious life, not with her kingdom in tatters, her love life in chaos, and Eugenie eager to avoid the prophecy about her firstborn destroying mankind. And now young girls are disappearing from the Otherworld, and no one--except Eugenie--seems willing to find out why. Eugenie...
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English
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We were all children once. Take this winding path through childhood past and present. A boy living in a coastal town in WWII and longing for father to come home. A bunch of kids stumble on a famous star having a holiday. A farming family find themselves in a flood. Three siblings decide to take on and defeat a myth. A special relationship on an ocean voyage. A childhood love affair and it's consequences. Teenage testosterone has it's day. Being a...
11. The Overseer
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Publisher:
Charisma House
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
It took two thousand years to bring the Firstborn together. It will only take a tear them apart. The Firstborn--three ancient religious orders gifted with the ability to see past, present and future--have formed a shaky truce for the first time since the death of Christ. But dangerous forces, both human and otherwise, are rising to destroy them. Torn between the call to rescue three innocent teenage girls abducted into sexual slavery, preventing the...
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Publisher:
Findhorn Press
Pub. Date:
[2016]
Language:
English
Description:
Firstborns Lisette Schuitemaker and Wies Enthoven set out to discover the big five qualities that characterize all eldest daughters to some degree. Eldest daughters are responsible, dutiful, thoughtful, expeditious and caring. Firstborns are more intelligent than their siblings, more proficient verbally and more motivated to perform. Yet at the same time they seriously doubt that they are good enough. Being an eldest daughter can have certain advantages,...
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Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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Where does a firstborn girl fit in a world dominated by men? When Tiadone was born, her parents had two choices: raise their daughter as male and force her to suppress all feminine traits, or leave her outside the community to die in the wilds. Now, as the first female living as male in her village, Tiadone must prove her father didn't make a mistake by letting her live. As her time of male initiation approaches, Tiadone desperately wishes to belong,...
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Pub. Date:
2022
Lexile measure:
670L
Language:
English
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From New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente comes an inventive new fantasy following a boy journeying away from the only home he's ever known and into the magical realm of the dead in order to fulfill a bargain for his people. Osmo Unknown hungers for the world beyond his small town. With the life that Littlebridge society has planned for him, the only taste Osmo will ever get are his visits to the edge of the Fourpenny Woods where...
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"In a landmark book, an extraordinary young woman recounts her coming-of-age as a transgender teen--a deeply personal and empowering portrait of self-revelation, adversity, and heroism. In 2011, Marie Claire magazine published a profile of Janet Mock in which she publicly stepped forward for the first time as a trans woman. Since then, Mock has gone from covering the red carpet for People.com to advocating for all those who live within the shadows...
16. Firstborn
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Series:
Warlock Legacy volume 1
Language:
English
Description:
Erik Ashendale sees himself as a hero. Desperate to distance himself from his terrible childhood and evil twin sister, the professional monster hunter just wants to do some good. So he buckles down when an angel whispers in his ear requesting protection for a succubus targeted by his sinister sibling. Vowing to defend the girl who hasn't discovered her demonic powers, Erik is peeved to learn he's also supposed to deal with a freshly awakened ancient...
17. River Rule
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Publisher:
Ameeta Davis
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
The jungle is closing in. First it sends a welcoming party of parakeets. Next, a garland of disembodied chicken parts. Finally the tribesmen and their spears arrive demanding human trades of Avi and Una, the property developer's firstborn grandchildren. Twice before, the jungle tried to take Una when she took risks. Twice Avi foiled their attempts. This time he's not there - yet she can feel him somewhere near. River Rule is a dark, urban fantasy,...
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description:
Although Adam and Eve have been evicted out of the Garden, the world is still a paradise. The Border Wars have ended and Enoch has settled into a quiet life in the mountains far from the chaos in Nod. However, spiritual forces are conspiring against Enoch and all those who remain faithful to the teachings of Adam, the Firstborn. What begins as an annual pilgrimage to the Garden of Eden, quickly turns into a desperate battle for survival. Spiritual...
19. Nimrod
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Publisher:
Earth Island Books
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Nimrod, a coming-of-age story about a sheltered teenager wanting nothing more than to escape the confines of his home and to see for himself what the world has to offer. Rod is a daydreamer with a singular wish: to meet Sting, the rockstar-the only person capable of fixing Rod's broken family and liberating him from his sheltered existence. It's the summer before senior year, and Rod has nothing to look forward to but sitting at home day after day,...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
The true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist family. Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father's forty-two children. Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turn a blind eye to the practices of her community, Ruth lives in a ramshackle house without indoor plumbing or electricity. At church, preachers teach that God will punish the wicked by destroying the world and that women can only ascend to Heaven by entering...