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"Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life starts and ends with the pool. Her teammates are her only friends. Her coach, her guiding light. If she swims well enough, she will be scouted, get a scholarship, go to a good school. Her parents will love her. Her coach will be kind to her. She will have a good life. But these are human concerns. These are the concerns of those confined to land, those with legs. Ren grew up on stories of creatures of the deep,...
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They had been six teenage girls in Wheeling, West Virginia. Full of mischief. Acting wild. Having good times. And getting into trouble. They called themselves the Six of Hearts. Then one night things went to far. One of them died. The rest swore to never tell what really happened.
Now, thirteen years later, someone has decided to kill the remaining Six of hearts. The first to die is Angie, a successful New York City actress. And flower-shop owner...
3) Cherish
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Crave (Wolff) volume 6
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It’s been over three months since my friends and I took down Cyrus. Three months where my biggest fear was what paper was due next... But I should have known it was too good to last. Now everything is falling apart. The Vampire Court has no king, the Dragon Court has no heart, and the Gargoyle Court has mea teenager in way over her head. And it’s the worst possible timing, because a threat is brewing just as the Circle is collapsing. I have...
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Lord Ermenwyr volume 3
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Sharp-eyed orphan Eliss and her half-brother make a new home on a river barge and clash with a teen assassin amid an escalating series of pirate attacks on riverside cities.
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He had arrived in America in 1887, but we first met him in 1906 when it seemed he may be approaching the end of his story, for he has been arrested for killing the ex-governor of Idaho, a murder which led to one of the most celebrated trials of the period. The men questioning him want him to implicate Big Bill Haywood, leader of the IWW and the Western Federation of Miners. Wanting to save himself, he tells the detectives stories they want to hear....
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"Sixteen-year-old figure skater Olivia Kennedy's Olympic dreams have ended. She's bitter, but enjoying life as a regular teenager instead of trying to live up to expectations of being the daughter of Olympians Michael Kennedy and Midori Nakashima...until Jonah Choi starts training at her family's struggling rink. Jonah's driven, talented, going for the Olympics in speed skating, completely annoying...and totally gorgeous. Between teasing Jonah, helping...
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Sunrise Cove volume 4
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Opening her own bakery between a tavern, owned by sexy, grumpy Bodie Campbell, and a bookstore, run by her new BFF, Harper Shaw, feeling a peace she's never experienced since forever, takes Ivy, a teenage runaway, under her wing, which changes her whole world.
"When Harper Shaw's life falls apart, she knows it's time for a change. She removes everything that doesn't spark joy--from her soul-sucking job to eating kale to making lists--and sets off...
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"Kirsten Hammarstrom hasn't been home to her tiny corner of rural Wisconsin in years-not since the mysterious disappearance of a local teenage girl rocked the town and shattered her family. Kirsten was just nine years old when Stacy Lemke went missing, and the last person to see her alive was her boyfriend, Johnny-the high school wrestling star and Kirsten's older brother. No one knows what to believe-not even those closest to Johnny-but the event...
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Purgatorium volume 1
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Did her parents send her to the Purgatorium to help her or punish her? A teen who feels guilty for her sister's death is sent by her parents to a remote island off the coast of California for suicide therapy, where she learns that the doctor and her team use experimental methods that cross ethical lines. After undergoing one bizarre experience after another, the teen gets lost on the haunted side of the island and wonders if her parents meant to help...
11) River's end
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Inn at Shining Waters volume 3
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In the final story of The Inn at Shining Waters, Anna Larson's granddaughter Sarah is beginning to find her independence. But her relationship with her parents suffers as a result and she travels away from all that is familiar. While the solace of the river calls Sarah back, surprises await upon her return. Three generations of family heartbreak and disappointments converge at Shining Waters as Sarah finds God right in the center of it all.
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"Bradley Graeme is pretty much perfect: he's a star football player, manages his OCD well (enough), and comes out on top in all his classes...except the ones he shares with Celine Bangura. They used to be best friends, until Brad decided he was too cool for conspiracy-theory-obsessed Celine and literally abandoned her for the popular kids' table. (At least, that's how Celine sees it.) These days, there's nothing between them but insults and academic...
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En San Jacinto de los Mares viven Matilde Florista y su esposo Miguel Pescador; esta pareja ansía tener pronto un hijo. A la puerta de su casa es abandonada una hermosa muñeca de trapo; de inmediato Matilde se encariña con la desvalida muñeca y la adopta como si se tratara de una hija; la bautiza Cristina Zanahoria. Esta muñeca tiene espíritu y su mayor don es el olfato. Esta historia realza la importancia de las percepciones y sensaciones en...
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Después de vivir en la ciudad y con el corazón roto por los desengaños amorosos, el Señor Luciérnaga regresa al campo. Sin embargo, allí tampoco encuentra el amor: la lejana estrella lo ignora, la luz de la lámpara de aceite del campesino está muy entretenida con las mosquitas que revolotean a su alrededor; parece que siempre deposita sus sentimientos en los seres equivocados. ¿Dónde podrá encontrar el amor verdadero, para tener una vida...
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En la vida moderna el plástico ha constituido un fenómeno de indudable trascendencia. Hoy en día el hombre vive rodeado de objetos plásticos que en siglos anteriores no eran necesarios para la vida cotidiana. Los plásticos se han fabricado para satisfacer las demandas de una gran variedad de usos, dando lugar a una vasta industria donde la civilización debería llamarse "la civilización del plástico", debido al papel determinante que ha desempeñado...
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Una joven estudiante de medicina de último año conoce en su clínica de práctica a una pequeña encantadora de nombre Miguela, quien la sorprende con su genialidad y visión poética del mundo.
En la clínica empiezan a aparecer extrañas figuras de origami (se especula que fueron hechas por el fantasma de un paciente japonés), pero no, son los mensajes de amor y alegría de Miguela.
Cada figura esconde un breve relato o reflexión sobre la sencillez...
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Una pequeña manatí se aleja del cuidado de su mamá y una niña, Tomasa, pierde su casa al ser destruida por la creciente. El destino de las dos se une tras la tremenda tormenta que se lleva la casa de la niña y, a su vez, arrastra a la manatí lejos de su hogar. Ocurren una serie de aventuras acompañadas de magia, dentro de un contexto de protección del medio ambiente y de los animales, que llevarán al lector a un viaje por el río, el mar...
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El pacífico colombiano es un lugar mágico, con una inmensa carga cultural y una fuerte herencia de la raza negra, donde han sucedido maravillosas historias que han quedado grabadas en las memorias de los primeros pobladores. Este libro recrea esa tradición, y cuenta la historia de un barco espectral, el Maravelí, en donde se suceden misteriosas historias de apariciones e infortunios, todo esto bajo la figura de griot, o contador de historias,...
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