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At seventeen, Christa Pierce has the perfect life. She's rich, pretty, the smartest in her senior class, and a star of the high school cross-country team. She has everything. She is everything. A winner. But it's all a lie. The pretty face is a mask she wears to hide family secrets that shine like bruises. A disguise to cover what her father's cruelty has stolen from her, including the mother she never knew. Now Christa is ready to break free from...
42) Going Places
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Everyone had high expectations for Hudson Wheeler. His fourth grade teacher even wrote to his parents that Hudson was "going places." But everything went downhill after his father died on the battlefield of Iraq one year later. Now facing his senior year of high school without his two best friends by his side and with his teacher's letter still haunting him, Hudson seizes homeschooling as an opportunity to retreat from the world.
What happens during...
43) Crooked Crown
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A princess of fire, a court of snakes, and a destiny written in blood.
Once at home on the battlefield, eighteen-year-old Sondra has grown weary of waging war in the name of peace. Disillusioned by the kingdom she's been trained since birth to kill for, Sondra longs for a world free of death and broken hearts.
After bad intelligence sees Sondra's men blamed for an unspeakable crime against a defenseless town, she returns home to find her family's...
44) Vibes
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A high school girl can read minds-and doesn't like what she hears.
Nothing is beyond Kristi Carmichael's disdain-her hippie high school, her friend Jacob, her workaholic mom. Yet for all her attitude, Kristi has a vulnerable side. She can hear the thoughts of her fellow students-a power that's not as cool as it sounds, since she can hear them calling her fat and gross. She's hot for Gusty Peterson, one of the most popular guys in school, but of course,...
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Finding themselves amerced in public school, two fraternal-twins, Jake and Rosa lean on each other as well as their older brother, Ted, to help navigate the public education system. The odds became stacked against them when their mom fought the system attempting to prevent it continuing their home-schooled education. Unbeknownst to her, this was a system no one could win.
Fighting the system only garnered the teenagers worse-unwarranted attention,...
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David Langelier returns to Quebec after five years of exile. Honourably discharged from the Canadian Armed Forces, he becomes a miner in Abitibi, his homeland. At the bottom of a gold mine, he keeps his heart at the surface, with Nicole, with whom he is madly in love. Thugs interfere in their relationship, a native, Pijeense, an Ojibway from Lake Nipissing, comes to his aid. But misfortune strikes again: cancer threatens the young mother-daughter....
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David Langelier regresa a Quebec tras cinco años de exilio. Dado de baja con honores de las Fuerzas Armadas canadienses, se convierte en minero en Abitibi, su tierra natal. En el fondo de una mina de oro, mantiene su corazón en la superficie, con Nicole, de la que está locamente enamorado. Los matones se interponen en su relación, y un nativo, Pijeense, un ojibway del lago Nipissing, acude en su ayuda. Pero la desgracia vuelve a golpear: el cáncer...
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I Know Why You Run is a psychological thriller for young adults. It follows the story of Ben, a young man with a past he doesn't remember and a trauma he is trying to forget. But someone is determined to make sure Ben never forgets. They follow him, unseen, through his day-to-day activities. The unnoticed person/s video his life and then edit the videos to show him in his worst, rawest and most vulnerable moments, and post the videos on his social...
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Abandoned by her relatives on the brink of the summer holidays, orphan Brenda Jacobs finds herself travelling to a strange town to stay with strangers.
The thought that it might prove to be a more enjoyable time than she expected, is confused by finding the last person she wanted to see, travelling on the same train. And again when he offers to let her join with his friends for the summer.
But people she's never met start to cause her trouble,...
50) All Mad Here
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She was starting to feel the defeat in her victories. Another day. Another day… Adrianna is taking matters into her own hands. If Alice wasn't going to help herself, then she was going to do it for her. After saving her from another holiday with her father, she was ready for Wonderland to come back into her life again and she was prepared. But the days keep passing and everything remains far too quiet. Alice is tired. She's done everything she could...
51) Alley Kid
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At almost fifteen, Jess exists alone in a life which has known few luxuries.
A desperate attempt one night to free herself from her past is only the beginning of a new roller coaster ride of abuse and betrayal. She is thrust among strangers who use her to cover up their own deep-rooted family tensions. Disillusioned by a welfare system that has failed her and full of hostility for a world that has abandoned her, Jess finds herself back on the streets...
52) Switch
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Never having the stomach for conflict or confrontation, Oliver Andrews isn't upset about the extended school year in the small town of Fallston. Classroom dilemmas are easier on the nerves than an entire summer with feuding relatives. His parents threaten divorce-and a move back to Chicago which would uproot Oliver from the grandfather and farm he cherishes and rip him away from his only friend in the world. Maybe for good. But when the family's crisis...
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Seventeen-year-old Mattie has a hidden obsession: escapology. Emphasis on hidden. If anyone from school finds out, she'll be abandoned to her haters. Facing a long and lonely summer, Mattie finally seeks out Miyu, the reclusive daughter of a world-renowned escape artist. Following in Houdini's footsteps, Miyu helps Mattie secretly transform herself into an escapologist and performance artist. When Will, a popular athlete from school, discovers Mattie's...
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Delinquent. Disruptive. Dysfunctional.Fifteen-year-old Darla Wallin knows what they say about her. Knows what they write in their files. The social workers and guidance counselors and probation officers. But they don't know her.Her mother, who supposedly knows her best, uses words like willful, wayward, and worthless.Darla used to think if someone would just give her a chance, she'd prove them all wrong. But no one ever does.Foster parents Shelly...
55) Class Of Life
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Aiden has always had the ability to motivate others but never himself. He is, tasked with teaching a class that he turns into a class to motivate others lost in life. Unexpectedly the class helps him as much as he helps them.
56) Lockdown
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IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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Some days it's just easier not to go to school at all. Adam has been slacking off lately, but today he stuck around to see his girlfriend. When Josh, who has been bullied mercilessly, brings a gun to school, the building is locked down and Adam is forced to risk everything to save himself and to find Zoe before Josh does. Calling on reserves he didn't know he had, Adam could end up a hero - or a victim.
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Glass Immortals novels volume 1
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"From Brian McClellan, author of The Powder Mage, comes In the Shadow of Lightning, a brand-new epic fantasy where magic is a finite resource--and it's running out. Demir Grappo is an outcast--he fled a life of wealth and power, abandoning his responsibilities as a general, a governor, and a son. Now he will live out his days as a grifter, rootless, and alone. But when his mother is brutally murdered, Demir must return from exile to claim his seat...
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"The second book in the New York Times bestselling Moonfall series from thriller-master James Rollins, The Cradle of Ice is a page-turning tale of action, adventure, betrayal, ambition, and the struggle for survival in a harsh world that hangs by a thread. To stop the coming apocalypse, a fellowship was formed. A soldier, a thief, a lost prince, and a young girl bonded by fate and looming disaster. Each step along this path has changed the party,...
60) Frying Night
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Portals, bondmates, and a dragon world.
I thought that my biggest problem was the unfinished bond between me and Ashe... but I was wrong.
We've done the impossible and crossed through a portal into the world of dragons — the same place where my mother's been trapped for the past fifteen years.
With this lavender sky, orange sun, and a freaking planet hanging above us, it's clear that we're no longer on Earth. Our biggest problem is finding our...
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