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Lavender sees herself as the miserable but tough outsider at school, while Scarlet knows she is talented and popular, but insecure on the inside--then, on their mutual thirteenth birthday, they wake up in each other's bodies and are forced to learn what it means to walk in someone else's shoes.
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
154 p. ; 22 cm.
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After a year in exile on an Alaskan island as punishment for severely beating a fellow student, Cole Matthews returns to school in Minneapolis having made peace with himself and his victim--but he finds that surviving the violence and hatred of high school is even harder than surviving in the wilderness.
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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362 pages ; 24 cm
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Meredith Maggs hasn't left her house in 1,214 days. But she insists she isn't alone. . . She has her cat Fred. Her friend Sadie visits when she can. There's her online support group, StrengthInNumbers. She has her jigsaws, favorite recipes, her beloved Emily Dickinson, the internet, the Tesco delivery man and her treacherous memories for company. But something's about to change. Whether Meredith likes it or not, the world is coming to her door. ....
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
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212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"A bureaucratic glitch omits an entire building, along with its residents, from municipal records. So begins Maria Reva's ingeniously intertwined narratives, nine stories that span the chaotic years leading up to and immediately following the fall of the Soviet Union. But even as the benighted denizens of 1933 Ivansk Street weather the official neglect of the increasingly powerless authorities, they devise cunning ways to survive."--Jacket.
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2014.
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"Hank, Leland, Kip and Ronny were all born and raised in the same Wisconsin town--Little Wing--and are now coming into their own (or not) as husbands and fathers. One of them never left, still farming the family's land that's been tilled for generations. Others did leave, went farther afield to make good, with varying degrees of success; as a rock star, commodities trader, rodeo stud. And seamlessly woven into their patchwork is Beth, whose presence...
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Macmillan
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
8 CDs (480 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Hank, Leland, Kip, and Ronny were all born and raised in the same Wisconsin town, and are now coming into their own (or not) as husbands and fathers. Now all four are home, in hopes of finding what could be real purchase in the world. Seamlessly woven into their patchwork is Beth, whose presence among them - both then and now - fuels the kind of passion one comes to expect of love songs and rivalries.
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Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
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Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with his wife, Peg, daughter, Shiloh, and six-year old grandson, Isaac. After a troubled adolescence and subsequent estrangement from her parents, Shiloh has finally come home. But while Lyle is thrilled to have his whole family reunited, he's also uneasy: in Shiloh's absence, she has become deeply involved with an extremist church, and the devout pastor...
9) Adulterio
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
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259 pages ; 22 cm
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A wife and mother in her thirties works through midlife apathy by engaging in a passionate affair with a successful politician who was once her high-school sweetheart.
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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
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281 pages ; 21 cm
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Stories of your life and others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change -- the inevitable rise of automations or the appearance of aliens -- while striving to maintain some sense of normalcy.
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"Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios,...
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