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The most popular girl in her class has to cope with hard truths after high school graduation as she wonders, Now what? Prom queen. Captain of the cheerleading squad. Girlfriend of the most popular guy in school. Westerly High senior Helen Miranda Revness-Hallie to her friends-has it all. She just wishes everyone would stop talking about where they're going to college-and asking her why she's not applying to schools. Hallie has zero interest in four...
2) Believarexic
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Asking for help is only the first step Jennifer can't go on like this-binging, purging, starving, all while trying to appear like she's got it all together. But when she finally confesses her secret to her parents and is hospitalized at the Samuel Tuke Center, her journey is only beginning. As Jennifer progresses through her treatment, she learns to recognize her relationships with food, friends, and family-and how each relationship is healthy or...
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Grace has two big problems-how will she cope? Grace Schmitt is a bit of a dreamer. In her mind, she's the most popular girl in school, with flowing golden hair and too many friends to count. And let's not forget all the boys who admire her perfectly proportioned figure. Everything is, in a word, perfect. Unfortunately, Grace's life is a bit more complicated than that in reality. Going into tenth grade, her body changes rapidly, leaving her feeling...
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Is being popular really as fun as it seems? After surviving high school orientation camp, Elvin and his two best friends embark on their freshman year at an all-boys school. High school serves up all sorts of hardships: the dreaded rumor mill, dances with the local sister school, and jockeying to be seen with the "right" type of people. But for overweight Elvin, figuring out who the "right" people are is almost as confusing as his relationship with...
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Emma's dreams of popularity and academic success go up in smoke when she's transferred to a less prestigious high school. Twelfth grader Emma Walsh is one of the lucky few African Americans at exclusive Marlborough High School. She is the only black student on the student council, and she's just been elected to the National Honor Society. Now, the Golden Slippers will invite her to participate in their annual debutante ball. Graduation will be followed...
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Gray's life changes forever when she meets a boy as wild as an untamed stallion When Chav walks into Gray's class at school for the first time dressed all in black, with wild hair and fierce eyes, Gray knows that her life is about to change. What she doesn't yet know is that her mysterious new classmate is as fascinated by her as she is by him. Gray and Chav are drawn to each other by their shared love of horses. But Chav's home life is more complicated...
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First published in 1928, now public domain in the US. When Martha accepts a place at university, her decision is met with a mixture of hostility and pride by her uncomprehending family. This is the story of a young woman's journey to maturity and independence, struggling to cope with the intellectual and emotional challenges that surround her, at a time when such space was rarely given freely to women. In The Quarry Wood,Nan Shepherd's subtle prose...
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In a world where success is defined by grades and failure is villainized, a twelve-year-old boy is struggling to find his place. He dreams of playing professional soccer, but his teachers and even some of his friends discourage him, telling him it's just a dream and that he needs a backup plan. Despite this, he remains determined to pursue his passion. As a struggling student, he finds solace on the soccer field, where he becomes the hero, the villain,...
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Former sweethearts revisit their teenage love-and their conflicting memories of the past.
In between business in Iceland and home in Silicon Valley, Cedar Rivers has come to Albany, New York, to meet a woman he hasn't seen in twenty years. When he knew her, Kat was a cute proto-Goth with chipped black nail polish. Now she's a literary up-and-comer who has summoned him to vet her new memoir-an account of the summer they were sweethearts. And she's...
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A rollicking coming-of-age comedy set in 1970s New Jersey, from a multiple award–nominated author. In this hilarious and biting novel, seventeen-year-old Frank Grimaldi wants one thing more than anything else-to have sex before he graduates. Too bad his crazy teachers, his insane parents, the Catholic Church, and the Mafia are all standing in the way . . . From the author of Bad Apple and the Anthony Award finalist Devil's Food, this is an involving...
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Facing harsh adult realities, a young English girl in India must leave childhood behind, in this masterful tale from a New York Times–bestselling author. The Ganges River runs through young Harriet's world. The eleven-year-old daughter of the British owner of a successful jute concern, she loves her life in Bengal, India, on the river's edge, so far removed from the English boarding school she attended before the outbreak of hostilities in Europe....
13) Ghost Years
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An American master of the unsettling side of the American male psyche, Barry Gifford is also noted for the depth of feeling of his female characters-from Lula in Wild at Heart (immortalized in the Lynch movie by Laura Dern), to Big Betty Stalcup and Miss Cutie Early in Night People, to Mom in Wyoming (a Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year), to Ava Varazo in The Sinaloa Story. Fellow novelist Jim Harrison once described Gifford as "a stylist in the...
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A story of friendship, loyalty... and survival. Dewey is moving, and he couldn't be more excited; though, he's alone in his enthusiasm. Lisa, his mother, and recently retired Avriel, his next-door neighbor and best buddy, don't share in his excitement regarding the move from a suburban bungalow to a dirty basement-level apartment in the lower-class area, where two murders have recently occurred.This sometimes lighthearted and at other times intense...
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Big tobacco meets the boob tube in this incendiary satire from the bestselling author of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Jefferson Tatum is a self-made man. Founder of Tatum Cigarette Company, he wrote the brand's advertising jingle-"Tatums smoke mild like an innocent child"-and has been bringing home big money-and hunting huge bears-ever since. But this year his tobacco sales are down 3 percent thanks to the surgeon general's cancer warnings. To make...
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John Rechy-described by Gore Vidal as "one of the few original writers of the last century"-delivers a riotous bildungsroman that pays homage to the classic eighteenth-century picaresque.
Loosely inspired by Fielding's Tom Jones, The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens follows the journey of handsome Lyle Clemens as he travels through the religious fundamentalist world of Texas to the gambling palaces of Las Vegas and the enticing traps of Los Angeles's...
17) Best Served Cold
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I'm smart enough to choose love over revenge . . . aren't I?Liam Bailey is the golden boy of Birch College-he's hot, rich, a track star and the only son of a popular senator. For nearly a year, I was the lucky girl on his arm.That is, until he dumped me in the most spectacularly humiliating way.I'm over him now. I mean, do I want some payback? Sure. When the opportunity to plot my revenge comes along, I'm not going to pass up the chance.But I hadn't...
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Step into the magical world of the Althuria Chronicles...DAGGERS AND DESTINYA strange stone. A pursuit for power. A new beginning.An orphan with no job, no home, and no last name, sixteen-year-old Mala scrapes along day by day with her younger brother, Baz, in their small village.But when she discovers a mysterious stone, her whole world comes crashing down.Suddenly, she faces massive adversity, a quest for bloody revenge, and a power so great she...
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Mary Forrest is in her late twenties and comes from a literary family-her widowed mother still runs a prominent journal and shows up at Manhattan book parties packed with writers and intellectuals. Decades ago, Evelyn Forrest faced the kind of harassment that would make headlines in later times, but now her daughter works in publishing in an era that's a little easier for women. Yet, young Mary is about to face some challenges of her own. Evelyn's...
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A deluxe Harper Perennial Legacy Edition, with an introduction from Simon Van Booy, nationally best-selling author of Father's Day and The Illusion of Separateness
A compelling historical novel of a young man's rise from poverty to wealth in a small provincial town during the Industrial Revolution, now available in a Legacy Edition from Harper Perennial Modern Classics.
Like Charles Dickens's beloved David Copperfield, John Halifax is an orphan,...
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