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1) A mercy
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In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith.
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Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father--a former concert pianist and teacher--moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father--until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. An unforgettable story of love on many...
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"Ballet is Aisha’s life. But when discrimination at her elite academy pushes her to her breaking point, she decides to pivot. At her new public arts school, Aisha scores more dance opportunities than she’s ever had before. And it doesn’t hurt that she gets to take classes with her bestie . . . and with Ollie, an adorably shy musician who keeps throwing off her usually impeccable balance. Yet even as Aisha navigates friendships, family conflict,...
7) Promise
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In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart -- one black, one white; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager -- fight for their families' survival.
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Cupcake diaries volume 12
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Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
131 p. : ill. : 20 cm.
11) Lost & found
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Dutton
Pub. Date
[2015]
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310 pages ; 22 cm
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Follows a shared encounter between an abandoned 7-year-old, a widowed shut-in and a nursing home escapee, who embark on a road trip across Western Australia to find the child's mother.
14) Hattie the bad
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
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[32] p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
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A little girl tries to be good but soon discovers that being bad is ever so much more fun.
15) The ninth life
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Blackie and Care mystery volume 1
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
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229 pages ; 23 cm.
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Blackie, a cat, and his young companion, Care, try to find those responsible for the death of her mentor while first escaping from the clutches of drug dealers, murderers, and thieves.
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[2016]
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From the bestselling author of "Still life with bread crumbs." This story begins in the 1960s, and explores how Mimi Miller comes of age, over and over again. As the years go by, the unthinkable starts to seem inevitable. Anna Quindlen's novel takes us through the changing eras of Mimi and her family, as secrets are revealed, and the heartbreaks of growing up and falling in love with the wrong man are overcome.
17) Maud's line
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
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294 pages ; 22 cm
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Enduring a hardscrabble existence on a Cherokee government allotment in 1928 Eastern Oklahoma, young Maud catches the attention of a handsome, book-carrying stranger and embarks on a life marked by high-stakes decisions.
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"When Emma's cousin Hannah gets married, Emma is thrilled to be the flower girl. However, nothing is quite as she expected it to be, from the ring bearer whom she expected to be a bear, to her celery-colored dress, which she expected to be covered in realcelery, to the wedding's two brides"--
19) Dandelion summer
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Blue Sky Hill volume 4
Publisher
NAL Accent
Pub. Date
[2011]
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xi, 381 pages ; 21 cm.
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J. Norman Alvord's daughter hires teenager Epiphany Salerno to stay with him in the afternoons. Widowed and suffering from heart trouble, Norman wants to be left alone. But in Epie's presence, Norman discovers a mystery--memories of another life and a woman who saved him.
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