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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,...
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For years, 12-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille--the tiara-toting, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town. But when Camille is hit by a truck and killed, CeeCee is left to fend for herself. To the rescue comes her previously unknown great-aunt from Savannah, Tootie Caldwell, who whirls CeeCee into her world of female friendship, strong women, wacky humor, and good old-fashioned heart.
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My weird school daze volume 12
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Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
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102 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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Ella Mentry School hires a health teacher who tries to force the students to eat healthy foods and exercise, whether they want to or not.
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Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2011
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268 p. ; 25 cm.
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Imagines the career of Vincent Van Gogh from the perspective of his friend and psychiatrist Dr. Gachet, who throughout the course of their relationship watches the tortured artist deteriorate from an optimistic genius to a suicide victim.
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Vintage Classic
Pub. Date
2015.
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236 pages ; 20 cm
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The problems of everyday living accumulate and begin to torture Joy, who blames her problems not on her work or on the accidental drowning of her illicit lover, but on herself. While painful and deeply serious, this is a novel of great warmth and energy: it's the wit and irony found in moments of despair that prove to be Joy's salvation. First published by Polygon in 1989 and Dalkey Archive Press in 1994, now available again.
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Little Island
Pub. Date
2022.
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282 pages ; 20 cm.
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Saoirse can't wait to leave school--but just before the Leaving Cert her ex-boyfriend dies by suicide. Everyone blames Saoirse, and her rumbling anxieties spiral out of control. Saoirse finds herself flailing in swirling waters that threaten to suck her into the depths. No-one can save her--not her lovely nan; not the gorgeous boy who tries to love her; and certainly not her cheap-wisdom counsellor. Can Saoirse, against all odds, rescue the self she...
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2010
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242 p. ; 23 cm.
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PI Jack Liffey is hired to find Ty Bird, a popular African-American actor. Bird is a schizophrenic and disappears from the set. He is off pursuing one of his hallucinations, looking for the father he never met. Jack's home life is falling apart. His daughter is at college and his partner, Gloria, is spending less time at home. Jack is feeling lonely. As Jack is searching for Bird, he discovers someone is coming to seek revenge.
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
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Noodle is an active old pug, but one day when his favorite human lifts him up Noodle just flops over like he as no bones and Jonathan soon learns that not every day can be a Bones Day, and sometimes a No Bones Day is exactly what you need to get through the week.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
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This photo-illustrated book is the story of an orphan lamb, Sweet Pea, who lives on a farm in Vermont. When she becomes ill, she recovers with the help of the farmer, the vet and her farmyard friends.
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Way I used to be volume 1
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"After fourteen-year-old Eden is raped by her brother's best friend, she knows she'll never be the way she used to be"--
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
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303 pages ; 22 cm
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"Dear Fang, With Love tells the story of seventeen-year-old Vera?ravishing, troubled, wildly intelligent?who travels to Europe with her estranged father, hoping that an immersion in history might help them forget his past mistakes and her uncertain future."--Amazon.com.
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2021.
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"Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young--but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
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213 pages ; 22 cm
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Beautiful and charismatic, Catherine, a.k.a. "Maman," smokes too much, drives too fast, laughs too hard, and loves too extravagantly. During a joyful and chaotic childhood in Paris, her daughter Violaine wouldn't have it any other way. But when Maman is hospitalized after a third divorce and a breakdown, everything changes. As the story of Catherine's own traumatic childhood and adolescence unfolds, the pieces come together to form an indelible portrait...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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292 pages ; 25 cm
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"When Pru Steiner met and married Spence Robin--her dazzling young hotshot English professor at Columbia--she thought she knew what she was signing up for. But thirty years later, when Spence develops early-onset Alzheimer's, the peaceful (if ambivalent)life Pru has built for herself begins to crumble. Spence is no longer the Great Man she fell in love with, and as his needs become more pronounced, Pru finds herself short on money, overwhelmed by...
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Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
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317 pages ; 22 cm
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"Isabel has one rule: no dating. It's easier-it's safer-it's better-for the other person. She's got issues. She's got secrets. She's got rheumatoid arthritis. But then she meets another sick kid. He's got a chronic illness Isabel's never heard of, something she can't even pronounce. He understands what it means to be sick. He understands her more than her healthy friends. He understands her more than her own father, who's a doctor. He's gorgeous,...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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340 pages ; 24 cm
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Growing up in the nineties in New York City as the only child of famous parents was both a blessing and a curse for Isabelle Manning. Her beautiful society hostess mother, Claire, and New York Times bestselling author father, Ward, were the city's intellectual It couple. Ward's glamorous obligations often took him away from Isabelle, but Claire made sure her childhood was always filled with magic and love. Now an adult, all Isabelle wants is to be...
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
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1 DVD (ca. 75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Join the antics of Bear, a life-size muppet, and his friends who live in the Big Blue House. In 'Big blue housecall', Doc Hog visits the Big Blue House to give everyone a checkup. In 'That healing feeling', Tutter hurts his tail and discovers that visiting the doctor can be fun. In 'Picture of health', Bear teaches his friends that it is not only good food and exercise that make us feel healthy, but an occasional rest can refresh you and make you...
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William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With Julia comes her family; she is inseparable from her three...
20) Underdog city
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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354 pages ; 22 cm
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"Mortimer Bray is not okay. It seems like everything in his life is changing for the worse. After his own much-loved dog dies, he can't bring himself to carry on with his dog-walking business; there's a strange new girl who's moved into the house next door; and suddenly there's a buzzing feeling of anxiety in his head and heart when he's faced with something new. His neighborhood, Townsend Heights, used to feel like the most comfortable place in the...
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