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The hero-narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden...
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Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 volume : chiefly illustrations (black and white) ; 17 cm
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"James and Alyssa are two teenagers living a seemingly typical teen experience as they face the fear of coming adulthood. Forsman tells their story through each character's perspective, jumping between points of view with each chapter. But quickly, this somewhat familiar teenage experience takes a more nihilistic turn as James' character exhibits a rapidly forming sociopathy that threatens both of their futures. He harbors violent fantasies and begins...
3) The heathens
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Quinn Colson novels volume 11
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"Before he was an Army Ranger who came home to become Tibbehah County Sheriff and take down a corrupt system, Quinn Colson was a kid who got into trouble--a lot of it. So when juvenile delinquent TJ Byrd insists that she doesn't know who killed her mother-an unreliable addict who has disappeared-Quinn's inclined to believe her. But no one else does--not the town, not the sheriff in a neighboring county, not her mother's older boyfriend, and certainly...
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Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2018
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1 DVD (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Stranded on an island in a post-apocalyptic world, teenager Dinky and her friends hatch a dangerous plan to escape in the hope of finding a better life. Meanwhile, her old friend Birdboy has shut himself off from the world, pursued by the police and haunted by demon tormentors. But unbeknownst to anyone, he contains a secret inside him that could change the world forever. Based on his own graphic novel, a darkly comic, mind-bending fantasy.
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Sunrise Cove volume 4
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"When Harper Shaw's life falls apart, she knows it's time for a change. She removes everything that doesn't spark joy--from her soul-sucking job to eating kale to making lists--and sets off for the last place she was happy, Lake Tahoe (who wouldn't feel good there, right?) to fulfill her dream of opening her own bakery. With her Sugar Pine Bakery in between a tavern, owned by sexy, grumpy Bodie Campbell, and a bookstore, run by her new BFF, she feels...
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2009
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Fleeing her 1980s Bronx family home in the wake of her unfaithful father's abandonment and her mother's mental illness, Korean teen Joon struggles through an adolescence marked by homeless shelters, addiction, and demeaning jobs.
7) Mean dreams
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Jonas, a local farm boy, and Casey, the daughter of an abusive, corrupt police officer, run away relentlessly pursued by Casey's father.
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Lew Fonesca mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001
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272 p. ; 22 cm.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
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xiv, 224 p. ; 22 cm.
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The author describes how she moved across the country in an attempt to build a new life for her four daughters, only to have her two teenage daughters run away, her frantic struggle to find the missing girls, and her efforts to rebuild their relationship.
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Bellevue-Sur-Mer novels volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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381 pages ; 23 cm.
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The beautiful town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and the plush red carpets of Cannes, is home to Theresa, Carol, William, Benjamin, and Sally: five retired expats who have pooled their resources to set up La Mosaïque, a divine little restaurant. But there is trouble in paradise: the friends are desperately struggling to make ends meet. It will take every bit of their talent and gumption to save La Mosaïque. With fussy customers,...
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Tess of the road volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
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501 pages ; 24 cm.
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"Tess Dombegh sails south as a spy, hunting for evidence of politically motivated crimes while also hunting for the last World Serpent that could save her friend Pathka"-- Provided by publisher.
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Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010
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269 p. ; 24 cm.
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With the help of a troupe of free-spirited freegans, three very clever internet hackers and a bunch of singing vegans, Melbourne baker Corinna and her luscious Daniel go head-to-head with a sinister religious cult on a mission and a band of Romanies out for revenge in a wild and wonderful chase to find two missing runaways.
13) Hello girls
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
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322 pages ; 22 cm
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Winona has been starving for life in the seemingly perfect home that she shares with her seemingly perfect father, celebrity weatherman Stormy Olsen. No one knows that he locks the pantry door to control her eating and leaves bruises where no one can see them. Lucille has been suffocating beneath the needs of her mother and her drug-dealing brother, wondering if there's more out there for her than disappearing waitress tips and a lifetime of barely...
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Three rancheros volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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241 pages ; 21 cm
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"Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn't...
15) Incredible doom
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HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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"Allison is drowning under the weight of her manipulative stage magician father. When he brings home the family's first computer, she escapes into a thrilling new world where she meetings Samir, a like-minded new online friend who has just agreed to run away from home with her. After moving to a new town and leaving all of his friends behind, Richard receives a mysterious note in his locker with instructions on how to connect to 'Evol BBS,' a dial-in...
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