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Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 22 cm.
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With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.
6) The heir
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Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story ... but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought.
8) Blythewood
Author
Series
Blythewood volume 1
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
489 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"After a summer locked away in a mental institution, seventeen-year-old orphan Ava Hall is sent to Blythewood, a finishing school for young ladies that is anything but ordinary"--
9) East of Eden
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This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks' and the Hamilton's--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The story of two brothers, Aron is a clean-cut model student, engaged to be married, the pride of his hardworking father. Cal is a rebellious loner, sternly rejected...
11) Nest
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Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm
Description
On Cape Cod in 1972, eleven-year-old Naomi, known as Chirp for her love of birds, gets help from neighbor Joey as she struggles to cope with her mother's multiple sclerosis and its effect on her father and sister.
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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
13) Girl about town
Author
Series
Girl about town volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"When fate brings Lulu and Freddie together in 1930s Hollywood, sparks fly--and gunshots follow"--
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In 1946, as London emerges from the shadow of World War II, author Juliet Ashton is having a terrible time finding inspiration for her next book. Then she receives a letter from Guernsey Island, and learns of a unique book club formed on the spur of the moment as an alibi to protect its members from arrest by the occupying Germans during the war. Captivated, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds there will change her life forever.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
195 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Traces the intense friendship and literary bond shared by two mid-twentieth-century New York writers through an exchange of letters that explores their beliefs about faith, passion, and the nature of acceptable sacrifice.
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With the same spirit and humor that characterize her novels, Amy Tan now shares her insight into her own life and how she escaped the curses of her past to make a future of her own. She takes us on a journey from her childhood of tragedy and comedy to the present day and her arrival as one of the world's best-loved novelists. Whether recalling arguments with her mother in suburban California or introducing us to the ghosts that inhabit her computer,...
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Mirror (Disney Hyperion) volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm.
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In 1920s New Orleans, eighteen-year-old Zora, banished after an incident in Harlem, struggles with her overbearing family, magical powers, love of jazz, and forbidden romance with a white man.
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
A complete re-imagining of the 1990s television hit Clarissa Explains it All as 20-something Clarissa tries to navigate the unemployment line, mompreneurs, and the collision of two people in love.
20) The Boneshaker
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When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is wrong and, after investigating, learns that her love of automata and other machines make her the only one who can set things right.
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