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Rouse up o young men of the new age!
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Kenzaburō Ōe |
"K is a famous writer living in Tokyo with his wife and three children, the oldest of whom was born with a brain anomaly that has left him mentally disabled. A highly cerebral man who often retreats … |
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The Edge of Winter
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Luanne Rice |
Neve Halloran and her daughter have shared a fierce love for the austere beauty of Rhode Island's South County ever since Neve guided Mickey's first baby steps along the sandy shore. Now, with Micke… |
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Mr. Scarborough's Family
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Anthony Trollope |
It will be necessary, for the purpose of my story, that I shall go back more than once from the point at which it begins, so that I may explain with the least amount of awkwardness the things as they… |
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Melonhead
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Katy Kelly |
DANNY'S TALL AND skinny. Even though he's not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. A 95 mph fastball, but the boy's not ev… |
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Out of reach
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V. M. Jones |
Pressured by his agressively competitive father to play soccer, teenaged Pip McLeod secretly pursues a sport that he truly enjoys--indoor rock climbing. |
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Murder by family
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Kent Whitaker |
This is the tragic story of Kent Whitaker's heart-wrenching journey toward forgiveness and faith after the brutal murder of his wife and one of his sons.
Straight from the headlines comes an incr… |
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Goblins!
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Royce Buckingham |
Sneaking out into the woods near the Canadian border, Sam and PJ come across what looks like a mutant gorilla with a bad attitude. But its no ape its a goblin, and thousands more of them live under t… |
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The fall of light
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Niall Williams |
Beginning in Ireland in the early years of the 19th century, the four Foley brothers flee across the country with their father and the large telescope he has stolen. Soon forced apart by the violence… |
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All shall be well; and all shall be well; and all manner of things shall be well
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Tod Wodicka |
Meet Burt Hecker: a mead-drinking, tunic-wearing medieval re-enactor from upstate New York. He prefers oat gruel to French fries because potatoes were unavailable in Europe before 1200 AD; and, at w… |
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Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet
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Jamie Ford |
"Sentimental, heartfelt....the exploration of Henry's changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a sha… |
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The Roman hat mystery
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Ellery Queen |
A blackmailer is discovered murdered in the back row of a theature during the second act of a play. A search for a top hat that belongs to the murdered man becomes the main focus for Inspector Queen… |
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The Siamese twin mystery
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Ellery Queen |
Ellery Queen and his father are driving through a mountainous area of the United States on vacation when they are forced by a forest fire to seek shelter in a private home on the top of a mountain. T… |
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My son, the time traveler
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Dan Greenburg |
After months of hoarding his allowance, Zack is on his way to buy a prized baseball card. But when he gets to the store, the owner tells him that someone else has just bought it. Who, you may ask, ha… |
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Mississippi trial, 1955
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Chris Crowe |
Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old black teenager from Chicago, was unused to the mores of the segregated South. While visiting his uncle in the summer of 1955, he allegedly made flirtatious remarks to… |
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The Lord of Death
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Eliot Pattison |
Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national and a former Beijing investigator on parole from the Tibetan gulag to which he had been consigned as punishment. He is ferrying a corpse on muleback over th… |
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Prey
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Lurlene McDaniel |
A teacher is supposed to impart a love of learning and a thirst for knowledge. It's a bit different with Ms. Lori Settles. All the kids are talking about how hot she is--and she is especially interes… |
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Bullet point
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Peter Abrahams |
Wyatt never really thought much about his dad—a hardened criminal, a lifer in a prison somewhere on the other side of the state. But then the economy had to go and tank, and the community had to go a… |
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Framed in fire
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David Patneaude |
When his stepfather conspires to keep thirteen-year-old Peter at a mental institution, Peter begins to piece together secrets about his past with the help of his younger brother's strangely prophetic… |
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Out of step
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Mary Jane Auch |
After his father remarries, twelve-year-old Jeremy begins to feel that there is no place for him in a family which now includes a stepsister his age who is a superb athlete. |
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A day with Daddy
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Nikki Grimes |
A boy enjoys every moment of a special day with his father, as they play in the park, share french fries, and see a movie together. Includes activity ideas for parents and children. |
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