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Sight for Sore Eyes, A Sight for Sore Eyes, A Ruth Rendell Damaged children grow up in different ways. Some can shuffle off the horrors of the past. Others cannot change who they are, or will never know how. Teddy Grex became a handsome young man. Francine H… OL12106W
The Package Deal The Package Deal Izzy Rose Meet Izzy Rose--a hilarious and chic new stepmom trying to come to terms with the package deal. A single "middle-class socialite" living in San Francisco, Izzy loved her career as a successful, Emmy … OL13656942W
I So Don't Do Spooky I So Don't Do Spooky Barrie Summy Someone's out to get Sherry's stepmom. . . .Can she save her before it's too late?Did you know that the main campus of the Academy of Spirits is at a Dairy Queen in Phoenix? Me either. Until now. Som… OL13769960W
Well at the End of the World Well at the End of the World Robert D. San Souci In this fairy tale, loosely based on English and Scottish lore, feisty Princess Rosamond, who prefers good books to good looks, risks her throne and all her wealth to save her father's life. OL15077053W
Maggie forevermore Maggie forevermore Joan Lowery Nixon Happy living with her Texas grandmother and looking forward to celebrating a family Christmas, thirteen-year-old Maggie is devasted when she is summoned by her movie-director father to spend Christma… OL15130605W
Nancy's Story Nancy's Story Joan Lowery Nixon In 1765, twelve-year-old Nancy worries about effect of the British Stamp Act on her father's silversmith business in Williamsburg and about how to get along with her new stepmother. OL15130623W
A Cinderella Story A Cinderella Story Robin Wasserman Tween movie alert! Top teen Hilary Duff stars as a Valley-girl Cinderella! Once upon a time: Samantha, a San Fernando Valley teen, lived with her widowed dad. Then, he fell into the marital clutch… OL15136030W
Mr. Family Mr. Family Margot Early Kal Johnson is a still-grieving widower with a young child. He can't imagine marrying again not for love, anyway. But it's becoming increasingly clear that his daughter needs someone besides him. A m… OL15147000W
The smart stepmom The smart stepmom Ron L. Deal "Encouragement and practical advice for stepmoms on how to deal with their role in the stepfamily. Includes parenting advice, chapters for the husband to read, guidance for women dating men with chil… OL15468689W
Chime Chime Franny Billingsley In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, Wales, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury… OL15601920W
In a perfect world In a perfect world Laura Kasischke "The Pilot's Wife" meets "The Road" in critically-acclaimed poet Kasischke's new novel of marriage, motherhood, and the choices people make when they feel they have no choices left. OL15843454W
The twelve tasks of Flavia Gemina (The Roman Mysteries #6) The twelve tasks of Flavia Gemina (The Roman Mysteries #6) Caroline Lawrence When a Roman widow shows unusual interest in Flavia's father, Flavia decides to discover Cartila's true motives by performing twelve tasks, just like the Greek hero Hercules. OL15857054W
Katy's debate Katy's debate Kim Vogel Sawyer Katy, a Mennonite teenager attending secular high school, joins the debate team, and tries to keep her father from remarrying so that she does not have to adjust to having a stepmother. OL15896559W
Casting about Casting about Terri DuLong In the four years since Monica Brooks moved to Cedar Key, Florida, she's found a home, a husband, and a business taking over her mother's bustling knitting shop. But when her husband Adam's ex-wife i… OL15897413W
Princess of the wild swans Princess of the wild swans Diane Zahler Twelve-year-old Princess Meriel must sew shirts from stinging nettles in order to rescue her five older brothers from their evil stepmother's spell lest they remain swans forever. Inspired by the And… OL16002145W
Compromised Compromised Kate Noble Miss Gail Alton is not having a good day. Or a good year. First, her new stepmother strong-arms her into attending the Season as a foil to her beautiful sister Evangeline. Then, while riding her mare… OL16070129W
The lunatic's curse The lunatic's curse F. E. Higgins The town of Opum Oppidulum is home to the freezing Lake Beluarum and its rumored monster. On an island at the center of the lake is an asylum from which no one has ever escaped. So how will Rex, whos… OL16615623W
Bittersweet Rain Bittersweet Rain Sandra Brown After the death of her wealthy husband, a young widow must settle the estate with his son -- the same man who once broke her heart. Caroline Dawson survived the town gossips who whispered behind h… OL167269W
Winter Winter Marissa Meyer Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen … OL17304541W
The trouble with Harry The trouble with Harry Katie MacAlister Answering an advertisement for a wife, Plum may have found the man of her dreams in her new husband Harry, a titled aristocrat and former spy, whose dangerous past and mischievous brood of children m… OL17716000W
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