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  Abandon: Book 1

  Abandon

  by Meg Cabot

  She knows what it's like to die. Now Death wants her back.Seventeen-year-old Pierce knows what happens to us when we die.That's how she met John Hayden, the mysterious stranger who's made returning to normal life—or at least life as Pierce knew it before the accident—next to impossible.Though she thought she escaped him—starting a new school in a whole new place—it turns out she was... (more)
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  Abandon: Book 2

  Underworld

  by Meg Cabot

  Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back. Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera isn’t dead. Not this time. But she is being held against her will in the dim, twilit world between heaven and hell, where the spirits of the deceased wait before embarking upon their final journey. Her captor, John Hayden, claims it’s for her own safety. Because not all the... (more)
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  The Tiger's Child

  by Torey L. Hayden

  What ever became of Sheila? When special-education teacher Torey Hayden wrote her first book, "One Child," almost two decades ago, she created an international bestseller. Her intensely moving true story of Sheila, a silent, profoundly disturbed little six-year-old girl, touched millions. From every corner of the world came letters from readers wanting to know more about the troubled child who had come into... (more)
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  Bum Trilogy: Book 2

  Zombie Butts From Uranus!

  by Andy Griffiths

  The butts strike back!This thrilling sequel to the bestselling The Day My Butt Went Psycho boldly goes where no butt has gone before. It's a heart-stopping, nostril-burning intergalactic adventure, and the fate of the earth itself lies in the balance. Can young Zack stop an invasion of Zombie Butts from taking over the planet? Or is Earth doomed to suffer the tyranny of the stinkiest space invaders this side of... (more)
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  The Lost Daughter

  by Lucy Ferriss

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  Sleutel naar geluk

  by Sarah Dessen

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  The Days of Abandonment

  by Elena Ferrante

  "She is among the greatest Italian authors of recent years."- Corriere della Sera "Ferrante dissects the personal microcosm so well, and with awesome lucidity and precision shows us the meanderings of a woman's mind, the suffering that accompanies being abandoned, and the awful rumbling of time passing."- El Mundo "Elena Ferrante has given us a startlingly beautiful novel of exceptional and bold... (more)
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  The Diary of Hansel and Gretel

  by Kees Moerbeek, Jacob Grimm

  At last, here is the true story of what really happened to Hansel and Gretel, in the words of Gretel herself. This book is a faithful reproduction of Gretel's original diary, complete with all of her drawings -- as well as the very first newspaper article by the Brothers Grimm.
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  Orphan Train West Collection

  by Jane Peart

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  La douleur

  by Marguerite Duras

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  ON THE GOOD, RED ROAD

  by Blake Crouch

  From the author of DESERT PLACES, ABANDON, and “Serial,” comes this short story which is an excellent and affordable introduction to the author’s work. In “On the Good, Red Road,” a group of four hard men trying to reach a remote 19th Century mining town become stranded in an early blizzard and resort to drastic, terrifying measures, to stay alive. *Note: This story is collected with others in the eBook, FOUR... (more)
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  Monsieur Linh and His Child

  by Philippe Claudel

  Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, and with his son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the child in his arms to safety. The other refugees in the detention centre are unsure how to help the old man; his caseworkers are compassionate, but overworked. Monsieur Linh struggles beneath the weight of his sorrow, and becomes increasingly bewildered and isolated in... (more)
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  The Lovely Bones

  by Alice Sebold

  My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer.This is Susie Salmon. Watching from heaven, Susie sees her happy suburban family devastated by her death, isolated even from one another as they each try to cope with... (more)
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  A Little Princess

  by Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Sara Crewe was best friends with her father, a captain. They always walked around hand in hand, and her father would give little Sara her heart's desires. Then one day Sara's father drops her off at old Miss Minchin's boarding school in London. There she is spoiled with her own room, with beautiful luxuries, closets full of silks and furs. But Sara Crew was not haughty or arrogant at all. She loved the company and... (more)