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  Heaven Is for Real

  A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

  by Todd Burpo

  A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven.Heaven Is for Real is the absolutely 100% true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room.... (more)
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  Dave Pelzer's Memoirs: Book 1

  A Child Called "It"

  One Child's Courage to Survive

  by Dave J. Pelzer

  This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. As a child Dave Pelzer was abused in ways one cannot begin to imagine; his alcoholic mother brutally beat, starved, and isolated him. She played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer... (more)
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  Baby

  by Patricia MacLachlan

  A girl and her family take in a baby named Sophie, raising her, teaching her games and words, and loving her, yet knowing that her mother will return for her someday. Reprint. AB. H. K.
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  The Last Dragon Chronicles: Book 4

  The Fire Eternal

  by Chris d'Lacey

  Five years have passed since David Rain, now a bestselling author, disappeared mysteriously in the Artic. Slowly the ice is changing; bears are starving; dragons are rising; and the spirit Gaia, goddess of the Earth, is restless, wanting to act upon these changes. But all living things may suffer if she does. As the weather grows wilder and the ice caps melt, all eyes turn from the north to David's daughter,... (more)
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  Living Dead Girl

  by Elizabeth Scott

  Once upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was.When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends -- her life. She learned to give up all power, to endure all pain. She waited for the nightmare to be over. Now Alice is fifteen and Ray still has her, but he speaks more and more of her death. He does... (more)
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  Diary of a Worm

  by Doreen Cronin, Harry Bliss

  This is the diary . . . of a worm. Surprisingly, a worm not that different from you or me. Except he eats his homework. Oh, and his head looks a lot like his rear end. Doreen Cronin, the New York Times best-selling author of CLICK, CLACK, MOO and GIGGLE, GIGGLE, QUACK , teams up with illustrator Harry Bliss for this hysterical journal about the daily doings and the hidden world of a lovable underground... (more)
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  Letters from Rifka

  by Karen Hesse

  "In letters to her cousin back 'home' in Russia, 12-year-old Rifka tells of her journey to America in 1919, from the dangerous escape over the border through Europe and across the sea to the new country."--Booklist.
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  Island of Lost Girls

  by Jennifer McMahon

  While parked at a gas station, Rhonda sees something so incongruously surreal that at first she hardly recognizes it as a crime in progress. She watches, unmoving, as someone dressed in a rabbit costume kidnaps a young girl. Devastated over having done nothing, Rhonda joins the investigation. But the closer she comes to identifying the abductor, the nearer she gets to the troubling truth about another missing... (more)
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  Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson

  by Ian Halperin

  In late December 2008, Ian Halperin told the world that Michael Jackson had only six months to live. His investigations into Jackson's failing health made headlines around the globe. Six months later, the King of Pop was dead. Whatever the final autopsy results reveal, it was greed that killed Michael Jackson. Friends and associates paint a tragic picture of the last years and days of his life as Jackson made... (more)
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  Two Kisses for Maddy

  A Memoir of Loss & Love

  by Matt Logelin

  Matt and Liz Logelin were high school sweethearts. The pair settled together in Los Angeles and they had it all: the perfect marriage, a beautiful new home, and a baby girl on the way. But just twenty-seven hours after they welcomed Madeline into the world, Liz suffered a pulmonary embolism and instantly died, without ever holding the daughter whose arrival she had so eagerly awaited. Faced with devastating grief... (more)
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  The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven

  A Remarkable Account of Miracles, Angels, and Life Beyond This World

  by Kevin Malarkey

  In 2004, Kevin Malarkey and his six-year-old son, Alex, suffered an horrific car accident. The impact from the crash paralyzed Alex—and medically speaking, it was unlikely that he could survive. “I think Alex has gone to be with Jesus,” a friend told the stricken dad. But two months later, Alex awoke from a coma with an incredible story to share. Of events at the accident scene and in the hospital while he was... (more)
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  Dear Dumb Diary: Book 3

  Am I the Princess or the Frog?

  by Jim Benton

  Jamie is a ordinary girl in High school with crushes, drama, and teachers who spit on every person in class. With ANGELINE, Nerds, and the popular group. Will Jamie get through Middle school?
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  Audrey Rose

  by Frank De Felitta

  When Elliot Hoover loses his wife and daughter, Audrey Rose, in a fiery car crash, his world explodes. To heal his mental anguish and claim some peace, he visits a psychic who reveals to him that his daughter has been reincarnated into Ivy Templeton, a young girl living in New York City. Desperate to reclaim anything from his daughter's past, he searches out Ivy, only to discover that the unbelievable is... (more)
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  Nightmare Mountain

  by Peg Kehret

  As soon as Molly arrives at her aunt and uncle's ranch in rural Washington, things start to go very wrong. Her cousin hates her on sight. Her aunt falls into a mysterious coma. Then, left alone on the huge property, Molly and her cousin discover an intruder lurking in the barn! Armed and desperate, he drags them to the top of a nearby mountain--and triggers an avalanche with a gunshot. Can they make it down the... (more)
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  Deaf Child Crossing: Book 1

  Deaf Child Crossing

  by Marlee Matlin

  Megan is excited when Cindy moves into her neighborhood -- maybe she'll finally have a best friend. Sure enough, the two girls quickly become inseparable. Cindy even starts to learn sign language so they can communicate more easily. But when they go away to summer camp together, problems arise. Cindy feels left out, because Megan is spending all of her time with Lizzie, another deaf girl; Megan resents that... (more)
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  A Streetcar Named Desire

  by Tennessee Williams

  The story of Blanche DuBois and her last grasp at happiness, and of Stanley Kowalski, the one who destroyed her chance.
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  The Language of Flowers

  by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

  The Victorian language of flowers was used to express emotions: honeysuckle for devotion, azaleas for passion, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it has been more useful in communicating feelings like grief, mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now... (more)
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  Moe Prager: Book 6

  Innocent Monster

  by Reed Farrel Coleman

  Seven years have passed since the brutal murder that tore Moe Prager’s family apart and it's been six years since Moe’s brushed the dust off his PI license. But when his estranged daughter Sarah comes to him with a request he cannot refuse, Moe takes a deep breath and plunges back into the icy, opaque waters of secrets and lies. Sashi Bluntstone, an eleven-year-old art prodigy and daughter of Sarah’s dearest... (more)
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  Room

  It's Jack's birthday, and he's excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real - only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside ...Told in Jack's voice, "Room" is... (more)
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  Jack Reacher: Book 7

  Persuader

  by Lee Child

  Jack Reacher. The ultimate loner. An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he’s moved from place to place…without family…without possessions…without commitments. And without fear. Which is good, because trouble—big, violent, complicated trouble—finds Reacher wherever he goes. And when trouble finds him, Reacher does not quit, not once…not ever. But some unfinished business has now found... (more)