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  Inexcusable

  by Chris Lynch

  "I am a good guy. Good guys don't do bad things. Good guys understand that no means no, and so I could not have done this because I understand." Keir Sarafian knows many things about himself. He is a talented football player, a loyal friend, a devoted son and brother. Most of all, he is a good guy. And yet the love of his life thinks otherwise. Gigi says Keir has done something awful. Something unforgivable.... (more)
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  No Pretty Pictures

  A Child of War

  by Anita Lobel

  The beloved Caldecott Honor artist now recounts a tale of vastly different kind -- her own achingly potent memoir of a childhood of flight, imprisonment, and uncommon bravery in Nazi-occupied Poland. Anita Lobel was barely five when the war began and sixteen by the time she came to America from Sweden, where she had been sent to recover at the end of the war. This haunting book, illustrated with the author's... (more)
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  Demon

  A Memoir

  by Tosca Lee

  Clayton has just been hired to author a memoir for Lucian, a demon with an extraordinary story to share. The fallen angel chronicles a life of heavenly bliss and rebellion, human creation and salvation, and God's relentless pursuit of mankind. This fresh and provocative look at the spiritual struggle for our souls will keep you turning the pages with its intelligent and believable characters and... (more)
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  Stanford Wong Flunks Big-time

  by Lisa Yee

  Stanford Wong is having a bad summer. If he flunks his summer-school English class, he won't pass sixth grade. If that happens, he won't start on the A-team. If *that* happens, his friends will abandon him and Emily Ebers won't like him anymore. And if THAT happens, his life will be over. Then his parents are fighting, his grandmother Yin-Yin hates her new nursing home, he's being "tutored" by the world's biggest... (more)
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  Monére, Children of the Moon: Book 1

  Mona Lisa Awakening

  by Sunny

  A smoldering debut novel exploring the passion, hunger, and danger that can break loose in the moonlight. From the time she was a child, Mona Lisa knew she was different-but she never knew how different until a man of otherworldly beauty appeared during her night shift in the ER. Gryphon is hurting and hunted and he attracts her as no man ever has before. He is a Monère, one of the children of the moon-and... (more)
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  Shark Girl

  by Kelly L. Bingham

  One sunny day, at the beach with her mom and older brother, fifteen-year-old Jane Arrowood goes for a swim. And then everything absolutely everything changes. Now she's counting down the days until she returns to school with her fake arm, where she knows kids will whisper "That's her -- that's Shark Girl" as she passes. In the meantime there are only questions: Why did this happen? Why her? What about her art?... (more)
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  Under the Quilt of Night

  by Deborah Hopkinson

  Award-winning duo Deborah Hopkinson and James E. Ransome combine their talents once more for this sequel to the best-selling Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. Traveling late one night, a runaway slave girl spies a quilt hanging outside a house. The quilt's center is a striking deep blue -- a sign that the people inside are willing to help her escape. Can she bravely navaigate the complex world of the... (more)
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  Hotel Babylon

  by Imogen Edwards-Jones

  A luxury-hotel manager reveals what goes on behind closed doors...and sometimes, right out in the hallway. The manager of an exclusive boutique hotel (who shall remain nameless) exposes the low-life styles of the rich and famous. And we're not talking just loud all-night bashes... The anonymous author has encountered lavish drug parties, gorgeous call girls, naked guests falling out of windows,... (more)
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  Riley Jenson Guardian: Book 6

  The Darkest Kiss

  by Keri Arthur

  Danger turns her on. Desire turns her dangerous... Riley Jenson hunts evildoers—and does it with a style all her own. With vamp blood coursing her through her veins, and a werewolf’s uncanny instinct for danger, Riley wears snakeskin stilettos and pure, in-your-face attitude when she plunges into her latest case: hunting down a killer whose victims are high-society strumpets—and the rich and powerful men they’ve... (more)
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  Still Alice

  by Lisa Genova

  Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into... (more)
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  Nadia Stafford: Book 2

  Made To Be Broken

  by Kelley Armstrong

  The author of the acclaimed Women of the Otherworld series returns with her latest novel featuring an exciting heroine with a lethal hidden talent. This time she’s hot on the trail of a young woman no one else cares about—and a killer who’s bound to strike again.Nadia Stafford isn’t your typical nature lodge owner. An ex-cop with a legal code all her own, she’s known only as “Dee” to her current... (more)
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  Jane Eyre (A Norton Critical Edition)

  by Charlotte Brontë

  The text reprinted in this new edition is that of the 1848 third edition text-the last text corrected by the author. b>Contexts includes eighteen new selections and two new subsections: "Charlotte and Jane's Illustrated Book"-which includes a letter from Brontë to her publisher W. S. Williams; "Vignettes from Bewick"; and "Charlotte Brontë and Bewick's 'British Birds'"-and "Charlotte Brontë as Governess,"... (more)
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  Time Warriors: Induction

  by Tom Tancin

  "Time. What is time? Is it just a creation of man? And if it is, can we alter it? And if we can alter it, can we control it?" -Dr. Johnson, Creator of Time Machine What if you were responsible for protecting all of time? Four young adults are given that task after the government creates a time machine. They embark on an adventure so great, it will change their lives forever. Join them as they get INDUCTED... (more)
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  Eight Hours From England

  by Anthony Quayle

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  American Psycho

  by Bret Easton Ellis

  The controversial novel about a handsome serial killer who moves among the young and trendy in 1980s New York.
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  Mercy Thompson: Book 5

  Silver Borne

  by Patricia Briggs

  Being a mechanic is hard work. Mercy Thompson, for instance, just spent the last couple of months trying to evade the murderous queen of the local vampire seethe, and now the leader of the werewolf pack - who's maybe-more-than-just-a-friend - has asked for her help. A book of fae secrets has come to light and they're all about to find out how implacable - and dangerous - the fae can be. OK, so maybe her troubles... (more)
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  Great Expectations

  by Charles Dickens

  Young orphan Pip finds his life changed forever when he helps escaped convict Magwitch, and falls impossibly in love with Estella, the beautiful, icy charge of bitter Miss Haversham. Then an anonymous well-wisher gives him money to begin a new life in London. Are these events random? Or does Pip's fate hang on a series of coincidences he could never have expected? Books that save lives come in one colour Choose... (more)
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  Tout doit disparaître

  by Mikaël Ollivier

• Davita's Harp. a NovelChaim Potok

  

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  Davita's Harp. a Novel

  by Chaim Potok

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  This Purple Earth (A sci-fi classic!)

  by M.P. Shiel

  NOTE: This edition has a linked "Table of Contents" and has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader, iPad e-book reader, iPhone e-book reader, BlackBerry e-book reader, Android e-book reader, iPod e-book reader and your Amazon Desktop Reader. A treasure of cosmic horror from acclaimed british author, M.P. Shiel. (Later released under the title, The Purple... (more)