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The Fashion Disaster That Changed My Life

The Fashion Disaster That Changed My Life

by Lauren Myracle

Alli longs to be popular, but fate just keeps conspiring to make her totally uncool. Who else would be humiliated by a piece of her mom's underwear stuck to her butt by static cling? Despite the fact that Alli is certain the universe is plotting against her, she does eventually break into the inner circle of seventh-grade cool. But nothing is as she expected, and there's ugliness lurking behind even the prettiest... (more)

Run

by Ann Patchett

Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive, and ambitious father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see his sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep... (more)

The Divine Feminine

The Secret Magdalene: A Novel

by Ki Longfellow

Raised like sisters, Mariamne and Salome are indulged with riches, position, and learning-a rare thing for females in Jerusalem. But Mariamne has a further gift: an illness has left her with visions; she has the power of prophecy. It is her prophesying that drives the two girls to flee to Egypt, where they study philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy in the Great Library of Alexandria. After seven years they... (more)

Season of the Swan [Audiobook] by Evan MaxwellMaxwell Evan

Season of the Swan [Audiobook] by Evan Maxwell

by Maxwell Evan

Meet Julie (American Girls Collection)

by Megan McDonald

Julie Albright doesn't want to move away from her San Francisco neighborhood near Chinatown, even if their new apartment is just a few miles away. Moving means leaving her best friend, Ivy, and her pet rabbit, Nutmeg. Worst of all, it means leaving Dad, now that her parents are divorced. Julie tries to make the best of it by joining the school's basketball team, but the coach won't allow girls to play. She learns... (more)

Making It on My Own

by Marlene

friends till the end

by julie ojeda nin

jessis was an innocent nine year old girl, when she witnessed gruesome events perpetrated by those close to her. In a new york minute, her life changes drastically from an upscale home in Queens, NY, living wit her supportive grand mother, to a patterson project apartment in south Bronx, with her overworked, abusive mother. being thrown in the heart of the hood, jessie creats everlasting friendships with Rosa, a... (more)

The Spanish Bow

by Andromeda Romano-Lax

**DEBUT FICTION** I was almost born Happy. Literally, Feliz was the Spanish name my mother wanted for me. Not a family name, not a local name, just a hope, stated in the farthest-reaching language she knew—a language that once reached around the world, to the Netherlands, Africa, the Americas, the Philippines. Only music has reached farther and penetrated more deeply. In a dusty, turn-of-the-century... (more)

The Leper

by Steve Thayer

A veteran of World War I, John Severson becomes a school teacher in a tough, working-class St. Paul neighborhood where a high school diploma is a rarity. Severson has dreams, aspirations. But something had happened to him during the war, something awful. And it follows him home and changes every part of his life. John Severson becomes a leper. Instantly he is torn from his dreams, disconnected from his beautiful... (more)

Lone SurvivorMarcus/ Robinson, Patrick Luttrell

Lone Survivor

by Marcus/ Robinson, Patrick Luttrell

The Perfect Christmas

by Debbie Macomber

Christmas perfect? For Cassie Beaumont, it’s meeting her perfect match. Cassie, at thirty-three, wants a husband and kids, and so far, nothing’s worked. Not blind dates, not the Internet and certainly not leaving love to chance. What’s left? A professional matchmaker. He’s Simon Dodson, and he’s very choosy about the clients he takes on. Cassie finds Simon a difficult, acerbic know-it-all, and she’s astonished... (more)

Iubirea fata de aproapele(L’amour du prochain)

Iubirea fata de aproapele(L’amour du prochain)

by Pascal Bruckner

Dear America: The Heading West Collection: Box Set

Dear America: The Heading West Collection: Box Set

Each of the four books in this box set offers a different story about the journey to the West and the pioneering spirit that flourished in nineteenth century America -- that of a boy traveling with the ill-fated Donner Party, a girl making the journey with her family along the Oregon Trail, a girl whose father brings her to California as he takes part in the gold rush, and a girl who witnesses the construction of... (more)

The Iliad

by Homer, Herbert Jordan, Michael Reck

"Each new generation is bound to produce new translations. <Lattimore> has done better with nobility, as well as with accuracy, than any other modern verse translator. <In> our age we do not often find a fine scholar who is also a genuine poet and who takes the greatest pains over the work of translation."--Hugh Lloyd-Jones, New York Review of Books

Endymion Spring

by Matthew Skelton

Nostalgia

by Mircea Cartarescu

The astonishing debut in English of one of Romania's foremost writers. Mircea Cartarescu, born in 1956, is one of Romania's leading novelists and poets. This translation of his 1989 novel Nostalgia , writes Andrei Codrescu, "introduces to English a writer who has always had a place reserved for him in a constellation that includes the Brothers Grimm, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Bruno Schulz, Julio Cortázar,... (more)

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Bronte

There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of love than Wuthering Heights. This is the story of a tormented foundling who falls in love with the daughter of his benefactor, and of the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other.

Robert Langdon: Book 2

The Da Vinci Code

by Dan Brown

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously... (more)

Lisey's Story

by Stephen King

Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey had to learn from him about books and blood and bools. Later, she understood that there was a place Scott went -- a place that both... (more)

The Stranger

by Albert Camus

Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.

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