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  The Plot Thickens

  8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life

  by Noah Lukeman

  As a literary agent, Noah Lukeman hears thousands of book pitches a year. Often the stories sound great in concept, but never live up to their potential on the page. Lukeman shows beginning and advanced writers how to implement the fundamentals of successful plot development, such as character building and heightened suspense and conflict. Writers will find it impossible to walk away from this invaluable... (more)
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  The Books of Bayern: Book 4

  Forest Born

  by Shannon Hale

  Rin is sure that something is wrong with her…something really bad. Something that is keeping her from feeling at home in the Forest homestead where she’s lived all her life. Something that is keeping her from trusting herself with anyone at all. When her brother Razo returns from the city for a visit, she accompanies him to the palace, hoping that she can find peace away from home. But war has come to Bayern... (more)
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  Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty: Book 1

  Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty

  by Jody Elizabeth Gehrman

  Geena can’t wait to spend summer vacation with her two best girls: her friend Amber and her cousin Hero. All three are working at the Triple Shot Betty coffee shop together, but the moment Amber and Hero meet, the claws come out. They hate each other on sight. Geena’s dreams of a girl-bonding summer fl y out the window, and then threaten to disappear completely when a few cute (okay, drop-dead gorgeous) guys come... (more)
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  Bad Girls: Book 5

  Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do?

  by Cynthia Voigt

  Grade 5-8–Mikey Elsinger and Margalo Epps are back in this fifth book in the series. Improbable best friends since fifth grade, the girls are now in ninth grade. Margalo has more than $200 stolen from her and tries to find the thieves. Mikey is thrown off the tennis team because she refuses to follow the advice of her coach and cheat on line calls. The girls both come up with a scheme to get rid of the bullies who... (more)
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  The Hunger Games: Book 3

  Mockingjay

  by Suzanne Collins

  MY NAME IS KATNISS EVERDEEN.WHY AM I NOT DEAD?I SHOULD BE DEAD.Katniss Everdeen, the girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding.It is by design that Katniss was rescued from the... (more)
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  The Tenth Justice

  by Brad Meltzer

  Fresh from Yale Law School, Ben Addison has just landed one of the most coveted positions in the field of law--a Supreme Court clerkship. After inadvertently revealing the confidential outcome of an upcoming decision to the wrong person, Ben enlists the aid of his housemates and his co-clerk, Lisa, to trap a blackmailer. By pitting co-worker against co-worker, roommate against roommate, "The Tenth Justice" keeps... (more)
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  The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded

  by Marcello Simonetta

  A brutal murder, a nefarious plot, a coded letter. After five hundred years, the most notorious mystery of the Renaissance is finally solved. The Italian Renaissance is remembered as much for intrigue as it is for art, with papal politics and infighting among Italy’s many city-states providing the grist for Machiavelli’s classic work on take-no-prisoners politics, The Prince. The attempted assassination of... (more)
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  Stepping on Roses: Book 2

  Stepping on Roses, Vol. 2

  by Rinko Ueda

  Reads R to L (Japanese Style). A rags-to-riches romance from the creator of Tail of the Moon! Sumi becomes torn when Soichiro's childhood friend Nozomu expresses romantic interest in her. While she is drawn to Nozomu, she is also committed to Soichiro as his wife. As Sumi fights off her feelings for Nozomu, how far will Nozomu go to win Sumi's love?
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  Young Sherlock Holmes: Book 1

  Death Cloud

  by Andrew Lane

  The year is 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. His life is that of a perfectly ordinary army officer's son: boarding school, good manners, a classical education - the backbone of the British Empire. But all that is about to change. With his father suddenly posted to India, and his mother mysteriously 'unwell', Sherlock is sent to stay with his eccentric uncle and aunt in their vast house in Hampshire. So... (more)
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  My Story: Book 6

  Elizabeth

  A Tudor Princess's Diary

  by Kathryn Lasky

  It's 1544, and Princess Elizabeth, the daughter of ill - fated queen Anne Boleyn, has just been banished to yet another country house. Her step - sister hates her, and her father indulges and ignores her by turns. In and out of favor as her father's wives come and go, what does the future hold for an inconvenient, invisible princess...?
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  Birdhouse

  by Vernon White

  The King has grown old and lonely and is ferociously hated in his Kingdom. When a servant attempts to poison him, an all-out search begins for those who resist his rule. Meanwhile, the King's only daughter despises her life in the castle. She dreams of returning to a town she once visited, but is forbidden to take one step outside of the castle walls. Her plans to escape strain her relationship with her fiance who... (more)
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  Brain Camp

  by Susan Kim, Laurence Klavan

  Neither artistic, dreamy Jenna nor surly, delinquent Lucas expected to find themselves at an invitation-only summer camp that turns problem children into prodigies. And yet, here they both are at Camp Fielding, settling in with all the other losers and misfits who’ve been shipped off by their parents in a last-ditch effort to produce a child worth bragging about. But strange disappearances, spooky lights in the... (more)
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  Troubled Waters

  by Sharon Shinn

  The author of the Twelve Hours series welcomes readers to a new fantasy world, where the elements rule. Zoe Ardelay receives astonishing and unwelcome news: she has been chosen to become the king's fifth wife. Forced to go to the royal city, she manages to slip away and hide on the shores of the mighty river. It's there that Zoe realizes she is a coru prime ruled by the elemental sign of water. She must... (more)
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  BDSM The Naked Truth

  by Dr. Charley Ferrer

  Join world-renowned Clinical Sexologist Dr. Charley Ferrer as she pulls back the leather curtain to reveal the truths about love, affection, and the respect shared by men and women who embrace the uniquely erotic lifestyle of Dominance and submission. This book dispels many of the misconceptions Hollywood and the media have propagated, giving the reader a realistic view of the intricacies of the power exchange and... (more)
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  BDSM for Writers

  by Dr. Charley Ferrer

  Join world-renowned Clinical Sexologist Dr. Charley Ferrer as she provides authors with valuable information about Dominance and submission and the various power exchange relationships. This book addresses the emotional and psychological connections men and women make in this uniquely erotic lifestyle, dispelling many of the misconceptions perpetuated by Hollywood and the media. BDSM for Writers provides... (more)
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  Victoria: An intimate biography

  by Stanley Weintraub

  A major biography of Queen Victoria--the first complete life of her in over twenty years--and the first to be written by an American.
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  Bad Girls: Book 3

  It's Not Easy Being Bad

  by Cynthia Voigt

  THE BAD GIRLS ARE BACK! NOW THAT THEY'RE IN SEVENTH GRADE, Mikey and Margalo decide it's time to be popular -- or at least, time to be less un popular. The trouble is, typical, normal kids are what work in junior high, and if there's one thing Mikey and Margalo aren't, it's typical and normal. Mikey's first attempt to crack seventh grade society ends, predictably, in disaster, but, undaunted, the friends... (more)
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  An Absence of Light

  by Dick Hill, David Lindsey

  Captain Marcus Graver of the Houston Police Department discovers evidence of an international smuggling network linking the government to one of the world's most dangerous criminals. By the author of Mercy. Reprint. PW.
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  Asimov's Robot Mystery: Book 1

  Mirage

  An Isaac Asimov Robot Mystery

  by Mark W. Tiedemann

  From a new and exciting talent, Mark W. Tiedemann, comes a fantastic new robot mystery set in the world of the late SF Grand Master and beloved author, Isaac Asimov. The First Law of Robotics states that a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human to come to harm. At a crucial conference uniting the Spacers, the Settlers, and representatives of Earth, Senator Clar Eliton of Earth... (more)
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  The Tudors: Book 6

  The Other Queen

  by Philippa Gregory

  Two women competing for a man's heart Two queens fighting to the death for dominance The untold story of Mary, Queen of Scots This dazzling novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory presents a new and unique view of one of history's most intriguing, romantic, and maddening heroines. Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary, Queen of Scots, who trusted Queen... (more)