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Inside Girl (An Insiders Novel)

by J. Minter

Flan Flood is determined to be more than just Patch Flood’s little sister when she begins her freshman year at Stuyvesant High, a huge public school downtown. When she meets a new group of friends that could help her become a new person, Flan has to convince them that she’s just an ordinary girl, like they are. This becomes nearly impossible when her very not normal friends Liesel, Philippa, and Sara-Beth... (more)

Quad

by C. G. Watson

Everything led up to this moment—the point when the teasing, the cruelty, the pressure all became too much. And someone finally snapped. Now six students, from six different cliques, are trapped in the student store while a shooter terrorizes their school. The shooter’s identity is teased out through the students’ flashbacks until the reader breathlessly reaches the final page. It’s only there that he... (more)

It Girl #4, The: Unforgettable: An It Girl Novel (It Girl)

The It Girl: Book 4

It Girl #4, The: Unforgettable: An It Girl Novel (It Girl)

by Cecily Von Ziegesar

Having a roommate at elite Waverly Academy means nightly sleepovers and double the designer wardrobe. But Callie Vernon never really liked late-night girl talk or swapping cashmere sweaters with her younger, rosy-cheeked roomie, Jenny Humphrey. So when Jenny stole her longtime boyfriend, Easy Walsh, Callie didn't feel that guilty about turning right around and kissing him behind Jenny's back. Okay, maybe a little... (more)

Dressing the Petite Woman

by Ellen York

Dressing the Petite Woman is the essential guide to selecting clothes that will help you look sensational! If you’re 5’4” or shorter, you have some challenges besides height—whether it’s a pear-shaped torso, an over-endowed bust, hefty hips, or any of a myriad of trouble spots. In Ellen York’s words, "We’re not real-life dolls." Even fashion models deal with problem areas. No matter what your body shape, there... (more)

Magic Street

by Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card has the distinction of having swept both the Hugo and Nebula awards in two consecutive years with his amazing novels Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead. For a body of work that ranges from science fiction to nonfiction to plays, Card has been recognized as an author who provides vivid, colorful glimpses between the world we know and worlds we can only imagine. In a peaceful, prosperous African... (more)

The Clique: Book 1

The Clique

by Lisi Harrison

The social minefields most privileged middle-school girls drive the over-the-top drama in this addictive new book, set in suburban New York City's Westchester County. Massie Block: With her glossy brunette bob and Whitestrip smile, Massie is the uncontested ruler of The Clique and the rest of the social scene at Octavian Country Day, an exclusive private school in Westchester, New York. Dylan Marvil: Massie's... (more)

The Apothecary Rose (St. Martin's Dead Letter Mysteries)

Owen Archer: Book 1

The Apothecary Rose (St. Martin's Dead Letter Mysteries)

by Candace Robb

Once the king's captain of archers, now he must penetrate a poisoner's secrets... Christmastide, 1363-and, at an abbey in York, two pilgrims die mysteriously dead of an herbal remedy. Suspicious, the Archbishop sends for Owen Archer, a Welshman with the charm of the devil, who's lost one eye to the wars in France and must make a new career as an honest spy. Masquerading as an apprentice to Apothecary Nicholas... (more)

An Old-Fashioned Girl (Puffin Classics-the Essential Collection)

An Old-Fashioned Girl (Puffin Classics-the Essential Collection)

by Marc D. Falkoff, Louisa May Alcott

Polly's friendship with the wealthy Shaws of Boston helps them to build a new life and teaches her the truth about the relationship between happiness and riches.

Free Gift with Purchase: My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup

Free Gift with Purchase: My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup

by Jean Godfrey-June

Everybody loves beauty products. Even if you think you know nothing about them, or even if you think you hate them, you actually know plenty about them and, in fact, have several of them that you love. You have major opinions that lie barely beneath the surface. Women whomodestly/moralistically claim to “never use all that beauty stuff” are big Clinique ladies, usually with a healthy helping of Neutrogena. —Free... (more)

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