Tom Ryan
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Seventeen-year-old Dee secretly hosts a popular true-crime podcast but when a missing child seems linked to the disappearance of her best friend ten years ago, she considers revealing her identity to uncover the truth.
Ten years ago Delia 'Dee' Skinner witnessed the abduction of her best friend, Sibby. She told the police everything she remembered, but it wasn't enough. Sibby was never seen again. Dee deals with her guilt by becoming someone else:...
2) Big time
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"Gerri dreams of making it big as a singer on her favorite reality show, Big Time, but she hasn't counted on being kicked off early in the competition"--Title page verso.
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After a close friend died of cancer, middle-aged, overweight, acrophobic newspaperman Tom Ryan decided to pay tribute to her in a most unorthodox manner. Ryan and his friend, miniature schnauzer Atticus M. Finch, would attempt to climb all forty-eight of New Hampshire's four-thousand-foot peaks twice in one winter while raising money for charity. It was an adventure of a lifetime, leading them across hundreds of miles and deep into an enchanting
...5) Way to go
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Danny is pretty sure he's gay, but he spends his summer trying to prove otherwise.
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"When Angus MacAskill was still just a boy, he began to grow... and grow... and grow! Known far and wide as the Cape Breton Giant, Angus was loved by his neighbours as much for his beautiful singing voice as for his renowned strength. But as much as Angus loved his little town of St. Ann's, Cape Breton, he decided to leave and seek fortune and adventure. With heartfelt text from critically acclaimed author Tom Ryan and meticulously researched and...
7) Tag along
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It's junior prom night. Andrea is grounded for getting her older brother to buy booze for her, Paul is having panic attacks, Roemi has been stood up by his Internet date, and Candace is busy tagging a building (before she gets collared by a particularly tenacious cop). By happenstance, the four near-strangers end up together, getting into more trouble, arguing and ultimately helping each other out over the course of eight madcap hours.
8) Pop quiz
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"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Aiden tries to save his TV show from being canceled."--
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Want to become elite? Get ready for Chosen Suffering.
Life in the twenty-first century is designed for comfort-just look around. We have upgrades for everything-airfare, tickets to the big game, and even our phones. But what's the real cost of comfort?
Easy and elite were never meant to coexist. Throughout history, elite high performers didn't escape suffering-they embraced it. By carrying their cross, they discovered their crown.
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As kids, Mark and his cousin Talia spent summers at the family cottage in Ontario, but a fight between their parents put an end to it. Living on opposite coasts-- Mark in Halifax and Talia in Victoria-- they haven't seen each other in years. Mark and Talia are both queer, but a trip to their grandfather's cabin after his death shows that they have nothing else in common. Talia wants to visit her old sweetheart Erin in Toronto, and Mark wants see the...
11) Deadly departed
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Constable Philo has a new murder case on his hands, one that bears a striking resemblance to the only other murder he has ever investigated, an unsolved homicide that occurred 50 years ago. Despite the passage of time, it appears that the territory's only practicing serial killer has struck once more on Philo's watch. What complicates both cases for the veteran constable, however, is not that the murders were committed a half century apart, but rather...
12) Bogeyman blues
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Thanksgiving is normally the start of a joyous holiday season in the Chicago, but not this year, for a bogeyman has his sights set on the city. His name is Belsnickel, and he is an unseen, globetrotting disaster monger who has peddled his deadly wares in the Windy City a number of times in the past. Now the bogeyman is planning to cloud up and rain all over Chicago's Thanksgiving holiday, hatching a deadly plot that threatens to explode into a tragedy...