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Between friends: "Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski. Two girls from very different backgrounds become best friends in the turbulent '60s, but their circumstances and choices--and their mistakes--take them in opposite directions. Lesley stays in their hometown. She marries young, living a life defined by the demands of small children, never enough money, and an unfaithful husband. Jill lives those years on a college campus shaken by the Vietnam War,...
2) Shooter
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Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.
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Ollie, who has seizures when near electricity, lives in a backwoods cabin with his mother and rarely sees other people, and Moritz, born with no eyes and a heart defect that requires a pacemaker, is bullied at his high school, but when a physician who knows both suggests they begin corresponding, they form a strong bond that may get them through dark times.
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After an incident at school, seventeen year-old Alaine is spending spring break in a "volunteer immersion project", toiling away under the ever-watchful eyes of Tati Estelle and her eagle-eyed mother at a new nonprofit in Haiti. Although it is meant as punishment, Alaine is still able to flirt with Tati's distractingly cute intern, get some actual face time with her mom and experience her family's history in Haiti for the first time.
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Told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, the latest novel from bestselling author Samira Ahmed traces the lives of two young women fighting to write their own stories and escape the pressure of familial burdens and cultural expectations in worlds too long defined by men.
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"Cassandra McMurtrey has the best parents a girl could ask for; they've given Cass a life she wouldn't trade for the world. She has everything she needs--but she has questions, too. Like, to know who she is. Where she came from. Questions her adoptive parents can't answer, no matter how much they love her. But eighteen years ago, someone wrote Cass a series of letters. And they may just hold the answers Cass has been searching for. Alternating between...
10) Glow
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"When thrift-store aficionado Julie discovers a series of antique paintings with hidden glowing images that are only visible in the dark, she uncovers a century-old romance and the haunting true story of the Radium Girls"--Provided by publisher.
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Eighteen months after Vivien, his beloved transgender girlfriend, slipped into a coma after a suicide attempt, eighteen-year-old Miles begins healing while photographing her empty shoes against the stark landscapes of Iceland. Told through a series of instant messages.
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"Fifteen-year-old Eleanor Fromme just chopped off all of her hair. How else should she cope after hearing that her bully, James, has taken his own life? When Eleanors English teacher suggests students write letters theyll never send, Eleanor writers to James. With each letter she writes, Eleanor discovers more about herself, even while trying to make sense of his death. And, with the help of a unique cast of characters, Eleanor not only learns what...
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"The best love is the sort that stirs the spirit; that makes us go after more; that establishes a fire in our souls and carries harmony to our psyches. That is the very thing I desire to give you until the end of time. ""No, I don't figure I will kiss you, even though you want to kiss seriously. That is what's up with you. You ought to be kissed frequently and by somebody who knows how."Remember, I'm simply a young lady, remaining before a kid, requesting...
15) ¡Desconectados!
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Yaiza y Yoltic llevan vidas muy distintas pero los une la misma pasiàn por los videojuegos. Tras conocerse en un juego online, un evento trágico amenaza con separarlos: ¡los padres de Yaiza la castigan sin internet! Sin embargo, deciden cartearse y empiezan a descubrir qué es lo que hay más allá de los píxeles. Yoltic vive en Coapa, Ciudad de México, en una casa enorme. Sus padres son los dueàos de una fábrica de papel y a pesar de disfrutar...
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RuthAnne's own epistolary narrative, The Last Crabtree Girl, takes you on her journey from the first time she toddled up onto the back of a sleeping thoroughbred yearling to becoming a top world show competitor whose love and understanding of horses never faltered. This book is a glimpse of what it was like growing up with horses and ponies and the hard work involved in becoming a champion.
With the help of top instructors from coast to coast, she...
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Twelve-year-old Annie loves her friends, her animals, and the horse ranch she has lived on her whole life. Ripped from it all at what feels like a moment's notice, she is, placed on a 53-foot sailboat in the Atlantic Ocean with her mom, dad, a captain, a tutor, and her older brother who seems to hate her. Living in such small quarters with her brother DJ is nightmarish all on its own, but her heart was, left on the ranch with her animals and she has...
18) Spooky 13
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Horror stories.Paranormal experiences.These have occupied the popular imagination since time immemorial.What will you do when you encounter a ghost in the classroom or find that your roommate has been possessed?From ghost nurses in hospitals to poltergeists in vacation homes,this epistolatory novel narrates the story of a young medical resident who starts encountering paranormal activity in his line of work.When things get overwhelmingly spooky,he...
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It all started with a lie…
When I saw you for the first time I fell in love with your wild spirit, with how free you were and what you made me feel. But it was all a lie, wasn't it? Just one of the thousands we told. It was easier to pretend and ignore the signs. It was easier to write each other letters and hold hands. But that was my mistake, I guess. Going along with your game.
Now you're gone…
One day you simply disappeared, turning...
20) Dronehunter
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When a girl from the city shows up, a young falconer starts to get interested in her. But will he manage to win her heart, when he has to survive every day by hunting delivery drones around the city, when things go bad one after another and when she turns out to be too much of a free spirit?
A story with GameLit elements.
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