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Now including an excerpt from Victor Lodato's novel, EDGAR AND LUCY, which Lena Dunham praises as "an unusual and intimate epic."
A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR BEST BOOK OF 2009
A BOOKLIST BEST BOOK OF 2009
A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2009
WINNER OF THE PEN USA AWARD FOR FICTION
A fiercely funny and touching debut novel about a young girl trying to find out the truth behind her sister's death
I have a sister who died. Did I tell you this...
2) Girlchild
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Rory Hendrix is the least likely of Girl Scouts. She hasn't got a troop or even a badge to call her own. But she's checked the Handbook out from the elementary school library so many times that her name fills all the lines on the card, and she pores over its surreal advice (Uniforms, disposing of outgrown; The Right Use of Your Body; Finding Your Way When Lost) for tips to get off the Calle: that is, the Calle de las Flores, the Reno trailer park...
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A father follows his runaway daughter into a world of crime and espionage in this thriller.
Amy Boxer, the precocious, frustrated daughter of kidnap consultant Charles Boxer and DI Mercy Danquah, has decided on drastic action: She's leaving home. But Amy can't just walk out. First she goads her parents with a challenge: YOU WILL NEVER FIND ME.
Amy's destination: Madrid. Here, in the strobe lights of bars and crowded dance clubs, she's anonymous...
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Praised as "exuberantly engaging" by the Los Angeles Times and a "beautiful, beautiful piece of writing" by the Houston Post, acclaimed artist Ntozake Shange brings to life the story of a young girl's awakening amidst her country's seismic growing pains. Set in St. Louis in 1957, the year of the Little Rock Nine, Shange's story reveals the prismatic effect of racism on an American child and her family. Seamlessly woven into this masterful portrait...
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In the long, hot Illinois summer of 1973, insecure, motherless Jamie falls under the dangerous spell of her older, more worldly cousin Fawn, who's come to stay with Jamie and her uncle as penance for committing an unmentionable act.
It is a time of awakenings and corruptions, of tragedy and loss, as Jamie slowly discovers the extent to which Fawn will use anything and anyone to further her own ends-and recognizes, perhaps too late, her own complicity...
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Muriel Spark's timeless classic about a controversial teacher who deeply marks the lives of a select group of students in the years leading up to World War II "Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!" So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and sometimes comic teacher at the conservative Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh. Brodie selects six favorite pupils to mold-and she doesn't stop with just their intellectual...
8) Dark rooms
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The Secret History meets Sharp Objects in this stunning debut about murder and glamour set in the ambiguous and claustrophobic world of an exclusive New England prep school.
Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, enigmatic, and only sixteen. The crime is solved, and quickly-a lonely classmate, unrequited love, a suicide note confession-but memory and instinct won't allow Nica's older sister, Grace, to accept the...
10) For such a time
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"A powerful retelling of the biblical story of Esther set during WWII: Blond and blue-eyed Jewess Hadassah Benjamin must save her people--even if she cannot save herself"--
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Brooke and Foxy are spending two weeks at Camp Pocomoke. The girls in her group have been coming to camp together for years and are best summer friends. Brooke is having a hard time fitting in. Can these girls work together and save Camp Pocomoke from being sold to a real estate developer?
12) Omega City
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Omega City volume 1
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When Gillan Sergeant finds a missing page from Dr. Underberg's diary in her dad's office, she sets out to confirm her father's conspiracy theories about a rocket scientist's lost Cold War-era technology. Gillan, her skeptical little brother, her best friend, and a schoolmate obsessed with NASA, descend into an old doomsday bunker in search of answers but they are not alone.
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At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf is the story of a twelve-year-old Parisian Jewish girl in World War II France, living "in hiding" as a Catholic orphan with a family in a small village.
When Danielle Marton's father is killed during the early days of the German Occupation, her mother sends her to live in a quiet farming town near Limoges in Vichy France. Now called Marie-Jeanne Chantier, Danielle struggles to balance the truth of what's happened...
15) About a girl
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Metamorphoses trilogy volume 3
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Aspiring astronomer Tally seeks the illusive musician who could finally shed some light on her past and the mother who abandoned her when she was just a baby. But a mysterious girl soon captures 18-year-old Tally's undivided attention. Soon Tally is left wondering what she knows, where she's heading, and who she loves.
16) Faking normal
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Alexi Littrell is hiding a secret about what happened to her over the summer. A damaged boy moves in with Alexi's family and helps Alexi reveal her secret while he is dealing with some major family issues of his own.
17) I am enough
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Publisher Annotation: This is a gorgeous, lyrical ode to loving who you are, respecting others, and being kind to one another?from Empire actor and activist Grace Byers and talented newcomer artist Keturah A. Bobo. This is the perfect gift for mothers and daughters, baby showers, and graduation. We are all here for a purpose. We are more than enough. We just need to believe it.
18) Last breath
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Protecting someone always comes at a cost.
At the age of thirteen, Charlie Quinn's childhood came to an abrupt and devastating end. Two men, with a grudge against her lawyer father, broke into her home-and after that shocking night, Charlie's world was never the same.
Now a lawyer herself, Charlie has made it her mission to defend those with no one else to turn to. So when Flora Faulkner, a motherless teen, begs for help, Charlie is reminded...
19) Maud's line
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A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, this debut novel chronicles the life and loves of a headstrong, earthy, and magnetic heroine.
Eastern Oklahoma, 1928.
Eighteen-year-old Maud Nail lives with her rogue father and sensitive brother on one of the allotments parceled out by the US Government to the Cherokees when their land was confiscated for Oklahoma's statehood. Maud's days are filled with hard work and simple pleasures, but often marked by...
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