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"In the new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of First Comes Love and Something Borrowed, a woman is forced to choose between her family and her most deeply held values. Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville's elite. Her husband's tech business is booming, and her adored son, Finch, is bound for Princeton. Tom Volpe is a single dad working multiple jobs. His adored daughter, Lyla, attends Nashville's...
2) Leaving time
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"Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife, and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants. Yet it's been a decade since she disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind her small daughter, husband, and the animals to which she devoted her life. All signs point to abandonment . . . or worse. Still Jenna--now thirteen years old and truly orphaned by a father maddened by grief--steadfastly refuses to believe in her...
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Simon & Schuster
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[2017]
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English
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"Emmy Award-winning ABC News chief national correspondent and Nightline coanchor, Byron Pitts shares the heartbreaking and inspiring stories of six young people who overcame impossible circumstances with extraordinary perseverance. Abuse. Bullying. War. Drug Addiction. Mental Illness. Violence. None of these should be realities for anyone, much less a young person. But for some it is the only reality they have ever known. In these dark circumstances,...
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Publisher Annotation: When Jack and Kate meet at a party, bonding until sunrise over their mutual love of Froot Loops and their favorite flicks, Jack knows he?s falling?hard. Soon she?s meeting his best friends, Jillian and Franny, and Kate wins them over as easily as she did Jack. But then Kate dies. And their story should end there. Yet Kate?s death sends Jack back to the beginning, the moment they first meet, and Kate?s there again. Healthy, happy,...
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2008
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English
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At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal--that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment.
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As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood...
8) Hold tight
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NOW A NETFLIX SERIES!
The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix dramas Stay Close and The Stranger delivers a #1 New York Times bestseller that asks how well parents really know their children—and puts them on a technological roller coaster of their worst fears.
“We’re losing him.” With those words, Mike and Tia Baye decide to spy on their sixteen-year-old son Adam, who has...
The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix dramas Stay Close and The Stranger delivers a #1 New York Times bestseller that asks how well parents really know their children—and puts them on a technological roller coaster of their worst fears.
“We’re losing him.” With those words, Mike and Tia Baye decide to spy on their sixteen-year-old son Adam, who has...
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Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Rachel Cather is a child of the land, a self-reliant farm girl who sees her home and family threatened by a powerful developer. Determined to stop him, she launches a heroic quest of her own, following the ghost of a young boy deep into the mountains where, legend says, he leads treasure-seekers to a fortune in lost gold - or certain doom. The journey includes friends and foes, perils, and thrills, but the greatest test will be of...
11) Anger is a gift
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Tor Teen, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Moss Jeffries is many things?considerate student, devoted son, loyal friend and affectionate boyfriend, enthusiastic nerd. But sometimes Moss still wishes he could be someone else?someone without panic attacks, someone whose father was still alive, someone who hadn?t become a rallying point for a community because of one horrible night. And most of all, he wishes he didn?t feel so stuck. Moss can?t even escape at school?he and...
12) Archenemy
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Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Max Fist claims to be a hero from another dimension who fell through time and space to Earth, where he has no powers. No one believes his stories except for a local teen named Hamster. Together, they take to the streets to wipe out the local drug syndicate and its vicious crime boss known as The Manager.
13) Don't let go
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Suburban New Jersey Detective Napoleon "Nap" Dumas hasn't been the same since senior year of high school, when his twin brother Leo and Leo's girlfriend Diana were found dead on the railroad tracks -- and Maura, the girl Nap considered the love of his life, broke up with him and disappeared without explanation. For fifteen years, Nap has been searching, both for Maura and for the real reason behind his brother's death. When Maura's fingerprints turn...
14) Punch
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Darkstar Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Jim is a promising teenage boxer, training under the watch of his demanding and alcoholic father. When Jim develops a relationship with a male classmate, the two are forced to navigate isolation, homophobia, and the brutality of small-town life. As Jim discovers what it means to be gay, he realizes how little strength has to do with heroism.
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Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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"A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, Freddy's Revenge", 1985: A new kid on Elm Street is being haunted every night by gruesome visions of Freddy Krueger, the dream stalker.
"A Nightmare on Elm Street", 1984: Nancy is having grisly nightmares. Meanwhile, her high-school friends, who are having the very same dreams, are being slaughtered in their sleep by the hideous fiend of their shared nightmares.
16) Ripper: a novel
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The Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, have always had each other. Yet, while their bond is strong, mother and daughter are as different as night and day. Indiana, a beautiful holistic healer, is a free-spirited bohemian, who looks for the good in people. Amanda is fascinated by the dark side of human nature, like her father, the SFPD's Deputy Chief of Homicide. She is addicted to crime novels and Ripper, the online mystery game she plays. When a...
18) The final six
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Final six volume 1
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Publisher Annotation: Set in the near future, this action-packed YA novel—already optioned by Sony Pictures—will take readers out of this world and on a quest to become one of six teens sent on a mission to Jupiter’s moon. This is the next must-read for fans of Illuminae and The Martian.
19) Flip the bird
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English
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"A teenage falconer in training runs up against trouble when he finds himself falling for a girl who is part of a radical animal rights group"--
20) Sprinter
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FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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A Jamaican teen who is burdened by an unstable father and an unruly older brother hopes a meteoric rise in track and field can reunite him with his mother, who has lived illegally in the US for over a decade. Produced by Jada Pinkett and Will Smith.
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