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"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"--
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Sun Coast chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Zondervan
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English
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Reporter Beth Wright is determined to expose the abuse happening at the St. Clair Children's Home.
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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"[Haigh is] an expertnatural storyteller with an acute sense of her characters' humanity." -NewYork Times
"We have the intriguing possibility that the nextgreat American author is already in print." -Fort Worth Star-Telegram
When Sheila McGann setsout to redeem her disgraced brother, a once-beloved Catholic priest in suburbanBoston, her quest will force her to confront cataclysmic truths about herfractured Irish-American family, her beliefs,...
7) Carrie
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English
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A sixteen-year-old misfit, denied everything by her fanatical mother and abused by her classmates, unleashes her terrifying telekinetic powers on an entire town.
8) Lizzie
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Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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A modern-day reimagining of the story of Lizzie Borden, casting her as a shy seventeen-year-old whose blackouts become worse after her father and stepmother try to prevent her from studying to be a chef.
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Series
Chambers of justice volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Tim LaHaye called The Resurrection File-Craig Parshall's first novel-"one of the most fascinating books I have read in years." Parshall continues with Custody of the State, another legal thriller with tightly drawn characters, tense courtroom scenes, and the struggle of a man to bring his beliefs into real life.
Attorney Will Chambers reluctantly agrees to defend a young mother from Georgia and her farmer husband, suspected of committing the unthinkable...
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English
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After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life
14) Saying grace
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Pub. Date
c1995
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English
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Rue Shaw has everything--a much loved child, a solid marriage, and a job she loves. Saying Grace takes place in Rue's mid-life, when her daughter is leaving home, her parents are failing, her husband is restless and the school she has built is being buffeted by changes in society that affect us all. Funny, rich in detail and finally stunning, this novel presents a portrait of a tight-knit community in jeopardy, and of a charming woman whose most human...
15) Push: a novel
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English
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A self-portrait of a black teenage girl named Precious, whose father rapes her and whose mother batters her. When she becomes pregnant with a second child by her father, she meets a determined and radical teacher, who bullies, cajoles and inspires Precious to learn to read.
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Acorna series volume 1
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HarperPrism
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English
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"Something's Alive In There!"
She was just a little girl, with a tiny horn in the center of her forehead, funny-looking feet, beautiful silver hair, and several curious powers: the ability to purify air and water, make plants grow, and heal scars and broken bones. A trio of grizzled prospectors found her drifting in an escape pod amid the asteroids, adopted her, and took her to the bandit planet Kezdet, a place where no questions are asked and the...
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English
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In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - who got to this place the same...
18) Carrie
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Series
Jet de Plaza and Janés volume 102/8
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Español
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Escucha el escalofriante caso de una joven de apariencia insignificante que se transformó en un ser de poderes anormales, sembrando el terror en toda la ciudad.
Con pulso mágico para mantener la tensión a lo largo de todo el libro, Stephen King narra la atormentada adolescencia de Carrie, y nos envuelve en una atmósfera sobrecogedora cuando la muchacha realiza una serie de descubrimientos hasta llegar al terrible momento de la
...19) The watcher
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
As she sits watching a seemingly perfect family and a handsome lifeguard on the beach, a lonely, troubled girl projects herself into the fantasy lives she has created for them
20) Flying in place
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Publisher
T. Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Emma is twelve. And every few nights, in the hours before dawn, her father comes to her room for minutes that seem like centuries. During those early morning visits, Emma goes for walks. Away from her body. On the ceiling. Anything to be away.
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