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From a tormented orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. His cravings take him to Paris at age eighteen to try his hand at art, then back to London to study medicine. But, even so, nothing can sate his nagging hunger for experience. Then he falls obsessively in love with a waitress, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever....
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Giver quartet volume 2
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English
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Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
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English
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Wallace Stegner's uniquely American classic centers on Lyman Ward, a noted historian, who relates a fictionalized biography of his pioneer grandparents at a time when he has become estranged from his own family. Through a combination of research, memory, and exaggeration, Ward voices ideas concerning the relationship between history and the present, art and life, parents and children, husbands and wives. Like other great quests in literature, Lyman...
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The Woman
Lady Henrietta Maclellan longs for the romantic swirl of a London season. But as a rusticating country maiden, she has always kept her sensuous nature firmly under wraps — until she meets Simon Darby. Simon makes her want to whisper promises late at night, exchange kisses on a balcony, receive illicit love notes. So Henrietta lets her imagination soar and writes...
The Letter
A very steamy love letter that becomes
...7) Pickles
Author
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
1988, ©1986
Language
English
Description
When Sarah is permanently disabled in an accident, she continues to ride the once-abused pony she nursed back to health and even enters a race.
11) Hope Mountain
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
It's the end of the line for Jamie Brooks. After losing his house and his girlfriend, Jamie opts for a prescription bottle and the easy way out. But, when even that fails, he heads north on a snowy road straight into his past. Retracing a route from his days as a champion skier, before an ugly accident cost him his skiing career, he finds himself back at a ski school that specializes in second chances, hoping there's one waiting for him. It's going...
12) The one thing
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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After losing her sight--and the future she dreamed of--seventeen-year-old Maggie meets the one person with the ability to help her see all the possibilities life still holds.
14) Dangerous
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English
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When aspiring astronaut Maisie Danger Brown, who was born without a right hand, and the other space camp students get the opportunity to do something amazing in space, Maisie must prove how dangerous she can be and how far she is willing to go to protect everything she has ever loved.
16) Head over wheels
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1978
Language
English
Description
After an automobile accident, 17-year-old identical twins, Terry and Kerry, must face the fact that Terry will never walk again
18) Rules
Author
Language
English
Description
Frustrated with a life that revolves around the needs of her autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a "normal" existence but instead finds her world further complicated and enriched by friendship with a young paraplegic
19) Stuck in neutral
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him
20) Phantom waltz
Author
Series
Kendrick/Coulter/Harrigan series volume 2
Publisher
Onyx Book
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
Rancher Ryan Kendrick falls in love with Bethany Coulter, a woman paralized in a barrell-racing accident.
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