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"Plumville, Georgia had an order to its way of life, and few ever upset it. Benjamin Drummond is heir to all Plumville had to offer--wealth, good looks, and a promising career as a future state judge. As a graduating senior at a local college, he's poised for success, if only he can keep his grades up. With the distractions of playing football, being in a fraternity, and having his pick of the women on campus, he has little incentive to study--until...
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Overwrought when she sees her ex-boyfriend with another girl during a class field trip, seventeen-year-old Miriam Feldman races into the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden and pushes over a priceless Picasso sculpture, then finds herself blackmailed by the mystery girl who saw what she did.
4) Relentless
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Cherry blossom season is Washington, D.C.'s most beautiful time of the year. But as tourists flock to the city, this year's festivities are marred by the discovery of the naked body of a young woman floating in the Tidal Basin. Veteran homicide detective Brian (Brick) Kavanagh is assigned to the case. He's shocked when he learns the victim is connected to another homicide which makes the investigation very personal for him. Brick's efforts to solve...
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When eighteen-year-old Talan Michaels accepts an invitation to join a mysterious secret society at his boarding school, he becomes involved in a conspiracy involving secret passages, cryptic riddles, and a decades-old murder mystery that he must solve to save the school--and, perhaps, lives.
6) Cogheart
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"When her father goes missing, thirteen-year-old Lily Hartman must team up with a clockmaker's son, Robert, and her mechanimal fox, Malkin, to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance and his world-changing invention, a perpetual motion machine called the Cogheart"--
7) The knockout
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2021.
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When seventeen-year-old Kareena Thakkar finally admits she is a top-level Muay Thai fighter, knowing that might further alienate her from her Indian community, her classmates, especially handsome Amit, enthusiastically support her.
8) Moonlocket
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Follows Lily, Robert, and Malkin the mechanical fox as they race around steampunk, Victorian London trying to solve a mystery involving the criminal mastermind Jack of Diamonds and a family heirloom.
9) Unwritten
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Unwritten duology volume 1
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Twelve-year-old storybook character Gracie Freeman lives in the real world but longs to discover what happened in the story she came from.
11) Loving Eleanor
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2016.
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When AP political reporter Lorena Hickok is assigned to cover Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of 1932 Democratic candidate FDR, the women become deeply, intimately involved.
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A gritty, atmospheric glimpse into Los Angeles’s noir underworld.
Ash Levine, the top detective in the LAPD's elite Felony Special Squad, is called out to solve the murder of two young black men found shot to death in a Venice alley. The case is a high priority because one of the victims is the son of City Councilman Isaac Pinkney, a frequent critic of the LAPD. Searching for the killer throws Levine into the world of Los Angeles's Russian Mafia,...
13) You can read
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2017.
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In this picture book, two young children discover that reading can be enjoyed anywhere and everywhere.
15) Story magic
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"Twelve-year-old Kaya must harness the power of story magic--ignoring her society's bias against female magic wielders--to save her brother and find herself"--
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"Gabe has always identified as a boy, but he was born with a girl's body. With his new public access radio show gaining in popularity, Gabe struggles with romance, friendships, and parents--all while trying to come out as transgendered. An audition for astation in Minneapolis looks like his ticket to a better life in the big city. But his entire future is threatened when several violent guys find out Gabe, the popular DJ, is also Elizabeth from school"--...
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2017.
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Set during the chaotic years of World War II, The General's Women tells the story of the conflicted relationship between General Dwight Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, his Irish driver/aide, and the impact of that relationship on Mamie Eisenhower and her life in Washington during the war. Told from three alternating points of view (Kay's, Ike's, and Mamie's), the novel charts the deepening of the relationship as Ike and Kay move from England (1942)...
18) Ten Days
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2019.
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In a quiet suburban neighborhood, Laurel is stuck. Following the death of her husband, she is pulled in many directions— raising her two small children alone, supporting her family's grief while working through her own, and deciding what is next for the Wells family. When her boyfriend plans a well-deserved weekend getaway in a snowy cabin, it seems that things may finally be turning around for Laurel, despite her brother's skepticism. But when...
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2018.
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The Galactic Organic Development Corporation searches the galaxy for primitive sentient species to save from extinction, and then transplants colonies of them to Corporation agricultural planets where they can live happily and safely. The transplanted species survives, and the Corporation Project planets produce some of the most expensive and sought-after food in the galaxy, which it sells to developed worlds with this guarantee: Caringly grown, cultivated...
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2009.
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They're about to save the world; they just don't want to get caught doing it. Zeke, Milo, and Brandon are struggling to keep their environmental protest group, GreensWord, alive. It impresses chicks and sure beats getting jobs as corporate serfs in the real world. But their chief benefactor, movie star Matthew Barrington, threatens to cut off funding unless they stop global warming before his Malibu beach house slides into the storm-tossed ocean....
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