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"Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family's peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado--the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land and determined to live as he chooses. Victoria encounters Wil by chance on a street corner, a meeting that profoundly alters both of their young lives, unknowingly igniting as much passion...
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Publisher Annotation: The Summer Place is a testament to family in all its messy glory; a story about what we sacrifice and how we forgive. Enthralling, witty, big-hearted, and sharply observed, this is Jennifer Weiner's love letter to the Outer Cape and the power of home, the way our lives are enriched by the people we call family, and the endless ways love can surprise us. 432pp., 350K
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot (a Tonight Show Summer Read pick) and You Should Have Known, adapted as HBO's The Undoing, Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Latecomer is the story of three siblings, desperate to escape one another, and the upending of their family by the late arrival of a fourth. The Oppenheimer triplets have been reared with every advantage: wealth, education, and the determined attention of at least one of their...
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"When Annie Brown, a fun-loving woman, suddenly dies, her husband, best friend, and her children all struggle to find ways to go on after the loss of the woman who was the center of their lives, and who made life happy, fun, and secure. Her husband is overwhelmed with four children to raise, and turns to his teenage daughter for help, and to an old girlfriend for solace. Annie's best friend struggles again with opioid addiction, having depended on...
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In the months after his father's suicide, it's been tough for sixteen-year-old Aaron Soto to find happiness but with the support of his girlfriend Genevieve, he's slowly remembering what that might feel like. When Genevieve leaves for a couple of weeks, Aaron starts hanging out with a new guy, Thomas. Aaron's friends notices, and they're not exactly thrilled. But Aaron can't deny the happiness Thomas brings or how Thomas makes him feel safe from himself....
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"An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the private jokes, ancient grudges, broken hearts, and deep, abiding love that feeds them all. Here are the three things the Sullivan family knows to be true: the Chicago Cubs will always be the underdogs; historical progress is inevitable; and their grandfather, Bud, founder of JP Sullivan's, will always make the best burgers in Oak Park. But when, over...
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Gallery Books
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First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
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In the 1950s, 9-year-old Andrea Rodriguez and her brother leave Woronoco, Massachusetts, for the mountain villages of Puerto Rico and then, months later, are brought back to the tiny factory town where everything has changed and must navigate the rifts between their family's values and all-American culture as they journey into adulthood.
8) Love grows
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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First edition.
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"Told through a series of poetic letters, this charming celebration of family, plants and boundless love follows a little girl who receives her very own plant baby from her aunt, a gift that helps her bloom and grow, just as the love for her aunt blossoms as well"--
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Papercutz
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Graphic novel.
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Being a little sister is a full time job for Maureen! One minute she is playing pranks, teasing, and pestering her sister, Wendy, as a good little sister should. The next minute, she is consoling the inconsolable, attempting to mend Wendy's broken heart.
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Scholastic Inc
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No hay nada mejor que subir a un podio y levantar un trofeo en lo alto. Al menos eso es lo que piensa Allie, que nunca ha ganado un premio. Todos en su familia son especiales de alguna manera: su hermana pequeña es una estrella de televisión; su hermano es un talentosísimo jugador de fútbol; su bisabuelo fue condecorado con la Medalla de Honor del Congreso. Con una familia así, Allie sabe que tiene que esforzarse para dejar una huella. Está...
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Zondervan
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In a world of divisions and margins, those who act, look, and grow a little differently are all too often shoved aside. Scoot Over and Make Some Room is part inspiring narrative and part encouraging challenge for us all to listen and learn from those we're prone to ignore. Heather tells hilarious stories of her growing kids, spontaneous dance parties, forgotten pants, and navigating the challenges and joys of parenthood. She shares heartbreaking moments...
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Loud house volume 2
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Papercutz
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"More household hijinks with Lincoln Loud and his ten sisters: Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lisa, Lola, Lana, and Lily. Learn the ins and outs of the living in THE LOUD HOUSE and thriving in the chaos. Back-to-school shopping with 10 sisters? No problem! How to get the coveted grape popsicle as soon as it arrives in the house? Easy! Dad's night to cook? Send for pizza! Plus, get an inside look at the life of Lincoln's best friend Clyde McBride!...
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Loud house volume 3
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Papercutz
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Since moving to the big city (and away from The Louds and Royal Woods), things have changed for Bobby Santiago and Ronnie Anne. now they're livin' la vida loca--helping out at the bodega and sharing a house with their abuelos and the whole Casagrande family!
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Doubleday
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First edition.
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"It's 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is conscripted to...
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Jack Jones volume 2
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Green Rhino Media LLC
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"Could the old lighthouse that Jack's aunt bought to turn into a guesthouse actually be haunted? Mysterious figures in the windows, strange noises, flickering lights. Is this really the work of ghosts? When the Jones family is invited to stay at the old Point Danger Lighthouse, Jack, his sister Emma and best friend Albert are excited to explore the lighthouse, check out the views, and spend time playing by the sea. But when they hear from the lighthouse...
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"C'est le moment de l'annee ou l'on aime avoir peur! Peppa joue dans les feuilles, decoupe une citrouille et se deguise pour celebrer l'Halloween avec ses amis!"--Back cover.
It is the spookiest time of year! Peppa and her family play outside in the leaves, carve pumpkins, and dress up in costumes for a Halloween party with all of their friends!
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