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1) Miracle
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English
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For Quinn Thompson, the storm of the century will bring down barriers he has built around himself. For neighbor Maggie Dartman, it will spark friendship at a time she needs it most. And for Jack Adams, a carpenter who repairs Quinn and Maggie's homes, the storm brings an opportunity to help two people and to be repaid with the greatest gift of all.
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Red River of the North volume 2
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English
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The dream of their own farmstead and a good life in America had brought Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund across the Alantic to pioneer the virgin prairie of Dakota Territory. But Roald's tragic disappearance in a winter storm had turned Ingeborg's dreams into a living nightmare. Against nearly impossible circumstance and overwhelming grief, she struggles to keep the farm and her family together. When spring appears, Raold's distant cousin, Haakan arrives...
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Publisher
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Of all the glamorous stars of New York high society, none blazes brighter than Babe Paley and her friends, the alluring socialite Swans. But beneath this elegantly composed exterior dwells a passionate woman, desperately longing for true love and connection. Enter Truman Capote. Through Babe, Truman gains unparalleled access to the scandal and gossip of Babe's powerful circle. Babe never imagines the destruction Truman will leave in his wake-- even...
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House of secrets (Chris Columbus) volume 1
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English
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Cordelia, Brendan, and Eleanor Walker, aged fifteen to eight, must rely on a mysterious book to face the Wind Witch and her father, the Storm King, who have kidnapped Dr. and Mrs. Walker and brought them to a strange world of magic.
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English
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Brooke Holloway is raising six-year-old Meghan and ten-year-old Spencer on her own two years after her husband's death. Being a single mom and running the family's small-town hardware store keep her busy. The last thing on Brooke's mind is falling in love. Owen Saunders fled the big city to start over. Then he bought an old house to restore -- for all the wrong reasons. If anything needs restoration, it is Owen's heart in the aftermath of his failed...
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
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English
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Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.
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English
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Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
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Publisher
Holiday House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When twelve-year-old Garnet finally gets to meet her magical extended family she discovers they're all trapped in the ruins of their crumbling manor and Garnet must break a curse that has decimated three generations of Carrefours"--
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Publisher
HarperTeen
Language
English
Description
Violet Sterling has spent the last seven years in exile, longing to return to Burleigh House. One of the six great houses of England, Burleigh's magic kept both the countryside and Violet happy-- until her father's treason destroyed everything. But when she returns, Burleigh isn't what she remembered. Wild with grief, its very soul crying out in pain, Burleigh Houses's tormented magic ravages the countryside. How far will Vi go to save her house--...
13) Frenzy
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Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 6
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English
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Their destiny is to fix history. Their dream is to get home.When you live in a house that's really a gateway between past and present, you have to be ready for anything. It's a painful fact the Kings have faced since moving to Pinedale eight days ago. Desperately trying to rescue their mother from an unknown time and place, brothers Xander and David have lunged headlong into the chaos of history's greatest--and most volatile--events. But their goal...
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Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Six terrifying tales to chill the blood from the unique imagination of Joyce Carol Oates. A young boy plays with dolls instead of action figures. But as he grows older, his passion takes on a darker edge ... A white man shoots dead a black boy creating a media frenzy. But could it be that it was self-defense as he claims? A nervous woman tries to escape her husband. He says he loves her, but she's convinced he wants to kill her ... These quietly lethal...
15) Undertow
Author
Series
Undertow trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
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Lyric Walker's life forever changes the night she witnesses the arrival of the Alpha, a five-nation race of ocean-dwelling warriors. The world's initial wonder and awe over the Alpha quickly turn into paranoia and fear, tranforming her hometown of Coney Island into a miltary zone with violence bubbling just beneath the surface. Despite her best efforts, Lyric is thrust into the middle of this clash of civilizations when the Alpha teenagers are forced...
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Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
While renovating a cabin in the Minnesota woods, Betsy Devonshire, owner of the Crewel World needlework shop, discovers the skeleton of a Nazi. Her investigation yields the site of a former German POW camp and an intricately designed pattern of clues to a decades-old crime.
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Publisher
Blink
Language
English
Description
Emilie Day believes in playing it safe: she's homeschooled, her best friend is her seizure dog, and she's probably the only girl on the Outer Banks of North Carolina who can't swim. Then Emilie's mom enrolls her in public school, and Emilie goes from studying at home in her pj's to halls full of strangers. To make matters worse, Emilie is paired with starting point guard Chatham York for a major research project on Emily Dickinson. She should be thrilled...
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Little, Brown and Company
Edition
First edition.
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English
Description
Abortion is illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro's best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to...
19) Spellbound
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Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Olive finds herself drawn to the grimoire of the witches who built her house and tries to use its spells to uncover the house's magic and control the cats themselves, but the book is more wicked than it seems.
20) Wrecking ball
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Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 14
Language
English
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When an unexpected inheritance gives Greg Heffley's family a chance to make big changes to their house, they soon discover that renovations may not be worth the effort.
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