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Identical [electronic resource]
Ellen Hopkins.
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Kaeleigh and Raeanne are the identical twin daughters of a politician mother and a district-court judge father. The family appears to be perfect, except that both girls harbor secrets. Raeanne chooses drugs, alcohol, and sex to mask the jealousy she feels when her father lavishes attention on Kaeleigh. But both girls are in trouble, and one must find the strength to save the other. But which one?
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Indignation [electronic resource]
Philip Roth.
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What impact can American history have on the life of the vulnerable individual? It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad--mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy. As the long-suffering, desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father's fear arises from love and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger in Marcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. He leaves them and, far from Newark, in the midwestern college, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world.
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Inside the red mansion [electronic resource] : on the trail of China's most wanted man
Oliver August.
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<P>Due to a mix-up, Oliver August stumbles onto the hunt for China's most wanted man, Lai Changxing, an illiterate tycoon on the run from corruption charges. Sensing something emblematic in this outsized tale of rise and fall, August sets out to find the self-made billionaire, in the hope that if he can understand how Lai reinvented himself, he will also better understand the tectonic forces transforming modern China...
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Just breathe [electronic resource]
Susan Wiggs.
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Cartoonist Sarah Moon flees an unhappy and barren marriage in Chicago, going back to the California coastal town where she grew up. As her heart reawakens with her high school hearthrob, she discovers she's pregnant... with her ex's twins.
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Kill chain [electronic resource] : an Evan Delaney novel
Meg Gardiner.
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When a wrecked car belonging to her father is found at the bottom of a hundred-foot drop, Evan Delaney soon discovers that he has been kidnapped, and she has seventy-two hours to solve a puzzle and save his life.
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Killer weekend [electronic resource]
Ridley Pearson.
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Eight years after saving the life of a state attorney general from an assassination attempt, a county sheriff finds himself once again protecting the high-profile politician, now a presidential hopeful, during a billionaire's communications conference.
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King Dork [electronic resource]
Frank Portman.
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Tom Henderson (aka King Dork, Chi-mo, Hender-fag, and Sheepie) is a typical American high school loser. Zero athletic skills, a nonexistent social life, and an inexhaustible supply of rock-and-roll dreams. Up until the tenth grade, he spent his days with his alphabetical-order friend, Sam Hellerman, attempting self-preservation by avoiding the general normal/psychotic high school student body and administration. Until he discovers the book--The catcher in the rye--that will change the world as he knows it. When Tom finds his deceased father's copy of the Salinger classic, then discovers a secret code, a funeral card, and a twenty-four-hour Martinizing receipt, he finds himself in the middle of several interlocking conspiracies and at least half a dozen mysteries involving dead people, naked people, fake people, ESP, blood, guitars, monks, witchcraft, the Bible, girls, the Crusades, a devil head, and rock and roll. And it looks like it's all just the tip of a very odd iceberg of clues that may very well help Tom unravel the puzzle of his father's death and--strangely--reveal the secret to attracting semihot girls. Though being in a band could possibly be the secret to the girl thing--but good luck finding a drummer who can count to four.
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King of the wind [electronic resource] : the story of the Godolphin Arabian
Marguerite Henry.
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He was named "Sham" for the sun, this golden red stallion born in the Sultan of Morocco's stone stables. Upon his heel was a small white spot, the symbol of speed. But on his chest was the symbol of misfortune. Although he was as swift as the desert winds, Sham's proud pedigree would be scorned all his life by cruel masters and owners. This is the classic story of Sham and his friend, the stable boy Agba. Their adventures take them from the sands of the Sahara to the royal courts of France and, finally, to the green pastures and stately homes of England. For Sham was the renowned Godolphin Arabian, whose blood flows through the veins of almost every superior Thoroughbred. Sham's speed--much like his story--has become legendary.
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Kingdom keepers II [electronic resource] : Disney at dawn
Ridley Pearson.
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When the evil Overtakers gain control of a computer server at the Magic Kingdom, allowing them to put the holographic hosts into permanent comas if they should fall asleep, Finn and the others race against time to find the missing Jez and foil the plan.
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The letters [electronic resource] : a novel
by Luanne Rice & Joseph Monninger.
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Sam and Hadley West are both trying in their own ways to survive after the unthinkable loss of their only son in Alaska. Sam goes to the arctic wilderness to find the place where Paul died. Hadley rents a cottage off the Maine coast where she begins to paint again. At opposite ends of the country, waiting for their divorce to be finalized, they begin to exchange letters, missives filled with longing and truths they've never before voiced, as they recall their marriage and begin to rediscover the reasons they fell in love in the first place.
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Light of the moon [electronic resource]
Luanne Rice.
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New York times bestselling author Luanne Rice transports listeners across the sea in this moving, magical tale of a lonely woman with a promise to keep. Spurred by her mother's dying wish, Susannah Connolly has traveled from her lifelong home on the Connecticut shoreline to the fabled French Camargue, to see its famous white horses and find a mysterious saint linked to her family's history. An accomplished anthropologist, Susannah has always been confident of her ability to navigate anywhere on the globe. But in the wake of a failed love affair and grieving the loss of her mother, she is adrift and uncertain. American-born Grey Dempsey had come to the Camargue as a journalist, fell in love with a celebrated Romany rider, and suffered a devastating loss of his own. Now he operates a ranch as he struggles to raise his spirited but troubled young daughter, who now fears the horses she once loved. Within their bittersweet private orbit, Susannah Connolly will find a part of herself she hadn't known she had lost.
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Lion in the White House [electronic resource] : a life of Theodore Roosevelt
Aida D. Donald.
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New York state assemblyman, assistant secretary of the Navy, New York City police commissioner, governor of New York, vice president and, at forty-two, the youngest president ever -- in his own words, Theodore Roosevelt "rose like a rocket." He was also a cowboy, a soldier, a historian, an intrepid explorer, and an unsurpassed environmentalist, all in all, perhaps the most accomplished chief executive in our nation's history. Roosevelt built the Panama Canal and engaged the country in world affairs, putting a temporary end to American isolationism. And he won the Nobel Peace Prize -- the only sitting president so honored. In Lion in the White House, historian Aida Donald masterfully chronicles the life of this first modern president.
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