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After the kiss
by Terra Elan McVoy.
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382 p. ; 22 cm.
In alternating chapters, two high school senior girls in Atlanta reveal their thoughts and frustrations as they go through their final semester of high school.
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Med head : my knock-down, drag-out, drugged-up battle with my brain
as told by James Patterson & Hal Friedman.
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xv, 302 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to twitch his neck. From that day forward his life became a hell of irrepressible tics and involuntary utterances, and Cory embarked on an excruciating journey from specialist to specialist to discover the cause of his disease. Soon it became unclear what tics were symptoms of his disease and what were side effects of the countless combinations of drugs. The only certainty is that it kept getting worse. This is the true story of Cory and his family's decades-long battle for survival in the face of extraordinary difficulties and a maddening medical establishment.
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Amy & Roger's epic detour
Morgan Matson.
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343 p. : ill. ; 22cm.
After the death of her father, Amy, a high school student, and Roger, a college freshman, set out on a carefully planned road trip from California to Connecticut, but wind up taking many detours, forcing Amy to face her worst fears and come to terms with her grief and guilt.
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Betraying season
Marissa Doyle.
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330 p. ; 22 cm.
In 1838, Penelope Leland goes to Ireland to study magic and prove to herself that she is as good a witch as her twin sister Persy, but when Niall Keating begins to pay her court, she cannot help being distracted.
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Bleach : Vol. 31, Don't kill my volupture
[story and art by Tite Kubo ; English adaptation, Lance Caselman ; translation, Joe Yamazaki].
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168 p. : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
"Ichigo and the rest of the rescue squad have made it as far as the fortress of Las Noches and are one step closer to freeing Orihime from the Arrancars' clutches. And although the battles in Hueco Mundo have been brutal, the opponents have been surprisingly honorable. But that is about to change..."-- from publisher's web site.
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A blue so dark
Holly Schindler.
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277 p. ; 21 cm.
As Missouri fifteen-year-old Aura struggles alone to cope with the increasingly severe symptoms of her mother's schizophrenia, she wishes only for a normal life, but fears that her artistic ability and genes will one day result in her own insanity.
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Brilliant
Rachel Vail.
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249 p. ; 22 cm.
Sixteen-year-old Quinn struggles to maintain her image as a brilliant, good girl when her mother's major error at work leads to financial and legal troubles that turn Quinn's and her younger sisters' world upside-down.
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Caine mutiny : a novel of World War II
Herman Wouk.
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xii, 537 p. ; 21 cm.
The story of a modern-day mutiny aboard a U.S. naval vessel.
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Center field
Robert Lipsyte.
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280 p. ; 22 cm.
Mike lives for baseball and hopes to follow his idol into the major leagues one day, but he is distracted by a new player who might take his place in center field, an ankle injury, problems at home, and a growing awareness that something sinister is happening at school.
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Chasing Orion
Kathryn Lasky.
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362 p. ; 20 cm.
In 1952, when Georgie is eleven years old, her family moves to a new Indiana neighborhood where her teenaged neighbor has polio and is in an iron lung.
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The cupcake queen
Heather Hepler.
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242 p. ; 21 cm.
Penny's mother has moved to Hog's Hollow, has opened a bakery that sells only cupcakes, and she has brought Penny with her. Penny is woebegone: all her friends and her dad are in New York City; she has to help her mother in the bakery; and Hog's Hollow's resident mean girl is making her life a misery.
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Dark flame
Alyson Noël.
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320 p. ; 22 cm.
As her friendship with Haven becomes strained after Haven abuses her new powers as an immortal, Ever delves into the dangerous world of dark magick to free her beloved Damen from Roman's power.
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