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41) Gunpowder empire
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Series
Crosstime traffic volume 1
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Abandoned in a therapeutic boarding school in upstate New York, 16-year-old suicide survivor Benjamin endures a turbulent environment dominated by scheduled medication, emotionally arrested caregivers and a brilliant but raging headmaster whose sudden illness throws the school into turmoil.
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English
Description
"Raymond has only two real connections: to the feral cat he's tamed and to a blind ninety-two-year-old woman in his building who introduced herself with a curious question: Have you seen Luis Velez? Mildred Gutermann, a German Jew who narrowly escaped the Holocaust, has been alone since her caretaker disappeared. She turns to Raymond for help, and as he tries to track Luis down, a deep and unexpected friendship blossoms between the two."--Provided...
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English
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Boone's Lick is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry's triumphant return to the kind of story that made him famous -- an enthralling tale of the nineteenth-century West. McMurtry brings his unique blend of historical fact and sheer storytelling genius to the Cecil family's arduous journey from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming. Fifteen-year-old Shay describes the journey that begins when his Ma, Mary Margaret, decides...
45) Compulsion
Author
Series
Frank Clevenger novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
When their hard-drinking but loving father dies in a car accident, teenage brothers Kyle and Klint Hayes face a bleak prospect: leaving their Pennsylvania hometown for an uncertain life in Arizona with the mother who ran out on them years ago. But in a strange twist of fate, their town's matriarch, an eccentric, wealthy old woman whose family once owned the county coal mines, hears the boys' story. Candace Jack doesn't have an ounce of maternal instinct,...
49) Back roads
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Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
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Description
Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up his life is.With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, Harley is an orphan with the responsibilities of an adult and the fiery, aggressive libido of a teenager. Just nineteen years old, he's marooned...
Author
Series
Gregor Demarkian mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
54) The knight
Author
Series
Wizard knight volume 1
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Teenager Able is transported to a magical realm that contains seven levels of reality where he is transformed into a grown man and faces both the dangers and pleasures of encounters with giants, wizards, elves, and dragons.
55) Quiver
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Language
English
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Description
Kate McCall's husband has been killed by her son, Luke, in a tragic bow-hunting accident. As Kate struggles with her son's surly guilt, her first love, Jack, an ex-con, reappears, along with a crew of his former "colleagues." While Jack must convince his partners in crime that he really did lose the heist money, his appearance sets into motion a series of events culminating in a life-and-death confrontation with a gang of killers.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he's navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican--but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough. As he gets older, Michael's coming out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in. When he discovers the Drag Society, he finally finds where he belongs--and the Black Flamingo is born. Told with raw honesty, insight, and lyricism, this debut explores the...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Travis Baron was an infant when his mother disappeared. Did she die in a boating accident with her lover? After two decades, her body has never been found. Now in high school, Travis and his best friend Mitch Malone try to piece together the truth, with the help of an unlikely ally--a former detective who has served time for falsifiying evidence.
59) Skippy dies
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
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Description
Why does Skippy, a student at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop? Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional string theory? Or Carl, the teenage drug dealer who is Skippy's rival in love?
60) A thousand steps
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A Thousand Steps is a beguiling thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of a turbulent time and place by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. Laguna Beach, California, 1968. TheAge of Aquarius is in full swing. Timothy Leary is a rock star. LSD is God. Folks from all over are flocking to Laguna, seeking peace, love, and enlightenment. Matt Antony is just trying get by. Matt...
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