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"In MARGARET AND THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING BODY, twelve-year-old Margaret Worms is the head detective of her friends' mystery club, Girls Can Solve Anything, but by high school the club has disbanded and Margaret has developed an eating disorder that sends her to a treatment center. Once there, Margaret goes on a quest of recovery and self-discovery that combines nineties girl group series and choose-your-own-adventures with a queer and trans coming-of-age...
2) Childhood
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Childhood (1852) is a novel by Leo Tolstoy. Published at the beginning of his career as a leading Russian author of his generation, Childhood is the first in a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels tracing Nikolenka's journey from innocence to experience. As a record of the past, a nostalgic reminder of a lost world, Childhood is one of Tolstoy's most personal works, and yet his prose shows signs of the universal religious and philosophical themes...
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In an Australian country town in the mid-1960s, a couple of adolescent boys are busy experimenting with incendiary devices while their town, including their school, is suffering a series of arson attacks. Are the boys responsible? At least, in part? Or, is there something larger afoot? And, how did it all go so dreadfully wrong?
Meanwhile, in a small city not far away, another group of boys, somehow connected to those in the other place, get up to...
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Aidan Lonsdale is the most excited he's ever been. He's just begun his freshman year at the prestigious St. Ciaran's College, and his roommate is none other than his best friend Rob. That night, Aidan and Rob attend a dorm party with their new neighbors - the first of several adventures they expect to share in college.But things take a turn when Aidan becomes the victim of a strange burglary and Rob disappears after walking a girl home. Enlisting...
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A young girl running from an abusive foster home kidnaps an older biker with a mystery for a past he has no memory of.Leaving the mining town in Colorado and crossing state lines, anything can happen.What neither is looking for or expecting is friendship.But in the cold of the desert night, life lessons can go both ways-even if they are not about a million dollars in gold.
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Grace is a young girl who is active in mind, body and spirit. But in order to fulfill her dreams, she must revisit the past. Born into an impoverished and frustratingly complacent Irish American family whose parameters have been set by the restraints of their cultural upbringing and religious faith, she struggles to cope with her father's seeming rejection. With the birth of her baby sister, her interest in understanding her roots as well as her place...
7) Cold Desert
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Daisy Cavill is fighting for her life. She has anorexia, and her world is turned upside down after she is sent to live with her estranged father in Short Point, a small town obsessed with surfing. It is there that Daisy meets Hollie Matheson and begins to see what living is all about: friendship, family, surfing and escapism.But before Daisy recovers from her anorexia, Hollie goes missing while on a camping trip. Daisy begins to see that things aren't...
8) Consumed
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Jax Walker is a hard man to resist. He's tall, dark, and delicious. Harlow didn't plan on falling for another, with her heart still stuck on Iain. But it's so hard with him gone. And she's been aching since they last touched. Two whole years of silent wondering; of desperate sleepless longing. Fate, however, may have other plans. Just as Harlow's ready to open herself to new love, her whole world is pulled into a twisting and painful spiral.
9) Idiot Farm
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The Summer of 1972The Vietnam War rages on, and Daddy signed up to fight. Now he's gone missing.Mama dumped me and my brother, Willie, at my grandmother's farm in Haley, Alabama, while she takes my little sister, Sunny, all over the state to compete in Little Miss beauty pageants. Me and Willie ain't the only ones staying here, either. Ida Mae takes care of a bushel of reject kids the state can't find a home for. Idiots. All of 'em.There's a serial...
10) Maid of Honor
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A young woman must escape family conflict-and find her own identity-in order to track down a thief in this novel by an acclaimed mystery writer. Persis Green's existence has been overshadowed by the looming prospect of her older sister's wedding. Her family was once normal-boring, but normal. Then the engagement was announced and all hell broke loose. Now, Persis's father acts like a zombie at dinner parties, her mother goes from zero to shrieking...
11) Cirak's daughter
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An unexpected legacy from the father who deserted her as a baby starts Jenny on a dangerous search for answers to questions concerning her father, his death, and her own future.
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A white gown lined with silver filigree and draped over a beauty of beauties. Louise Green and her bloody heart are all set to say vows in this thrilling sequel.One fine October day with vows on her lips and death on her heart Louise Green finds that not all that sinks stay sunk and sometimes curses come in all sizes. Join Louise Green once more as she dances to the music as The Lady In White.
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When Alex died suddenly, the remaining two friends could no longer look each other in the eye, knowing they both had a part to play in her death. Thirty years later, Misty and Karen have long since moved on with their lives. But when Karen thinks she sees her former friend alive, she soon becomes obsessed with a past she thought she'd left behind. Before long, the perfect life she's built for herself starts to unravel, and it seems as though history...
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Après avoir découvert la vérité sur ses origines, Ambroise retourne à l'académie Aubépine o elle espère terminer son année scolaire paisiblement. Cependant, étudier n'est plus suffisant ; son pouvoir immense attire les forces obscures qui essayent de la rallier à leur camp. Aussi, elle devra le maîtriser tout en surmontant de nombreux défis. Entre manipulation, enlèvement et trahison, parviendra-t-elle à rester dans la lumière ou cédera-t-elle...
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A powerful and emotional debut thriller perfect for fans of It by Stephen King, The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor and the TV show Stranger Things.
SOMETHING IS HIDING IN THE SHADOWS...
We were so young when it all happened. Just 13-years-old, making the most of the long, hot, lazy days of summer, thinking we had the world at our feet. That was us - me, Fat Bobby, Jim and Tara - the four members of the Outsiders' Club.
The day we found a burnt-out car in...
17) The Good Twin
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Be careful what you wish for…
Mum passed recently. It was sudden and unexpected. On the cusp of adulthood, my twin sister, Skye and I are left with decisions to make that will change our lives forever.
As identical twins, we'd normally stick together like glue, but anger and grief gets the better of us and we push and pull in different directions.
Skye wants us to desert our broken family for university. Whilst I want us to postpone our university...
18) A fatal flaw
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Ryder and Loveday mystery volume 03
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"Oxford, 1960. As the city prepares itself for the inaugural Miss Oxford Honey Beauty Pageant at the Old Swan Theatre, excitement is in the air. Then tragedy strikes the competition when one ofthe leading contestants is found dead. Initially, the authorities assume her death was suicide. But after a malicious series of pranks and blackmail attempts are reported, WPC Loveday and Coroner Clement Ryder are called upon to solve the case. In an atmosphere...
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