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"The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capulet he falls instantly in love. Rosaline, headstrong and independent, is unsure of Romeo's attentions but with her father determined that she join a convent, this handsome and charming stranger offers her the chance of a different life. Soon though, Rosaline begins to doubt all that Romeo has told her. She breaks off the match, only for Romeo's gaze to turn towards her cousin, thirteen-year-old...
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When Katie Garrett gets the unexpected news that she's received an inheritance from the grandmother she hardly knew, it couldn't have come at a better time. She flees Boston - and her increasingly estranged husband - and travels to rural Texas. There, she's greeted by her distant cousin Scarlett. Friendly, flamboyant, eternally optimistic, Scarlett couldn't be more different from sensible Katie. And as they begin the task of sorting through their...
7) The fraud
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"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also skeptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
8) Cloudmaker
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2021.
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"In 1937 Montana, fourteen-year-old Houston "Huck" Finn finds a dead body in a local creek and steals the man's rare Lindbergh flight watch. Huck is an aspiring aviator, working to build his own airplane--a secret he has kept from his God-fearing mother. His cousin, Annelise, arrives from Los Angeles for a long stay with his family, and Huck is initially wary until he learns she has had flight lessons. As his airplane takes shape, and the young cousins...
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Remixed classics volume 8
Pub. Date
2023.
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810L
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English
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"Georgian Bay, 1901. When a terrible accident leaves her orphaned at fifteen, Mary Craven is sent to the wilderness of the Georgian Bay to live with an uncle she's never met. At first, the impassive, calculating girl believes this new manor will be just like the one she left in Toronto: cold, isolating, and anything but cheerful, where employees are treated as staff and never like family. But as she slowly allows her heart to open like the first blooms...
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Legendary lovers volume 1
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Follows Ashton Wilde, Marquis of Beaufort, who, seeking true love by imitating history's legendary lovers, plays the role of Prince Charming to an unlikely Cinderella.
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An ancient castle, a tragic love, and a web of secrets.... When her fascinating but unreliable cousin Harry invites her on a holiday to explore the legendary town of Chinon, France, and promptly disappears, Emily begins to uncover dark secrets beneath the charm. As the dangers of the past become disastrously real, she is drawn ever more deeply into a labyrinth of mystery as twisted as the streets and tunnels of the ancient town itself.
13) Rebecca and Ana
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American girls collection. Rebecca, 1914 volume 2
American girls collection. Rebecca 1914 volume 2
American girl 1914 volume 02
American girl.Rebecca volume 02
American girls collection. Rebecca 1914 volume 2
American girl 1914 volume 02
American girl.Rebecca volume 02
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[2009]
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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730L
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Rebecca is excited to have her cousin Ana from Russia living with her family in New York City, but she fears that Ana's poor English-speaking skills will ruin her presentation at school.
14) Harlem shuffle
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"To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has...
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Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land, find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications of their shared heritage. When escalating anger toward the injustices, historical and current, inflicted upon the Lakota people by the federal government leads to tribal divisions and infighting, the cousins go in separate directions: Rick chooses the path of peace; You Choose,...
16) Vixen
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Flappers volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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In 1923 Chicago, seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody rebels against her upcoming society wedding by visiting a speakeasy, while her Pennsylvania cousin, Clara, hides similar tastes and her best friend, Lorraine, makes plans of her own.
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"Patrick and Beth knew they'd be facing a danger more fierce than a polar bear or a walrus, but they never thought their opponent wouldn't be large enough to see. After arriving in Alaska in the winter of 1925, they discover that a very small enemy--a disease called diphtheria--is sweeping through the town of Nome. Can Patrick help retrieve enough medicine for the children by riding along with Clearsky and his team of sled dogs? Meanwhile, Beth makes...
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Secrets of the manor volume 5
Pub. Date
2015.
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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730L
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English
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"Betsy Northrop is about to turn twelve years old and per her family's tradition, plans are underway for a magnificent birthday ball in her honor. Despite troubling times elsewhere, Betsy's family is thriving, thanks to the good choices of Betsy's mother, Beth. But then mishaps--both trivial and disastrous--start plaguing Chatswood Manor. Is someone determined to bring the family to ruin? Betsy vows to expose the culprit, but her home is one where...
20) My old true love
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Larkin Stanton, orphaned at birth in 1845, is raised by his cousin, Arty Norton. Larkin and Arty's younger brother Hackley grow up surrounded by music and are as close as brothers. Larkin sings before he can talk, and Hackley's fiddle makes all feet want to dance. As they become men, both lose their hearts to pretty, redheaded Mary. But through this complex love and the wrenching destruction of the Civil War, Larkin learns the true meaning of the...
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