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2) Unsafe haven
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Elizabeth Browns world has fallen apart and she's thinking about her newly ex-fiancee. Until she locks eyes with a teenage girl while waiting for the train doors to open, and a bundle is thrust into her arms as she leaves the subway. A baby, wrapped in a dirty coat. Elizabeth phones the number she finds in the coat pocket. Then wishes she hadn't.
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English
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"It's 1969, and sixteen-year-old Lucy is about to run away with a much older man to live off the grid in rural Pennsylvania, a rash act that will have frightening repercussions for both her and her older sister, Charlotte. As Lucy's default caretaker for most of their lives, Charlotte has always been burdened by having to be the responsible one, but never more so than when Lucy's dream of a rural paradise turns into a nightmare."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything fro Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty. Parents and children alike are best friends-so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. They've been soul mates since they were born. When the midnight calls come in from the hospital, no one is prepared for the appalling truth; Emily is dead at seventeen...
5) Flannery
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Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Flannery Malone has it bad. She's been in love with Tyrone O'Rourke since the days she still believed in Santa Claus. But Tyrone has grown from a dorky kid into an outlaw graffiti artist, the rebel-with-a-cause of Flannery's dreams, literally too cool for school. Which is a problem, since he and Flannery are partners for the entrepreneurship class that she needs to graduate. And Tyrone's vanishing act may have darker causes than...
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English
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When her 16-year-old daughter reveals that she is pregnant--an announcement that shocks the small community of Yorktide, Maine--Cindy Bauer, as their family is thrown into chaos, bands together with her friends and neighbors to make a baby quilt that reflects all of their hopes and dreams.
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Series
Coincidence series volume 1
Language
English
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For Kayden, suffering in silence was the only way to survive. If he was lucky he could keep his head down, do as he was told and make it through the day. But one night it seemed like his luck and his life might finally end until an angel named Callie appeared just in time to rescue him. Callie has never believed in luck. Not since her twelfth birthday when everything was taken from her. After the worst was over she locked up her feelings and vowed...
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English
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Jesse Ryder and her sister, Luz, were both on track for promising careers as photographers when, at 21, Jesse became pregnant. When the baby was born prematurely, Jesse fled to New Zealand to become a photojournalist, leaving the baby to be adopted by her sister and brother-in-law, Ian. Now, 16 years later, Jesse is back, wanting to meet the daughter she never knew--especially before the onset of her blindness destroys her chance at happiness forever....
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Series
Sunrise Cove volume 4
Language
English
Description
"When Harper Shaw's life falls apart, she knows it's time for a change. She removes everything that doesn't spark joy--from her soul-sucking job to eating kale to making lists--and sets off for the last place she was happy, Lake Tahoe (who wouldn't feel good there, right?) to fulfill her dream of opening her own bakery. With her Sugar Pine Bakery in between a tavern, owned by sexy, grumpy Bodie Campbell, and a bookstore, run by her new BFF, she feels...
11) Under the radar
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English
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A Sister's work is never done--not when there are wrongs to right and underdogs to defend. Just returned to their mountaintop hideaway in the wake of their latest successful mission, the seven fearless friends have barely had time to enjoy a celebratory dinner with their mentor, Charles Martin, when they're embroiled in a new adventure.
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English
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Blogger Lizzy's life is buzzing, happy, normal. Two gorgeous children, a handsome husband, destiny under control. For her real-life alter-ego Beth, things are unravelling. Tensions are simmering with her husband, mother-in-law and even her own mother. Her teenage daughters, once the objects of her existence, have moved beyond her grasp and one of them has shown signs of, well, thoughtlessness. Then a classmate of one daughter is callously bullied...
13) Mina
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English
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"Crystal toils day and night to earn top grades at her cram school. She's also endlessly texting, shopping, drinking, vexing her boyfriends, cranking up her MP3s, and fantasizing about her next slice of cheesecake. But her nonstop frenzy never lets her do the one thing that might change her tragic fate: open up about the pressures that are driving her to the edge. She certainly hasn't talked with her best friend, Mina, nor Mina's brother, whom she's...
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English
Description
Single mother Sara Weston disappears one afternoon, leaving her seventeen-year-old son Keith feeling bitter and betrayed, and when he turns his hatred onto his half-sister Maggie, who was responsible for the devastating fire that killed several teens and left Keith permanently scarred, Maggie fears any chance for redemption will be lost due to Keith's hatred.
16) The lightness
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English
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"One year ago, the person Olivia adores most in the world, her father, left home for a meditation retreat in the mountains and never returned. Yearning to make sense of his shocking departure and to escape her overbearing mother, ... Olivia runs away from home and retraces his path to a place known as the Levitation Center. Once there, she enrolls in their summer program for troubled teens, which Olivia refers to as 'Buddhist Boot Camp for Bad Girls.'...
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English
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It's Prom Night . . . and the queen is dead. LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker and his wife and confidante Rina Lazarus have a daughter of their own. So the savage murder of a popular high school girl on prom night strikes home . . . very hard. The cruel and bizarre slaying of a beautiful teen leads Detective Decker into the dark heart of an exotic subculture: the seamy, sometimes violent world of Southern California's rootless, affluent youth....
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English
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The terrible thing that steals 14-year-old Mvelo's song leads to startling revelations and unexpected opportunities. Life wasn't always this hard for 14-year-old Mvelo. There were good times living with her mother and her mother's boyfriend. Now her mother is dying of AIDS and what happened to Mvelo is the elephant in the room, despite its growing presence in their small shack. In this Shakespeare-style comedy, the things that seem to be are only...
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English
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"Come Back is a testament to the power of the love between a mother and a daughter." - New York Times Book Review
"Best mother-daughter memoir." - Glamour
"We strongly recommend this powerful mother-daughter memoir...Intense, shocking, and ultimately triumphant..." - Barnes & Noble
"A nightmarish saga of a teenage runaway in L.A. ends triumphantly. . . . Heart-wrenching, honest dialogue." - Publishers Weekly
"A powerful and moving story of two...
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English
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It was 1970 when thirteen-year-old runaway Kit Walker was abducted by Manny Romero, a smooth-talking, low-level criminal, who first coddled her and then groomed her into his partner-in-crime. Before long, Kit and Manny were infamous for their string of gas station robberies throughout Texas, making a name for themselves as the Texaco Twosome. Fourteen years later, Kit has scraped together a life for herself and her daughter amongst the pecan trees...
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