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Ariel grapples with her fear of her own mind and violent fantasies, driven by her desire to meet her parents' expectations and societal norms, until a summer job at a carnival leads her to new friends who help her discover her struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and find acceptance and support for her true self.
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This is a book of pure fiction. The characters are drawn from the poor section of the society. Enlivened with adventure, suspense and romance, the story moves on to expose the futility of greed and wickedness and uphold the values of pure love, affection and integrity. A circus arena, a bank robbery, chase in the jungle and a haunted house with hair raising experiences would hold the readers spell bound till the end.
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Emma Armbrust is a beautiful young girl living in Malibu, California. She is autistic, but because of this condition she has the ability to talk with horses. Horses communicate in pictures, which is also the main tool for autistic communication; thus they share a common neurological frequency. Because of this she becomes a national show jumping champion. This achievement is told against a back story that is the 50 million year old history of the horse...
4) Burn Unit
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When an explosion at a local elementary school causes a power pole to fall, a young teenager sacrifices herself to save the other children. When finding out the extent of her injuries, young Lizzie must figure out what life will look like from now on for her and her dysfunctional family, narcissistic mother and nearly-absent father included. Will the superintendent we responsible for building neglect? Will the pain from the injuries be too much for...
5) Angel Fall
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Raised in an era where war is custom, three newly recruited deacons find themselves embroidered in a chess game whose players are unknown. Sides will be offered, yet none will be taken. Lies will be told, yet none will be believed. As the trio battles through trials and missions' alike secrets and mysteries will be revealed that change the world around them. Three is the number of completion, but will this trio complete their goals? Or will the chains...
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"Gripping." "Scarily accurate." "Unputdownable." "Powerful." "Beautiful & shocking."
He was perfect. At first. The summer before senior year, seventeen-year-old Chloe starts an internship at a local newspaper. While on assignment, she meets Kieran, a quirky aspiring actor. Chloe is smitten with Kieran's charisma and his ability to soothe her soul, torn over her parents' impending divorce. As their bond deepens, Kieran becomes smothering and flies...
7) Dear Divya
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"I still can't believe I survived my first year of high school without you. We had so many plans. I do think about you and hope you know I haven't forgotten you. I miss laying in bed pretending to do our makeup because now I actually wear makeup..."
After a challenging year, 14-year-old Anjali Singh is determined to change her reputation and social status as she enters her first year of high school. Growing up in a midtown Toronto "Tkaronto"...
8) Luna
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When Romulus killed Remus, the wolf clans swore enmity to one another ever after.
Seventeen-year-old Jess has survived an upbringing in care. Diagnosed with rage blackouts, people look at her with pity and fear. The solution? Brutal workouts, Art, oh, and staying the hell away from others. Easily done in backwater Maine.
Yet one night, she wakes to find herself by a lake, her clothes covered in blood, with no memory of what happened. Soon the water...
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Under a pseudonym Timothy Sparks, the then 24 years old Dickens wrote a pamphlet entitled Sunday Under Three Headsin which he defended the people's right to pleasure, opposing a plan to prohibit games on Sundays. The pamphlet was dedicated (without permission) to the Bishop of London. It was published by Chapman and Hall on Friday, 8 July 1836. The full title is Sunday Under Three Heads. As it is; As Sabbath Bills would make it; As it might be made....
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Nueva entrega de la serie de "Otoño en Londres", un spin-off de lectura independiente y con personajes en común
XIMENA llega a Barcelona con un único objetivo: ponerse a prueba. Tal vez su nueva compañera de piso, LAIA, la ayude a perder su timidez. Estudiar en otra ciudad sirve para encontrarse a uno mismo, al fin y al cabo, y si no que se lo digan a LILY, que lo dejó todo para mudarse a Londres… y ahora es a TOM al que acaba de dejar. Sí,...
11) Brighton Funk
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The teen novel kicks off in Brighton 1962. Cool records and sharp fashions form the backdrop sounds and sights to this story of 15-year-old Naseem Al Yawar ('Naz'), a young man on the verge of adulthood and heading for his first experience of love.
Naz is a typical foul-mouthed, disaffected teenage boy, bright but with no interest in school apart from a love of literature instilled in him by an inspirational teacher, Mr Easton - nicknamed 'Easy Easton'....
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The Title 'Thoughts of Your Mind written/authored/edited by Priya Dabas, K', published in the year 2013. The ISBN 9788178359670 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 78 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Linguistic / Literature. Size of the book is.
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Kingston, an independent mouse of limited means, lives comfortably in his nest, in the Forest Zoo.
A great hairy giant suddenly disturbs his modest place in the world. He must quickly contend with everything that he has been avoiding. When Kingston and 13 year old Lucas meet, neither realizes how big everything will get. For Lucas and his friends, playing in the woods by the abandoned zoo is suddenly different. Life as they knew it has changed. Kingston,...
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"Ollie, do you believe in magic?"
Gemma and Oliver have been best friends their entire lives. But no matter how well Ollie thinks he knows Gemma, there's one secret standing between them, one secret she swore she'd never tell: magic is real. And she's waited her whole life to have it.
On their seventeenth birthday, Gemma and her twin brother, Milo, will be Claimed by one of the three branches of magic. Only then will they have access to the...
16) The Shimmering
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The story follows Barrett, his two best buddies, and his potential girlfriend through their last couple days at school before the summer break. The boys have been very busy building their secret underground fort in the field near Barrett's house while always keeping an eye out for the "teenagers from hell," who would certainly destroy the fort if found. In the days to follow, Barrett finds something in the fort that none of his friends can see. It...
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Young Anthony Murphy Fights the Great War!A teenager leaves high school to defend America's European friends from the Germans.He leaves the family farm with only a dollar in his Bible. What would you spend your only dollar on before going off to war?Uncharted highs and abysmal lows are part of real life. Follow Anthony on his trek to manhood through the Great War, a global pandemic, and deep young love.
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The Mystery on Brighton Boulevard is a return to the Nancy Drew-type stories of yesterday but placed in a modern-day setting. Come along with the college seniors Nicole and Jennifer as they do amateur sleuthing to try to figure out the mystery on Brighton Boulevard.
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Mindy, Kimmy, and Sonia are beginning the summer between seventh and eighth grade and none of them are feeling very good about it. Mindy gained a lot of weight over the winter, and at the same time, her best friend ditched her for two more popular girls, so she spends most of her time alone, watching reruns of Friends. Kimmy has always been painfully shy, and now that her parents are getting a divorce, she has to move in with her grandparents and...
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Amesbury, just two miles from Stonehenge, is regarded as one of the oldest towns in Britain, with evidence of habitation for over 5000 years.
In 2002, a male skeleton was discovered in there. It had lain undisturbed for almost that length of time.
Archaeological research showed that the man was born almost a thousand miles from where he died. He had lived in the period when the Stone Age was ending and the age of metal was dawning. The numerous...
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