This is the life: A novel

about two estranged brothers who come together when one of them discovers he has a brain tumor and the other emerges as his caretaker. This is the life: Not the one you thought you had yesterday. Or the one that might not be here tomorrow. Just this one. Here and now ... This is the story of Louis, who never quite fit in, and of his younger brother, who always tried to tag along. As they got ol…

The fire eaters

In 1962 England, despite observing his father's illness and the suffering of the fire-eating Mr. McNulty, as well as enduring abuse at school and the stress of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bobby Burns and his family and friends still find reasons to rejoice in their lives and to have hope for the future.

Paper covers rock

In 1982 Buncombe County, North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Alex Stromm writes of the aftermath of the accidental drowning of a friend, as his English teacher reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding school student try to cover things up.

Chinese Cinderella: The true story of an unwanted daughter

The daughter of a wealthy Hong Kong businessman describes her very difficult childhood and the psychological abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepmother.

Girls under pressure

Ellie, Magda and Nadine all try to change their looks, with drastic consequences.

Once on this island

Twelve-year-old Mary and her older brother and sister tend the family farm on Michigan's Mackinac Island while their father is away fighting the British in the War of 1812.

The picture of Dorian Gray

lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a youn…

The scar boys: A novel

Written as a college admission essay, eighteen-year-old Harry Jones recounts a childhood defined by the hideous scars he hid behind, and how forming a band brought self-confidence, friendship, and his first kiss.

Space race

Thomas and his father live a normal, happy life in Belthorp. But that is all about to end. His father breaks the unbelievable news that they come from the planet of Ormingat and they must return. The past has caught up with them. Will they survive?

On the banks of Plum Creek

Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.

By the shores of silver lake

Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.

The first four years

During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.

Deep down popular

In a small, Virginia town, sixth-grader Jessie Lou Ferguson has a crush on the hugely popular Conrad Parker Smith, and when he injures his leg and the teacher asks Jessie Lou to help him, they become friends, to her surprise.

Night fires

In 1922, thirteen-year-old Woodrow Harper and his recently-widowed mother move to his father's childhood home in Lawton, Oklahoma, where he is torn between the "right people" of the Ku Klux Klan and those who encourage him to follow the path of his "nigra-loving" father.

Noddle pie

When Andy's father, a former refugee, returns to Hanoi for the first time in over twenty years, Andy goes with him. But only to discover that Vietnam is a shock.

Cry freedom

They said Steve Biko was a man of violence; then why did he talk of peace? They said he wanted revolution; so why did he talk of friendship? They said he died of hunger; why was his body broken and bruised? This is the story of a man's fight with the government of South Africa. It is the story of all people who prefer truth to lies. It is the story of all people who cry 'Freedom', and who are n…

A Javanese boyhood: An ethnographic biography

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9971-4-0421-4

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The sign of the beaver

Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.

Cross my heart, hope to die

Watching from beyond the grave while her long-lost identical twin, Emma, assumes her identity, Sutton Mercer witnesses the discovery of a dark family secret and realises that someone from Emma's past may be her own killer

Wicked

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Heartless

Hanna, Aria, Emily, and Spencer have been telling some outrageous stories, but no one seems to believe them, so when a killer comes after them, they wonder if the town of Rosewood will believe them.

Killer

Former best friends Emily, Aria, Hanna, and Spencer continue to live in fear as they struggle to keep hidden even more secrets and someone new begins stalking them via their cell phones

Twisted

Now seniors in high school, Spencer, Emily, Hanna, and Aria's friendship has been torn apart by new lies and stress, but they are drawn back together when anonymous messages threatening to reveal their secrets resume.

Ruthless

Hanna, Spencer, Emily and Aria are trying to move on and forget about their old friend Alison DiLaurentis and all the torture she put them through, but someone is trying to keep her spirit alive.

In care of Cassie Tucker

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0-440-41406-7

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The yearling

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428 p. ; ill.

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Worlds of Star Trek: Deep space nine

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0743483537

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Half bad

In modern-day England, witches live alongside humans: White witches, who are good; Black witches, who are evil; and sixteen-year-old Nathan, who is both. Nathan's father is the world's most powerful and cruel Black witch, and his mother is dead. He is hunted from all sides. Trapped in a cage, beaten and handcuffed, Nathan must escape before his seventeenth birthday, at which point he will recei…

Only you can save mankind

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0-552-55103-1

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Croacked River

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978-0-440-42101-6

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