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11961) Ways to build dreams
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Ryan Hart volume 4
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Bloomsbury
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English
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During Black History Month, Ryan learns more about her ancestors and local Black pioneers, and their hopes for her generation.
11962) Stolen girl: a novel
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English
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When Nadia arrives in Canada in 1950 with Marusia, the woman she calls mother, she is glad to finally be out of the displaced persons camp where she has lived for five years, but troubled by confused memories of World War II; she speaks Ukrainian, but she seems to remember living with a German Nazi family who called her by a different name--and as she tries to settle into the Canadian-Ukrainian community of Brantford she is haunted by one question:...
11963) The French Gift: A Novel
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From Kirsty Manning, author of The Song of the Jade Lily, comes a gripping World War II set historical novel about murder, secrets, and survival.
A forgotten manuscript that threatens to unravel the past…
Fresne Prison, 1940:A former maid at a luxury villa on the Riviera, Margot Bisset finds herself in a prison cell with writer and French Resistance fighter Joséphine Murant. Together, they are transferred to a work camp in Germany for four years,...
11964) The stepsisters
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"Once upon a time, when her dad married Sage's mom, Daisy was thrilled to get a bright and shiny new sister. But Sage was beautiful and popular, everything Daisy was not, and she made sure Daisy knew it. Sage didn't have Daisy's smarts--she had to go back a grade to enroll in the fancy rich-kid school. So she used her popularity as a weapon, putting Daisy down to elevate herself. After the divorce, the stepsisters' rivalry continued until the final,...
11965) One true way
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English
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From the moment she met Samantha, star of the school basketball team, on her first day at Daniel Boone Middle School, Allison Drake felt she had found a friend, something she needs badly since her brother died and her father left--but as their friendship grows it begins to evolve into a deeper emotion, and in North Carolina in 1977, it is not easy to discover that you might be gay.
11966) Dawn raid
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English
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After the police raid their house, Lenny starts talking about protests and injustices against Pacific Islanders by the government, which inspires the whole family to become involved in the movement.
11967) Gentlehands
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Buddy Boyle makes a shattering discovery about his family in this powerful and poignant novel by award-winning author M. E. Kerr Buddy Boyle lives with his parents and younger brother in a small house on a half-acre of land in undesirable Seaville, New York. Skye Pennington spends her summers on the opposite end of town on five acres with a view of the ocean. Buddy's dad is a police sergeant; Skye's is the head of a multi-million-dollar...
11968) Love comes first
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Little, Brown and Company
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English
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"A celebration of families in which two sisters wish for a sibling and are surprised with a new baby brother and a new cousin"--
11969) Prairie Evers
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Nancy Paulsen Books
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old Prairie is happy being home-schooled and raising her flock of chickens, so transferring to regular school is a big change, but fortunately she meets a wonderful friend"--
11970) Four Christmases
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New Line Cinema
Language
English
Description
When happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation, and unable to escape, they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities.
11971) All the way to Havana
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English
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A boy helps his father keep their very old car running as they make a trip to Havana for his newborn cousin's zero-year birthday. Includes author's note about cars in Cuba.
11972) Half Moon summer
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Peachtree
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English
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Two seventh graders, Drew and Mia, spend their summer in Half Moon Bay, California, training for a half-marathon, and supporting each other as their families struggle with medical and financial problems.
"Drew was never much of a runner -- until his dad?s unexpected diagnosis. Mia has nothing better to do -- until she realizes entering Half Moon Bay?s half-marathon could solve her family?s housing problems. And just like that they decide to spend...
11973) The mirror season
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English
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After Ciela and Lock are sexually assaulted at the same party, they develop a cautious friendship through her family's possibly-magical pastelería and his secret forest of otherworldly trees.
Graciela's whole world changes after she and a boy she barely knows are assaulted at the same party. She loses her gift for making enchanted pan dulce. Neighborhood trees vanish overnight, while mirrored glass appears, bringing reckless magic with it. Ciela...
11974) One for the Murphys
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English
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"After heartbreaking betrayal, Carley is sent to live with a foster family and struggles with opening herself up to their love" -- Publisher.
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The last thing Valerie wants or needs is to work for her childhood tormentor, Gage. But Valerie’s husband just walked out on her and her children. Now she needs a job. Gage, on the other hand, has just taken custody of his four-year-old son and is swamped trying to balance his career, be a daddy, and fix past mistakes. Together they discover that when it comes to the Church and each other, it’s all about second chances....
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A dramatic bush plane crash in coastal Alaska leaves the pilot injured. The passengers, a team of Special Olympic Athletes, must fend for themselves to survive. An Alaska storm first threatens to overwhelm them during the night as they care for their unconscious pilot. Each must confront the challenges of survival in the wilderness, while transcending their limitations. Forced to overcome their habits of dependency and help each other, the group finds...
11977) Crossing the Continent
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Born in Providence, Rhode Island, to a Cree mother and a French father, Réauna, affectionately known throughout Tremblay's work as "Nana," was sent with her two younger sisters, Béa and Alice, to be raised on her maternal grandparents' farm in Sainte-Maria-de-Saskatchewan, a francophone Catholic enclave of two hundred souls. At the age of ten, amid swaying fields of wheat under the idyllic prairie sky of her loving foster family, Nana is suddenly...
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Español
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura La casa de los espíritus, la primera novela de Isabel Allende, que la consagró como escritora de grandes ventas y cosechó un gran éxito traducido en múltiples adaptaciones. Con una habilidosa mezcla de hechos históricos y situaciones inverosímiles y fantasiosas, cuenta la historia de las cuatro generaciones de la familia Trueba-Del Valle y, a través de esta, la historia política,...
11979) The Poppy Sisters
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Divided by war. Reunited by courage. Two sisters, divided by war, face daily battles to save the lives of the wounded soldiers in their care Phoebe is a VAD at a Base Hospital in Étaples, France, treating men who've served at the Front. Their courage and resilience inspires her, and though she's meant to keep her distance, Captain Archie Bailey soon captivates her heart. Her younger sister Celia is a nurse at a POW camp on the island of Jersey. These...
11980) The Postmistress
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English
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A heartwarming and nostalgic new World War Two series for fans of Glynis Peters, Kate Hewitt and Lizzie Page! One ordinary street in Lancashire is getting ready for war, who knows what else is going on behind the net curtains? Vicky Parrot wanted more out of life than working all hours in her father's Post Office. Her dreams were ruined when tragedy came calling, and now happiness seems impossible. The other townsfolk have their problems too. Sylvia...
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