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In the halls of Newport Academy, a unique private school that has attracted generations of rebels, outcasts, and visionaries, a poignant and unforgettable lesson in the eternal truths of sisterhood is about to begin for Maggie Shaw, her fourteen-year-old daughter Beck, and her sixteen-year-old son Travis
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Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own...
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To help his oldest daughter through a crisis, 70-year-old farmer Percy Darling sacrifices his reclusive lifestyle and allows a preschool to move into his barn. However, his new sociality forces him to take a hard look at how he has lived his life for the past 30 years since his wife's tragic death. Meanwhile, his grandson Robert takes to the Harvard campus with a renewed sense of environmental consciousness, something which only leads him to trouble...
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Visiting sixteen-year-old "Rat" Perkins at isolated Evenson boarding school, Maura Isles is astonished to learn that all of his classmates are survivors of violence and are being instructed in scientific detective skills, a discovery that coincides with Jane Rizzoli's investigation into the murder of a boy's foster family
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Alex Delaware novels volume 25
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When a DVD discovered near Elise Freeman's decomposing corpse sheds insight on her yearlong torture and eventual murder, detective Milo Sturgis calls on the help of his longtime friend Dr. Alex Delaware. As they examine the evidence, Alex and Milo home in on the prime suspects: three teachers from the prestigious Windsor Academy. However, as the investigation continues, Alex discovers that solving Elise's murder will barely crack the surface in the...
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A troubled teenager struggling to cope with the loss of his father, Ryan McIntyre is sent to St. Ignatius Catholic School, an institution with a good reputation for dealing with troubled teens, where he meets an enigmatic exorcist, Father Sebastian
9) Sandcastles
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Eleven years ago, Honor thought she had the perfect home, the perfect love, the perfect life. Then her husband, brilliant photographer and sculptor John Sullivan, broke her heart--and tore their little family apart. Now, hearing of Regis's impending marriage, John has ended his self-imposed exile and returned to the family he's always loved more than anything on earth. What he finds is one daughter still hurting over his abandonment, another who barely...
10) Emory's gift
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
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In 1974, when thirteen-year-old Charlie Hall's mother dies and his father retreats into silent grief, Charlie finds himself drifting, nearly friendless, through a northern Idaho junior high school but when a grizzly bear saves his life, Charlie forms an unusual friendship that changes his life
11) The seekers
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"Married for eight years with no children to help fill her days, Heidi Troyer cooks up the idea of teaching classes in the art of Amish cuisine in her Holmes County, Ohio, home. But it is a recipe for drama when five very different men and women answer the advertisement. Charlene Higgins is engaged, but to the despair of her fiancé's family, she can't cook. Kendra Perkins, a teen estranged from her family, is facing an unwanted pregnancy alone. Loretta...
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