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1) Mariana
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Language
English
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After inheriting her sixteenth-century childhood home, Julia Beckett is astonished when she is transported back in time and into the body of Mariana, a woman who is struggling against treachery for her love of Richard de Mornay.
Author
Series
Hollows novels (Lisa Unger) volume 4
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Enjoying a successful career with his best friend Priss, a destructive friend who helped him escape bullies in childhood, Ian fears for his life when she becomes irrationally angry about Ian's new relationship.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.
5) Wolf-speaker
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Series
Language
English
Description
With the help of her animal friends, Daine fights to save the kingdom of Tortall from ambitious mortals and dangerous immortals.
6) Olivia
Author
Series
Olivia books (Ian Falconer) volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
Whether at home getting ready for the day, enjoying the beach, or at bedtime, Olivia is a feisty pig who has too much energy for her own good.
7) Sinner
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
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Former frontman for the band Narkotika, Cole St. Clair returns to California in hopes of renewing his relationship with Isabel Culpeper.
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Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 5
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Junie, a spunky, sometimes exasperating, kindergartener, looks forward to winning lots of prizes at the school carnival, but a fruit cake was not exactly what she had in mind.
9) The bell jar
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Language
English
Description
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experiece as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche...
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Series
Beast and the Bethany volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Handsome Ebenezer Tweezer has lived comfortably for nearly 512 years by feeding the magical beast in his mansion's attic whatever it wants, but when the beast demands a child, they are not prepared for Bethany.--
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Language
English
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Description
Elfrieda, a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yolandi, divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men as she tries to find true love: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. But Elf's latest suicide attempt is a shock: she is three weeks away from the opening of her highly anticipated international tour. Can she be nursed back to "health" in time? Does it matter? As the situation becomes ever...
12) A long way down
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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Description
Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.
13) Hi, Jack!
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
A impish rabbit takes a purse--and a lipstick--from a grey-haired lady and uses them and Rex, a dog, to get into mischief.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"A new, twisted suspense novel by national bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto. Jane is unhappy. A struggling midlist writer whose novels barely command four figures, she feels trapped in an underwhelming marriage, just scraping by to pay a crippling Bay Area mortgage for a house-a life-she's never really wanted. There's only ever been one person she cared about, one person who truly understood her: Thalia. Jane's best and only friend nearly a decade...
15) Girl on the line
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
Journey hadn't planned for a future, but when her suicide attempt fails she finds the life she never meant to live challenging in more ways than before: her parents don't trust her, her friends have moved on for their own good, her bipolar disorder is overwhelming. At odds with herself and lacking concrete goals, she begins volunteering at a local helpline, where she finds a community as strong yet broken as she is.
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Series
Beast and the Bethany volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
Notorious prankster Bethany, along with her new feathered friend Claudette, is determined that she and Ebenezer are going to de-beast their lives, but neither of them are sure what "good people" do
18) The bad seed
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Series
Language
English
Description
The bad seed changes his mind about being bad and decides that he wants to be happy.
19) Women in love
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Language
English
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Description
Dive into a provocative coming-of-age story that challenged the vestiges of England's Edwardian-era sexual mores. A continuation of a fictional arc that D.H. Lawrence began in a previous novel, The Rainbow, Women in Love explores the romantic entanglements and love affairs of the sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen.
20) Absent
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Paige Wheeler died in a fall off the high school roof and now her spirit seems bound to the school grounds, along with Brooke and Evan, two other teen ghosts who died there--but maybe if she can solve the mystery of her apparent suicide they will all be able to move on.