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"Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked? Put together the pieces? Identify the suspect? Journalist Billy Jensen spent 15 years investigating unsolved murders, fighting for the families of victims. Every story he wrote had one thing in common - it didn't have an ending. The killer was still out there. But after the sudden death of a friend, crime writer Michelle McNamara, Billy became fed up. Following a dark...
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An emotionally riveting debut novel about war, family, and forbidden love, the unforgettable saga of two ill-fated lovers in Korea and the heartbreaking choices they're forced to make in the years surrounding the civil war that still haunts us today. When the communist-backed army from the north invades her home, sixteen-year-old Haemi Lee, along with her widowed mother and ailing brother, is forced to flee to a refugee camp along the coast. For a...
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Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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A web producer at Oprah.com documents the year she spent looking for a new best friend after relocating to Chicago, a search marked by her observations on current social research about the friend-making challenges faced by modern adults.
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Sourcebooks Landmark
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[2016]
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English
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He has all kinds of everyday joy in his life --he's young, he's in love, he has friends who promise to stand by him if life ever goes wrong. Then one day, life does go wrong. He makes a mistake, and it's big and unforgiveable. Now time is running out, and his life is falling apart. But he's going to put it back together again. His own way. This is a story about how far love must stretch to gather a life in pieces and about how a strong friendship...
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Choose your own adventure volume 115
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Chooseco
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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"You have spent your whole life hiking and exploring an island in Lake Champlain, not far from your home. One weekend, you and your friend Jayme decide to make a trip out to the island. Her anxieties about the weather grow more realistic and you lose control of the Zodiac, your boat...The storm has brought a lot of strange things with it--the moment you step ashore, you and Jayme feel it. You don't know how, but you're certain the island has taken...
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One afternoon, Abi Morgan returned home to find her longtime partner and father to their two kids collapsed on the bathroom floor. Jacob, who had been undergoing treatment for multiple sclerosis, had suddenly experienced a series of seizures and had to be put into a medically induced coma. As he slowly regained consciousness after six months, he made tentative steps to communicate with those around him, and grappled with the host of issues that had...
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Redhook, an imprint of Orbit
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2019.
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English
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"When Will jokes about becoming a serial killer, his friends just laugh it off. But Adeline can't help but feel there's something more sinister lurking behind his words. Fifteen years later, Adeline returns to Blythe for a reunion of the old gang - except Will doesn't show up. Reminiscing about old times, they look up the details of his supposed murder spree. But the mood soon changes when they discover two recent deaths that match. As the group attempts...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 42
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English
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On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students, a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night fifty years ago when Harry Dunning's father came home and killed...
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Castle Point Books
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[2021].
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English
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"Real preparedness isn't about stocking an underground bunker with canned ravioli and night-vision goggles. Its about getting your ducks in a row for just a few minutes a day so you can deal with real-life emergencies if and when they occur. From preparing a go-bag of vital supplies to creating a home inventory of your valuables in case of damage, Ready for Anything can help you prep smarter and worry less. With the quick tips, checklists, and valuable...
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Grand Central Life & Style
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2019.
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English
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A one-month plan for transitioning to a healthy, ethical, and sustainable diet reveals food-industry secrets that contribute to illness, outlining strategies for implementing more satisfying, sugar-free nutrition from plant-based sources.
13) You are enough
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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This self-help guide for young readers delivers real talk about eating disorders and body image; tools and information for recovery; and suggestions for dealing with the media messages that contribute so much to disordered eating, written in a easy-to-understand, conversational way.
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Razorbill
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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Zahra Gaines is missing. After three long years away, Ruthie Hayden arrives in her hometown of Anchorage, Alaska to this devastating news. Zahra was Ruthie's best friend--the only person who ever really understood her--and she vows to do whatever it takes to find her. Zahra vanished from a party just days before Ruthie's return, but the more people she talks to, the more she realizes that the Zahra she knew disappeared long before that fateful night....
15) Bark: stories
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2014.
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English
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"A new collection of stories by one of America's most beloved and admired short-story writers, her first in fifteen years, since Birds of America ("Fluid, cracked, mordant, colloquial. Will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability." --The New York Times Book Review, cover). These eight masterly stories reveal Lorrie Moore at her most mature and in a perfect configuration of craft, mind, and bewitched...
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Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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From an award-winning author comes a genre-defying thriller about a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family--even if it means a descent into violence. Buried in debt due to his young daughter's illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees to one final job: hijack a cartel's cash shipment before...
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Page Two Books
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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Depression sucks. It's a debilitating illness that affects the mind and the body - and chances are that you or someone you love will battle depression at some point in your lifetime. This Is Depression is your guide through the darkness. A widely respected authority on the diagnosis and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, psychiatrist Dr. Diane McIntosh provides all the information you need to understand and combat this serious and isolating...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Jessica Strawser's A Million Reasons Why is "a fascinating foray into the questions we are most afraid to ask" (Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author)--the story of two women who discover a bond between them that will change both their lives forever. When two strangers are linked by a mail-in DNA test, it's an answered prayer--that is, for one half-sister. For the other, it will dismantle everything she knows to be true. But as they...
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2018.
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English
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"From the daughter of Ghostbusters star Harold Ramis comes a hilarious and heartwarming account of his life, work, and legacy. Most of us know Harold Ramis as the filmmaker and actor who brought warmth and humor to the big screen in classics like Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, National Lampoon's Vacation, Groundhog Day, and National Lampoon's Animal House. To Violet Ramis, he was best known as an amazing father, confidant, and friend. In Ghostbuster's...
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Comedian Zach Anner opens his frank and devilishly funny book, If at Birth You Don't Succeed, with an admission: he botched his own birth. Two months early, underweight and under-prepared for life, he entered the world with cerebral palsy and an uncertain future. So how did this hairless mole-rat of a boy blossom into a viral internet sensation who's hosted two travel shows, impressed Oprah, driven the Mars Rover, and inspired a John Mayer song?...
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