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81) The Golden Road
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Sixteen year old Fredi Steinmetz longed for adventure and riches. What better way to find both than to follow the Gold Rush from Texas to California, But he didn't reckon on bandits, and robbers, gold in the riverbanks, murder in the streets of San Francisco and the saloons of Moke Hill, a rich cache of under a half-dead pine tree on the North Fork, of Mormons and gold-miners, fugitive Fenians, and the Lotta Crabtree, the Faery Star dancing under...
82) Dragon Chica
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Nea, a Chinese Cambodian teenager, has survived the Khmer Rouge only to land in poverty in Texas. Her small family struggles to get by when a miracle occurs. Wealthy and mysterious, Auntie and Uncle write to say they are alive and well, running a Chinese restaurant in Nebraska. As Nea helps pack Hefty bags with meager belongings for a journey into the American Midwest, little does she know their miracle has a dark side. Soon family secrets, small...
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First love it will change your life for ever…Daisy has been dragged along on a family holiday against her will. Still, the holiday has its compensations. Katrina, the resident 'cool' girl who takes Daisy under her wing, and her gorgeous, older cousin who sends smouldering looks in Daisy's direction.Is this holiday about to change her life for the better?The escape from London has affected Daisy's dad. He has madcap schemes in mind for how he's going...
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Love, death, sex, homework-it's all part of the same problem when you're sixteen. Tony Vivamano steps out of the shower-steaming hot naked-and tries to eat a roast beef sandwich while he shaves and admires his muscles. It's clear to him that he is a millionaire in biological gold and he should be prepared to share his riches. "I am a hedonist," he tells the mirror practicing a sophomore vocabulary word. The problem is, Tony's best friend Patrick Cantwell...
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It is 1993 in Dar es Salaam when two sheltered seven-year-old Tanzanian girlsone black, one whitemeet outside the stall of an injured military horse. But what neither girl knows is that the horses wounds pale in comparison to the secrets and lies the girls parents have been entangled in for decades. Suzanna, the white girl, has a blistery red birthmark on her right cheek. Safina, whose skin is the color of chocolate, does not know who her father is...
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Das Buch erzählt Geschichten einer wundersamen Brille, die übernatürliche Eigenschaften besitzt. Wer diese Brille trägt, erlebt das Leben unweigerlich in einer völlig neuen Dimension. Zum einen findet er sich immer wieder in ungeahnten, schwierigen, spannenden und bisweilen auch schockierenden Situationen, zum anderen sieht er sich konfrontiert mit mancherlei persönlichen Herausforderungen: Misstrauen, Fixierung, Einsamkeit, Verzweiflung, Selbstmitleid...
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Ese has comfortably situated himself into the consistent ebbs and flows of his existence, seemingly schooling life and cracking the code to instant success. All of that changes when he moves schools, becoming a big fish in a vast and enveloping ocean. Dealing with questions of sexuality, identity, love, crushes and finding a concrete path on the lonely road. From talent shows to scheduling conflicts, debates and romance, Ese goes through revelatory...
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A song of the suburbs: a story of family, friends, first love, tragedy, hope and rock and rollIt's 1976 and with dreams of a career in rock, a crush on the prettiest girl in town, and a mother in remission from cancer, Mike's future looks bright.Music brings excitement and a chance to shine, but life off-stage is complicated. Together with family, friends and band-mates, Mike finds joy, sadness and loss. Troubling secrets surface while a new friend...
89) The Peregrine
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Che Parker is the author of four novels and a collection of short stories. Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, Che attended Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana, and later earned a Bachelor's of Arts degree in Communication Studies from the University of Missouri in Kansas City. Che also earned a Master's of Arts degree in Writing from Johns Hopkins University. Che has worked more than 20 years in journalism, public relations and...
90) Releasing Lisa
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Lisa Zuccerelli just wants to be normal. At the end of her senior year in high school, she has the distinction for the most detentions in the history of the school, thanks to an English teacher's betrayal. Seemingly left with no other choice after a distressing graduation ceremony, she packs two weeks' worth of rations, a canoe, and her broken heart and flees to the Canadian wilderness, where she hopes to piece her life back together and realize happiness....
91) Inferno
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Fin has a secret; one that can not be shared. He has an undying love for fire. He craves the heat and only feels at peace when he's engulfed in flames. His skin never blisters or shows the slightest sign of discomfort when he sneaks off into the woods to feed his addiction. It's only when the cold sets in that he feel an aching pain in his chest. Fin can't let anyone find out. Others, who were different like himself, have been burned alive when they...
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Setting off on a road trip which may be his last, Michael drops off a drug addict in Talacre, talks the legs off a Glasgow prostitute and is tolerated by many a bored landlady.
This story has the alcoholic content of O'Brien's Leaving Las Vegas and the chemical highs of Naked Lunch while its portrait of reluctant adolescent disillusion evokes The Catcher in the Rye.
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In the aftermath of French defeat in July 1940, twenty-year-old Jean Arnaud and his ally, the charming conman Palfy, are hiding out at a brothel in Clermont-Ferrand, having narrowly escaped a firing squad. At a military parade, Jean falls for a beautiful stranger, Claude, who will help him forget his adolescent heartbreak but bring far more serious troubles of her own. Having safely reached occupied Paris, the friends mingle with art smugglers and...
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Book Three – A pampered, highly attractive, self- centered college girl wants excitement in her perceived boring life, bolstered by her endless string of boyfriend failures; the return of a lost letter thrusts her into an insidious involvement with the sadistic campus drug pusher, his activities, his followers; convictions the world is in chaos and her life in disorder become reinforced during her travels, as she is exposed to political crises and...
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This yarn recounts a day in the life of one Robert James Worthington, a young man who "had the world on a string." "Don't let your ego get out of hand!""A story that ended as I predicted! Use good judgement and don't let pride and ego dictate and overrule good sense! 5 stars." - Amazon reviewer
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Unemployed, broke and engaged in a telepathic turf war with a feral cat behind an Okinawa convenience store, 28-year-old Fred Buchanan is hopelessly lost in life. After a fortuitous bet on the island bullfights, he boards a ferry to Kobe then a slow train to Tokyo, chasing shadows of a halogen dream.
Back in Tokyo, past and present collide as an empty orchestra croons a slow dance of people and place, memory and madness, loss and love. Charging...
97) Getting Even
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People think Annie can handle anything, and she can-but only because the alternative is worse Annie's summer in New York City was every teenager's dream. Being chosen as a summer intern at Image magazine meant the chance to work on real articles during the day and enjoy the independence and excitement of city life outside office hours. But now, going back to her high school routine feels like punishment-especially when the promised editorial job...
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In the first installment in The Moonboy series, The Moonboy and His Solstice, the reader gets a close look at the push and pull of dynamics between the characters Liam Russell and Elijah Hill. It is implied by Liam, the narrator and protagonist, that him and Aaron had a very special relationship. The first book never highlights the events of this relationship, but Sunsets for the Hopeful and the Hopeless says everything. It shows a not-so-average...
99) Gulabi
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Schizophrenia is challenging disorder often characterized by abnormal social behaviour and a significantly altered perception of reality. Its treatment largely depends on medications and psychosocial interventions but no single approach is widely considered effective for all patients. Through this book the author offer the readers a glimpse into the multifaceted world of schizophrenia in the form of fictitious storyline revolving around two characters...
100) Kudzu
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"Kudzu" opens on a sultry July afternoon in 1987, as thirty-eight-year-old Lewis Ray Jacobs is driving from his home in Nashville to his native Stone Coal in Eastern Kentucky, to attend a funeral. He reflects on a similar hot summer day in 1962 when he and his best friend, Travis Wicker, sneak into the wake of a recently departed neighbor, and twelve-year-old Lewis Ray, on a dare, reaches into the coffin to take hold of the corpse's hand. Things don't...
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