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501) Beauty Queen
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Latoya Lami joins a new school and throws herself right into student leadership, taking to it the way a duck takes to water. To the whole world, she is strong in every way and forceful by nature. Deep inside her, she is insecure and hurting though, mostly because of her physical looks. Her forceful appearance just serves to hide that. All around her, at school and home, everyone is fighting personal battles she knows nothing about. To some she is...
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In the futuristic and conflict-torn country of Halldis, previously the United States of America, a war rages between the ruling faction of the Emissary and a growing rebellion. However, this is no ordinary civil war. Altered with extraordinary super-human abilities, young soldiers across the country fight for a twisted definition of freedom.
Aidan Erinheart, retrieved from a military correction facility for deadly mistakes, arrives at a training facility...
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What once was,
must one day return.
And that which returns
may end us all..
For over a decade, Obege has battled to survive under the harsh rule of his father and to fit in with the people of his village on the one hand, while on the other suffering the prophetic dreams and cursed past that forever mark him as an outcast. It is a harsh existence, and grows more painful each day..
For Obege's dreams have grown dire. He has seen...
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The right name for a child is important. No one understood this better than Chance Branch. As he grew to over 400 pounds, the derogatory nickname Fat Chance became unavoidable.
If his problems ended there, it might not be so bad. But life had other plans for Chance-from an embarrassing lisp to a height of nearly 7 feet, he was destined to be an easy target for his cruel peers. The hot summers of southern Missouri, a meager home, and absentee...
505) The Great Pig Escape
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When the farm cat warns Runtling the pig of his approaching fate, he realises that the trip to market is one which he must avoid at all costs and he rushes off to warn his long-lost siblings of the danger. Together the thirteen pigs escape and make their way across country, learning all sorts of new things about themselves, about humans and about the world outside the farmyard.
It seems that their troubles are over when they find an abandoned farm....
506) Heirs of Tirragyl
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LONG LIVE THE QUEEN?
Since birth, Nyla has shared everything with her twin brother-royal tutors, the right to the throne of Tirragyl...even their soul. Many believe it wholly belongs to Alexor and should be returned to Nyla's brother regardless of the sacrifice-her death. However, Nyla's future isn't the only one in question.
A threat looms over the kingdom. The influential Lord Lucian intends to seize the Grotto, an underworld settlement known for...
507) Running On Empty
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All Ethan Palmer wants is wheels of his own, and he's finally saved enough money to buy his dream car . . . when he accidentally rams his dad's Volvo into their garage. It's not like his lawyer/politician father can't afford to pay for the damage, but of course his old man is going to turn this into another Big Life Lesson.
With all of his hard-earned cash going into repairs, Ethan won't be sliding behind the wheel of that Mustang Cobra any time soon....
508) Dreaming Australia
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Blood flows on the war-torn streets of Masar e-Sharif. To try to cope with that, and barbarous Taliban rule, Soraya illegally reads and attends a secret girls' school. But, when her mother is killed in a missile attack, all Soraya's girlish dreams and aspirations appear to be crushed forever. One night, her father mentions a cousin living in the rich country of Australia and tells her she will be going there. To give hope to their family, her captive...
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Nine-year-old Isabella, an upper-class girl, is forced to move to America with her slightly annoying older brother, an adventurous father and a down-to-earth mother. She's even more upset that she'll leave her school and her best friend, Anastasia. But, what better way to experience going to America than taking the Titanic?
Not to mention, a happy surprise passenger for Isabella, possibly a beautiful, maid for James, a new friend for Father, and a...
510) Jimmy Comes Home
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Jimmy is returning to Green Star Lake, his Cree community, after spending the last eighteen months in juvenile detention. Although only seventeen years old, he already has a long history of violence, drinking and theft. He is feeling angry and guilty about the death of his father, earlier in his life, and the absence of his mother. He will also face his girlfriend Theresa, the mother of his son. He learned about his son, Chance, in the first few months...
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This magical story is inspired by the most haunting and least explored country in the world - Namibia - with its foggy skeleton coasts; buried goldmines, shocking secrets and awe-inspiring sand dunes.
Spread across the face of its deserts are hundreds of miles of 'fairy circles': vast enough to be seen from space. They grow and die with the same lifespan as humans, yet no-one has been able to explain why or how they appear.
Then one day, three teenagers...
512) Tales of Heartbreak
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This is a style of reminiscing love with all the joys and pains that happens .But love has so many journeys and stories of happy endings, heartbreaking tales, and endless opportunity of bonds for eternity.
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Everyone knows that if A witch summons the devil, their soul belongs to him.
Juliet is a normal witch just trying to get through her senior year. That is, until a sinister entity knocks on her door and threatens her life.
The lives of the immortals are threatened by the same entity that haunts Juliet's dreams. She must face her fears head on, for the sake of her friends, and her soul.
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Ivy Sue Klutz (Little MisFit - LMF) finds one of her first memories confusing. This is when she is three and a half years old and is at her sister Lynn's birthday party. Their cousin, Janet, asks the partygoers to guess what Lynn's birthday present is as the truck delivering the present is backing up to the front porch of their house. Unbeknown to LMF, Janet told the other kids not to really guess that it's a bike. You guessed - LMF guesses that her...
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What do you need to run away from home?
For 16-year old foster kid Beverly Tailor, it's not a long list. She'll need a backpack, a partner in crime and the perfect moment to escape if she ever wants to reunite with her beloved foster mother.
Determined to escape the new small-town life her uncle has given her, Beverly waits patiently for the perfect moment to run away. While she's waiting, Beverly meets a handsome young stranger, who promises to...
516) A Mermaid's Dream
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Join Flora Sage as she unveils the secret to her life-changing coaching method in this practical and inspiring guide that will help you get from where you are to where you ultimately, desire to be. The 1° Shift Method will teach you how to embrace change, harness happiness, and become excited about life again! Change does not require you to do a complete 180° flip. Changing too many things all at once sets you up to spin circles and go nowhere fast....
517) MULEY
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Kelly Billingsley was born in Boston, but when opportunity knocked, Kelly and her family moved to Virginia to her grandfather's small farm. For Kelly, it was a dream come true, but in her wildest dreams, she could never imagine a friendship with a mule named "Muley" would miraculously teach him to interact with Kelly in ways she or anyone else could have ever guessed or could ever know. A floppy-eared mule with an attitude and an obsession to become...
518) Mitología
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Hope Gentry no cree en el Destino. Nacida con el inusual poder de ver los oscuros recuerdos de aquellos que le rodean, Hope solo quiere ser una adolescente normal. Pero el primer día de su último año de instituto, se siente irresistiblemente atraída por un alumno procedente de otra escuela, Micah Condie. A primera vista, Micah parece el chico con el que muchas soñarían, pero cuando Hope descubre el secreto más oscuro de Micah, rápidamente...
519) Fated
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Being able to see is a gift most people have, but nobody is really watching. People guess how their lives are going to turn out, but nobody really knows what they are destined to do or who they are destined to be with.
For Indigo Preston, being a seer is more blinding than helpful. She can see people's soulmates, their partners, their best friends, and most reviled of all, their murderers. That ability used to mean nothing to her until she met...
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The past you cannot undo, my life you have ruined by blood you shall pay and death shall be the receipt. — MillicentAfter losing faith in their president the people of Mathibs vote Millicent Young out of office but then they soon pay with their lives when Millicent sets out to create a chemical that will wipe out the entire country, they learn from their graves that hell hath no fury than a woman whose years of hard work were overlooked because...
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