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When mysterious letters arrive the summer before her senior year, Kenna, the daughter of an alcoholic single mother, follows the riddles within that hint at her absent father's existence. Kenna with the help of her best friend, Jake, head to New York City using each letter as their tour guide. The rabbit hole leads them to a family she didn't know she had, as well as a secret government medical testing facility. Kenna becomes an unwilling test subject...
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This book is a middle school literary fiction novella (that welcomes all ages) about a young girl and her grandfather who happens to be a Vietnam Vet. The young girl is in seventh grade and shares a special relationship with her grandfather. However, the little girl goes through the trials and tribulations of the modern world and experiences cyberbullying. Her grandfather overcomes his ghosts and coaches his granddaughter on the path to forgiveness,...
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Family curses are the result of sin or someone in the family rebelling against God's sanctions. Living a life under a heredity curse is a particular type of supernatural curse that is passed from the parent to offspring. Curses that are passed down from one generation to the next, either until the entire family lines die out or unless they find some way to break the curse.
4) Angel Fall
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Raised in an era where war is custom, three newly recruited deacons find themselves embroidered in a chess game whose players are unknown. Sides will be offered, yet none will be taken. Lies will be told, yet none will be believed. As the trio battles through trials and missions' alike secrets and mysteries will be revealed that change the world around them. Three is the number of completion, but will this trio complete their goals? Or will the chains...
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Dr. Martin Sanders is a young doctor who just landed his first job. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and the job is in Franklin, Tennessee. The new job is in a small town at a clinic that for some reason cannot keep a doctor on staff, as every doctor leaves abruptly and goes missing. Sanders is determined to make the most out of his position there and to be the doctor ongoing for the clinic; however, on his travels to the town, he has a run of bad...
6) Sarah's Way
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Sarah, a young fitness-crazed barista, never expected to lead the life she would be, swept up by. Alex, a very-easy-on-the-eyes Airman, came into the coffee shop one day and wouldn't take no for an answer. "Why is this guy so pushy?" she thought. It wasn't, until she was swept off her feet and married to him that she quickly realized his womanizing and demeaning nature. Alex cheated every chance he got, and it didn't matter who with.
Sarah finally...
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When you have a llama as your friend, you have a friend for life. Having a llama as your friend is not as easy as you may think. Join Amelia as she befriends a lonely llama who will take her on the adventure of her life.
Amelia will have a little help from her younger sister, Addy, and her pet, Goldendoodle Ruby, as she tries to sneak her new llama friend into her home. Would your parents let you have a llama as a house pet? If you do invite a llama...
8) Crossroads
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Reader, what an exciting opportunity you will have to unravel the mind of the two main characters Kane and Xavier as you follow these main characters who both struggle with life lessons and growing up in the inner city project life. As things build to a climax in these young characters' lives, both struggle with their versions of morality and what's real. Throughout the story, reader, you too, of course, will be able to relate to certain situations...
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Cody Crosby grew up as a Boy Scout who was awarded the Eagle Scout rank and inducted into the honorary Boy Scout Order of the Arrow. He became a responsible adult who had no use for anyone who would commit senseless crimes-such as raping, brutalizing, and killing his best friend's fiancee.
Cody uncovered clues that led to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator, but several murders followed, although the killer was still in jail, eventually...
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Who is the "bad" guy? A delightfully deceptive story about two individuals, Lamb and Donde, and their rise to the top, but there's an unknown shadow bent on bringing them down. Can they discover them before it's too late? Can you? Including romance, adventure, and self-discovery, it seems like a simple, predictable story, but you're being led. Lamb, with his love interest Liv, discovers many vital skills with their shifting, an ability to shift reality....
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Michael Rodriguez is an orphan who grew up in a crime-filled, corrupted city name Medier Central. Living in an orphanage with his older brother Sherman, life was tough for him with bullies, overbearing nuns, and the darkness affecting his personality. Sherman, now twenty-one, decides to move himself and his brother out of the city to a peaceful small town named Paz Dimin. Once there, Michael discovers that his father, Manny, was murdered.
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12) Watermelon Guy
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Rules of becoming a Melon:
1. Receive eight hours of sleep per night on the weekends.
2. Stay uncomfortable while performing uncomfortable acts.
3. Enjoy spending time in your friends' basement.
4. Never openly admit your feelings to the person you're crushing on.
5. Break rule number 4.
A quirky, I-don't-know-what-I-wanna-do-with-my-life high school senior-to-be has his comfortable lifestyle turned upside down by the girl he knows is The One....
13) One Day
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Seven regular-seeming people in the town of Falmouth, Maine, live out another Wednesday as their worlds are flipped upside down and decisions are made that will change lives forever, proving that the little things we do impact the outcomes of others in a drastic way.
Mary--A young, hardworking girl with a difficult past just trying to get by and move on from her childhood
Olivia--About to enter the adventure of a lifetime as a mistress of one...
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In this short science fiction story, the character Ralph travels to the far reaches of space and the solar system through his imagination. Not long after, however, he wakes up and looks around, surprised to remember that he is in the dentist's room. Then he realizes that he is not really in orbit flying through space as he truly believed but rather is on Earth, in a place called Galactic Dental, and for his own benefit he understands that everything...
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Miss Katy Williamson and her Maine Coon cat, Chester, moved from an apartment in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to the country just outside of the small town, Sweetwater, Oklahoma.
Dave Middleton, owner of the "Garden and Landscape Store" in Sweetwater, Oklahoma, has become a very good friend to Miss Katy and Chester. Dave helps Miss Katy find the hidden oak stairway in her yellow Victorian home that leads to a third-story room.
The two intruders...
16) Ancient Names
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Jayme knows that she has met the man who has haunted her dreams for her entire lifetime but is he the one she was meant to be with? A runaway from Romania, Jayme flees the life she knew behind with her cousin for England. Upon her arrival, Erik, a high-strung handsome metal worker and farmer, is enthralled with her, but Erik has some secrets of his own. She must share a curse if she is to stay with Erik. Contemplating her own fate, she is intrigued...
17) Black Rose
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Every choice has a cost--a fact that seventeen-year-old Dylan Grimm knew all too well, especially on the night of his high school graduation. He was framed for setting his school's gym on fire, almost killing a group of girls. He was forced to make an impossible choice and was sent to the other side of the universe, away from everything he knows. He thought his life was over until he met a girl he fell in love with--and only just days before he was...
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Well, now Baxter the Broad-Back Bear was no ordinary bear from the day he was born. He was just the littlest-bittiest baby bear anyone in Enchanted Forest had ever seen before. Then after a serious tragedy that kept him really, really hungry all night long, he started eating (big time!) and started growing (big time!).
Wow, he started growing so fast that he got growing pains--ached all over, couldn't sleep for beans, and started dancing at night...
19) Him From My Past
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"You can't hide from them, Emery. You'll get what's coming." Emery Wilds faces her past in the most emotional of ways. Emery and her best friends, Stevie and Brooks, have moved to Portland to run and hide from Emery's past. As Emery starts to trust people again, her past comes back to find her. Emery finds herself in a love triangle, which pushes the situation over the edge.
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Good Ol' Pete's Hood-Raising Adventures: Whitmore's Creek is a short story about an American family, the Whitmores, who were privileged to inherit generational wealth by means of a flourishing cropping industry since the mid-eighteenth century. Now that we are in the twenty-first century, an ominous 110-year-old curse that has desecrated the Whitmores' private estate is unveiled by a secret coalition. Strategically, these vigilantes organize a fight...
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