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This is heartwarming and adventurous story about a teenage boy named Peter Robinson, an only child living with his widowed mother, Doris. He is more mature than boys his age and even those slightly older. He keeps pretty much to home with his mother and has many friends, both straight and gay.He suffered a great loss when his father died of cancer when Peter was just fourteen years old, and is still trying to cope with his death just a year later...
3) Hard Rock
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After working in several mines around many men of all colors and ethnicities, Lloyd found they all had the same thing in common: they each had a story. He did not realize he was collecting these in the back of his mind. As the years went by, many of these men passed away, and their stories with them. He did not want all that he had heard die with him. Lloyd knew it would be difficult because he is a miner, not a writer. He set out to put all he had...
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The title of the book Planet Larene comes from my short stories about a man in his midtwenties who has bipolar disorder. And he is explaining his chaotic thought process. And his journey of human settlement on Planet Larene. In these stories, topics on colorism, mental health, human nature, and the supernatural will be discussed.
5) The Light
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Christi Randolph is a strong-willed sixteen-year-old free spirit who is facing family decisions that will result in disrupting her whole life. Her trip to the beach with her aunt is an escape from the stress of it all. Ben, whose family was killed in a tragic boating accident, is staying with the Carltons, friends who live next door to their beach home in South Carolina. When their paths cross, sparks will not only fly but Christi also discovers there...
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The Crow Tree is the first in the Magical Midland Forest series of contemporary novels for young adult readers.
It's set in a mysterious forest with talking animals and a secret passage to another time and in a tense and fractured American town next door.
The story is told by a ninth grader named Marcus. He and his marching band friends usually stay to themselves. But with loggers clear-cutting the forest, Marcus is losing his only place of...
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Betty--along with her doll, Sissy--and her family move to Colorado. Betty and Mark become friends with the neighbor's kids, Bobby and Amanda. They tell them their Grandpa's barn is haunted. They all decide to investigate. They run into unnatural things, which leads to an exciting adventure.
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Now that his parents are divorced, teenager Andy Sadler and his mother Rose must fend for themselves in the suburban jungle of Whitestone, Queens, on the outskirts of New York City in the turbulent sixties. Andy, a shy only child, is one day ambushed by the beautiful young blond cashier at the Whitestone Bakery. He is instantly smitten by the lovely Katy Kelly, a Catholic school girl. (Andy attends the local public school.) So Andy barges into the...
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If you were fortunate enough to view the movie Erin Brockovich, then reading Profit...at What Cost? will bring back memories of environmental wrongdoings. Those who read the first outline of this novel said it should be made into a movie, as it's even more riveting and eye-opening!
Are you paying attention, Hollywood?
Follow an environmental reporter and her sidekick photographer as they search for the truth in two highly emotional yet mysterious...
11) Soul Bound
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Death, soul mates, and Hell, with a side of assassination attempts. Athena's life turned kaddy-corner when she finds her grandmother dead, her best friend has powers, and oh yeah, her real father is the Master of Hell. Can her new court, new friends, and new soul mate figure out how to save her kingdom all while staying alive?
12) Spikes
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Darren is a young warehouse worker with a level-head, good heart, and an intense competitor's spirit. Struggling with the death of his father figure and his own indecisiveness, he searches for new purpose. He finds himself in a precarious position having not experienced grief in his lifetime. The prospects of a colorful competition loom as Darren decides whether to take the highest risk of his life or forge a more conventional path. As the stakes...
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After failing to solve a prolonged case involving an untraceable serial killer, prominent FBI agent Lee Wong resigned himself from office and went into isolated depression, firmly believing that his glory days were over. Roughly half a decade later, he received a call from his former coworker and close friend who proposed a case that would promise redemption. Reluctant at first, Lee accepted the job with the slight hope of turning his stagnant life...
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Young Anthony Murphy Fights the Great War!A teenager leaves high school to defend America's European friends from the Germans.He leaves the family farm with only a dollar in his Bible. What would you spend your only dollar on before going off to war?Uncharted highs and abysmal lows are part of real life. Follow Anthony on his trek to manhood through the Great War, a global pandemic, and deep young love.
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Sarah looks her age and is therefore not allowed to drink or own property legally yet manages to do both with unexpected results. Adopting a sweet smile and angelic demeanor, she studies people in order to please them at the same time she is conning them. She usually succeeds in doing so. As the perfect employee, she flatters her bosses and her landlord while quietly cheating both as she accumulates seed money to become financially independent. Possible...
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Mindy, Kimmy, and Sonia are beginning the summer between seventh and eighth grade and none of them are feeling very good about it. Mindy gained a lot of weight over the winter, and at the same time, her best friend ditched her for two more popular girls, so she spends most of her time alone, watching reruns of Friends. Kimmy has always been painfully shy, and now that her parents are getting a divorce, she has to move in with her grandparents and...
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The Captain and the Lady is set in the pre–Revolutionary War province of New Jersey. Sally Waitt, a young girl, wishes to be a sailor in her father's fleet of ships. But with her mother's death, Sally's life changes as she becomes the mistress of the plantation and their homes in the city of Boston and the coastal town of Marblehead. Through her father's contacts, she meets a handsome captain and will be surprised by the turn of events in her life....
19) Gus
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This story was an idea that started years ago when my twin boys spent the summer with their grandmother in North Carolina. Listening to their stories and adding my adventures in Chicago, I came up with the story of a young boy raised by a single parent as my brother and I were. With gangs very prominent in our lives, we were shipped off to Michigan. Combining all this, I created my composite of Bobby. As for Gus, he was created to be a catalysis to...
20) 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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