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81) What comes after
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2021.
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"In misty, coastal Washington state, Isaac lives alone with his dog, grieving the recent death of his teenage son Daniel. Next door, Lorrie, a working single mother, struggles with a heinous act committed by her own teenage son. Separated by only a silvery stretch of trees, the two parents are emotionally stranded, isolated by their great losses--until an unfamiliar sixteen year-old girl shows up, bridges the gap, and changes everything. Evangeline's...
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Trickster trilogy volume 1
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Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared does smoke and drink too much, and he does make the best cookies in town, and his mom is a mess, but he's also a kid who has an immense capacity for compassion and an impulse to watch over people more than twice his age, and he can't rely on anyone for consistent love and support, except...
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"Absence makes the heart grow fonder... right? Everyone knows that Nick and Charlie love their nearly inseparable life together. But soon Nick will be leaving for university, and Charlie, a year younger, will be left behind. Everyone's asking if they're staying together, which is a stupid question... or at least that's what Nick and Charlie assume at first. As the time to say goodbye gets inevitably closer, both Nick and Charlie start to question...
84) The perfect tree
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[2015]
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36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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"Jack is searching for the perfect tree. One that he can chop, hack, and stack! But when it becomes too hard to find, Jack stumbles across three unlikely friends who want to show him "their" perfect trees."--Provided by publisher.
85) Sag Harbor
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2009
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The year is 1985. Benji Cooper is one of the only black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. After a tragic mishap on his first day of high school his social doom is sealed for the next four years. But every summer, Benji escapes to the Sag Harbor, where a small community of African American professionals has built a world of their own. Because their parents come out only on weekends, he and his friends are left to their own devices for...
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Playing off the themes in the Caldecott Medal-winning children's book Where the Wild Things Are, this informative, practical, and encouraging guide will help parents guide boys down the path to healthy and authentic manhood. Wild Things addresses the physical, emotional, and spiritual parts of a boy, written by two therapists who are currently engaged in clinical work with boys and their parents and who are also fathers raising five...
90) Farewell summer
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The master of American fiction returns to the territory of his beloved classic, Dandelion Wine-a sequel 50 years in the making
Some summers refuse to end . . .
October 1st, the end of summer. The air is still warm, but fall is in the air. Thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding, his younger brother Tom, and their friends do their best to take advantage of these last warm days, rampaging through the ravine, tormenting the girls . . . and declaring...
91) Chiefs
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Spanning four decades and involving three successive police chiefs of Delano, Georgia, the manhunt for the serial killer of young boys exposes the hatreds, fears, dark secrets, and festering wounds of a seemingly ordinary small town. Reprint.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Child comes a hypnotic literary horror novel about a young boy trapped inside his own world, whose drawings blur the lines between fantasy and reality.
Ever since he nearly drowned in the ocean three years earlier, ten-year-old Jack Peter Keenan has been deathly afraid to venture outdoors. Refusing to leave his home in a small coastal town in Maine, Jack Peter spends
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"The hero-narrator of 'The Catcher in the Rye' is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden...
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2016
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"Shy and scrawny Dan Weekes spends his time creating graphic novels inspired by his dream girl and looking out for his mom as she dates every man in the state of California. Then his mom drops a bomb: she and her latest beau, Hank, are engaged, and she's sending her "two favorite men" on a survivalist camping trip to "bond." Determined to trick Hank into showing his true flawed colors on the trip, Dan and his nerdy germaphobe best friend, Charlie,...
95) Sleeping giant
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[2018]
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1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : color illustrations)
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During a lazy summer at a lakeside cottage with his parents, Adam's dull routine is shattered when he meets Riley and Nate, local trouble-making cousins who fight their boredom with debauchery and petty crime. What begins as friendship will lead the boys to a powerful revelation that changes their lives forever.
96) The Curiosities
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2022.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"When the Curiosities choose Miro as the one they nest on, Miro is led to discover all the marvels waiting in the shadows where no one else looks. Sometimes though, the Curiosities can make Miro feel alone and invisible in the darkness. But perhaps Miro isn't as alone as he thinks..."--
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[2019]
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Pierre and Angelina are getting married and thinking of leaving the mountain, much to the chagrin of Sebastian who refuses to leave. It was then that Joseph, the former master of Belle, decided to recover the dog. Faced with this threat, Sebastian makes every effort to protect his faithful friend and his three little puppies.
98) The trick
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A deeply moving, humorous story of a boy who believes in everything and an old man who believes in nothing. In 1934, a rabbi's son in Prague joins a traveling circus, becomes a magician, and rises to fame under the stage name the Great Zabbatini just as Europe descends into World War II. When Zabbatini is discovered to be a Jew, his battered trunk full of magic tricks becomes his only hope of surviving the concentration camp where he is sent. Seven...
99) Summer on Earth
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[2017]
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294 pages ; 24 cm
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An alien lands in a boy's backyard and becomes a member of the family. Unfortunately, what the alien thought would help the family, actually poses a threat to them all.
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[2017]
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110 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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This book will provide you with the answers that will help you take care of yourself better, from hair care to healthy eating, bad breath to shaving, acne to voice changes, and everything in between. With tips, how-tos, and facts from a real pediatrician, it's the perfect book to help you learn about your body's changes.-- Amazon.com.
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