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Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Susan Beth Pfeffer After ENAn anthology of nineteen tales by well-known authors of young adult and adult literature which explore the lives of teens raised after a catastrophe, either in the first few years after the change or in the distant future. If the melt-down, flood, plague, the third World War, new Ice Age, Rapture, alien invasion, clamp-down, meteor, or something else entirely hit today, what would tomorrow look like? Some of the…
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Chandler Baker Alive ENStella Cross's heart is poisoned. After years on the transplant waiting list, she's running out of hope that she'll ever see her eighteenth birthday. Then, miraculously, Stella receives the transplant she needs to survive. Determined to embrace everything she came so close to losing, Stella throws herself into her new life. But her recovery is marred with strange side effects: Nightmares. Hallucinations. A recurring…
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Katie Alender As Dead as It Gets ENIt's been three months since Alexis helplessly witnessed Lydia Small's violent death, and all she wants is for her life to return to normal. But it seems that Lydia's angry ghost wants revenge on Alexis alone. After a girl from school disappears, it soon becomes clear that several of Alexis' friends are in danger, and that she's the only person who can save them.
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Katie Alender Bad Girls Don't Die ENIn Alender's character-driven debut, outsider Alexis notices strange things occurring in her house and with her younger sister, Kasey. Alexis soon realizes that her life - and her family's - is creeping from dysfunction into danger.
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George Carlin Brain DroppingsWith hundreds of sold-out concert dates each year, over 20 albums, two Grammys, two Cable ACE awards, and more HBO specials that anyone else, George Carlin is more popular than ever. Now Carlin's New York Times bestselling book comes to paperback...
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Chris Powell Chris Powell's Choose More, Lose More for Life ENTransform Your Body, Transform Your Life! Each season, millions of viewers tune in to see Chris Powell lead extraordinary transformations on ABC's breakout hit Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition. Now, building on the basic weight-loss philosophy introduced in his bestselling book Choose to Lose, Chris has created a transformation plan anyone can follow - one that recognizes that no weight-loss journey is the same…
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Victoria Schwab Dark VaultImagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive.Mackenzie Bishop's ...
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Katie Alender From Bad to Cursed ENAlexis is the last girl you'd expect to sell her soul. She already has everything she needs - an adorable boyfriend, the perfect best friend, and a little sister who's finally recovering after being possessed by an evil spirit, then institutionalized. Alexis is thrilled when her sister joins a club; new friends are just what Kasey needs. It's strange, though, to see how fast the girls in The Sunshine Club go from…
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Richard Castle Frozen Heat ENHot on the heels of Richard Castle's #1 New York Times bestseller Heat Rises comes the fourth novel in the Nikki Heat series, Frozen Heat. Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook are together again, facing an unsolved murder mystery that has haunted Nikki for ten years. NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat arrives at her latest crime scene to find an unidentified woman stabbed to death and stuffed inside a suitcase left on a…
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Greg Pizzoli Good Night OwlOwl is ready for bed. But as soon as he settles in, he hears a strange noise. He'll never get to sleep unless he can figure out what's going on! He looks everywhere-in his cupboard, underneath the floorboards-even in his walls...
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Richard Castle Heat Rises ENFast-paced and full of intrigue, Heat Rises pairs the tough and sexy NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat with hotshot reporter Jameson Rook in New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle's most thrilling mystery yet. The bizarre murder of a parish priest at a New York bondage club opens Nikki Heat's most thrilling and dangerous case so far, pitting her against New York's most vicious drug lord, an arrogant CIA…
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Richard Castle Heat Wave ENNYPD detective Nikki Heat must deal with the continual presence of magazine journalist Jameson Rook as she works to solve the murder of a real estate magnate.
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Jack Mitchell Hug Your Customers ENA master of customer service reveals his proven secrets to developing long-lasting relationships and customer loyalty by making business personal. Once a customer, always a friend that is the simple philosophy behind Mitchells/Richards, two of the most successful clothing stores in the nation and that is why Jack Mitchell, his family, and associates inspire the enduring loyalty and admiration of his customers,…
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Ned Vizzini It's Kind of a Funny Story ENAmbitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life - which means getting into the right high school to get into the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he nearly kills himself. Craig's suicidal episode gets him checked into a mental hospital, where…
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Rachel Cohn Kill All Happies ENLast Call at Happies! Tonight, 8 P.M. Senior Class Only! Please with the Shhhh . This is it. Graduation. And Vic Navarro is throwing the most epic party Rancho Soldado has ever seen. She's going to pull off the most memorable good-bye ever for her best friends, give Happies-the kitschy restaurant that is her desert town's claim to fame-a proper send-off into bankruptcy, and oh yes, hook up with her delicious crush,…
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Sissy Spacek, Mary Anne Vollers My Extraordinary Ordinary Life ENIn her delightful and moving memoir, Sissy Spacek writes about her idyllic, barefoot childhood in a small East Texas town, with the clarity and wisdom that comes from never losing sight of her roots. Descended from industrious Czech immigrants and threadbare southern gentility, she grew up a tomboy, tagging along with two older brothers and absorbing grace and grit from her remarkable parents, who taught her that…
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Richard Castle Naked Heat ENThe best-selling mystery author of Heat Wave continues the story of tough and sexy NYPD homicide detective Nikki Heat and hotshot reporter Jameson Rook on the trail of a murderer in Manhattan. Reprint. A best-selling novel. 500,000 first printing. When a gossip columnist is found dead, NYPD Homicide Detective Heat uncovers a gallery of high profile suspects, all with compelling motives, as her investigation is…
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Rick Riordan Percy Jackson's Greek Gods ENA publisher in New York asked me to write down what I know about the Greek gods, and I was like, Can we do this anonymously? Because I don't need the Olympians mad at me again. But if it helps you to know your Greek gods, and survive an encounter with them if they ever show up in your face, then I guess writing all this down will be my good deed for the week. So begins Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, in which the son of…
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Rick Riordan Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes ENWho cut off Medusa's head? Who was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to know, and Percy Jackson can fill you in on the all the daring deeds of Perseus, Atalanta, Bellerophon, and the rest of the major Greek heroes. Told in the funny, irreverent style readers have come to expect from Percy, (I've had some bad experiences in my time, but the heroes I'm going to tell you about were the…
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Stephen Glover Professional Idiot: A Memoir ENFame can be addictive. From his early days videotaping crazy skateboard stunts to starring in the blockbuster Jackassfranchise, there was little that Stephen Steve-O Glover wouldn't do for attention. Whether it was stapling his nutsack to his leg, diving into a pool full of elephant crap, or routinely risking death invading the private lives of sharks, lions, tigers, and bears, almost nothing was out of bounds. As…
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Andrew Shvarts Royal Bastards ENBeing a bastard blows. Tilla would know. Her father, Lord Kent of the Western Province, loved her as a child, but cast her aside as soon as he had trueborn children. At sixteen, Tilla spends her days exploring long-forgotten tunnels beneath the castle with her stablehand half brother, Jax, and her nights drinking with the servants, passing out on Jax's floor while her castle bedroom collects dust. Tilla secretly…
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Jonas Jonasson The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared ENThe international publishing sensation over two million copies soldA reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert with a fondness for vodka) decides it's not too late to start over... After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health, and in one day, he turns 100. A big…
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Alexandra Bracken The Darkest Minds ENSixteen-year-old Ruby breaks out of a government-run Orehabilitation campo for teens who acquired dangerous powers after surviving a virus that wiped out most American children. Now she's on the run, desperate to find the one safe haven left for kids like her.
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Greg Pizzoli The Watermelon SeedWith perfect comic pacing, Greg Pizzoli introduces us to one funny crocodile who has one big fear: swallowing a watermelon seed. Will vines sprout out his ears? Will his skin turn pink? This crocodile has a wild imagination that...