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2) White noise
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The story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event," a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys-radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic...
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"New York florist Flora Donovan is living the dream, but her bubbly optimism hides a secret. She's lonely. Orphaned as a child, she's never felt like she's belonged anywhere . . . until she meets Jack Parker. He's the first man to ever really see her, and it's life changing. Teenager Izzy Parker is holding it together by her fingertips. Since her mother passed away a year ago, looking after her dad and little sister is the only thing that makes Izzy...
4) Cinder
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Lunar chronicles volume 1
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Español
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As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
5) Black River
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A former prison guard and talented fiddler returns to his Montana hometown to bury his wife and confront an inmate who, twenty years earlier, held him hostage during a prison riot.
6) After Anna
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"Dr. Noah Alderman, a widower and single father, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie Ippoliti, and for the first time in a long time, he and his young son are happy. Despite her longing for the daughter she hasn't seen since she was a baby, Maggie is happy too, and she's even more overjoyed when she unexpectedly get another chance to be a mother to the child she thought she'd lost forever, her only daughter, Anna. Maggie and Noah know that having...
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2018.
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Bess is happy and in love with her new husband Edward. However, when she plans his birthday party, everything goes into a tailspin. Joining a family will not be as easy as she thought, especially getting along with her step daughter. Is there time for the Brannigans to discover the secrets of a happy family and marriage?
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Julia Alden has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. American obstetrician James is everything she didn't know she wanted--if only her teenage daughter, Gwen, didn't hate him so much. Uniting two households is never easy, but when Gwen turns for comfort to James's seventeen-year-old son, Nathan, the consequences will test her mother's loyalty and threaten all their fragile new happiness.
9) The children
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In this comic novel by a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a bachelor on a transatlantic cruise meets a group of runaway children who change his life forever.
Martin Boyne is a cautious man of forty-six. The bachelor has been nursing a relationship with a widow for five years, and now he is crossing the Atlantic to be with her. He laments that he never meets interesting people in his travels, but that is about to change . . .
The seven precocious...
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2018.
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First edition.
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English
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In the year following her parents' divorce, highly imaginative eight-year-old Nenny has a creeping premonition that something terrible will happen, and when this hunch comes true in the most unexpected of ways, she must deal with the fallout.
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"Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah...
15) People person
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2022.
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If you could choose your family...you wouldn't choose the Penningtons. Dimple Pennington knows of her half siblings, but she doesn't really know them. Five people who don't have anything in common except for faint memories of being driven through Brixton in their dad's gold jeep, and some pretty complex abandonment issues. Dimple has bigger things to think about. She's thirty, and her life isn't really going anywhere. An aspiring lifestyle influencer...
16) The limits
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2024.
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First edition.
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English
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Sent to New York to stay with her father, an overworked surgeon, and his new wife, 15-year-old Pia, rebelling against her stepmother when COVID sends them into near total isolation, finds her life colliding with 16-year-old Athyna, who’s caring for a toddler full time, as they spiral toward parallel but inescapably different tragedies.
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[2016]
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English
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From Estelle Maskame, author of the sensational Wattpad books, comes the second installment in the addicting DIMILY series that follows three unforgettable summers of secrets, heartbreak, and forbidden romance. This trilogy is perfect for readers of teen romance books!
Love has no rules.
It's been a year since Eden Munro last saw Tyler Bruce: her stepbrother...and secret love. Although they swore to ignore their feelings
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2018.
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English
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Rose Woodrowe is getting married to Tyler Masson - a wonderful, sensitive man who is head-over-heels in love with her. The only problem? This isn't the first time for either of them, and their five grown-up children have strong opinions on the matter... Who to listen to? Who to please? Rose and Tyler are determined to get it right this time, but in trying to make everyone happy, can they ever be happy themselves?
19) Big sky country
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When Sheriff Slade Barlow inherits half of a ranch also owned by his half-brother Hutch Carmody, their tense relationship takes on more strain. Then Hutch's former flame, Joslyn Kirk, who is working hard to make up for her stepfather's dishonesty, catches Slade's eye. Is the sheriff headed for trouble and heartbreak?
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2015.
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4 girls and only 1 pony! When their mother remarries, twin sisters Toni and Staci get . . . twin stepsisters! Toni and Staci have almost nothing in common with their new siblings-Paisley is loud and spoiled, and Stirling is pretty and perfect-but all of the girls love horses. When Paisley brings home a pony of her own, with a sugar-colored mane and sweet dark eyes, the rest of the sisters are consumed with jealousy. How can 4 horse-crazy girls get...
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