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21) Tilt
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Triangles volume 2
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Three teens, connected by their parents' bad choices, tell in their own voices of their lives and loves as Shane finds his first boyfriend, Mikayla discovers that love can be pushed too far, and Harley loses herself in her quest for new experiences.
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"Nick and Phoebe Maguire, in search of a fresh start for themselves and their infant son, move cross-country to Southern California, arriving at the worst possible economic time. Instead of a beachside home, they find themselves broke, trapped, and increasingly desperate in the dark heart of foreclosure alley. Nick and Phoebe each devise their own plan to claw their way back into the middle class and beyond. Hatched under one roof, their two separate,...
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"For the past thirty-three years, Angela Gillespie has sent to friends and family around the world an end-of-the-year letter titled "Hello from the Gillespies." It's always been cheery and full of good news. This year, Angela surprises herself-she tells the truth.... The Gillespies are far from the perfect family that Angela has made them out to be. Her husband is coping badly with retirement. Her thirty-two-year-old twins are having career meltdowns....
25) Deadly design
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"Kyle McAdams races to find out what's killing kids conceived at the Genesis Innovations Laboratory before he becomes yet another perfect, blue-eyed corpse"--
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"Now in her seventies and widowed for the past three years, Mary Wilson never expected to find love again. But when a kindly stranger helps her home with her shopping and she invites him in for a cup of tea, it marks the start of a slow-burning friendship. Mary's affection for Bill grows steadily, despite his failing health and repeated attempts to interfere by her scheming daughter-in-law. But despite her growing feelings for Bill, Mary finds it...
28) Surface
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Claire Montgomery has a lifetime of sensible decisions behind her. Yet all it takes is one impulsive indiscretion to bring everything crashing down--her marriage to a wealthy entrepreneur, her status as half of one of Denver society's power couples, and the future she dreamed of for their seventeen-year-old son, Nick.
29) Arabska pieśń
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Polish
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Their fortune threatened by shifting powers in Sudan and their heir's debilitating accident, a powerful family under the leadership of Mahmoud Bey is torn between the traditional and modern values of Mahmoud's two wives and his son's efforts to break with cultural limits.
30) Three rivers
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"A massive storm was coming straight for Mama's little plot of land in the Mississippi Delta and there was no way any of them could outrun the weather. For three years Melody Mahaffey has been on the road, touring as a keyboardist with a terrible Christian pop band she can hardly stand. So when her mother calls, full of her usual dire news and dramatic pronouncements, Melody is relieved to pack her bags and call it quits. But at the sprawling, defunct...
31) The odds
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After an evening of massive losses playing slot machines, Ethan Caustin wonders how he's going to explain things to his wife and kids. As he's leaving the casino, he is approached by a stranger who offers a solution, which is a simple game with a 99% chance for him to win ten thousand dollars. If he loses, however, he'll be strapped into a device that shatters his left arm. As the game goes on, the prizes and penalties keep changing, along with his...
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Kara, a high school junior, is popular with a great group of friends, an amazing boyfriend, and expectations of being Homecoming Queen until she leaves a party angry and wakes up in a hospital bed, paralized from the waist down, but as she is forced to adjust to her new physical reality, she also learns that her friends are not who they seemed to be.
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"Yesterday 16-year-old Emily's mother was a high-powered attorney. Today she is a mermaid. While the car accident they were in left Emily relatively unscathed, her mother is just not the same. She doesn't care about court cases and keeps talking about her missing tail. But life doesn't stop when you're in the midst of a family crisis. Emily continues with school and falling in love for the first time, all while taking care of her little sister, who...
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"La vida muchas veces puede ser injusta. Arden Huntley siente eso. Ella siempre fue leal. Sus amigos y su familia la definen así. Pero está cansada de serlo y de vivir preocupándose por personas que no la aprecian realmente. Incluso de su madre, que se marchó de su casa sin pensarlo dos veces. Y de su mejor amiga, que últimamente solo piensa en ella. Un día, Arden se topa con el blog 'Esta noche las calles son nuestras,' y comienza a leer las...
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