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61) Making the team
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Alec London volume 1
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Ten-year-old Alec, feeling guilty when he wins a starting position on the football team but his older brother does not, and angry and frustrated when his mother leaves town for an acting job and his father becomes assistant principal at Alec's school, learns that God allows things to happen in people's lives to help them grow.
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In a grand old mansion in bluegrass Kentucky, Semantha, the younger Heavenstone sister, is afraid of so many things... but nothing frightens her more than her sister, Cassie. She is always telling Semantha what to do, what to wear, and how to behave around those wicked boys at school. Semantha has her eye on one special guy -- but Cassie has other plans.
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"Big Son is a spirit of the times--the times being 1837. Behind his broad shoulders, shiny hair, and church-organ laugh, Big Son practically made Ohio City all by himself. The feats of this proto-superhero have earned him wonder and whiskey toasts but very little in the way of fortune. And without money, Big cannot become an honest husband to his beloved Cloe (who may or may not want to be his wife, honestly). In pursuit of a steady wage, our hero...
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Charity Lavender Evans, a national best-selling author, finds her life spinning wildly out of control when her sister Lynzee files a civil suit against her and her husband files for divorce, which forces her to redefine her life as a wife, mother, sister, and writer.
68) Smart vs. pretty
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Out-of-work urban professional Francesca Greenfield has always known that she was the "smart" sister.
Amanda was the soft and lovely one who, from the beginning, had always garnered most of the attention -- and all the dates. Now they've been thrown together in a last-ditch effort to save the family coffeehouse business before it goes permanently down the drain.
In the chaotic midst of mad promotional schemes and piranha-like next-door competitors,...
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Norman Moonbloom is a loser, a drop-out who can't even make it as a deadbeat. His brother, a slumlord, hires him to collect rent in the buildings he owns in Manhattan. Making his rounds from apartment to apartment, Moonbloom confronts a wildly varied assortment of brilliantly described urban characters, among them a gay jazz musician with a sideline as a gigolo, a Holocaust survivor, and a brilliant young black writer modeled on James Baldwin. Moonbloom...
70) The reunion
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When the Chance siblings, all unable to find love, reunite to plan the ultimate fiftieth anniversary party for their parents, they all must contend with romantic entanglements, sibling rivalries and the definitive end of their childhood.
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A geeky, brilliant, cosmetic chemist, Anna Ellis, to win over Craig Kimball, the man of her dreams--and her boss--starts fake dating Craig's half-brother Marco, with whom Craig is super competitive, as an experiment in attraction, until her feelings for Marco become all-too real.
72) The new baby
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A boy is a little jealous of his new baby brother until mommy gives him a hug and the new baby gives him a smile.
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There is a place-a world-where famine and poverty do not exist.
Nor sickness nor misery nor unhappiness of any kind.
Is it Heaven?
As two brothers are about to discover, it's more like Hell.
Michael Glynn is a hotshot director addicted to a there's-no-success-like-excess hedonism. Daniel Glynn is a professor of literature, devoted husband, and doting father with a quietly buttoned-down life. Brothers bound by blood. But, brothers waging a private...
76) Red velvet crush
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"Teddy Lee's bitter rivalry with her younger sister and family dysfunction leave her ill-prepared to deal with success, but through music she gains a new perspective and begins to heal"--
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Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 104
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From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!
A very merry Christmas?Karen and Andrew are in A Christmas Carol. Karen's part is small. But Andrew's part is very big. At first Karen is proud of him, but then her feelings change. Soon Karen is jealous. And it is hard for her to be nice to Andrew. How will Karen get her Christmas spirit back? Ann M. Martin is the creator...
78) Pierre et Jean
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A vague jealousy, one of those dormant jealousies which grow up between brothers or sisters and slowly ripen till they burst, on the occasion of a marriage perhaps, or of some good fortune happening to one of them, kept them on the alert in a sort of brotherly and non-aggressive animosity. They were fond of each other, it is true, but they watched each other. Pierre, five years old when Jean was born, had looked with the eyes of a little petted animal...
80) The den
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Nothing brings the four Fox siblings together like their detestable father's heart attack, and a hefty inheritance to be divided equally. At his deathbed is his oldest daughter, Valerie; her irresponsible sister, Lucy; and their two embattled brothers, Christian and Jeremy. Even the former housekeeper, Marian, who's been with the family for forty years, is on watch. All Valerie hopes for is an amicable reunion, despite the damages of the past. By...
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