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"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
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2017.
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""So delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. And I mean that in the best way. What powerful tension and depth this provides!"-Aimee Bender. Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. Isolated at home and...
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"Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman--Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of the classic memoir Out of Africa. Brought to Kenya from England as a...
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Thomas Nelson
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English
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"One dress. Four women. An amazing destiny. Charlotte Malone is getting married. Yet all is not settled in the heart of Birmingham's chic bridal boutique owner. Charlotte can dress any bride to perfection -- except herself. When she discovers a vintage mint-condition wedding gown in a battered old trunk, Charlotte embarks on a passionate journey to discover the women who wore the gown before her. Emily in 1912. Mary in 1939. And Hillary in 1968. Each...
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2014.
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"Returning to the sweeping romantic saga, Colleen McCullough presents a new major work: the story of four unforgettable sisters navigating work, love, and their dreams in 1920s Australia. Because they are two sets of twins, the four Latimer sisters are as close as can be. They are famous throughout New South Wales for their beauty, wit, and ambition, but as they step into womanhood, they are not enthusiastic about the limited prospects life holds...
10) The kingdom
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Fargo adventures volume 3
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English
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On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black-market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, Stone Age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years ... and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its head.
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Scholastic, Incorporated
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2020.
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IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Fox siblings Fritz and Franny, and their patient dog Fred, are at the amusement park squabbling about which ride is fastest and loudest--but when they are confronted by the biggest, tallest, and loudest roller coaster they decide that maybe Fred would prefer something not quite so scary.
12) The last runaway
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Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
13) Sucker punch
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Set in the 1950s, it tells the story of Baby Doll in a mental institution, where she creates an alternate reality. She plans to escape from that imaginary world, but to do that she needs to steal five objects before she is captured by an unknown adversary.
14) Crossing over
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The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
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[2009]
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English
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Ensemble drama following immigrants from around the globe as they struggle to achieve American residency in the city of Los Angeles. The film weaves a web of interrelated personal stories about attempts to cross the border with South America, forged documents, the asylum and green card process, illegal employment and terrorism. Harrison Ford stars as tough but sensitive Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Max Brogan, who along with his Iranian-American...
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Jason Bourne series volume 9
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Jason Bourne is searching for an elusive cadre of terrorists planning to destroy America's most strategic natural resources -- and needs the help of his longtime friend, General Boris Karpov. Karpov, the newly appointed head of Russia's most feared spy agency, FSB-2, is one of the most determined, honorable, and justice-hungry men that Bourne knows.. But Karpov has made a deal with the devil. In order to remain the head of the FSB-2, he must hunt...
16) Bad boys
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Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
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[2010]
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English
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One hundred million dollars worth of confiscated drugs has just been jacked from police custody. Once the career bust of detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett, the missing drugs now threaten to shut down the narcotics division of the Miami police department. When the drug investigation turns deadly, the murderers kidnap the only witness, a beautiful police informant and close friend of the boys.
17) Executive suite
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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The president of a furniture company suddenly dies, leaving seven board members locked in a power struggle.
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AdN, Alianza de Novelas
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Español
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"'Entre la vida y la muerte hay una biblioteca. Y los estantes de esa biblioteca son infinitos. Cada libro da la oportunidad de probar otra vida que podrias haber vivido y de comprobar como habrian cambiado las cosas si hubieras tomado otras decisiones... Habrias hecho algo de manera diferente si hubieras tenido la oportunidad?' Nora Seed aparece, sin saber como, en la Biblioteca de la Medianoche, donde se le ofrece una nueva oportunidad para hacer...
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Century trilogy volume 3
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Dutton
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more personal battle of his own. Cameron Dewar,...
20) Weird science
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Teen life is full of mysteries and problems, so a socially challenged, nerdy computer whiz and his best friend set out to create the 'perfect woman.' Like a computer-generated fairy godmother, the duo's heavenly creation guides the pair through the pleasures and pitfalls of teenage life.
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