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Una exasperada profesora de ciencias sociales de secundaria con la mitad de su clase de último año reprobando, recurre a una medida drástica que resulta en el Mar de la Tranquilidad 2.0. Cuatro de sus estudiantes proponen un proyecto radical para ayudar a frenar el aumento del nivel del mar y proporcionar una patria a algunos de los millones de refugiados que están a la deriva por las guerras, las economías en quiebra y la violencia de las pandillas....
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While watching the demolition of his old school Placidus College, Simon Hickey looks back on ten turbulent, life defining years, when the first crop of Australia's baby boomers were awakening to their sexuality. Seduced by the power of the pulpit, and the Aquinine Brothers, Simon's attention is directed toward a religious vocation.
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Russ Clayton is a young man who keeps losing the important people in his life. Each time someone disappears, he finds himself left adrift. The Universe stacked against him. He only finds peace running alone on the roads of his small town in Kansas.Russ finally believes that everyone in his life is gone. Feeling abandoned, reckless, and liberated, he gives himself up wholly to the running by setting an impossible goal. But, he needs help.Long ago,...
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An offbeat love story about the adventures and mutual rescue of a young woman out of place in her hometown and a mysterious stranger who calls himself Peter Parker (and begins to cast her in the role of Spider-Man's first sweetheart), The Night Gwen Stacy Died is about first loss, first love, and finding our real identities.
5) Séance
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After the death of her mother, Nancy is relocated to a place she's never known existed: her family's ancestral home, the haunted Spottswood Mansion, located in the quiet hamlet of Summer's End Louisana. Starting school at Talbot High without knowing anyone can be challenging. Still, Nancy is experiencing a tough time adjusting to her life as a Freshman, falling victim to bullying by Emma, the leader of the popular girl group The Posh Girls. But things...
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A word of caution - everything you think you know may be wrong.
Tom has a lot on his plate, he is feeling useless and dejected. A chance meeting with an old man and the tales he tells of magic, mystery and mayhem changes Tom's beliefs and he embarks on an arduous journey in search of wealth. When Tom reaches his destination he does indeed find treasure - although not what he believed treasure to be. Tom returns home a changed man after discovering...
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A woman's coming-of-age through a toxic relationship, isolation, and betrayal-set against the stark landscape of the far north.
Millicent is a shy, 24-year-old reporter who moves to Whitehorse to work for a failing daily newspaper. With winter looming and the Yukon descending into darkness, Millicent begins a relationship with Pascal, an eccentric and charming middle-aged filmmaker who lives on a converted school bus in a Walmart parking lot. What...
8) Ties
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When a shiny new convertible arrives for her twenty-first birthday, Hattie Beckett has had enough of her absent dad trying to buy a place in her life. It's time for him to face her--or get out of her life forever.She tosses some clothes in a bag, looks up her father's last known address, and sets her GPS for Silver Stand, California.When she arrives at a beach-bum paradise that's totally foreign to her New England upbringing and finds nothing but...
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With Blue's father in prison for selling marijuana and his mother estranged for over the last seven years, Blue is doing well, all considering. As the second addition to the not-so-nuclear Dixon family of Lisa, her ten-year-old son, Dwight, and the retired, Jewish introvert, Av, Blue finds himself living in a much better area of Halifax, Nova Scotia, going to a much better school and for the first time, actually applying himself academically as he...
10) Riptides
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Enzo Rodriguez doesn't take much seriously--unless it involves waves, boards, or good beer.When too-hot-to-handle Jessica Mills strolls into his life, Enzo is willing to forego all of those things for every second he can spend with her.But Jessica has a huge secret--and when it's revealed, it not only crushes Enzo, but has the last person he wants to ask a favor of--his brother-in-law Adam--bailing him out of jail.Enzo is convinced that the only way...
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***2013 InD'Tale RONE Award Finalist*** A little lie can change the course of everything. . . Like every other eighteen-year-old in love, Olivia has dreams of spending forever with the love of her life. Luke is all she's ever wanted – until she overhears something she was never meant to. In a matter of seconds, Olivia's heart is shattered. Olivia handles it the only way she knows how - she runs- leaving behind her family, friends and the boy she...
12) Celia's Room
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"Stunning debut: If you like Kerouac or Isherwood, you will love Celia's Room."An LGBT+ novel of the Barcelona night in a year of sex, drugs and deception. Told through their own eyes, sensitive Joaquim – whose passion for painting will propel him into the artist's life – and cynical Eduardo – addicted to a nightlife that thwarts his ambition to write – unveil a conflicted, shadowy city, personified by the enigmatic Celia. Despite their violently...
13) Texas Jack
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Jack Leonard's father, Billy, is an alcoholic.Billy isn't a bad guy. Friends would say he's the life of the party; his family might refer to him as harmless. After all, he isn't a mean drunk ... he's a happy drunk. Unfortunately, these things tend to run in the family, and Jack is following in the old man's footprints.Then Jack meets a girl, and what once seemed inevitable loses its luster. Samantha fills many of the little holes in Jack's life.Fast-forward...
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When workers get legal authority to stop industrial hazards, and successfully sue a factory owner, panicked millionaires sabotage community meetings, hire armed spies, harass their kids, and raise their real estate taxes four times over. Teenaged Friends Paul, son of a truck mechanic, and Karen, daughter of a railroad engineer, have just begun to organize their blue-collar community in Shingle Creek. Despite a blizzard of death threats, the Creekers...
15) Crimson Springs
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Tim's reluctant move to the sleepy town of Crimson Springs quickly spirals into a nightmare as he uncovers its terrifying cosmic secret, thrusting him into a fight against an unimaginable horror. In Crimson Springs, a seemingly idyllic small town hides a darkness that defies the laws of nature and reality. Tim, uprooted from city life, finds himself in a place where the normal rules don't apply. As bizarre events unfold, he, along with a group of...
16) Marmalade
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IF SHE SAYS HIS NAME, HE WILL COME In this gripping supernatural horror book, recently orphaned Prose Harden becomes the sole witness to her father's gruesome murder, catapulting her into the eerie confines of Everbrook, a group home for troubled teens. Here, in this asylum-like institution, Prose must navigate the complexities of coming of age while haunted by an entity she's known all her life – the Marmalade Man, an imaginary friend turned sinister...
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It's a Tuesday morning in Brooklyn---a perfect September day. Wendy is heading to school, eager to make plans with her best friend, worried about how she looks, mad at her mother for not letting her visit her father in California, impatient with her little brother and with the almost too-loving concern of her jazz musician stepfather. She's out the door to catch the bus. An hour later comes the news: A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center---her...
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Billy grew up in a foster home run by a Dad who treated the elderly women like he was a cruel madam of a whorehouse. He was even more abusive to Billy than the ladies. To survive, Billy strives to be an artist who creates a perfect painting of a perfect woman as if he is a crack addict without any lack of product. But he falls for Bitea; perfectly imperfect in love, in emotions, in her faith in him. She rattles his conscience about how he watches...
19) Dummy & Me!
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Sixteen-year-old Deanna Lambert is miserable. She can't find her niche with the popular kids at school and she believes she is ugly. Then, too, after her mother deserted the family to pursue an acting career, Deanna's father has grown distant and embittered. Now Deanna is saddled with most of the chores at home--and she and her dad barely communicate. Yet Deanna's one happy escape is her volunteer work at the nearby children's hospital. There the...
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Le poids de la vie retrace le vécu de Nina, une fille résiliente qui a su se relever par-delà les divers maux dont elle a été victime, allant de la maltraitance à la déception, en passant par la manipulation, sans rien dire de la trahison. En affrontant ces défis par elle-même, elle a acquis une profonde connaissance à la fois de sa propre personne et du monde qui l'entoure, développant ainsi une force et une unicité particulières.
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