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1) Girl on Fire
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Fire was my only companion. A burning light in a world otherwise filled with darkness. A life of pain and abuse I never thought I'd escape. I'm still not convinced I have. When friendly Santa-figure turned trucker, Al, finds me at a rest stop and offers me a job at his idyllic farm in small-town Nebraska, the picturesque family life is more than I could hope for. And his youngest son, Kyle, is a dream romance that I don't deserve. But no dream lasts....
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Dr. Sheila de Liz - bei TikTok besser bekannt als Doktorsex - erklärt, was Mädchen in der Pubertät wissen müssen
Mit einem Vorwort von Claudia Schiffer
Es gibt wohl kaum eine prägendere Phase im Leben eines Mädchens als die Pubertät. Viele Frauen erinnern sich nur ungern an diese turbulente Zeit, in der sich der Körper stark verändert und die Stimmung jederzeit von himmelhoch jauchzend in zu Tode betrübt umschlagen kann. Neu ist allerdings,...
3) Think Twice
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From the bestselling author of Don't Even Think About It, these high school seniors may know each other's thoughts, but they'll never see what's coming.
Since refusing to take the antidote after acquiring flu shot–induced telepathy two years ago, the twenty Espies (that's people with ESP to you norms) have been kept together in one class every single day. Now that they're seniors, their separation is looming . . .
Though their superpower...
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Millennium volume 1
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The second of the Stieg Larsson Millennium mysteries, The Girl Who Played with Fire, gets its own comic book from Hard Case Crime and Titan Comics. For those not familiar with the follow up to the blockbuster The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, our story picks up several months after those events. Mikael Blomkvist is a national hero and back at the perch of his beloved Millennium magazine, and Lisbeth is off . . . doing whatever it is Lisbeth does (mostly...
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Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing expos on social injustice, this second book in the Millennium series is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel.
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints...
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Millennium volume 2
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English
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Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel.
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints...
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Backwoods Crime volume 8
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Deutsch
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Mysterious fires become the talk of the town when someone is found dead among the ashes.
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"The Classic Collection of Gene Stratton-Porter" is a rich anthology that showcases the enduring literary legacy of the beloved author. Comprising 12 novels and stories, this collection offers readers a captivating journey through the natural landscapes of the American Midwest and the human spirit.
At the heart of the anthology is "A Girl of the Limberlost," a timeless coming-of-age story set amidst the lush forests of Indiana. Follow the adventures...
11) 10 hours to go
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Desperate for a ride home, Lily embarks on a tense road trip with her estranged ex-best friend Natasha and Elke, a girl Lily got expelled from their school years ago, and as tensions rise, past grievances and surrounding wildfires make the journey increasingly perilous.
13) Promchanted
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"Stella is obsessed with logistics and problem solving, and does not have time for fairy tales, but on a pre-prom visit to Disneyland she and Reece (a boy she accidentally got fired) get swept up in the world of Sleeping Beauty, and the girl who believes in logic, not fantasy, finds herself in a very illogical situation"--
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"From the woman who helped introduce Buddhism to the West and founded Tricycle magazine comes a brilliant memoir of forging one's own path that Pico Iyer calls "unflinching" and "indispensable." The daughter of an artist, Helen Tworkov grew up in the heady climate of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism; yet from an early age, she questioned the value of Western cultural norms. Her life was forever changed when she saw the iconic photo of...
15) Bobcats On Three
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Stadium Media
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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The powerful story of the Paradise High School Girls basketball team after the most devastating fire in California's history wipes out their entire town.
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Paris, 1720. La Salpêtrière hospital is in too many occupants, not enough beds. Halfway across the world, France's colony in the wilds of North America has space to spare and needs families to fill it. So the director of the hospital rounds up nearly a hundred female "volunteers" of childbearing age--orphans, prisoners, and mental patients--to be shipped to New Orleans. Among this group are three unlikely a sharp-tongued twelve-year old orphan,...
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"A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England and the secrets lurking on the estate where we she works, for fans of Fingersmith and The Confessions of Frannie Langton The library is under lock and key. But its secrets can't be contained. 1896. After he brought her home from Jamaica as a baby, Florence's father had her hair hot-combed to make her look like the other girls. But as a young woman, Florence...
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100 Block Futures
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"In a thrilling journey of self-discovery and magical intrigue, Thea finds herself transported to a house for the children of gods, where she must retrieve lost keys while navigating secrets, rival schools, and her own doubts, all before the shadow creatures catch up to her. Embark on a spellbinding odyssey of self-discovery, where Thea's extraordinary journey unfolds within a realm of enchantment and peril. Desperate to escape encroaching darkness,...
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Union Square & Co
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A fascinating pop-history dive into the stories behind the incredibly impactful crimes--both infamous and little-known--that have shaped the legal system as we know it. When asked why true crime is so in vogue, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Amber Hunt always has the same answer: it's no hotter than it's always been. Crimes and trials have captured American consciousness since the Salem Witch Trials in the...