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"He doesn't lie now, but he's broke. He's got to find a way to make some money. Lots of it, so he can impress Tina Zabinski, the World's Most Beautiful Girl, and ask her on a date. So Kevin gets creative about making money--and his life becomes a financial comedy of errors. Does he really have what it takes to get filthy rich at age fourteen? In Gary Paulsen's hilarious follow-up to Liar, Liar, Kevin's schemes lead him into situations that are sweet,...
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"Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. When her mother dies, Chika is admitted to the Have Faith Haiti Orphanage, which Albom operates in Port-au-Prince. The nearly fifty children who live, play, and learn there are family to Mitch and his wife, Janine, who have no children of their own. Brave and self-assured, little Chika delights everyone at the orphanage. Then, at age five, she is diagnosed...
64) No greater love
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Returning home from her engagement trip with her fiance and her family, Edwina Winfield finds her life forever altered when the ship on which they are sailing--the Titanic--hits an iceberg, and soon she is playing mother to her five orphaned siblings
65) Message from Nam
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Journalist Paxton Andrews wants to discover the truth about Vietnam, and by getting to know the soldiers fighting there and by experiencing their patrols in the jungle, she reveals the full tragedy of war.
66) Daybreak
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Margaret and Arthur Crawfield discover that the son they love dearly who is now dying is not their child. Suspecting a hospital mix-up, the Crawfields feel compelled to search for their biological child who has grown up in another home, although they know this may tear apart another family.
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When his family's restaurant and Cuban American neighborhood in Miami are threatened by a greedy land developer, thirteen-year-old Arturo, joined by Carmen, a cute poetry enthusiast, fight back, discovering the power of poetry and protest through untold family stories and the work of José Martí.
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Belinda, Marty and Clark Davis{u2019}s "surprise child," has always had a tender and compassionate heart toward anything hurt and broken. Her parents watch with both misgivings and genuine pride as Belinda's older brother, Doctor Luke, influences her toward nursing. Will she have the inward strength to face the "hurt and broken" people whose bodies, minds, and emotions need mending? Belinda's niece, who is also a teenager, comes to live with the Davis...
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Based on three years of research and reporting as well as 850 interviews with sources, many of whom have never before spoken for publication, Oprah is the first comprehensive biography of one of the most influential, powerful, and admired public figures of our time, by the most widely read biographer of our era. Anyone who is a fan of Oprah Winfrey or who has followed her extraordinary life and career will be fascinated and newly informed by the closely...
71) Home
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An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. His home--and himself in it--may no longer be as he remembers it, but Frank is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from, which he's hated all his...
72) Daddy
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The divorce of Oliver and Sarah after eighteen years of marriage becomes the catalyst that compels three generations to explore their lives, loves, goals, and expectations.
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Nate Wright is one of a kind. Who else would start a rock 'n' roll band and name it Enslave the Mollusk? Or celebrate Prank Day by arranging a date between Mrs. Godfrey and a lovesick rodeo clown? Or create his own comic book superheroine, Eve (later Steve) of Destruction? Whether he's fast-talking his way out of trouble or unleashing the contents of his locker on unsuspecting classmates, Nate does it with gusto. And every time he swings into action......
74) Drowning Ruth
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Worn out from nursing soldiers at a Milwaukee hospital and struggling to recover from a traumatic love affair, Amanda Starkey returns to her family's rural Wisconsin farm to stay with her beloved sister, Mattie, and a young niece, Ruth. An Oprah Book Club selection and bestseller in hardcover, Drowning Ruth, now in paperback, is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart. Schwarz's first novel explores...
75) Skinnybones
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Alex's active sense of humor helps him get along with the school braggart, make the most of his athletic talents, and simply get by in a hectic world.
76) Chicken Big
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When a giant chick hatches from an enormous egg, the other chickens have great trouble accepting that he is one of them.
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After sending their men off to fight in the war, sisters Kitty and Louise Heaney join their flirtatious younger sister, Tish, in writing letters to servicemen overseas, in a study of life during World War II from the perspective of the young men on the battlefield and the women left behind on the home front.
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Read the story behind the award-winning film Judas and the Black Messiah
On December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton's fiancÉe. Deborah Johnson described how the police pulled her from the room as Fred lay unconscious on their bed.
She heard one officer say, "He's still alive." She then heard two shots. A second officer said, "He's good and dead now." She looked at...
On December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton's fiancÉe. Deborah Johnson described how the police pulled her from the room as Fred lay unconscious on their bed.
She heard one officer say, "He's still alive." She then heard two shots. A second officer said, "He's good and dead now." She looked at...