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A quiet kind of thunder
Steffi doesn't talk. Rhys can't hear. They understand each other perfectly. Love isn't always a lightning strike. Sometimes it's the rumbling roll of thunder ... Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life - she's been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He's deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she's…
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Either/or
Selin returns to Harvard for her sophomore year, spends lots of time thinking about Ivan, then moves on.
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a. k. a. Mandi Wine
Life seemed anything but simple to aerobics instructor/private investigator Amanda Seraphina Strowski. With an errant husband who preferred to live life on the cusp of drugged-out insanity, to a low-level malaise that she couldn't quite put her finger on, Mandi's life seemed to be constantly mirrored by her automotive troubles and her constant unsuccessful quest to return to her maiden name.…
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The tick of the clock
The tick of the clock
The is a police procedural mystery. It is the rare work of pure fiction written by Herbert Asbury, a early 20th century newsman. The work evokes late 1920s Manhattan, and other environs like Chinatown.
If you like old fashioned mystery stories this may hit the spot. I would class it with Latimore's work. Same sort of grittiness.
Be advised that like much work of this time, the book…
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Pan Michael An historical novel
The third and final book of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Trilogy takes a closer and more intimate look at one of the series’ protagonists: Pan Michael Volodyovski. The Polish Commonwealth has been through intense periods of war, and the peace that follows leaves one of its greatest heroes, Pan Michael, finally free to marry his beloved Panna Anusia. But in a twist of fate, she falls ill and dies, leaving…
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St. George and St. Michael
It was the middle of autumn, and had rained all day. Through the lozenge-panes of the wide oriel window the world appeared in the slowly gathering dusk not a little dismal. The drops that clung trickling to the dim glass added rain and gloom to the landscape beyond, whither the eye passed, as if vaguely seeking that help in the distance, which the dripping hollyhocks and sodden sunflowers…
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Le petit prince
*Le Petit Prince* est une œuvre de langue française, la plus connue d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Publié en 1943 à New York simultanément à sa traduction anglaise, c'est une œuvre poétique et philosophique sous l'apparence d'un conte pour enfants.
Traduit en quatre cent cinquante-sept langues et dialectes, *Le Petit Prince* est le deuxième ouvrage le plus traduit au monde après la Bible.
Le…
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A Bitter Cut
A Bitter Cut
Lady Kiera Darby plans to spend the summer reconnecting with friends and family in anticipation of the betrothal of her beloved brother. But when a future in-law is implicated in a murder, the party takes a deadly turn. . . .July 1833. Lady Darby and her dashing husband, Sebastian Gage, are settling into their newly renovated home at Bevington Park in Warkwickshire with their young daughter. With…
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Down to the Bone
Here's what it means to be a tortillera. It means you're a girl who loves girls. Which means you get kicked out of Catholic school faster than Mother Superior Sicko can say "immoral." Which means your wacko Mami finds out. Which means you're kicked to the curb with nowhere to go, and the love of your life is shipped off to Puerto Rico to marry a guy.But this is Miami, and if you have a bighearted…
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Amigo Para Dragon/Friend for a Dragon
Dragon becomes such close friends with an apple that he deeply mourns its loss and is overjoyed when more grow to take its place.
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Mystery of Edwin Drood
Charles Dickens' final and unfinished novel, *The Mystery of Edwin Drood*, is a dark, atmospheric mystery set in the mythical cathedral town of Cloisterham.
The plot revolves around the disappearance of young Edwin Drood and the strange behaviour of his uncle, John Jasper, who is addicted to opium and acts as the choirmaster. Because Dickens died before completing the novel, the murder…
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The Girl from Montana
After a heart-wrenching series of occurrences, including the demise of all of her siblings as well as her parents, fifteen year old Elizabeth found herself totally and completely alone in the middle of nowhere. Not only did she have no one to appeal to for help nor anywhere to go, the man who murdered her brother was now also after her in a vast Montana wilderness. With only her faithful horse…
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The Body in the Truck
Based on a true incident, this book takes us through the minds of the good guys and bad guys, from cops to teens to a three-year-old; even a dog chips in to help solve the strange murder.
Some violence, but nothing a sophisticated middle-schooler couldn't handle, with language at the same level, but the story is not watered down -- adults will be intrigued.
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The werewolf principle
Andrew Blake is found in a space capsule on a distant planet and is brought back to an unfamiliar Earth, where antigravity devices have replaced the wheel, and houses talk and even fly!
Yet nothing is as strange as Blake's own feelings. Tormented by eerie sensations and loss of memory, he doesn't know who he really is or exactly where he has come from. His destiny only begins to grow…
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The Stranger in the Mirror
The Stranger in the Mirror
Addison’s about to get married, but she’s not looking forward to the big day. It’s not her fiancé; he’s a wonderful man. It’s because Addison doesn't know who she really is. A few years ago, a kind driver found her bleeding next to a New Jersey highway and rescued her. While her physical wounds healed, Addison’s memory never returned. She doesn’t know her real name. Or how she ended up injured on…
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The distant summer
Set in England during world War II, this is the story of seventeen-year-old Kate who is courted by two young fliers - a sensitive, serious Englishman and a happy-go-lucky American.
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The ugly little boy
other title: The Ugly Little Boy
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