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Bartholomew Lampion is born on a day of tragedy and terror when the lives of everyone in his family are changed forever. On this same day, a ruthless man learns that he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew and sets out to find him. In San Francisco, a girl is born, her destiny mysteriously linked to the fates of Barty and the man who stalks him. At age three, Barty loses his sight only to regain it ten years later. What happens as his amazing life...
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Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 48
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Grosset & Dunlap
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[1969]
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English
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While searching in Iceland for a missing sailor sought by an insurance company, the teen-age detective brothers uncover a plot threatening the life of a United States astronaut and the secrets of NASA's moon project.
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Hardy boys casefiles volume 24
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Frank and Joe go undercover as apprentice stuntmen on a major movie.
4) The wonder of boys: what parents, mentors, and educators can do to shape boys into exceptional men
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Offers practical and effective guidelines for channeling boys' natural aggression, competitiveness, and sense of tribe and initiation into productive, disciplined behavior, and explores the relationships necessary to male development.
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Last picture show volume 1
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The youth of a small town in mid-twentieth-century Texas search for ways to escape boredom and experience life and love.
6) Room
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Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
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Scholastic
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"Tom and Jamie can't believe their luck when they find a secret entrance to a prehistoric world filled with dinosaurs! The first dinosaur they meet is a friendly wannanosaurus. It eats the fruit from super-stinky ginkgo trees. But soon, Tom and Jamie meet a much less friendly dino: a Tyrannosaurus Rex that would like to eat them!"--P. [4] of cover.
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Tyndale House Publishers
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One of the country's most respected parenting experts & bestselling author of Dare to Discipline, offers advice & encouragement on shaping the character of boys. Publisher Provided Annotation. With so much confusion about the role of men in our society, it's no wonder so many parents and teachers are at a loss about how to bring up boys. Our culture has vilified masculinity and, as a result, boys are suffering. Parents, teachers, and other involved...
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Summer vacation becomes a season in hell for an ordinary family who unwittingly stir something invisible, insidious, and insatiable from its secret slumber{7f2013}unleashing a wave of horror only the darkest evil could create, that only a master of spine-tingling terror like John Saul could orchestrate. For deep in the shadows in the dark of the night lurks something as big as life . . . and as real as death. It has waited seven years for someone...
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Dutton Children's Books
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In 1777, having been kidnapped and taken forcibly from England to the American colonies, fifteen-year-old Creighton becomes part of developments in the political unrest there that may spell defeat for the patriots and change the course of history.
12) Skinnybones
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Alex's active sense of humor helps him get along withthe school braggart, make the most of his athletic talents, and simply get by in a hectic world.
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"In the spirit of The Bartender's Tale, a lively and poignant coming-of-age story about a boy and his great-uncle on a cross-country odyssey. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she...
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Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 16
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Frank and Joe investigate a walled estate guarded by savage dogs, where a businessman is hiding in fear of his life.
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Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 47
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Grosset & Dunlap
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Helping in a case their father is working on, the Hardy brothers try to find an informer who has telephoned from a booth in their home town, and are hired by a carnival owner to spot pickpockets.
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Call me by your name novels volume 1
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2017
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English
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The story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may...
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"It all started with a social studies assignment: come up with a plan to change the world for the better, and do it. Twelve-year-old Trevor mcKinney began by doing something good for three people. But instead of paying him back, he asked them to "pay it forward" by doing a favor for three more people, who in turn would help three others, and so on, each act a link in a chain of human kindness."--BOOK JACKET.
20) Cimarron Rose
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Billy Bob Holland novels volume 1
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Hyperion
Pub. Date
[1997]
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English
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Former Texas Ranger Billy Holland, now a lawyer, is hired to defend a teenage boy accused of killing his girlfriend. It is a family affair of sorts, the man who hired Holland being the boy's stepfather. The real father is Holland.