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Lane Speer is a 16 year old girl who spends her family vacations camping in the mountains. She takes the memories for granted until she loses her father to an unexpected bout with cancer. Only a year later, as Lane is still reeling from her father's death, he mother remarries a guy that Lane hardly knows. Worst of all, he is a Mormon. To top it off, while they are on their honeymoon, they arrange to have her stay with her Mormon step-aunt who takes...
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"Georgia Fenchurch appears to be an unassuming antiquarian bookseller in Victorian London, but the life she leads is as exciting as any adventure novel. For Georgia is a member of the Archivist Society, a secret association of private investigators led by the mysterious Sir Broderick. When a frantic woman comes to Georgia claiming that her neighbor, Nicholas Drake, has been abducted by the notorious Duke of Blackford, Georgia and the Archivist Society...
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"Un relato poético acerca de la pérdida de los seres queridos, del amor y de la convicción inspiradora de una niña"--Page [4] of cover.
Yolanda's mother has died suddenly. In her shock and utter dismay, Yolanda decides to search for her and finds her everywhere, in everything.
86) The dead years
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Cory and Crystal Pratt novels volume 1
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"Siblings Cory and Crystal Pratt are still trying to get their lives together after a tragic accident which killed their parents years ago. The only thing that distracts them now is their jobs. With Crystal working as a newly minted detective at the Chicago Police Department and Cory owning a dog training academy with two human remains detection dogs of his own, their professional paths cross every now and then. Crime, and especially murder, in Chicago...
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Una novela de suspenso adictiva y altamente comercial que presenta una gran propiedad, terribles secretos y una mujer joven que da testimonio de todo. Si V.C. Andrews, Kate Morton y Lexie Elliot tuvieron un hijo amado, Emma Rous y THE AU PAIR sería. Seraphine Mayes y su hermano gemelo Danny nacieron a mediados del verano en la finca de su familia en la costa de Norfolk. A las pocas horas de su nacimiento, su madre se arrojó por los acantilados,...
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"Thirty-six-year-old Stevie Pollack has earned fame and praise for her landscape architecture projects, though critics complain she's too formal, too rigid. When her lover abruptly drops her, and her Chicago lakefront development project is panned, Stevie seeks solace in her roots, among the calming waters, the vibrant flowers, and the comforting traditions of the islands. Still, in the back of her mind, Hawaii holds troubling memories of a childhood...
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When their mother Cinny dies, forty-something twins Grace Tingley and Brian Posey are sent on a trip around the world to scatter her ashes. Joined by their own immediate families, Grace and Brian set off on a funereal odyssey that uncovers more about their parents' relationship, and themselves, than the twins find it easy to admit.
90) Hum
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Eleven-year-old Allen and his grandmother are moving to a little town in rural New York, but the quiet countryside does not stop the recurring nightmare that plagues him--until an encounter with a llama recalls a language Allen did not know he could speak, and unveils the memory of his parents' fate.
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A merciless band of mages murdered her parents, massacred her tribe and made her a reviled outcast. They should've killed her instead. Stealing, swindling and gambling with her own life just to survive, Ferius Parfax will risk anything for revenge. But then she meets the incomparable Durral Brown, a wandering philosopher who overcomes his opponents with shrewdness and compassion. Does this charismatic and infuriating man hold the key to defeating...
92) To, co lśni
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When her life of privilege is upended by a terrorist attack that ends her parents' lives, a college senior struggles to rebuild on her own terms, learning uplifting and heartbreaking life lessons throughout a series of relationships and opportunities.
Nicole miała mieć wszystko. Dziewczęta takie jak ona - piękne córki wpływowych rodziców - mogą przebierać w życiowych szansach. Studia na elitarnej uczelni, praca w prestiżowym magazynie...
93) Skarb
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Hailie to prawie 15-letnia dziewczyna, która traci w wypadku dwie najważniejsze osoby: matkę oraz babcię. Następnie dowiaduje się, że ma piątkę starszych braci, którzy zabierają ją pod swój dach. Okazuje się, że ze skromnego domu trafia do najprawdziwszej willi w Pensylwanii. Vincent, Will, Dylan, Shane i Tony to starsi bracia dziewczyny, o których nastolatka nie miała pojęcia. Hailie ciężko jest oswoić się z nowym miejscem po...
94) Visions
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Robert and Mark are twin brothers who reluctantly accompany their scientist mother on an Arctic island expedition to observe muskoxen. What starts out as a boring and difficult holiday turns into an amazing, thrilling adventure.
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Colección compactos volume 622
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En Una novelita lumpen, Roberto Bolaño abandona los territorios que han marcado su biografia e imaginario personal para trasladarse hasta la ciudad de Roma. Éste es el escenario por el que varios personajes extremos deambulan entre el desasosiego y la locura. La joven protagonista, Bianca, tras la súbita muerte de sus padres en un accidente automovilistico, inicia un decidido descenso a los infiernos.
After the sudden death of her parents in an...
96) Persona normal
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"Tenía un par de padres divertidos y jóvenes, llenos de sueños y de planes. Pero a mis doce años, cinco meses, tres días y dos horas y cuarto, aproximadamente, me quedé sin ellos... Desde que el tío Paco se hizo cargo de él, Sebastián ha vivido aventuras increíbles: tuvo un encuentro inesperado con un enorme felino, conoció a uno de los últimos vampiros que viven en el DF; frente a su casa vio a un mítico personaje saltar de la góndola...
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"Billy's mother is dead. He knows--because he reads about it in magazines--that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than hers, but for nineteen-year-old Billy and his little brother, Oscar, their mother's death in a bungled street robbery is the most random and tragic and stupid thing that could possibly have happened to them. Now Billy must be both mother and father to Oscar, and despite what his well-meaning aunt,...
98) Dawne tajemnice
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Blizny przeszłości volume 2
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Kiedy Majka wróciła do swej rodzinnej Bobrówki, przyświecał jej jeden cel. Chciała dowiedzieć się, kto był odpowiedzialny za śmierć jej ojca. Próbując rozwikłać jedną tajemnicę, rozsypała cały, misternie budowany przez lata domek z kart. Brutalnie (choć ze szlachetnych pobudek) weszła w życie innych ludzi i za to właśnie została znienawidzona. Nawet burmistrz miasteczka stał się jej wrogiem, a jest to człowiek, który o...
99) Duty to protect
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"After nearly a lifetime in witness protection, Emma Graves depends on the anonymity of her false identity. But when her parents die under suspicious circumstances, and Emma is framed for murder, all security is gone. There's nothing to do but run. Cop-turned-rancher Jake Kincaid is an unlikely defender. Why would an ex-cop believe an accused killer? Still, Jake makes Emma feel safe. With his drive to protect, she knows staying on his ranch endangers...
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