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Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni...
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The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic...
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From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia: discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior. The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push...
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Born into a family with a long psychic lineage, Sylvia Browne became aware as a child that life existed in dimensions beyond our own. Life on the Other Side is Browne's vision of this other existence. The Other Side, she believes, is our home-where we came from and where we will return between lifetimes. Drawing upon both personal and professional experiences, Browne provides a guide for living-one based on her belief that "religion, spirituality...
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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 4
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Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where Potter he is mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges been his wizarding skills, friendships and character, amid signs that an old enemy is growing stronger.
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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 3
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During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.
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In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest, driest weather, and the most peculiar and lethal wildlife to be found on the planet. The result is a deliciously funny, fact-filled, and adventurous performance by a writer who combines humor, wonder, and unflagging curiousity. Despite the fact that Australia...
11) Hot six
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 6
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Sexy Trenton bounty hunter Stephanie Plum joins vice cop Joe Morelli in a search for Ranger, a bounty hunter on the run, just when Grandma Mazur decides to move in with Stephanie and Rex, her hamster.
12) Easy prey
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"In life she was a high-profile model. In death she is the focus of a media firestorm that's demanding action from Lucas Davenport. One of his own men is a suspect in her murder. But when a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated slayings rock the city, Davenport suspects a connection that runs deeper than anyone had imagined--one that leads to an ingenious killer more ruthless than anyone had feared."--Publisher's description.
13) Where you belong
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Valentine (Val) Denning is a young American photojournalist on the frontlines in Pec (a town in Kosovo), where she and her two colleagues--the British Tony Hampton and the American Jake Newburg--are covering the war. In a nightmarish ambush, all three are shot.
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