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81) Kidnapped
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Passport to romance and high adventure. Story of young David Balfour, and orphan, whose miserly old uncle cheats him out of his inheritance and schemes to have him kidnapped.
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Presents the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. Universally acclaimed as one of the greatest creations of American fiction, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of those few books that are read over and over again, with ever increasing enjoyment.
87) We told six lies
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"Remember how many lies we told, Molly? Its enough to make my head spin. You were wild when I met you, and I was mad for you. But then something happened. And now you're gone. But don't worry. I'll find you. I just need to sift through the story of us to get to where you might be. I've got places to look, and a list of names. The police have a list of names, too. See now? Theres another lie. There is only one person they're really looking at, Molly....
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"Until May 1987, fourteen-year-old Billy Marvin of Wetbridge, New Jersey, is a nerd, but a decidedly happy nerd. Afternoons are spent with his buddies, watching copious amounts of television, gorging on Pop-Tarts, debating who would win in a brawl (Rocky Balboa or Freddy Krueger? Bruce Springsteen or Billy Joel? Magnum P.I. Or T.J. Hooker?), and programming video games on his Commodore 64 late into the night. Then Playboy magazine publishes photos...
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Three outcast friends in '70s England work together at an insurance company while dreaming of escape. Freddie is a salesman suddenly thrown onto the fast track when he gains the attention of his boss. Torn between a life of partying with friends and the promise of a brighter future, life gets more complicated when Freddie becomes attracted to the boss's daughter--Container.
90) Natalie's rose
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A stray horse helps a teenage girl cope with the loss of her mother to cancer.
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When David Copperfield's widowed mother remarries, David suffers from his stepfather's abuse. At age 8, David is sent away to a harsh school where the principal routinely beats the students. David's circumstances become even worse when he is removed from school and, at age 10, forced to labor from morning to night in a London warehouse. David then decides to take desperate action. He will run away to his great-aunt, who lives in Dover. Having never...
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Andrea Morales escaped her Midwestern Catholic childhood-- and the closet-- to create a home and life for herself within the thriving but insular lesbian underground of Portland, Oregon. One drunken night, reeling from a bad breakup and a friend's betrayal, she recklessly crosses enemy lines and hooks up with a man. To her utter shock, Andrea soon discovers she's pregnant, and she decides to have the baby. A decade later, when Lucia starts asking...
95) Girl in progress
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Grace is a single mom. She is too busy juggling work, bills, and the very married Dr. Hartford, to give her daughter, Ansiedad, the attention she desperately needs. When Ansiedad's English teacher introduces her students to classic coming-of-age stories, she is inspired to skip adolescence and jump-start her life without mom. While Grace becomes preoccupied with the increasing affections of her co-worker, Ansiedad enlists the help of her loyal friend,...
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