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"Escape from the ordinary and break into Alcatraz, America's most famous prison! The island of Alcatraz has always been a place that's fascinated visitors, from the Native American tribes who believed it was home to evil spirits to the Spanish explorers who discovered the island. In modern times, it was a federal prison for only 29 years, but now draws over a million visitors each year. Learn the history of America's most famous prison, from its initial...
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"Jana Rubio and her best friend, Maddy Parsons, have an epic senior year finale queued up: catching their favorite band at the Orchards, an outdoor music festival a two-hour drive away. When a blow-up over Maddy's time-sucking boyfriend exposes a rift that may have already been growing between them, Jana calls off their joint trip and gets a lift to the festival from her church friend Nathan . . . only to realize Maddy and her boyfriend are along...
85) Awesome Blossom
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Fifth-grade best friends Katie-Rose, Milla, Yasaman, and Violet are determined to save a new student from Modessa's evil influence, but Katie-Rose is busy not flirting with Preston and all four are distracted by trying to organize Yasamin's sister's birthday party.
86) Starry eyes
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When teens Zorie and Lennon, a former couple, are stranded in the California wilderness together, they must put aside their differences, and come to terms with lingering romantic feelings, in order to survive.
88) Fantasmas
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"Hay algo inusual en este pueblo... Catrina y su familia se están mudando a la costa norte de California porque su hermana menor, Maya, está enferma. Cat no quiere ir a Bahía de la Luna y dejar a sus amigas, pero Maya tiene fibrosis quística y el aire salado y frío que sopla desde la bahía le sentará bien. Cuando las chicas salen a conocer el vecindario, alguien les revela un secreto: en Bahía de la Luna hay fantasmas. Maya se empeña en...
89) Skeleton tower
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"Jason's parents have just been hired to work at a historic lighthouse along the California coast. The lighthouse is built along steep cliffs, surrounded by fog, far from the nearest town...and cursed"--Provided by publisher.
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"A story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal told from different points in time, and in separate voices, by artists Jude and her twin brother Noah"--
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New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather,...
94) Unraveling
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"If Janelle Tenner wants to avenge her father's death and stop the end of the world, she's going to need to uncover Ben's secrets--and keep from falling in love with him in the process"-- Provided by publisher.
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"When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, they find something elusive -- the friendship of two like-minded, pitch-black souls who just happen to enjoy killing other serial killers. From small-town West Virginia to upscale California, and from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one that pits them against the most dangerous monsters in the...
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"Over the canyon, the sun scalds the air, and bakes the desert mud to stone. But under the shade of the canyon hides another world, where bighorn sheep bound from rock to rock on the hillside, roadrunners make their nests in sturdy cacti, and banded geckos tuck themselves into the shelter of the sand. This book takes readers on a journey through the wonders concealed in the curves of the canyon, and all the secret life hidden in its arms"--
99) Nexus
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Accused of murdering Swarm, Bellwether is in a high-security prison; Flicker, Crash, Mob, and Scam are on the run as suspected domestic terrorists. Meanwhile an army of Zeroes is gathering in New Orleans, around Piper-- a new Zero with powers unknown. But the group faces internal threats, too. Can they learn to trust one another, before an apolocalyptic event occurs?
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In the three years since her father caught her in the back seat of a car with an older boy, sixteen-year-old Deanna's life at home and school has been a nightmare, but while dreaming of escaping with her brother and his family, she discovers the power of forgiveness.