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Life is meant to be savored, but that's not easy with no family, limited prospects, and a past you'd rather not talk about. Still, Callie Smith doesn't know how to feel when she discovers she has a brother and a sister; Malcolm, who grew up with affection, wealth, and privilege, and Keira, a streetwise twelve-year-old. Callie doesn't love being alone, but at least it's safe. Despite her trepidation, she moves into the grand family home with her siblings...
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"After her parents' divorce, Bea's life became different in many ways. But she can always look back at the list she keeps in her green notebook to remember the things that will stay the same. The first and most important: Mom and Dad will always love Bea, and each other. When Dad tells Bea that he and his boyfriend, Jesse, are getting married, Bea is thrilled. Bea loves Jesse, and when he and Dad get married, she'll finally (finally!) have what she's...
43) The win-over
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Arriving in Mexico for their parents' wedding, stepsisters Raquel, Lucinda, and Juliette must show their disapproving Tia Enriqueta that their parents are meant to be together, but when their scheming leads to doubt, they wonder if they can really trust each other at all.
45) Party dreams
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Magic puppy volume 5
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Nine-year-old Paige's worries about her mother's hospitalization and the new brother who is on the way, not having a birthday party, and needing to stay at her step-grandmother's spooky country house, fade when a magical puppy named Storm arrives.
46) Better together!
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During a storm, a squirrel family and a chipmunk family seek shelter in the same tree hollow and, despite their differences, become friends, and more.
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"Nights have always been Auden's time, her chance to escape everything that's going on around her. Then she meets Eli, a fellow insomniac, and he becomes her nocturnal tour guide. Now, with an endless supply of summer nights between them, almost anything can happen..." -- page 3 of cover.
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Three children from a blended Creek-British family follow Peter Pan to an island filled with animals, merfolk, and fairies, but when they discover the dark side of Peter and Neverland they plan their escape.
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"Here's the story of America's grooviest TV sitcom family! In Season Two, there are plenty of high jinks underfoot in split-level suburbia. Greg? He's got a far-out new bachelor pad to impress all the chicks. Marcia? She's embracing Women's Lib. Peter? He's headed for the doghouse after breaking Carol's favorite vase. Jan/ She's gone from 'hair of gold' to hair of black -- via a brand-new wig. Bobby's pet parakeet may help him overcome his fear of...
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Follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements that ensue. Despite its underlying seriousness, the prevailing tone is one of comedy. Gaskell vividly portrays the world of the late 1820 s and the forces of change within it, and her vision is always humane and...
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The honeymoon is over, but the laughs continue in Season Six. As freshly hitched Cam and Mitch acclimate to the realities of wedded bliss, Phil and Claire find their marriage stressed by annoying neighbors, Thanksgiving dinner gone awry and Claire's online snooping. Meanwhile, a spy-camera drone wreaks havoc in Jay and Gloria's backyard and a close call on the highway leads to amusing changes in various members of the Pritchett-Dunphy clan.
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When Coast Guard commander Frank Beardsley bumps into his old high school flame Helen North, sparks fly again, and the two quickly marry. Complications arrive when it comes time to merge their two families. Frank has 8 kids and Helen has 10 kids. With Frank looking to keep tight military control over the brood, and Helen preferring her loving, hippy-like ways of encouragement, the two struggle to maintain a family and home where the kids don't like...
54) The nixie's song
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Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 1
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Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter into the soon-to-be completed Mangrove Hollow. But an "expedition" to a nearby lake turns up a little nixie with a giant problem--the huge, lumbering, fire-breathing variety --and it's up to Nick, his stepsister Laurie, and his big brother, Julian (plus a familiar face from the original Spiderwick...
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In this moving, wry, and candid novel, widely acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman takes us through one woman’s passage through love, loss, and the strange absurdities of modern life.Emilia Greenleaf believed that she had found her soulmate, the man she was meant to spend her life with. But life seems a lot less rosy when Emilia has to deal with the most neurotic and sheltered five-year-old in New York City: her new stepson William. Now Emilia...
57) Betty before X
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Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
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When Tom and Polly marry, blending their single parent families together, their children find it hard to relinquish their old lives. Max realizes his birth dad will never come home now, while Abi suddenly finds herself a middle child, expected to share far too much - especially with grubby little Louis. The family start over together, stretching their finances to the limit and renting an eerie, ivy-covered house, big enough for all of them. But when...
59) Black River
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A former prison guard and talented fiddler returns to his Montana hometown to bury his wife and confront an inmate who, twenty years earlier, held him hostage during a prison riot.
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Willoughbys volume 2
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Thirty years after their disappearance, the previously frozen Willoughbys have thawed out and returned from the Alps, to the consternation of their children and grandchildren.