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Guys, Lies & Alibis

Kim Reid · NLA Digital, 2014.
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

As the daughter of a police detective, Chanti Evans knows what it takes to solve a mystery. She has brought down felonious classmates and street criminals, but it's a whole new game when her boyfriend becomes her next case. Now in her second semester, life at Langdon Prep is going...
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Getting to Know Lego Mindstorms

Therese Shea · Rosen Classroom
Format: Paperback

From School Library Journal Gr 6-9-It's not a leap to assume that most kids and teens today have interacted with some kind of software on a computer, tablet, phone, or video game. As the series title indicates, code is powerful. These books introduce readers to programming...
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Deep-Sea Exploration: Science Technology Engineering

Wil Mara · C. Press/F. Watts Trade
Format: Print book

The first working submarine was built in 1620. Some of today's most fascinating careers revolve around the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) . With this exciting series, readers can get a close look at how people in these careers are helping to build our future....
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Below: Broken Sky Chronicles, Book 1

Jason Chabot · Turner Publishing Company
Pages: 308
Format: Print book

No one but the dead dare venture Below . . . The first volume in this thrilling trilogy opens on the barren plains of Below, where Hokk and his fox sidekick, Nym, live in exile amid the remnants of our modern age. Overhead, on the floating islands of Above, Elia is trapped in a life of endless...
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Carry On

Rainbow Rowell · Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Large Print Hardcover

Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right. Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's...
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The Safest Lies

Megan Miranda · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Jennifer Donnelly and E. Lockhart will be captivated by this YA psychological mystery about a girl who must face her darkest fears - but can she outrun the past? Kelsey has lived most of her life in a shadow of fear, raised to see danger everywhere. Her mother hasn't set foot...
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Moonhead and the Music Machine

Andrew Rae · Nobrow Press
Format: Hardcover

Lifes a peach when youve got a moon for a head and your heads in space You can wander out of the Earths atmosphere on intergalactic daydreams drift blissfully across star-speckled skies and fly close to the Sun like a fireproof IcarusSnap Back to realityhaving a moon for a head at high...
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Living with Depression

Carol Hand · Abdo Publishing Company
Format: Library Binding

112 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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A Season of Daring Greatly

Ellen Emerson White · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Eighteen-year-old Jill Cafferty just made history. Her high school's star pitcher, she is now the first woman drafted by a major league baseball team. Only days after her high school graduation, she'll join the Pittsburgh Pirates' Class A Short Season team . . . but not everyone is happy...
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Dauntless

Dina L. Sleiman · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Where Legend and History Collide, One Young Woman Will Fight for the InnocentBorn a baron's daughter, Lady Merry Ellison is now an enemy of the throne after her father's failed assassination attempt upon the king. Bold and uniquely skilled, she is willing to go to any lengths to protect...
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Bridge

Patrick Jones · Darby Creek Publishing
Format: Print book

José can't keep up. As the only English speaker in a family of undocumented immigrants, he handles everything from taking family members to the doctor to bargaining with the landlord. Plus he works two jobs. With all this responsibility, he's missing a lot of school. When...
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A million worlds with you

Claudia Gray · Harper Audio

Ever since she used the Firebird, her parents' invention, to cross through alternate dimensions, Marguerite has been at the center of a cross-dimensional feud. Now she has learned that the evil Triad Corporation plans to destroy hundreds of universes, using their ultimate weapon: another...
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Bright Before Sunrise

Tiffany Schmidt · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover

Jonah and Brighton are about to have the most awkwardly awful night of their lives. For Jonah, every aspect of his new life reminds him of what he has had to give up. All he wants is to be left alone. Brighton is popular, pretty, and always there to help anyone . . . but has no idea of what...
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Sad Perfect

Stephanie Elliot · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Pea looks normal, but she has a secret: she has Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, which means she can t eat very much because nutritious foods frighten her. Having ARFID is like having a monster inside of her, one that dictates what she can eat, what she does and who she socializes...
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The Great Depression in United States History

David K. Fremon · Enslow Publishers
Format: Hardcover

David K. Fremon recounts the fascinating events leading to the crash of the New York Stock Exchange and the tragic personal tales of the Great Depression, a worldwide business slump.
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