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Coming home from boarding school, Ashlyn has big plans for the summer until her wealthy father is arrested for tax evasion, her mother enters a rehab facility for "exhaustion," and Ashlyn, not a fan of the outdoors, is sent to a rustic team-building retreat center in the middle of nowhere.
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Sometimes it takes losing everything to truly find yourself...
Since Sandy Shortt's childhood classmate disappeared twenty years ago, Sandy has been obsessed with missing things. Finding what is lost becomes her single-minded goal--from the lone sock that vanishes in the washing machine to the car keys she misplaced. It's no surprise, then, that Sandy's life's work becomes finding people who have vanished from their loved ones. Sandy's family is...
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Norton Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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A young boy passes a painting of a hand on a wall in his neighborhood and watches others placing their own hands against it. The act means something different for each of them: Ms. Iris tells him it is a link to her home country; for Devin, it connects him to his older sister, who just left for college; for Savannah, it reminds her of her grandmother who passed away. The boy thinks of those who are on the other side of the mural, of loved ones lost...
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Places Not Here is the concluding book of the Stellar Woods trilogy. In this final adventure, young adults Tom and Katie Morrison are called back to Seattle for the reading of the will of their departed mentor, Dr. Spencer Blankenship. When the facts of Dr. Blankenship's demise don't add up, Tom and Katie must decide whether to ignore the disturbing details and return to their safe and successful academic careers, or to risk further investigation....
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An emotional story about complicated friendships, new family, unexpected romance, and finding the place you belong.
That's what Jess was to me. I was the ground; she was the rain. I wasn't anything until she woke me up.
Seventeen-year-old June can't imagine life without her best friend Jess. June wasn't anything, really, until Jess chose her. And June's not sure who she is without Jess.
But after June is expelled, she's forced to move to Virginia,...
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Winky Lewis and Susan Conley, a photographer and a writer in Portland, tried an experiment. At the start of every week for a year, Winky sent Susan a photograph: of their children, of the street where they live as neighbors, and of other green places in Maine. By the end of that week Susan sent a tiny story back that talked to the photograph. “Stop Here, This Is the Place” tells the story of a year in which children's arms and legs get longer,...
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What's the Furthest Place from Here? volume 10
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English
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The bestselling post-apocalyptic coming-of-age series continues. This is the story of a group of kids getting lost in the ruins of America and the things they find there. Sometimes you have to fight for what matters the most-your life, your loved ones, and your record collection.
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What's the Furthest Place from Here? volume 1
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English
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From Eisner-nominated artist Tyler Boss (4 Kids Walk Into A Bank, Dead Dog's Bite) and bestselling writer Matthew Rosenberg (DC vs. Vampires, Uncanny X-Men) comes an epic adventure about growing up and getting lost at the end of the world.
When 16-year-old Sid goes missing in the wastelands, it's up to the members of her gang to discover what happened. But what they find is a whole world beyond anything they could have imagined. Like Lord of the...
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Place to Call Home volume 5
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After restoring law and order to his house, George meets with Sarah and expresses his intentions. Regina moves back into the cottage, but the family worries that she may still be dangerous, and so Elizabeth meets with Sarah.
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You Gotta Eat Here! volume 3
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English
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Host John Catucci knows you can eat like a bird or chow down on a giant chimichanga at The Wren.
13) Why This Place?: The Chequamegon Bay & Beyond-Through the Eyes and Hearts of People Who Live Here
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In this 80-page, full-color book of photographs and photo essays, Catherine Lange explores the natural beauty and strong community in the Chequamegon Bay area in northwestern Wisconsin. Lange interviewed 16 people about why they live and work in the Chequamegon Bay area and created a photographic environmental portrait of each person in his or her favorite place in nature. She also created a landscape photo, forming her own bond to each location....
14) From Here I Go: Life Strategies for LEAVING your Past Behind and Embracing the Place called There
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Discover how you start forgetting your past, let go of those things behind you and start pressing forward in life!
What's Blocking Your Press?
Is your WHY big enough for you to process through your journey of life?
Kelly's electrifying and transformational book takes you on a journey filled with life strategies to empower you to start again, right where you are, right here, and... From Here, Go!
Starting over is not a death sentence and in this book...
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You Gotta Eat Here! volume 4
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English
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Host John Catucci finds there's more than one crazy way to stuff a taco at El Camino, and joins an Italian Club but with a pizza at Two Guys and a Pizza Place.
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The writing debut of a Polish author living abroad. The reader finds himself in the early 1950-ties in Communist Poland and challenges of leading a very different life after World War II. There is still very little to eat and being Jewish not something you want to disclose.
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Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"The world has ended. All that remains are gangs of children living among the ruins. But 16-year-old Sid believes there must be something more out there. When she disappers, her gang will risk everything to bring her home."--Back cover.
"From Eisner nominated artist Tyler Boss (4 Kids Walk Into A Bank, Dead Dog's Bite) and bestselling writer Matthew Rosenberg (DC vs. Vampires, Uncanny X-Men) comes an epic adventure about growing up and getting lost...