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Home Run by Travis Thrasher

Baseball all-star Cory Brand knows what it takes to win in the big leagues. But off the field, with memories of his past haunting him, his life is spiraling out of control. Hoping to save her client’s career and reputation after a DUI and a team suspension, Cory’s agent sends him back to the small town where he grew up. Forced to coach the local youth baseball team and spend eight weeks in the only recovery program in town, Cory can’t wait to return to his old life as quickly as possible.

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Grey Livingston

Night has become painful for me. It brings to light the regrets of the day.

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Grey Livingston

A Good American by Alex George

This is the story of the Meisenheimer family, told by James, a third-generation American living in Beatrice, Missouri. It’s where his German grandparents --- Frederick and Jette --- found themselves after journeying across the turbulent Atlantic, fording the flood-swollen Mississippi, and being brought to a sudden halt by the broken water of the pregnant Jette.

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Zom-B Underground

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Erin Allen

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Erin Allen

Darren Shan's zombie horror series stars a butt-kicking, bull-headed girl in the vein of recent post-apocalyptic novel heroines like Katniss of The Hunger Games and Tris of Divergent --- except for one thing: to humanity, she is the enemy. At the end of the first installment (ZOM-B UNDERGROUND is the second), B had her heart ripped out during a zombie attack at her high school, and now she is a zombie herself. Read More

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Waking up in a military complex, months after zombies attacked school, B has no memory of the last few months. Life in the UK has turned tough since the outbreak, and B is woven into life- and battle- in the new military regime quickly. But as B learns more about the zombies held in the complex and the scientists keeping them captive, unease settles in. Is there anyone left in the world to trust?

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Waking up in a military complex, months after zombies attacked school, B has no memory of the last few months. Life in the UK has turned tough since the outbreak, and B is woven into life- and battle- in the new military regime quickly. But as B learns more about the zombies held in the complex and the scientists keeping them captive, unease settles in. Is there anyone left in the world to trust?

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Waking up in a military complex, months after zombies attacked school, B has no memory of the last few months. Life in the UK has turned tough since the outbreak, and B is woven into life- and battle- in the new military regime quickly. But as B learns more about the zombies held in the complex and the scientists keeping them captive, unease settles in. Why exactly was B saved? And is there anyone left in the world to trust?

Miriam Forster, author of City of a Thousand Dolls

The girl with no past, and no future, may be the only one who can save their lives.

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Karen Finneyfrock, author of The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door

That's the day the trouble started.
The trouble that nearly ruined my life.
The trouble that turned me Dark.
The trouble that begs me for revenge.

Celia Door enters her freshman year of high school with giant boots, dark eyeliner and a thirst for revenge against Sandy Firestone, the girl who did something unspeakable to Celia last year.

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February 2013

February's roundup of New in Paperback includes IN DISGUISE!: Undercover with Real Women Spies by Ryan Ann Hunter and Jeanette Litte, which detials the lives of some of history's most daring women, all of whom risked their lives to stand up for their beliefs; Tim Green's PINCH HIT, where a movie star who's dreamed of playing baseball like a real kid and a real kid who wants to take a try swing at acting switch places...if they c

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February 2013

February's roundup of Cool & New Books includes the third book in the Infinity Ring series, THE TRAP DOOR by Lisa McMann, in which Dak, Sera and Riq return to the USA with a problem on their hands --- the SQ has taken control of the Underground Railroad from within; the second book in Mike Lupica's Game Changers series, PLAY MAKERS where there's a new point guard in town and Ben must fight for his sta

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February 2013

February's roundup of Cool & New Books includes Dav Pilkey's CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS AND TEH REVOLTING REVENGE OF THE RADIOACTIVE ROBO-BOXERS where George and Harold must go back in time to change everything back because Tippy Tinkletrouseres went back in time and prevented the creation of Captain Underpants; 33 MINUTES by Todd Hasak-Lowy which follows Sam Lewis and his countdown to when his former best friend is going to kick his butt; and Je

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Edith Wharton

People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.

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