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On the brink of losing her childhood home, Maddie discovers an intriguing job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to "date" their introverted nineteen-year-old son, Percy, before he leaves for college. To her surprise, Maddie soon discovers the awkward Percy is no sure thing.
2) Ek Tha hero
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A 11-year-old village boy, fondly called Hero, has a passion for cycling and dreams of having his own cycle someday. He faces a roller coaster ride to make his dream come true, but he doesn't give up. Hero sets a strong example of perseverance and emerges as a real hero.
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In Alex Kazemi's debut novel, Brad Sela is living an apathetic suburban life in his affluent neighbourhood until two new friends drag him down a destructive path toward self-discovery. 'New Millennium Boyz' presents an uncensored and unsettling portrait of the year 2000 that never could have aired on MTV. It is an unnerving examination of the collision of traditional masculinity, the early internet, and irresistible pop culture that shaped the turn...
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Meet the compelling, charismatic 13-year-old Augustus Constantine, a boy whose mind (and mouth) operate at a different speed than the rest of society. Gus has ADHD, and he's on medication to help him focus. Misuse of his medication is a recipe for disaster. At the Speed of Gus takes readers through a frenetic, twist-filled day that is the result of that misuse. When we first meet Gus, he's putting his own special spin on morning announcements, much...
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"Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age... and the cruelty of mirrors... and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books--the weird one, the outsider--and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less he eats,...
8) Flight plan
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When all technology breaks down and he's far from home, thirteen-year-old Jamie learns he's stronger (and braver) than he thought he was in this dystopian adventure. Thirteen-year-old Jamie's plane is just taking off when something goes terribly wrong. The lights go out, communications halts and the engine stops. After a bumpy landing, Jamie realizes it's not just his flight. All the other planes have been grounded too. And every car on the road has...
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"The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a five-year-old boy's world explodes one summer day when a leopard escapes from the zoo, throwing all of Oklahoma City into dangerous excitement, in this evocative story of a child's confrontation with his deepest fears. For Grady McClarty, an ever-watchful but bewildered five-year-old boy, World War II is only a troubling, ungraspable event that occurred before he was born. But he feels its effects all around...
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"When the forecast calls for snow, a little boy keeps peeking outside to see if it's snowing -- but he only looks up! His single-minded focus on the sky makes him completely miss the increasingly comical chaos occurring right outside his door, which includes a monster truck, a firetruck, escaped monkeys, and carousing clowns. Bursting with vibrancy and hilarious details, Just snow Already! captures children's love of snow -- as well as the frustrating...
12) D-frag!: Vol. 15
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D-frag! volume 15
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When the Shibasaki family holds a ceremony to purify the land where they plan to rebuild their home, Kenji gets swept up in some supernatural shenanigans! Once the dust settles, Takao decides that it's finally time to stop living at the Kazama household and return home. And, for some reason, Kenji goes with her?!
13) D-frag!: Vol. 14
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D-frag! volume 14
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The Kazama residence has been hopping ever since Roka, Tsutsuji, and Takao came to live with Kenji. But now one more person has shown up: Kenji's father! At first Kenji's dad is confused about why so many strange girls are living in his house, but it's not long before both father and son are swept up in the Game Dev. (Temp)'s latest shenanigans!
14) Choujin X: 4
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Azuma has always felt driven to help others, and his need to become a choujin is just an extension of that desire. But when he finally turns, it's not the victory he dreamed of. Now, rather than fighting side by side with Tokio, he's trying to kill him! Forget repairing their friendship--can Tokio escape their reunion with his life?
15) Choujin X: 3
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Best friends Tokio and Azuma do everything together, even if most of the time it feels like Tokio is just stumbling along in Azuma's cooler, more talented footsteps. But when they're attacked one night by a superhuman mutant called a choujin, Tokio finally has a chance to shine--by turning into a choujin himself!
16) Choujin X: 2
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"Tokio and his new choujin buddy Ely are now training to become superpowered protectors of the prefecture. But in addition to having to cram their noggins full of choujin rules and regulations, they have to deal with fledgling abilities that won't always do what they're supposed to...in ways both embarrassing and dangerous!"--
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There is one thing Steven knows for sure: He's absolutely, positively NOT gay.Steven's a 16-year-old boy with two obsessions: sex and getting his driving license. The problem is, Steven's not thinking girls when he's thinking sex. Could he be -- don't say it -- gay? Steven sets out to get in touch with his inner he-man with Healthy Heterosexual Strategies such as "Start Hanging Out with the Guys," and "Begin Intensive Dating." But are Steven's tactics...
18) Burnham Breaker
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"Burnham Breaker" by Homer Greene. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that...
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Edward Edson Lee (1884-1944), who wrote under the pen name of Leo Edwards, was a popular children's author in the 1920s and 1930s. He wrote five series of books, including the Jerry Todd series which was wildly popular. The stories took place in the town which Lee experienced in his childhood and the characters were real boys that Lee befriended around the time he began writing the stories. In his autobiography, Ronald Reagan wrote that he had a boyhood...
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