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21) Love à la mode
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High school juniors Rosie Radeke and Henry Yi, both enrolled in an elite cooking program in Paris, must balance rivalry and romance.
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Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and...
23) I kissed Alice
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"Fan Girl meets Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda in this #ownvoices LGBTQ romance about two rivals who fall in love online"--Provided by publisher.
27) Gold
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Kate and Zoe have been friends since they met training for track cycling at the age of nineteen. Now, at thirty-two, they are facing their last and biggest race--the 2012 Olympics. Kate is the more naturally gifted, but her daughter is fighting leukemia, and she has to balance that with her intense training. Zoe has a compulsive need to win at any cost, and her obsession may threaten her relationship with Kate.
30) Horse camp
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"When Kathy arrives at horse camp, she realizes that she must deal with Stacy, the resident mean girl. As competition heats up, Kathy learns to recognize the true value of real friendship"--www.imdb.com.
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Exlibris adventures volume 1
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Born and raised in New York City, Ramona Keene wishes to attend film school and travel to Paris. In reality she works at her uncles' bookstore, and all her adventures are in her books. When the new landlord triples the rent, she applies for a job to earn the money to help save the bookstore at ExLibris Expeditions, a company that re-creates literary journeys. Can Romy save the bookstore?
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Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...
33) All for one
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"A swim team tries to win a state championship - without a pool to practice in."--www.imdb.com.
34) The internship
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"Two salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital age find their way into a coveted internship at Google, where they must compete with a group of young, tech-savvy geniuses for a shot at employment"--from www.imdb.com.
36) Sinners & saints
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"Jasmine Larson Bush and Rachel Jackson Adams are each fighting to become the first lady of the National Baptist Association, until the current first lady steps in, a woman bigger, badder, and more devious than either of them"--Provided by publisher.
37) Project Alpha
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Eight boys and girls compete for a spot on the space voyage that will search for a source to solve Earth's energy crisis.
38) Taco shop
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"A taco shop's business is jeopardized when a gourmet taco truck parks across the street and an all-out war ensues."--www.imdb.com.
40) The night circus
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A fierce competition is underway, a contest between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood to compete in "a game," in which each must use their powers of illusion to best the other. Unbeknownst to them, this game is a duel to the death, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will.
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