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83) How I live now
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English
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To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
159 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cousins Jesse and Daisy always knew they would have a magical adventure, but they are not prepared when the "thunder egg" Jesse has found turns out to be a dragon egg that is about to hatch.
86) Torn apart
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Language
English
Description
He's semi-retired and de-licensed, but Cliff Hardy is once again fighting for justice and tracking down evil when his cousin is brutally murdered-did the shotgun blast find its target, or was it meant for Hardy? Hardy has never been much of a family man, so when he meets his second cousin Patrick Malloy it's like being hit with a left hook to the solar plexus-Malloy is his double. Cliff and his cousin become friends and travel to attend a gathering...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
92 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the summer between third and fourth grades, Leo plays in a baseball league, buys his sister's tree house and camps out in it with his friend Johnny, gets a dog from the animal shelter, and endures a visit from his whining younger cousin Tim.
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English
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Sprite and Violet are planning to tackle a particularly large pixie when their attention is diverted to the gremlin Jolt who likes to mess with electrical things, and who has trapped Violet's cousin, Leon, inside a video game; and it is up to the two of them to get Leon, and themselves, out of the game, and Jolt back where he belongs--if they can survive the infamous level eleven.
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English
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"Delving deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when outside forces disrupt their delicate balance of life." --
92) Double jeopardy
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Language
English
Description
"Stone Barrington is settling in for a stretch in New York when he receives news that demands immediate action. An old family matter has unexpectedly resurfaced, and Stone must decamp to the craggy shores of Maine to address the issue head-on.
There, Stone finds that a dual-pronged threat is hiding in plain sight among the stately houses and exclusive coastal clubs, and the incursion isn't easily rebuffed. These enemies have friends in high places,...
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Language
English
Description
Spirited and intelligent, Morayo grows up surrounded by school friends and family in Ibadan. There is Eniayo, her adoring little sister – for whose sake their middle-class parents fight stigmatising superstition – and a large extended family of cousins and aunts who sometimes make Morayo's home their own. A shameful secret forced upon her by Bros T, her cousin, thrusts Morayo into a web of oppressive silence woven by the adults around her. Morayo...
96) Muddy paws
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
119 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Beth spends two weeks at her aunt's farm over the summer, her encounter with a magic puppy helps her make friends with her annoying cousin.
98) Dig
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Language
English
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Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.
99) Lowdown road
Author
Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Hard Case Crime edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of '74... Richard Nixon has resigned from office, CB radios are the hot new thing, and in the great state of Texas two cousins hatch a plan to drive $1 million worth of stolen weed to Idaho, where some lunatic is gearing up to jump Snake River Canyon on a rocket-powered motorcycle. But with a vengeful sheriff on their tail and the revered and feared marijuana kingpin of Central Texas out to get his stash back, Chuck and Dean are in...
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