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"Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his siblings idolized their dad. Tall, strong, smart, and brave, the self-taught Cherokee regaled his family with stories of his World War II feats. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with his own code of ethics that justified cruelty, violence, lies--even murder." -- Amazon.com.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life. This gripping, graphic survival story from an award-winning writer paints an unsparing picture of one violent teen and offers a poignant testimony to the power of pain that can...
44) Chesapeake blue
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Chesapeake Bay saga volume 4
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English
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In the long-awaited conclusion to her breathtaking Chesapeake Bay saga, Nora Roberts returns to Maryland's Eastern Shore and her beloved Quinn family. Seth Quinn, now a grown man returning from Europe as a successful painter, is settling down there amid all the blessed chaos of the extended Quinn clan. A lot has changed in St. Christopher since Seth left. The most intriguing is the presence of Dru Banks, a wealthy city girl who's opened a florist...
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2016
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York CIty where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.
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Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Pub
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Life with their mentally ill mother becomes unbearable for twelve-year-old Sarah and fifteen-year-old Carlie as they are deprived of food and forbidden to use the bathroom.
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English
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From New York Times bestselling true crime author John Glatt comes the devastating story of the Turpins: a seemingly normal family whose dark secrets would shock and captivate the world. On January 14, 2018, a seventeen-year-old girl climbed out of the window of her Perris, California home and dialed 911 with shaking fingers. Struggling to stay calm, she told the operator that she and her twelve siblings-ranging in age from two to twenty-nine-were...
50) Bruiser
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HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Brontë befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.
51) Tadpole
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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In rural Kentucky in 1955, Serilda Collins, single mother of four lively girls, discovers that her orphaned nephew is being subjected to brutality.
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Tin House
Pub. Date
2020.
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First US edition.
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English
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"Reminiscent of Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich's The Fact of a Body and Maggie Nelson's The Red Parts, a perfect balance of memoir and true crime, The Book of Atlantis Black will have you questioning facts, rooting for secrets, and asking what it means to know the truth. A young woman is found dead on the floor of a Tijuana hotel room. An ID in a nearby purse reads "Atlantis Black." The police report states that the body does not seem to match the identification,...
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John Milton novels volume 8
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Unputdownable Limited
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Milton is keeping a low profile in London when he meets Eddie Fabian. Fabian confesses that he is considering suicide, and that the reason for his depression was the abuse that he suffered as a child. Milton offers to help, but, before he can, Eddie is found dead in circumstances that Milton considers suspicious. And then events take a turn that no-one could have anticipated... Milton’s attempted good deed becomes a quest to unveil corruption...
54) Bloodline
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Universal
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Evan values family above all else, and anyone who gets between him, his wife, and newborn son learns that the hard way. But when it comes to violent tendencies, it seems the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
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2018
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English
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From the outside, Vanya's childhood looked idyllic...
WINNER, 2019 Next Generation Indie Books (Memoir: Overcoming Adversity)
She rode horses with her father in the solitude of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and attended flamboyant operas with her mother in the city. But life for Vanya and her family turned dark when ghosts from her father's service on a Pacific destroyer in World War II tore her family
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Speak
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Anke feels both relieved and neglected that her father abuses her older brother and sister but ignores her, but when she catches him with one of her friends, she finally becomes angry enough to take action.
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
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English
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Rob Lowe stars as prosecutor Jeff Ashton in this riveting, true-life drama based on the high-profile murder trial that captivated, shocked and enraged the American public. Seen from Ashton's perspective, Prosecuting Casey Anthony takes you behind the scenes of the complex--and ultimately flawed--investigation surrounding the tragic death of two-year old Caylee Anthony, followed by the controversial trial that resulted in her mother's acquittal.
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A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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A Gothic story of four siblings who, after the death of their father, are torn from a peaceful life and subjected to abuse resulting from a dark, family secret. Abandoned by their mother and forced to endure unimaginable treatment living in the attic of their grandparents' mansion, the children form their own family unit. But as the oldest boy and girl come of age, they are entrapped by their family's sordid past as they try to survive and escape...
60) The wild truth
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"The spellbinding story of Chris McCandless, who gave away his savings, hitchhiked to Alaska, walked into the wilderness alone, and starved to death in 1992, fascinated not just New York Times bestselling author Jon Krakauer, but also the rest of the nation. Krakauer's book, Into the Wild, became an international bestseller, translated into thirty-one languages, and Sean Penn's inspirational film by the same name further skyrocketed Chris McCandless...
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