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Tales of the Otori volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
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A tale set in an alternate medieval Japan follows the adventures of Takeo and Kaede as they find their destinies shaped by factors outside of their control.
2) Hissy fit
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In Madison, Georgia, interior decorator Keeley Murdock has a hissy fit when she discovers her fiancé, A.J. Jernigan, cheating on her with her maid of honor. A.J's banking family brings financial pressure on Keeley's interior decorating business and she is forced to take on newcomer, Will Mahoney as a client. Mahoney hires Keeley to redo a derelict mansion for the woman of his dreams--a woman he's never met.
3) Final appeal
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To Philadelphia lawyer Grace Rossi, who's starting over after a divorce, apart-time job with a federal appeals court sounds perfect. But Grace doesn't count on being assigned to an explosive death penalty appeal. Nor does she expect ardor in the court, in the form of an affair with her boss, Chief Judge Armen Gregorian. Then the truly unimaginable happens and Grace finds herself investigating a murder. Unearthing a six-figure bank account kept by...
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This novel "follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers. In a succession of vividly recalled episodes Violet contemplates the circumstances of her life as the initially beloved youngest child of seven Kerrigan children who inadvertently 'informs' on her brothers,...
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An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates
"Time travel" — and its hazards—are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North
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"Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a na�ive young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to 'the land beyond the seas,' Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the...
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