6,000 years in the past, tribal clans roam the forest, frozen plains, and isolated islands. Legends, rituals and customs change the course of their everyday lives; this is the world that Torak is born into. For nearly his whole life Torak was kept away from any civilization, learning tracking from his father. The only...
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Wolf Brother
Caught in the Act
Ethan Lederer is not the perfect kid that his parents make him out to be. He’s getting low grades in most of his classes and is faking his way through all the honors’ courses. Lydia Krane then comes to the town of West Baring and no one knows what to think about her. They...
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The Secret Life Of Bees
A beautifully written treasure of life truths and truths that appear only after much suffering and soul-searching ,this is simply the first great novel from Sue Monk Kid. The Secret Life of Bees is the story of a teenager, Lily Owens, also known as Lily Williams, who must come to terms with the truth...
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Crank
Kristina is the perfect daughter, good grades, always does what she’s told until she meets the monster. When she is forced to visit her dad for three weeks in the summer, she is introduced to meth through a boy named Adam. She discovers that the way she feels on Crank is great, and decides...
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A Great and Terrible Beauty
Experiencing things that most girls her age usually wouldn’t, Gemma Doyle, an intelligent, creative young lady is put along a strange and dangerous path that she’s not sure she wants to take. When witnessing her mother’s death, it becomes apparent to her that if wasn’t just anything or anyone that killed her mother. It...
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The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
Alanna, a newly knighted girl, has finally achieved her goal: she is off to find adventure with her man-at-arms, Coram. She and Coram travel deep into the Tortallan desert, only to be captured by a Bazhir tribe known as the Bloody Hawk. When she gets to their village, she is appalled by what she...
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To Catch A Pirate
Annalisa Townsend and her father were on their way to the Caribbean when they were attacked by the worst of the pirate ships on the sea, the Phantom Mist. Anna, being young and inexperienced, hides in the hold while the fight lasts on the ship. She is finally seen by James Sterling, a young...
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Loves Music, Loves to Dance
Erin Kelley and Darcy Scott moved to New York after their years of collage as best friends. They each pursued a different career. Darcy is a decorator and Erin is a jewelry designer. One day, both decide to start answering personal ads that one of Darcy’s friends is running. She is a TV producer...
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The Day the Voices Stopped
In The Day the Voices Stopped, by Ken Steele and Claire Berman, Ken, a 14-year-old boy living in Connecticut, starts having hallucinations and is diagnosed with schizophrenia. He starts hearing voices that taunt him to kill himself. They tell him, “Hang yourself.” Throughout the whole book voices are swarming his mind and making him...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Fellowship of the Ring, the first book in the trilogy written by Tolkien, follows the story of many different creatures joined together, called the fellowship. These beings are on a task to destroy the ring of power, created my Sauron, a dark lord bent on evil. The ring-bearer (person who carries the ring)...
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