“I can’t die yet, honey. I haven’t finished counting the stars and don’t you know my darling girl, that you will never be alone, because there is always love, and love lives forever.” In the book, Just the Way You Are, by Barbara Freethy Sam and Ali has a life together that they share...
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“I don’t know how long we might have stood there staring at each other if Mr. Malverne Washington, the night watchman at the building across the street, hadn’t forgotten his lunch and come in just then to buy something to eat. It was later I learned this, of course, and also that he’d played...
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Margaret Ann Motley’s sister is about to go away for college, so she will finally be able to get her own room. Margaret doesn’t pay much attention to what is happening around the world. Little does she know, Margaret’s cousin is living in the middle of the Blitz in London and she and her...
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Lennie and Bailey are sisters but are complete opposites. Lennie is a quiet musical nerd who hides behind her sister’s greatness. Their mother, Paige, left and never came back when they were very young, leaving them to be raised by their grandmother and uncle. Bailey and Lennie have their own beliefs of why their...
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Bruce Lee has had such an impact on the world that it is hard to find a way that in which he is the loser. Bruce Lee is most famous for his martial arts skills, and his strength. He had stared in many films but, undoubtedly, he is most famous for his film, “Enter...
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“I frowned and thought about how stupid people can be sometimes. They’re always asking me how does it feel not to have a father. How can I know the answer to that? I don’t have anything to compare it to. It feels the way it feels. Like if you were born blind. I hate...
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“…if only I hadn’t gone to that party. I never would’ve seen what I did. Jackson wouldn’t have driven me home. I wouldn’t have started falling for a guy just out of reform school. I could go back to pretending everything was normal. I wouldn’t be keeping a secret that could blow our family...
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Feeling relief, Katniss Everdeen, an intelligent seventeen year old woman, has just made it through the Hunger Games, a horrible punishment from the government. With her, Katniss brought her teammate, Peeta, home. When the two lovebirds return home, they turn against each other. It has now been a year since they escaped the hunger...
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After that one mistake Livie made down in the swamp, she thinks that it’s all her fault that her mother is knocked into coma. This leaves her constantly searching for the perfect healing spell to make everything go back to normal again. The fact that Livie and her mother never got along great doesn’t...
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Everything changes for Miles Halter the day he meets Alaska young. With nothing but his few belongings from home and the ability to memorize people’s last words, Miles, or “Pudge,” sets off to Culver Creek Boarding School, located in the so-hot-it’s-exhausting state of Alabama. It takes him a moment to look past her bodacious...
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