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Crazy Loco Love: A Memoir

by Victor Villasenor

Published: 2010-11-09

Paperback: 416 pages

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Growing up on his parents’ ranch in North San Diego County, Victor Villaseñor’s teenage years were marked by a painful quest to find a place for himself in a world he did not fit into. Discriminated due to his Mexican heritage, Victor questions the tenets of his faith and the restrict...

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Picture Me Gone

by Meg Rosoff

Published: 2013-10-03

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Printz Award-winning author Meg Rosoff's latest novel is a gorgeous and unforgettable page-turner about the relationship between parents and children, love and loss.Mila has an exceptional talent for reading a room—sensing hidden facts and unspoken emotions from clues that others overloo...

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No Greater Love

by Levi Benkert, Candy Chand

Published: 2012-06-22

Paperback: 256 pages

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Levi Benkert was playing with his children in the park when he received an urgent phone call from a friend asking him to drop everything and fly to Ethiopia to help organize an orphanage for children destined to be murdered as part of a tribal superstition known as "mingi killings." Moved...

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Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript: With jQuery, CSS & HTML5

by Robin Nixon

Published: 2014-12-14

Paperback: 812 pages

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The fully revised, updated and extended 4th edition of the hugely popular web development book - includes CSS, HTML5, jQuery and the mysqli extension.Build interactive, data-driven websites with the potent combination of open-source technologies and web standards, even if you only have bas...

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After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam

by Lesley Hazleton

Published: 2010-09-07

Paperback: 256 pages

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In this gripping narrative history, Lesley Hazleton tells the tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam, a rift that dominates the news now more than ever. Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over who would take control of the new Isl...

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Joyland (Illustrated Edition)

by Stephen King

Published: 2015-09-08

Hardcover: 296 pages

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Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work in a fairground and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. An al...

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The Good Cop: A Mystery (Carter Ross Mysteries)

by Brad Parks

Published: 2013-03-05

Hardcover: 336 pages

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As long as Newark Eagle-Examiner reporter Carter Ross turns in his stories on deadline, no one bats an eye if he doesn’t wander into the newsroom until 10 or 11 in the morning. So it’s an unpleasant surprise when he’s awakened at 8:38 a.m. by a phone call from his boss, telling him ...

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I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives

by Martin Ganda, Caitlin Alifirenka

Published: 2015-04-14

Hardcover: 400 pages

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The true story of an all-American girl and a boy from Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever.It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. Martin was lucky to even receive a pen-pal letter. There...

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Purity: A Novel

by Jonathan Franzen

Published: 2015-09-01

Hardcover: 576 pages

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A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of FreedomYoung Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mothe...

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The One That Got Away

by Simon Wood

Published: 2015-03-01

Paperback: 289 pages

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Graduate students Zoë and Holli only mean to blow off some steam on their road trip to Las Vegas. But something goes terribly wrong on their way home, and the last time Zoë sees her, Holli is in the clutches of a sadistic killer. Zoë flees with her life, changed forever.A year later and...