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A dark and edgy first-person cautionary tale about how one girl's seemingly minor choices quickly spiraled into a life as a sex worker in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Lucy in the Sky. She had a normal life, until one small decision changed everything. Suddenly, there were new possibilities and new experiences.
43) Hot gimmick
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High schooler Hatsumi is caught buying a pregnacy test for her sister by her neighbor Ryoki, and must become his slave in order to keep her sister's secret, forcing Hatsumi to turn to her childhood crush to escape her fate.
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A coming-of-age novel in poems, in which small-town teenager, Penny Morrow, longs for love, courage, and a life of adventure and struggles through the absence of her mother, the mental illness of a friend, the death of someone from her past, and a romance with her sister's ex-boyfriend.
45) The innocent
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Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.
46) Evernight
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Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Jared, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world.
47) Crank
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Kristina Georgia Snow's life is turned upside-down, when she visits her absentee father, gets turned on to the drug "crank", becomes addicted, and is led down a desperate path that threatens her mind, soul, and her life.
48) Chasing destiny
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Tough, talented Billie's life is thrown into a tailspin when she learns she is pregnant and that her lover is a married man who wants Billie to terminate the pregnancy, forcing Billie to flee in order to protect her unborn child and herself.
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"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
50) Promise me
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Entertainment agent Myron Bolitar offers a ride home to a young girl to prevent her from accepting a ride from a drunk driver, but when the girl disappears, he is forced to rescue her to prove his innocence.
51) Stargirl
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In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
53) Two Rivers
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T. Greenwood's new novel is a powerful, haunting tale of enduring love, destructive secrets, and opportunities that arrive in disguise . . .
In Two Rivers, Vermont, Harper Montgomery is living a life overshadowed by grief and guilt. Since the death of his wife, Betsy, twelve years earlier, Harper has narrowed his world to working at the local railroad and raising his daughter, Shelly, the best way he knows how. Still wracked with sorrow over the...
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A collection of six stories from the universe of the Lunar Chronicles answer such questions as: How did Cinder first arrive in New Beijing? How did the brooding soldier Wolf transform from young man to killer? When did Princess Winter and the palace guard Jacin realize their destinies?
58) Girl got game
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Kyo Aizawa is a teenage girl who just wants to live a normal teenage life, but her father registers her in school as a boy and cooks up a scheme so that she will play on the boys' basketball team and become the basketball player he always wanted to be.
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Angela DeSaria Malone's visions of a perfect marriage, home, and children crumble under the weight of lost dreams and she returns to her home in West End where she unexpectedly meets a man who teaches her how to love again and gets to know a seventeen-year-old girl whose own mother abandoned her.
60) The lovely bones
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Brutally raped and murdered by a deceptively mild-mannered neighbor, Susie begins with a compelling description of her death. During the next ten years, she watches over her family and friends as they struggle to cope with her murder. She observes their disintegrating lives with compassion and occasionally attempts, sometimes successfully, to communicate her love to them. Although the lives of all who knew her well are shaped by her tragic death,...
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