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63) Train I ride
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Traveling from California to Chicago after her mother dies of a drug overdose and her grandmother of lung cancer, thirteen-year-old Rydr meets other passengers on the train and attempts to accept her own situation.
64) The dealer
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When James--an undercover teenage CHERUB agent--is given the challenging assignment of tracking down the world's most powerful drug lord, he starts searching the streets where the dealers work.
66) The nowhere man
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[2017]
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"Who is the Nowhere Man? He is spoken about only in whispers. He comes to those in greatest need of his protection. There is no enemy he cannot fight. He lives by his own code. He takes no prisoners. His name is Evan Smoak. Taken from a group home when he was young, Evan was raised and trained as an Orphan, an off-the-books black box program designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence asset: an assassin. Evan was Orphan X--until he used everything...
67) Mandy
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2006.
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Longing for a place of her own, a ten-year-old orphan creates a secret home in a deserted cottage in the village of St. Martin's Green.
68) Intrigues
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c2010
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When Mags (Magpie), a thirteen-year-old orphan chosen by one of the magical Companion horses of Valdemar and taken to the capital city, she is "recognized" by foreign secret operatives whose purpose is unknown, and then comes under suspicion
69) Best friends
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As Flora and Ruby near the first anniversary of their arrival in Camden Falls, Flora has to deal with rivalry between Annnika and Olivia, her old and new best friends as the town celebrates it's 350th birthday
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Set on the island of Okinawa today and during World War II, this deeply moving and evocative novel tells the entwined stories of two teenage girls-an American and an Okinawan-whose lives are connected across 70 years by the shared experience of both profound loss and renewal. Luz, a contemporary U.S. Air Force brat, lives with her no-nonsense sergeant mother at Kadena Air Base. Luz's older sister, her best friend and emotional center, has died in...
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[2018]
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After their death, Spindrift's parents leave behind one keepsake--a glass orb containing a magical orchid that has the power to make all her wishes come true, but the allure of this extraordinary orchid puts Spindrift's life in danger, leaving her to wonder whether a wish is just a curse in disguise.
74) Dancing shoes
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1994
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After her mother's death, Rachel and her adopted sister Hilary are taken in by Aunt Cora, who runs a dancing school where Rachel's spoiled cousin Dulcie is the star pupil
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It is 1936 when orphaned thirteen-year-old Evalina Toussaint is admitted to Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, a mental institution known for its innovative treatments for nervous disorders and addictions. Taken under the wing of the hospital s most notable patient, Zelda Fitzgerald, Evalina witnesses the cascading events leading up to the tragic fire of 1948 that killed nine women in a locked ward, Zelda among them.
80) Table for five
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A car accident unites two strangers to raise three orphaned children in this romantic, tragicomic classic by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
Lily Robinson and Sean McGuire have nothing in common. She guards her independent lifestyle with a ferocity that hides a fear of love and the pain it can bring. He's always been a rolling stone, making his own way. But with the sudden deaths of a couple close to them both, the two become joined in...
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