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"Orphans Gig and Rye Dolan don't have a penny to their names. The brothers work grueling, odd jobs each day just to secure a meal, and spend nights sleeping wherever they can with other day laborers. Twenty-three-year-old Gig is a passionate union man, fighting for fair pay and calling out the corrupt employers who exploit the working class. Eager to emulate his older brother, Rye follows suit, though he can't quite muster Gig's passion for the cause....
42) Dances: a novel
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"Select the journal with your name and use this personalised dance journal to note down all of the things you need to remember when you leave your dance class. It has two hundred pages for all your dance notes. Write about all the dance performances you have seen or would like to see in the future under the dance dates section. Use this dance journal to note down your dance aspirations under the dance aims section, and then track your progress every...
43) Identical
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Kindle County novels volume 9
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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A mayoral candidate's brother is released from prison 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, a situation that leads to the re-opening of the case.
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Fudge books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever increasing problem.
45) Sons
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English
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The second installment in Pearl S. Buck's acclaimed Good Earth trilogy: the powerful story of three brothers whose greed will bring their family to the brink of ruin
Sons begins where The Good Earth ended: Revolution is sweeping through China. Wang Lung is on his deathbed in the house of his fathers, and his three sons stand ready to inherit his hard-won estate. One son has taken the family's wealth for granted and become a...
Sons begins where The Good Earth ended: Revolution is sweeping through China. Wang Lung is on his deathbed in the house of his fathers, and his three sons stand ready to inherit his hard-won estate. One son has taken the family's wealth for granted and become a...
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Wild West wind volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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"Desiring a home, Cassie's promised herself to a rancher already living on the land she inherited, but is her heart leading her toward another?"--Provided by publisher.
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Maiden Lane romances volume 2
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English
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When she meets her fiancé's brother, Griffin Remmington, Lady Hero Batten, the lovely sister of the Duke of Wakefield, engages in a battle of wits with this notorious rakehell, which sparks a forbidden passion between them.
48) Dance of death
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Pendergast novels volume 6
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English
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"FBI Special Agent Pendergast is pitted against his most personal foe: His brother, Diogenes, has planned a horrendous crime and is framing Pendergast for a series of terrible murders."--Provided by the publisher.
49) Broken
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Cavanaugh brothers volume 2
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English
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When he returns home to the family ranch, forced to confront the demons of his past, James Cavanaugh, who has spent years traveling the world as a horse whisperer, meets the one woman who can break down his defenses.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Olivia Morrow, a Manhattan psychologist, begins to suspect that her husband Jonathan, a brilliant obstetrician and medical researcher, may have been murdered instead of his twin brother, Charles. Her search for the truth plunges her into life-threatening danger which is only increased when she crosses the path of Henry Patton, a criminologist, who is on a search of his own, the truth behind a long-ago scandal involving his grandmother that must now...
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Lightbringer series (Brent Weeks) volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Gavin Guile thought he had five years left--now he has less than one. With fifty thousand refugees, a bastard son, and an ex-fiancée who may have learned his darkest secret, Gavin has problems on every side. All magic in the world is running wild and threatens to destroy the Seven Satrapies. Worst of all, the old gods are being reborn, and their army of color wights is unstoppable. The only salvation may be the brother whose freedom and life Gavin...
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Inheritance games volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the cradle to put family first. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited, but some lessons linger. When Grayson's half-sisters find themselves in trouble, he swoops in to do what he does best: take care of the problem--efficiently, effectively, mercilessly. And without getting bogged down in emotional entanglements. Jameson Hawthorne...
54) Double Fudge
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Fudge books volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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His younger brother's obsession with money and the discovery of long-lost cousins Flora and Fauna provide many embarrassing moments for twelve-year-old Peter.
55) The fallout
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2013.
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A sequel to The Compound finds Eli and his family struggling to acclimate to the outside world after escaping the compound where his father imprisoned them for six years, an effort that is complicated by an intrusive media and disturbing revelations about his father's company.
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English
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"When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother's bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She brings their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening, leaving her Westchester home to the men and their hired entertainment. What she does not expect is this: bacchanalian drunkenness, her husband sharing a dangerously intimate moment in the guest room, and two women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards...
57) Fudge-a-mania
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Fudge books volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Pete describes the family vacation in Maine with the Tubmans, highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge.
58) The end games
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Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"In the rural mountains of West Virginia, seventeen-year-old Michael Faris tries to protect his fragile younger brother from the horrors of the zombie apocalypse"--
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2011
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English
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A blood feud smoldered between Adam Larey and his brother, Guerd, and erupted suddenly in savage insults and blazing guns. Thinking he'd killed his brother, Adam fled. But when the time came to face his fate, he was in for the biggest surprise of his life.
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Readalikes for 'Happiness Falls'
Readalikes for 'Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club'
Readalikes for 'Happiness Falls'
Readalikes for 'Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club'
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"The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao restaurant's delicious Americanized Chinese food for thirty-five years, content to ignore any unsavory whispers about the family owners. Whether or not Big Leo Chao is honest, or his wife, Winnie, is happy, their food tastes good and their three sons earned scholarships to respectable colleges. But when the brothers reunite in Haven, the Chao family's secrets and simmering resentments...
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