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21) Outlawed
Author
Publisher
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...
23) Young Jane Young
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Publisher
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn't take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins. She becomes a late night talk show punchline; she is slut shamed, labeled as fat...
24) Departures
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
日本語
Description
A former cellist moves back to his hometown with his wife and accepts a position preparing corpses for burial.
25) Among the brave
Author
Series
Shadow children book volume 5
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Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
In a society that allows families to have only two children, a group of third-borns tries to save themselves and others like them.
26) Lawn boy
Author
Publisher
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Mike Muñoz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can't seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it"--
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred. This is her story.
Author
Series
Crispin trilogy volume 1
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Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
31) The testaments
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Publisher
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by...
33) Z for Zachariah
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Three young people find themselves caught up in a love triangle after a disaster has wiped out most of civilization.
Author
Publisher
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From one of the most gifted and beloved storytellers of her time comes a riveting new novel of suspense where one woman's picture-perfect island sanctuary reveals itself to be filled with dangers... At twenty-nine, Alison Marshall is ready to find a place to call home. With no family and no ties, she's drifted from one small Florida town to another since high school, working odd jobs, saving hard, and building a nest egg. Once she finds the right...