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1) The cousins
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After receiving an invitation to spend the summer with their estranged grandmother, the Story cousins arrive at her house only to discover that she is not there, and the longer they stay on the island, the more they realize their mysterious family history has some deadly secrets.
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Series
Language
English
Description
At the center of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park is Fanny Price, the classic “poor cousin” who has been brought to live with the rich Sir Thomas Bertram and his wife as an act of charity. Over time, Fanny comes to demonstrate forcibly those virtues Austen most admired: modesty, firm principles, and a loving heart. As Fanny watches her cousins Maria and Julia cast aside their scruples in dangerous flirtations
...3) Mercy
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Language
English
Description
Two cousins are driven to extremes by the power of love, as one helps his terminally ill wife commit suicide at her request, and the other becomes involved in a passionate affair with his wife's new assistant.
7) Dig
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Language
English
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Description
Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.
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English
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To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land. "Every war has turning points and every person too." Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her...
10) Gallant
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Language
English
Description
Olivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for girls, and all she has of her past is her mother's journal--which seems to unravel into madness. Then, a letter invites Olivia to come home--to Gallant. Yet when Olivia arrives, no one is expecting her. But Olivia is not about to leave the first place that feels like home, it doesn't matter if her cousin Matthew is hostile or if she sees half-formed ghouls haunting the hallways. Olivia knows that Gallant...
Author
Series
Summer boys novels volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Summer may be over, but the hook ups are hotter than ever.
Author
Publisher
Unbridled Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Troubled Cesar is stuck in nowhere Alaska because his Eskimo mother has moved home where she hopes both of them can carve out a fresh start. He's just biding his time until he can return to L.A., but his off-beat cousin Go-boy is convinced Cesar will stay, so they make a wager. If Cesar is still in Unalakleet in a year, he has to get a copy of Go-Boy's Eskimo Jesus tattoo. Gradually Cesar discovers the power of friendship and the potential positive...
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xv, 323 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jay Reguero learns that his Filipino cousin Jun was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, and no one in the family wants to talk about what happened. He travels to the Philippines, hoping to uncover more about Jun and the events that led to his death. Jay is forced to reckon with the many sides of his cousin before he can face the whole horrible truth -- and the part he played in it. -- adapted from jacket
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Language
English
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Description
Her thousands of followers helped Mari Turner become an internet starlet. But when she breaks down and posts a video confessing she isn't the happy, in-love, inspirational online personality she's pretending to be, it goes viral and she receives major backlash. She makes an impulsive decision to hike the entire John Muir trail, something she was supposed to do with her late cousin, Bri. As Mari tries to navigate the terrain-- with Bri's boots and...
15) Bleeding hearts
Author
Series
Drake chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
347 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lucy, her boyfriend Nicholas, and his brother Connor try to keep secret the undead drama of Violet Hill when Lucy's cousin Christabel comes to live there, but after Christabel is kidnapped by the ruthless Hel-Blar vampires, they must let her in on the secrets and the battle.
Author
Series
Jericho trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A high school junior and his cousin suffer the ramifications of joining what seems to be a "reputable" school club.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Here is a thing everyone wants: a miracle. Here is a thing everone fears: what it takes to get one. Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado, is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full of watchful desert stars. At the heart of this place you will find the Soria family, who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles. And at the heart...
19) Elatsoe
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or travel across the world through rings of fungi. But other forces are less charming and...
Author
Series
True colors (Melody Carlson) volume 6
Publisher
TH1NK Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A daughter of missionaries from Papua New Guinea spends the summer in Los Angeles with her cousin and ends up in debt after getting caught up in the consumerism of wealthy surfer life.
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