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"Cal has always lived in the shadow of his brother, Frank, a complicated narcissist who was doted upon by their mother and beloved by the girls in their hometown-including Cal's own girlfriends. In an attempt to escape Frank's insidious presence, Cal pursues a different kind of freedom in the world's wild spaces, prospecting for gold and precious minerals everywhere from the heat of the desert at the Mexican border to the Alaskan chill to the suffocating...
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Series
Rotten Richie tales volume 1
Language
English
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After losing running, climbing, throwing, and burping competitions to her obnoxious older brother, a young girl makes a wish on a falling star.
Author
Series
Pain and the Great One volume 1
Language
English
Description
Revisits the sometimes challenging relationship between a six-year-old (The Pain) and his eight-year-old sister (The Great One) through seven chapters featuring such events as learning to ride a bicycle, having a birthday party, and dog-sitting.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way, they encounter giant buffalo bones, tiger paw prints, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets, sibling rivalry, and glimpses of a different kind of future.
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Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 7
Language
English
Description
Lindy finds a ventriloquist's dummy and has fun learning to make him move and talk. Kris is jealous, and decides to get a dummy of her own. Then nasty evil things begin to happen. No way can a dummy be causing all the trouble. Or is there?
10) Georgia
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of two sisters, one a successful musician, the other an aspiring rock star, and the rivalry that binds them together.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"'In our family, there was none of this crap about everyone being a winner,' says Willie, the narrator who looks back on his teen years--and his nearly mortal combat with his domineering older brother, Coyle. In the Brennan house four kids sleep in a single room, and are indoctrinated into "The Methods," a system of achievement and relentless striving, laced with a potent, sometimes violent version of sibling rivalry. The family is overseen by a raging...
12) The precious one
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Language
English
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A tale told in alternating voices traces the collaborative efforts of an estranged millionaire father and the daughter he abandoned 17 years earlier to reconcile and write his memoir.
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Series
Mermaid tales volume 10
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
95 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
Echo Reef is tail-flipping with excitement when she find a human object. But when her older sister claims the object for her own, how far will Echo go to reclaim it?
16) Me first
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Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A donkey brother and sister's constant attempts to outdo each other land them in a sticky situation.
17) Crazy blood
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The Carson dynasty rules the ski resort town of Mammoth Lakes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Founded by patriarch Adam, the town is the site of the Mammoth Cup ski race - a qualifier for the Olympics. But when Wylie Welborn, Adam's illegitimate grandson, returns after a stint in Afghanistan, it reopens a dark moment in Carson family history: the murder of Wylie's father by his jealous and very pregnant wife, Cynthia. Her son Sky, born...
19) Topdog/underdog
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Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Revised edition.
Physical Desc
110 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
20) The wicked ones
Author
Series
Dark ascension series volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Attending the royal debut party, their one chance to impress the Prince and live up to their cruel and bitter mother's expectations, sisters Drizella and Anastasia get a taste of freedom, pitting them against a mother whose greatest power lies in manipulation.
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