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Fearing for the safety of her young child's life, a young slave called Roxy swaps her light-skinned baby with that of her master. Her master's child grows up as a slave, while Roxy's child grows up as a white man called "Tom" who becomes cruel and ends up leading a life crime. The book is a cutting indictment of a society based on racial prejudice and slavery brimming with Twain's characteristic wit and irony. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835—1910),...
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2023.
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"What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired another self--a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you'd devoted your life to fighting against? Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience--she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent...
3) Nine
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Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
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[2020]
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"A young woman trying to escape her past collides with a girl trying to escape her future, both carrying secrets they're terrified to share. Can they abandon it all-secrets, past, and future-for the freedom they've been offered?"--
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2022.
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"One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders's skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening in new incarnations, uncertain how their neighbors, friends, and family will greet them. Some see the transformations as the long-dreaded...
6) Of Triton
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Feiwel and Friends
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2013.
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Emma struggles with her identity as the daughter of a Poseidon princess, a situation that is complicated by Syrena's law condemning half-humans to death and a violent uprising between the kingdoms of Poseidon and Triton.
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Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
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2013
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"The house at the end of Hope Street is an enchanted, haunted house unlike any other--a house that finds young women in their time of need and takes them in. Each has 99 nights to use the wisdom bestowed by the house to turn her life around. Through the years it has offered refuge to a roster of women ranging from George Eliot to Beatrix Potter--many of whom have hung around to help newcomers find their way"--
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After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is. Living with her mentally disabled mother who only knows just over twenty words, young Heidi has learned to live in her special world until a new word is suddenly used and repeated by her mother; causing Heidi to think it might be a key to a secret past about which she knows so little....
9) Flying home
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Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
c2007
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What if everything you ever thought was true about your past, wasn't true at all? Liana Winn has always felt like an outsider in her family. As a child she was adopted by relatives after her parents' plane accident in India, but now that she is as an adult, her disjointed memories, and nightmares, of the past continue to make it impossible for her to bridge the wide gulf she still feels with her adoptive family. She is plagued by questions about her...
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Remixed classics volume 4
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2022.
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"Two lost souls cut off from their heritage find solace in each other in this remix of the gothic novel Wuthering Heights"--
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Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2014]
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A collection of four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view, that follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets Tris Prior.
12) Candor
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Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2009
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For a fee, "model teen" Oscar Banks has been secretly--and selectively-- sabotaging the subliminal messages that program the behavior of the residents of Candor, Florida, until his attraction to a rebellious new girl threatens to expose his subterfuge.
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Scavenge the Stars volume 1
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Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
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After Amaya rescues a mysterious stranger from drowning, she reinvents herself to seek revenge against the man who ruined her family and stole the life she once had.
15) Pinocchio
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Pinocchio, a wooden puppet full of tricks and mischief, with a talent for getting into and out of trouble, wants more than anything else to become a real boy.
16) Winterling
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Harper
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2012
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Spirited young Fer travels through the Way to a magical world in which beings part human and part animal serve an evil ruler known as the Lady, and where she hopes to learn about her long-lost parents and her own identity.
17) Skin again
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Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2004
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Children note that skin color is not as important as what is inside a person for determing who a person really is.
18) Criss cross
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Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
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Swoon Reads
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2019.
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1833. A near-fatal carriage accident brings an unconscious young woman on the doorstep of Hardwick Manor and into the care of young Lord James Ellerby. She awakens with no memory of who she is or where she came from. The only clue to the woman's circumstances is a recurring nightmare of a hummingbird, blood dripping from its steel beak. Calling the woman Beth, James and his sister, Caroline try to solve the mystery of her identity and the appalling...
20) My name is Elmo
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Elmo explains all his favorite things, including his favorite poster, color, and game.
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