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Harmony novels (Jodi Thomas) volume 1
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"Sixteen-year-old runaway Reagan has always wanted a place to belong. She's never had a real home of her own, but perhaps she could borrow someone else's. Under an assumed name and identity, she moves to Harmony, Texas, but keeps her distance from the welcoming townsfolk. Until prairie fires threaten Harmony--and Reagan learns the true meaning of family, friends, and home" -- from publisher's web site.
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Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are hired to find a fourteen-year-old girl who's run away from her home in the suburbs. Iit's easy for Strange and Quinn to learn that the girl is now working as a prostitute in one of D.C.'s most brutal neighborhoods. Getting her to leave is harder. The two ex-cops think they know this world- but nothing in their experience has prepared them for the vengeance of Worldwide Wilson, the ruthless operator whose territory...
46) High on a hill
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Series
Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 2
Pub. Date
2002.
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Annabel Lee is delighted when a young boy is recruited to help with her father's bootlegging business, but when the boy's older sister sends law officer Corbin Appleby to find him, Annabel must choose between her rumrunning father and the handsome lawman.
47) River's end
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Inn at Shining Waters volume 3
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When Anna Larson's granddaughter Sarah finds her independence, she travels away from all that is familiar, but when she returns to Shining Waters, three generations of family heartbreak converge and Sarah finds God right in the center of it all.
48) Tiltawhirl John
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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A fifteen-year-old runaway discovers that a carnival's razzle-dazzle doesn't shield it from the cruelties of life.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
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In 1970, after their older brother is shipped off to Vietnam, sixteen-year-old Jonah and his younger brother Simon leave home to find their father, who is being released from an Arizona prison, but soon find themselves hitching a ride with a violent killer.
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Three rancheros volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn't...
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The Veritas project volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Elijah and Elisha, teenage twins who, along with their parents, have been recruited by the president to learn the truth behind strange mysteries, crimes, and unusual occurrences in the news, face a rigorous test of faith when their job takes them into a world of twisted reality.
53) Retribution
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Series
Pub. Date
2001.
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Intrepid detective Lew Fonesca must once again help Adele, the runaway he saved previously, when she becomes involved with a reclusive best-selling author and several priceless manuscripts vanish, a situation that results in betrayal and murder.
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[2020]
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"After Alice's older brother runs away at fifteen, the next she hears of him is that he's dead. Eight years after the funeral, Alice cleans out her childhood home in Georgia only to find her brother's autopsy report showing the many lies behind his death. She also discovers sealed, addressed letters he wrote shortly before he died. In a search for the truth, Alice delivers the letters to his closest friends, lovers, and enemies, each letter daring...
56) Father's day
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A woman cons two old boyfriends into searching for her runaway son by convincing both that they are the boy's father.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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"Ezra Ahern wakes up one day to find his older sister, Bea, gone. No note, no sign, nothing but an email address hidden somewhere only he would find it. Ezra never expected to be left behind with their abusive stepfather and their neglectful mother, how is he supposed to navigate life without Bea? Bea Ahern already knew she needed to get as far away from home as possible. But a message in her inbox changes everything, and she finds herself alone in...
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It was 1970 when thirteen-year-old runaway Kit Walker was abducted by Manny Romero, a smooth-talking, low-level criminal, who first coddled her and then groomed her into his partner-in-crime. Before long, Kit and Manny were infamous for their string of gas station robberies throughout Texas, making a name for themselves as the Texaco Twosome. Fourteen years later, Kit has scraped together a life for herself and her daughter amongst the pecan trees...
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[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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To escape his abusive stepdad, bad boy Ryan Hess runs from his tiny Texas border town to Mexico. His plans to keep his head down and stay out of trouble are shattered the minute he meets the beautiful and totally out of his league Dalila Sandoval. Dalila Sandoval shouldnt even know someone like Ryan Hess. The daughter of one of the wealthiest lawyers in Mexico, Dalila is focused on studying and planning for her bright future. Ryan is only a distraction...