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Summary: In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together ...
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Summary: "Watching the news, Hanagaki Takemichi learns his junior-high girlfriend Tachibana Hinata has died. A sudden shove sends him 12 years into the past to face ...
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Summary: "Though secrets and lies keep Juliette and Roma apart, a monster still prowls the city of Shanghai, and the two are going to have ...
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Summary: In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together ...
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Summary: Dogcatcher, Anthony, has no idea that his girlfriend is a werewolf who has abandoned her pack, but her efforts to keep her secret lead ...
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Summary: After learning that there are werewolves in his city, a sixteen-year-old is even more surprised to discover the identities of the hunters who drove ...
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Summary: When teenage Ray and his two friends, Prem and Tyronne, form a successful rap band in the London's East End where they live, they ...
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Summary: Tommy, Brad, Andy, and Shane struggle to find their way in their senior year of high school, and despite their differing backgrounds, they forge ...
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Summary: A one-time tag artist, Nick tries to come to terms with the death of a friend, to protect the brother of his would-be girlfriend, ...
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Summary: A biographical novel in which J. Willis Newton, a real-life outlaw in the early twentieth-century who claims to have committed eighty robberies, tells the ...
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Summary: In the summer of 1946, the newly elected county prosecutor of Hot Springs, Arkansas, hires Earl Swagger, a war veteran disturbed by dark memories of ...
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Summary: Seventeen-year-old Casey has some of her preconceived notions challenged when she begins to tutor Baby, a member of a ganglike non-conformist society called the ...
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Summary: Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, ...
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Summary: A teenage boy, sent for the summer to relatives in the mountains in order to remove him from gang influences, discovers life's important values ...
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Summary: Annie is motherless and now fatherless. Why finish school? She's missed so much already. Why do anything? When she starts hanging with Jimmy, and ...
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Summary: Tells the story of five teenage girls in the 1950s who form the gang, Foxfire, in order to escape their harsh and depressing home ...
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Summary: High school sophomore Danny Vo tries to resolve the conflict between the values of his Vietnamese refugee family and his new American way of ...
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Summary: When she begins receiving bizarre threatening messages from someone who seems to know her every move, teenage Ashley, after seeking help from the neighborhood ...
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On the night of her 18th birthday, Valerie Simons accepts an offer to join San Francisco's Red Bridge Wars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Copyright of Kirkus Reviews is the property of Kirkus Media, LLC and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or ...
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Gang warfare erupts in Göteborg, catching DI Irene Huss (Who Watcheth, 2016, etc.), her family, and her Violent Crimes Unit in the crossfire. [ABSTRACT FROM ... Copyright of Kirkus Reviews is the property of Kirkus Media, LLC and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or ...
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A review of the book "Scorpia: An Alex Rider Graphic Novel," by Anthony Horowitz, Antony Johnston, Emma Vieceli and Kate Brown, is presented.
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New York Times. 2/14/2015, Vol. 164 Issue 56777, pC1-C8. 2p. 1 Color Photograph, 2 Black and White Photographs.
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The article discusses the restoration of German author Ernst Haffner's novel "Jugend auf der Landsrasse Berlin" ("Youth on the Road to Berlin"), noting renewed interest ...
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Lifelong best friends and basketball teammates Elijah, Dylan, and Michael become reluctantly entangled with a Baltimore street gang. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Copyright of Kirkus Reviews is the property of Kirkus Media, LLC and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or ...
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Ernst and Sigafus' (The Mida, 2014) supernaturally gifted carnies return to help one of their own free his wife from vengeful gangsters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Copyright of Kirkus Reviews is the property of Kirkus Media, LLC and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or ...