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  Neighbors - Life Stories of the...

  Jacob A. Riis

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  These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records of organized charity, that are never dry, as some think, but alive with vital human interest and with the faithful striving to help the brother so that it counts. They have this in common, that they are true. For good reasons, names and places are changed, but they all happened as told here. I could not have invented them had I tried; I should not have tried if I could. For it is as pictures from the life in which they and we, you and I, are partners, that I wish them to make their appeal to the neighbor who lives but around the corner and does not know it.(Summary from the Preface by Jacob A. Riis)

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  Snake Believe

  Karla Doyle

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  CORA: Sent to Screaming Woods to write a magazine piece on its resident monsters, I'm ready to meet hairy beasts, ogres, vampires . . . what I'm not prepared for? A snake man. I'm terrified of snakes. Now I'll have to talk to a man-sized one on a daily basis, because he owns the motel where I'm staying. Once the initial shock of coming face to face with a walking, talking snake passes, I start to see Leroy for the man beneath the monster exterior. And the more I get to know my snake man, the more I realize my biggest fear would be losing him. 
   
   
   
  LEROY: At nineteen, I unknowingly drank the poisoned party punch that turned many of Screaming Woods' residents into monsters. Twenty-plus years later, I wouldn't change back if I could. I have the best of both species in me. My new anatomy has definite advantages, and because of them, I'm frequently propositioned. But that's not the kind of proposal I seek. I'm the loneliest snake in town until the day Cora walks into the motel I own—and promptly faints at the sight of me. The lovely magazine reporter is only in town to interview monsters for an article, but I know from the first day that I won't want to say goodbye to her. My charms have never failed me before, but I'm a one-hundred-and-eighty-pound embodiment of her biggest fear. That won't stop me from trying. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Under Construction - A Women in...

  Kate Cole

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  Avery has had enough.  
  Two years into the rehabilitation of the historic Taylor Building—a project plagued by delays and cost overruns—she’d like nothing more than to see the back of the site trailer, and pesky Project Manager Kent Armstrong.  
  Avery is a no-frills team player who knows her way around a mortar shack and is determined to chip her way through the patriarchal barriers of heritage stone masonry.  
  Kent is a buttoned-up budget boy with a stony facade. Impossible to please, he’s a cost, scope, and schedule junkie who thinks he knows best and never seems to listen to his expert mason.  
  When Kent and Avery meet steel toe to steel toe on the scaffold, tempers flare and egos clash. Will she crack his hard exterior? Or will the fissures she hides beneath her carefully honed exterior undermine her own footings? 
  Sometimes there’s more to people—and projects—than meets the eye. 

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  Brave Falls - (Drifters Realm...

  AnneMarie Mazotti Gouveia

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  Twelve-year-old triplets Ori, Roe, and Tora, along with their older brother Theo, are gifted with extraordinary powers from their magical backpacks, ancient silver rings, and the enchanted Mirror Tree. Together, they race against time, aided by Theo’s companions—lions, tigers, and black panthers—to save Drifters Realm. 
  As friendships are tested, the siblings attempt to stop their estranged uncle, First City Leader Zane, who wields the supernatural powers of the Guardians. His plans to conquer the TimeLess, HalLows, and UnKnown realms set off a chain of explosive events, threatening to destroy Drifters Realm. 
  As earthquakes tear their world apart, the siblings search for hidden clues within the First City library, guided by fiery messages written in the night sky. Their courageous journey in search of the elusive Blue Wall takes them through underground tunnels and caverns, towering pines, meadowed forests, and a strange red-rock high plains desert—with the help of the outcast teenagers known as the Menace. 
  In Brave Falls, book three of the Drifters Realm fantasy adventure series, AnneMarie Mazotti Gouveia continues the compelling story of survival and the boundless power of friendship and family.

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  No Perfect Affair

  Charmaine Galloway

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  Melody, Asia, and Sasha are successful women working in the careers they’ve always wanted. They excel in life, they excel in their chosen professions, but in their relationships, they fail miserably. From scandalous affairs and drug-induced sexcapades to secret pregnancies and death in a love triangle, these cousins have the personal drama on lock. But when backstabbing and betrayal infiltrate their relationships with one another, the once-tight trio quickly finds that blood is nowhere near as thick as water. 
  Come take a roller-coaster ride with these women and experience their drama, their deceit, and a little bit of their naughtiness as they each try to handle lust and lies of the most wicked kind.

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  The Picture of Dorian Gray -...

  Oscar Wilde

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  Dorian Gray embodies every artistic element for artist, Basil Hallward. But when Lord Henry reveals the phenomenal world experienced only to the young and beautiful, Dorian makes a devious deal. Thus begins Dorian Gray's extensive journey into dissipation, while somehow maintaining every element of his youth and innocence. What is his secret? And why does he keep Basil Hallward's painting hidden from prying eyes?

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