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The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Mitch Albom

Weaves three stories about 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement park.

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White Hot

Sandra Brown

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Invincible Summer

Jean Ferris

Seventeen-year-old Robin, in treatment for leukemia, falls in love with a boy who also has the disease, and together they attempt to survive their ordeal.

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So Long at the Fair

Hadley Irwin

The summer fairgrounds provide a temporary refuge for eighteen-year-old Joel as he struggles to deal with his memories of Ashley, the friend he loved and expected to have as a part of his life always.

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Friends Till the End

Todd Strasser

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After the Rain

Norma Fox Mazer

After discovering her grandfather is dying, fifteen-year-old Rachel gets to know him better than ever before and finds the experience bittersweet.

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See the Child

David Bergen

Paul Unger's comfortable life unravels when his estranged son Stephen drowns, and it is only when Stephen's girlfriend returns to town with a child who is probably Paul's grandson that he is able to p

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Sacrament of Lies

Elizabeth Dewberry

Grayson Guillory--fearing both a genetic disposition for mental illness and the possible existence of darker family secrets--suspects her charismatic governor father of having conspired to kill her ma

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Probably Still Nick Swansen

Virginia Euwer Wolff

Sixteen-year-old learning-disabled Nick struggles to endure a life in which the other kids make fun of him, he has to take special classes, his date for the prom makes an excuse not to go with him, an

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Bringing Up the Bones

Lara M. Zeises

Bridget Edelstein mourns the loss of her high school boyfriend who died in a car crash, and rebounds with a new love.

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