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1) The It Girl
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Popular Gossip Girl character Jenny Humphrey is leaving Constance Billard to attend Waverly Academy, an elite boarding school in New York horse country where glamorous rich kids don't let the rules get in the way of an excellent time.
Determined to leave her Manhattan past behind her, Jenny sets off to Waverly with big plans of reinventing herself. She'll be a goddess--she's a sophisticated city girl, after all!--and will find a boy who can properly...
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"The uplifting true story of Minda Dentler, the first female wheelchair athlete to complete the Ironman World Championship triathlon. Minda Dentler made history when she became the first female wheelchair athlete to complete the world's toughest triathlon, using only her arms to finish a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, and 26.2 mile marathon. But the journey there wasn't easy. Minda was paralyzed as an infant in India after contracting polio, and...
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She's starting grade six, her best friend Jemima doesn't want to be friends any more, and Ali Jackson doesn't know why.
Shell-shocked, and stuck in a slump, her analytical nature helps her to see through the hurt. Bouncing back, she finds focussing on little fix-it projects takes her mind off Jemima, and stops her feeling sad.
While trying to help the teachers change some things she thinks need fixing, a series of misunderstandings makes...
4) The Go-Getter Girl's Guide: Get What You Want in Work and Life (and Look Great While You're at It)
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An empowering career and lifestyle guide for twentysomethings, this is Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office for women looking to be the "it" girl and succeed on the job
Every office has one, a Go-Getter Girl, someone who seems to just know certain stuff about how to get the plum jobs/lifestyle she wants and damn, always looks great while she's at it. Magic? No, it's about strategizing-and The Go-Getter Girl's Guide shows you how.
Born out of interviews...
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Seventh grade was the year Cassandra lost it all: her crush, her social status, and her best friend.This year she's taking it back.She's determined not to let anything keep her from joining the in-crowd and becoming the It Girl. Even if it means changing her hair, her clothes, the way she walks, and who she talks to.It's exhausting work. But Cassie wants to be someone different. So drastic measures are necessary.Except will anyone like the new Cassie?...
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By private invitation only…
Event: Very sensual resort opening.
Place: In bed, hopefully!
Host: Hottie millionaire Mitch Carter.
Planner: Belle Forsham. Who once jilted Mitch at the altar. Oops…
When Mitch's new hotel falters, he needs a pro. Enter the It Girl of event planning: the traitorous, damnably sexy Belle. Time for some red-hot revenge!
But Belle has her own secret agenda for her ex-fiancé. And in the meantime, she'll enjoy how...
8) Tan Lines
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During one unforgettable season at a Hamptons summer share, three women's journeys unfold thrill by thrill and shock by shock, in this addictive story about the illusions of glamour, the dark side of success and the elusiveness of love.
Liza Pike-She's the It Girl for topical feminist spin-beautiful, successful, and ferociously fearless. But, as the media props her up to be the millennium's new Gloria Steinem, she's falling into all the old traps...
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Complete Billionaire Bully Dark Romance Box Set from USA Today Bestselling Author Summer Cooper.Beauty queen. Prom queen. Head cheerleader. Footballer's wife.Keily had it all-she was the it girl.All the guys wanted to date her.All the girls wanted to be like her.Sadly, life doesn't always go as planned.An abusive ex-husband, a father who never cared for her, and a mother who stole from her...Keily also now had no job, no money, and no home to go back...
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He's in love with me. The only problem? He thinks I'm someone else.
I've spent my whole life trying not to get bullied. For my frizzy hair. My freckles. The white patches on my black skin or the gap in my teeth. Not to mention the extra hundred pounds I have on most of my classmates.
So when my soldier pen pal wants to see a picture of me, I freak. I send him a picture of one of the it girls at school and move on. The odds of us meeting in person...
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The gripping new psychological thriller from the author of SAFE WITH YOU Frances Brookman has just received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Naomi has been in a life-threatening accident. As she races to the hospital, Frances catches sight of a child in another car – a girl screaming for help. It's a split-second thing and looks can be deceptive. She could follow the car, but can she live with the delay getting to her daughter? If...
12) Safe With You
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'An unimaginably suspenseful thriller, with twist after twist' Heat 'A gripping thriller . . . Highly recommended' C.S. Green She should have been safe…But she never came home. Kath has lived on the same London estate for decades. Lately she's become friendly with the little girl next door, who is often left alone for hours at a time while her mum is at work. They have a system. When Mina gets home from school to the empty flat, she knocks on the...
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"North Carolina, 1960s. Lorraine has it all-the boyfriend, the good grades, the white picket fence, the ambition to become the first woman astronaut. But when she-the darling girl-next-door-becomes pregnant, she learns that love is conditional and ambition has its limits. In an effort to hide their daughter's secret shame, her parents send her away to a maternity home-a common solution for "wayward" girls during that time period. Lorraine soon realizes...
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"What's the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut...
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"Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the best-selling Millennium series. Change is coming to Sweden's far north: its untapped natural resources are sparking a gold rush with the criminal underworld leading the charge. But it's not the prospect of riches that brings Lisbeth Salander to the small town of Gasskas. She has been named guardian to her niece Svala, whose mother has disappeared. Two things soon become clear: Svala...
16) Random in death
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"In the new crime thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling J.D. Robb, a small and easily concealed weapon wreaks havoc, and the killer is just a face in the crowd. Jenna's parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It's the best night...
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and...
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"Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cutthroat mothers, and a suspicious death at a horse show...from the author of Good Rich People. When the nouveau riche Parker family moves to an exclusive community in the heart of Southern California, they believe it's their chance at a fresh start. Heather Parker is determined to give her daughters the life she never had--starting with horses. She signs...
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"Sassy, streetwise Sammy is falling through the cracks. Neglected by an alcoholic mother, the problems she endures at school and home lead her to act out, seeking attention from unseemly adults when what she wants most is protection. Meanwhile, in a small Eastern European village, sweet Nico is about to turn 13. As her family falls upon desperate times, her father receives an offer of money to marry her off. But when she's shuttled across the border...
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"1876, Victorian London. Minnie Ward, a feisty scriptwriter for the Variety Palace Music Hall, is devastated when her best friend is found brutally murdered. She enlists the help of private detective Albert Easterbrook to help her find justice. Together they navigate London, from its high-class clubs to its murky underbelly. But as the bodies pile up, they must rely on one another if they're going to track down the killer - and make it out alive ....
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