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3) The extra
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Is the chance to serve as an extra for Hitler's favorite filmmaker a chance at life -- or a detour on the path to inevitable extermination? In this chilling but ultimately uplifting novel, Kathryn Lasky imagines the lives of the Gypsies who worked as extras for the real Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, giving readers a story of survival unlike any other.
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Great changes are in store for the highly creative and somewhat eccentric Applewhite family when money problems force them to open a summer camp for gifted children, who almost immediately begin to rebel, while a mysterious interloper watches from the woods.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of A Cat in the Stacks mystery series, a novel about a single mom, wits, grits, double shifts…and murder! A Trailer Park Mystery (#4). Kountry Kitchen Southern cooking recipes included! With her two full-time jobs, Wanda Nell Cullpepper is already burning the midnight oil straight on into the next day. Still, she can't pass up an opportunity to earn some extra green. So when the Kountry Kitchen hosts an...
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Sanora Babb’s long-hidden novel Whose Names Are Unknown tells an intimate story of the High Plains farmers who fled drought dust storms during the Great Depression. Written with empathy for the farmers' plight, this powerful narrative is based upon the author’s firsthand experience. This clear-eyed and unsentimental story centers on the fictional Dunne family as they struggle to survive and endure while never losing faith in themselves. In the...
8) Girlchild
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Obsessively following the edicts of the Girl Scouts Handbook in spite of her lack of a troop, young Rory longs to escape the Reno trailer park where she lives with her bartender mother.
9) Jacked up
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In a bizarre attempt to force Nick to confront his grief, his nonreligious parents ship him off to Jesus camp after his sister's suicide. The campers ride donkeys into the desert, snap selfies with counselors dressed as disciples, and replace song lyrics with Bible verses. And somehow, only Nick seems to find this strange. Nick is also being followed around by Jack Kerouac, who's incredibly annoying for a genius-- and a ghost. Nick drops a secret...
10) Unscripted
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When seventeen-year-old Zelda is chosen for an elite team at a prestigious improvisation camp, it is a big step toward achieving her dreams, but first she must survive her teammates' sexism and coach's cruelty.
Zelda Bailey-Cho has her future all planned out: improv camp, then Second City, and finally Saturday Night Live. When she lands a spot on the coveted Varsity team at a prestigious improv camp, it means she'll get to perform for professional...
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When Angie and Alex arrive at Camp Dakota, a thick fog envelops everything and when the campers start finding mysterious notes with hints about a Fog Zombie, their counselors teach them about solids, liquids, gases, and the properties of matter to uncover the meaning of the clues. Includes glossary and experiments.
14) Eric no juega
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Eric sits and watches as others participate in track and field day activities at camp.
15) Orpheus girl
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When sixteen-year-old, mythology-obsessed Raya and her true love, Sarah, are sent from their conservative Texas town to a re-education camp, Raya assumes the role of Orpheus to save them.
Raya -- abandoned by her mother, obsessed with ancient myths -- lives with her grandmother in a small conservative Texas town. For years she has hidden her feelings for her best friend and true love, Sarah. When the two are caught in an intimate moment, they are...
16) Mandarin gate
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"In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector stationed in Beijing. But he lost his position, his family and his freedom when he ran afoul of a powerful figure high in the Chinese government. Released unofficially from the work camp to which he'd been sentenced, Shan has been living in remote mountains of Tibet with a group of outlawed Buddhist monks. Without status, official identity, or the freedom to return to his former home in Beijing, Shan...
18) Camp daze
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Garbage pail kids volume 3
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The ten Garbage Pail Kids leave their town of Smellville to get into mischief at summer camp together.
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