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Roxy Abruzzo is working in the architectural-salvage business, salvaging items from the burned out remains of Julius Hyde's home when she spies a statue in the yard. Roxy removes the statue from the property without anyone's knowledge or consent. It probably wouldn't have become a huge issue except for the fact that Julius Hyde ends up murdered and suddenly everyone's on the trail of Hyde's murderer and that statue.
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Gracie feels like a minor character in her own life story-until a mysterious journal turns her fictional stories into reality. It's 1987, and sixteen-year-old Gracie Byrne wishes her life were totally different. Shy and awkward, she has trouble fitting in at her new school, she's still reeling from her parents' divorce, and her grandmother Katherine's Alzheimer's is getting worse. So when Gracie finds a blank journal in Katherine's vanity drawer,...
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"Greg Abimbola is a language teacher at the prestigious Calderhill Academy in Pittsburgh. Only that's not his real name . . . or the only secret he's hiding. When the murder of a wealthy parent on school premises shines an unwanted spotlight on Calderhill Academy, Greg is determined to avoid attention. That is until the closest person to a true friend Greg has is arrested for the murder. To prove her innocence, Greg will reluctantly emerge from the...
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"Pittsburgh, 1995. The son of a black father he's never known, and a white mother he sometimes wishes he didn't, twenty-two year-old Bobby Saraceno has passed for white his entire life. Raised by his bigoted maternal grandfather, Bobby has hidden the truth about his identity from everyone, even his best friend and fellow comic-book geek, Aaron, who has just returned home from prison a newly radicalized white supremacist. Bobby's disparate worlds crash...
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"When Paul and Julian meet as university freshmen in early 1970s Pittsburgh, they are immediately drawn to one another. A talented artist, Paul is sensitive and agonizingly insecure, incomprehensible to his working-class family, and desolate with grief over his father's recent death. Paul sees the wealthy, effortlessly charming Julian as his sole intellectual equal - an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. He idolizes his friend...
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"Follow Kade, Del, and James on a road trip from Pittsburgh to San Francisco. Then a trip to Costa Rica to find Del's buried treasure. The third trip takes them to Ireland to spread a family members' ashes. Three adventures in one book, with all kinds of mayhem and colorful characters."--Amazon
10) Elfhome
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Elfhome volume 3
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Elfhome. A world of powerful magic, beautiful elves, man-eating trees, frost-breathing wargs, and god-like dragons. Pittsburgh. A city stranded deep in virgin elfin forest. Its population of sixty thousand humans and a handful of elves are pitted in war that will only end in genocide. Winter is coming. Supplies are running low. And hidden vanguard of oni are attacking from the shadows. And children are disappearing.
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"Nadal watches for weeks before he first approaches the boy. No matter what Maggie Brown says, he's sure Matt is his son, and a boy should know his father. After their first confrontation, Maggie should have run. She should have hidden her child. But she underestimated the man who was once her lover. With self-righteous determination, Nadal goes to her house. He demands to spend time with the boy. When she refuses, he reaches for a knife. By the time...
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"Kade McGrory and his family move from Ireland to Pittsburgh, and to the Neighborhood of Greenfield. It is there that he becomes friends with an amateur Boxer in Paul, and the infamous Del M. Levinson. A neighborhood that used to be run by the Irish but is now controlled by Italian mob. After a bar fight that goes bad for Del, the three swear vengeance for their friend. The three soon take up boxing and meet a professional pugilist down on his luck...
