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1) Die trying
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Jack Reacher is an innocent bystander when he witnesses a woman kidnapped off a Chicago street in broad daylight. In the wrong place at the wrong time, he’s kidnapped with her. Chained together, locked in the back of a stifling van, and racing across America to an unknown destination for an unknown purpose, they’re at the mercy of a group of men demanding an impossible ransom. Because this mysterious woman is worth more than Reacher ever suspected....
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When a Swiss couple and their four sons are shipwrecked on an isolated island, they adapt to their "New Switzerland" using many imaginative methods of farming and animal taming.
"'Already the tempest had continued six days; on the seventh its fury seemed to still increasing; and the morning dawned upon us without the prospect of hope.' The story of the Robinson family of Switzerland-- a minister, his wife, and four sons-- begins as they are tossed...
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An obsessive historian's quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain for nearly 400 years be so dreadful that someone would kill to protect it? Although he is supposed to be on leave, Chief Inspector Gamache cannot walk away from a crime that threatens to ignite long-smoldering tensions between the English and the French. Meanwhile, he is receiving disquieting letters from...
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Grandpa Sorenson has invited three specialists to Fablehaven, a refuge for mythical and magical creatures, to help protect the land from the Society of the Evening Star, an ancient organization determined to possess an artifact of great power and deadly danger to Fablehaven and the world.
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Five teens, Finn, Philby, Willa, Charlene, and Maybeck, search to find Wayne, their mentor and head Imagineer, who has mysteriously gone missing. Concerned Wayne has been abducted by the Overtakers, the kids pick up a major clue from a close friend, Jez, whose dreams often accurately predict the future. Each clue seems tied to the last, and with the stakes growing ever higher, what starts out as a puzzle ends up as a fight for their lives.
11) The batboy
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When fourteen-year-old Brian gets a summer job as batboy for the Detroit Tigers, he gets excited to spend time on the inside and spend time with his Dad who is never around. But when Brian's hero Hank Bishop is drafted back onto the team, he discovers that all of the players are more human than he realized.
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