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The Schapens and the Grelliers are farm families whose histories have been entwinED since the 1850's. The Schapens have turned to old-time religion for security. When Gina Haring, a Wiccan, moves into a nearby farmhouse, the Schapens are so outraged that they begin a harassment campaign. Despite parental coutions, the Grelliers' teenage children are enraged by the Schapens. An angry confrontation causes Chip Grellier to be expelled from school and...
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Vietnam: bitterly contested on the American home front and on the battlefields of Southeast Asia. Risking his vows to the priesthood and his status as a Korean War hero, Michael Maguire struggles with God and country in this thrilling novel of faith, truth, and honor, "so rich and vital it leaves you breathless."
4) Rampage
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"Teen activist Shay and her brother Odin are closing in on Singular Corp. and ready to shut down the evil conglomerate once and for all"--
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"Maybe Abby Knight shouldn't have chosen a home and garden show sponsored by Uniworld Food as the venue for her protest against the corporation's harmful farming practices. But being bodily removed from the event won't stop her campaign. Nor will a burning brick thrown through her flower shop's window. After she narrowly escapes being kidnapped three times, Abby calls in the big guns-her ex-Ranger boyfriend Marco and her friends and family. And then...
8) Uncaged
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"When an animal rights action at a research lab goes wrong, a terrible secret is exposed, and Shay must find her brother Odin before the researchers at Singular Corp can silence both of them" --
9) Saturday
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Saturday is a novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children, who are young adults. Henry wakes to the relative comfort of his home on this, his day off. He is almost as comfortable here as he is in the operating room. Outside the hospital, the world is not so easy or predictable. There is an impending...
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"After attending a climate march, a young activist is motivated to make an effort and do her part to help the planet... by organizing volunteers to work to make green changes in their community, from cleaning a lake, to planting trees, to making composting bins, to hosting a clothing swap and more!"--
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When Gabe, aka Chunk, a teenager who derives his greatest satisfaction from playing in the school band, finds out that the cheerleaders have appropriated the band's usual source of income (funds from the soda vending machine) for a new dance team, he takes on the school's social hierarchy to fight for the right of band geeks.
18) Dress coded
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"An eighth grader starts a podcast to protest the unfair dress code enforcement at her middle school and sparks a rebellion"--
20) Grayfields
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"Tom and Zilla are regular boarding school students--except when they're working as special agents for the government. Their next mission is to prevent terrorists from sabotaging a nuclear power plant"--