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1) Jumper
Author
Series
Jumper novel volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c1992.
Language
English
Description
Story of Davy, a young man, who discovers he has a power that sets him apart from others, teleporting.
2) The innocent
Author
Series
Will Robie volume 1
Language
English
Description
Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.
Author
Series
Women of the West volume 4
Language
English
Description
The moving story of a 15-year-old who, unable to tolerate her drinking father's abuse, joins a wagon train heading West.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn't...
7) Daredevils
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
1974: Fifteen-year-old Loretta slips out of her bedroom window to meet her "Gentile" boyfriend. This time, however, her strict Mormon parents catch her returning at dawn and quickly arrange for her to marry the upstanding Dean Harder, a devout yet materialistic fundamentalist who already has a wife and a brood of kids, some not much younger than Loretta herself. Trapped in her role as a "sister wife," Loretta dreams of another, better future, of a...
8) Standoff
Author
Language
English
Description
Ambitious female television reporter Tiel McCoy gets caught up in a deadly hostage drama while investigating the kidnapping of a Texas millionaire's daughter.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Gloria is a bored teenaged girl who meets a mysterious new boy, Uman Padeem, who is confident and charismatic--everything Gloria wishes to be--but when they disappear together for fifteen days she learns he is not all he seems, and soon truths about him and his secrets are revealed.
10) Tess of the road
Author
Language
English
Description
"Tess Dombegh journeys through the kingdom of Goredd in search of the World Serpents and finds herself along the way"--
In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons can be whomever they choose. Tess speaks out of turn, has wild ideas, and can't seem to keep out of trouble. When Tess's family decides the only path for her is a nunnery, she chooses a different path for herself. She cuts her...
11) Gem & Dixie
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Language
English
Description
Gem has never known what it is to have security. She's never known an adult she can truly rely on. But the one constant in her life has been Dixie. Gem grew up taking care of her sister when no one else could: not their mother, whose issues make it hard for her to keep food on the table, and definitely not their father, whose intermittent presence is the only thing worse than his frequent absence. Even as Gem and Dixie have grown apart, they've always...
12) Dirt boy
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
To avoid taking a bath, Fister Farnello runs away from home and is befriended by Dirt Man, a filthy giant who lives in the woods.
Author
Publisher
SparkPress
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When a tornado destroys his Tulsa home, fifteen-year-old Carter Danforth is trapped in the pawnshop where his father hawked his custom, left-handed Martin guitar six years earlier before taking off, leaving him with nothing but a hankering to pluck strings and enough heartache to sing the blues. Carter's mother, meanwhile, is injured during the storm and winds up in the hospital. She wants Carter to fly out to Reno and stay with her sister, but he's...
14) Bud, not Buddy
Author
Language
English
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Description
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, leaves a bad foster home in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
15) Family honor
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Sunny Randall is a Boston P.I. and former cop, a college graduate, an aspiring painter, a divorcée, and the owner of a miniature bull terrier named Rosie. Hired by a wealthy family to locate their teenage daughter, Sunny is tested by the parents preconceived notion of what a detective should be. With the help of underworld contacts she tracks down the runaway Millicent, who has turned to prostitution, rescues her from a vicious pimp, and...
16) A price to pay
Author
Series
[Iona Khan mystery] volume 2
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
It starts with the death of a teenage runaway, killed when she leaps from a motorway bridge into the speeding traffic below. When a connection is made to three other missing girls, Greater Manchester Police's Counter Terrorism Unit are called in. DC Iona Khan investigates, little realizing that she is now in the sights of a sinister figure.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Little River, New York, 1994: April Sawicki is living in a run-down motorhome, flunking out of school, and picking up shifts at the local diner. But when April realizes she's finally had enough-enough of her selfish, absent father and barely surviving in an unfeeling town-she decides to make a break for it. Stealing a car and with only her music to keep her company, April hits the road, determined to live life on her own terms. She manages to scrape...
18) Down and across
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Scott Ferdowsi's impromptu trip to a famous professor for advice about success turns into a summer of freedom that brings him answers in unexpected places"--
19) Finding home
Author
Series
Finding home volume 2
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Three years after he chose not t oescape, Joshua Kerr remains in the Fundamental Faith in God, doing his best to protect the other kids being abused in the cult. Of course, he also chose to stay with Mary, the girl who opened his eyes to beocming a defender of the littles. For three long years, Josh and Mary have followed their simple plan: stay and protect the little ones until Mary is eighteen. Then Josh and Mary will leave and make a new life--while...
20) Out of control
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Liva came to New York City, all she wanted was to escape the painful memories of her past and finally find a fresh start. Her hopes for a new future were dashed the moment she became the sole witness to a brutal murder. When she's taken into police custody-supposedly for her own protection-she realizes something isn't right, but it's too late. Soon, bullets start flying, and Liva realizes that she is not just a witness, but...
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