Laura Knight Keating
61) Calculated
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Set in Shanghai and Seattle, Calculated is a gritty, modern day blend of The Count of Monte Cristo and Mission Impossible. She has many names—Octavia, Double 8, Phoenix, Josephine. She's a math prodigy, a calculating genius and everyone wants her. In seventeen-year-old Jo River's complicated world of numbers, there's no such thing as coincidence. When she is betrayed by someone she loves, kidnapped by the world's most wanted smuggler, and forced...
62) The Prettiest
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THE PRETTIEST: It's the last thing Eve Hoffman expected to be, the only thing Sophie Kane knew
she could be, and the one thing Nessa Flores-Brady never wanted to be ... until a list appears online,
ranking the top fifty prettiest girls in the eighth grade. And the list turns everything upside down. Bookish Eve, ranked number one, can't ignore how everyone is suddenly talking about her looks—and
her body. Sophie, the most popular girl in school,...
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Before she was Marilyn Monroe—Hollywood icon, blond bombshell, and easily one of the most recognizable faces of the twentieth century—she was Norma Jeane, a young woman whose early life was filled with traumatic experiences: foster
homes, loneliness, sexual abuse, and teen marriage. Despite all she overcame, her hard-won, meteoric rise to stardom was
besieged by exploitation, pill dependency, and depression, eventually culminating in her tragic...
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CAT KNOWS ALIENS ARE REAL, AND SHE'S DETERMINED TO PROVE IT. By studying the Weston Farm Circles, her town's legendary crop circle phenomenon, she'll not only demonstrate the existence of extraterrestrial life, but also win the McMurray Youth Science Competition—a feat she's sure will impress her distant NASA scientist father. Dani most certainly does not believe in aliens. How can she, when they go against every scientific principle she's been...
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Marian seems really cool ... and nice ... and we've got SO MUCH in common. Well, two things at least. But if feels like more. I don't think I've ever met someone I wanted to be friends with so badly! IS THAT WHAT SOUL MATES ARE? "Charming ... captures the challenges of navigating strains on friendship bonds ... An absorbing, sincerely told story of adolescent self-discovery and connection."—Kirkus Reviews