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Secret Life of Bees
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Sue Monk Kidd
Lily Owens is growing up in South Carolina in the mid-1960s, raised by her cruel father but cared for by Rosaleen, her African-American nanny. When Rosaleen tries to vote and is beaten for her trouble, she and Lily head for the town of Tiburon, a place with ties to Lily's dead mother, where they live with a local beekeeper, and where Lily learns ...
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House on Mango Street
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Sandra Cisneros
In this novel about coming of age in Chicago, Esperanza Cordero grows up in its inner-city slums and resolves to transcend her background.
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Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous
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Kim Barnouin, Rory Freedman
A rallying cry for all savvy women to start eating healthy and looking radiant, this resource espouses a healthful lifestyle that eliminates meat and dairy foods, promotes whole grains, fruits, and vegetables, and encourages women to get excited about feeling "clean and pure and energized."
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Atonement
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Ian McEwan
ATONEMENT, which Ian McEwan has called his "Jane Austen novel," is divided into three sections, reaching from the first chapter, set in 1935, to a startling coda in the early 2000s. In between is wartime Europe and a group of nurses tending to wounded soldiers; this section also describes the aftermath of the battle of Dunkirk, in which McEwan's ...
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Skinny Bitch in the Kitch: Kick-Ass Solutions for Hungry Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap (and Start Looking Hot!)
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Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin
The bestselling "Skinny Bitch" inspired thousands of gals to live clean, healthy, pure, and skinny--while keeping them laughing with the authors trademark acerbic wit. With more than 75 recipes, this collection is sure to satisfy any crazy craving and cooking quandary.
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The Daring Book for Girls
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Andrea Buchanan, Miriam Peskowitz, Alexis Seabrook (Illustrator)
The manual for everything that adventurous girls need to know: from female heroes in history to secret note-passing skills, science projects to friendship bracelets, the perfect cartwheel to the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking.
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Bluest Eye
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Toni Morrison
In this novel about the nature of black identity, narrated by Pecola's friend Claudia, we learn that Pecola was raped by her father, and is plagued with a desire to be white.
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Care & Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls
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Valorie Lee Schaefer, Norm Bendell (Illustrator)
This guide to health and hygiene for preteen girls covers such subjects as acne, menstruation, bad breath, and developing healthy eating habits. Color illustrations accompany the text
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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
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Mary Pipher
According to the author, adolescence is a time when girls begin to separate from their parents, emotionally, and intellectually. Their source of guidance distanced, they often turn to readily available authorities--the media, mass marketing, and their peers--for advice. The messages can be damaging and often result in a dramatic loss of self ...
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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
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Ann Brashares
The girls from the Sisterhood return in the next film based on Ann Brashares' bestselling series set for theatrical release by Warner Bros. Pictures on August 8. This tie-in includes "Forever in Blue," the final novel in the series, a full-color insert of movie stills, and favorite moments from the entire series.
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Plain Truth
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Jodi Picoult
An Amish teenager becomes pregnant without benefit of marriage, gives birth, and is then accused of killing her child in this novel about a trial in Amish country.
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Lovely Bones
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Alice Sebold
From the author of the stunning memoir, "Lucky, " comes a fiction debut narrated from heaven. Starting with the first chapter, 14-year-old Susie Salmon recounts her rape and murder and watches her family as they cope with their grief.
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The Way the Crow Flies
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Ann-Marie MacDonald
From the acclaimed author of "Fall on Your Knees"--a "New York Times" bestseller and Oprah pick--comes a mesmerizing look "at childhood, marriage, families, the 1960s, the Cold War, and the fear and isolation that are part of the human condition" (Patrick Anderson, "Washington Post Book World").
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Purple Hibiscus
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A promising new voice from Nigeria delivers an exquisite and powerful first novel about a 15-year-old Nigerian woman who is awakening at a time when both her country and family are on the cusp of change.
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The Inheritance of Loss
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Kiran Desai
The author of the acclaimed "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard" takes readers to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency in Nepal challenges the old way of life--and opens up a grasping world of conflicting desires.
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
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Julia Alvarez
It's a long way from Santo Domingo to the Bronx, but if anyone can go the distance, it's the Garcia girls. Four lively Latinas plunge from a pampered life of privilege on an island compound into the big-city chaos of New York, where they embrace all that America has to offer.
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The Birth of Venus
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Sarah Dunant
In 15th-century Florence, a young woman named Alessandra welcomes an arranged marriage to a cultured man over 30 years her senior because he promises her the freedom to pursue her painting. But the deal is not quite what she imagined. As Florence falls increasingly under the sway of Savanarola, Alessandra begins an affair with another young artist ...
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Are You There God? It's Me Margaret
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Judy Blume
Margaret Simon faces a lot of changes the year she enters sixth grade. First, her family moves from New York City to a small town in New Jersey where she must settle into a new school and meet new friends. She also deals with her questions and anxieties about her first period, her first bra, and her newfound feelings for boys. A virtual rite of ...
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Madeline
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Ludwig Bemelmans
With one of the most well known and lovely opening sentences in all of children's literature ("In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines"), MADELINE is an unforgettable picture book about a truly unforgettable character. This story, the first in a series of books about Madeline, introduces ...
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Housekeeping
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Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson's 1980 novel is a strange coming-of-age tale set in the Idaho mountains. The story is about two orphaned sisters, Ruth and Lucille, who go to live with their unconventional and possibly unbalanced Aunt Sylvie. Ruth, the narrator, is haunted by the death of her grandfather, who died in a horrifying train wreck years ago, and the ...
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
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Alexandra Fuller
Raised in Rhodesia during the Rhodesian War (1971-1979), this memoirist expresses the violence of African politics and the African landscape from her perspective as a white citizen born in England. Insects, landmines, leopards, and terrorists imprint this coming-of-age story. A New York Times Notable Book of 2002.
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Bad Girls of the Bible: And What We Can Learn from Them
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Liz Curtis Higgs
Higgs takes an inspired look at some notorious women of the Bible. Her humorous interpretations of the stories of Jezebel, Lot's wife, and Sapphira--to name a few--tell powerful moral tales because, according to Higgs, women identify more easily with these flawed women even while they aspire to the likes of Mary and Sarah.
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Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who's Boss
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Danica McKellar
From the author of the runaway bestseller "Math Doesn't Suck" comes the next step in the math curriculum--pre-Algebra. McKellar empowers a new crop of girls--seventh to ninth graders--through real-world examples, step-by-step instructions, and time-saving tips and tricks.
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Virgin Suicides
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Jeffrey Eugenides
An obsessive homage that begins as a detective story and ends without a solution. In a prosperous Detroit suburb during the early 1970s, all five daughters of the Lisbon family commit suicide in a succession of acts that stuns their friends as much by its incomprehensibility as its violence. One of the boys who grew up with the sisters attempts, ...
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Kiss the Girls
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James Patterson
In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. Across the country a medical student suddenly disappears. Could it be that two clever pattern killers are collaborating, cooperating, and competing? Detective Alex Cross has his most baffling and terrifying challenge ever.
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