I am feeling like the queen of the world! A miracle occurred yesterday and I and gonna ride this bit of happiness all the way to next week. My dress shopping expedition was a complete success. I actually found a dress I loved within five dresses. Once I got past the whole size issue and just grabbed everything that crossed my path it was a breeze. I got a dress that was something I would never have picked before with a flowy bottom section that has plenty of room for me to enjoy a hearty buffet. The shoes on the other hand are gonna kill me as I make my multiple trips to the buffet, but they are cute as heck and will look great.

Heist School Freshmen
Alan Gallauresi
4.5 Stars (52 Reviews)
Genre: Teen & Young Adult

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Angelo Bastillo has just started high school, and already his life is over: dumped by the dream girl he’s been crushing on for years, hating every class, terrorized by twin bullies, and forced to consult a suicide line in lieu of therapy by his overprotective (and incredibly cheap) father. Then he, his best friend Drew Wales and the geeky new kid in school, Lionel “Porno Name” Tang, stumble upon a secret cache of dirty money that can make them rich — if they can only find a way to steal it. So, they decide to put together a team.

Meet their crew: Portia Wentworth, gorgeous drama club temptress with a secret, now turned con artist. Kyle Williams is their hitman-for-hire computer hacker with a heart of stone. And Charles Crewel, the “nice guy” star football player sidelined with a season ending injury? Well, he’s the muscle of the operation — all 283 bone-crunching pounds of him. When the team adds the suspect assistance of a mysterious senior class mastermind known only as “The Saint”, all the pieces begin to fall into place.

Now Angelo is ready to plan an incredible heist to pull off the big score. Everyone is counting on him. But with his daily life full of complicated boy/girl drama, depression, sub-minimum wage “character building”, completely unnecessary pop quizzes, and a truly unhealthy but incredibly satisfying amount of videogames, can he finish the job and still manage to finish freshman year?

This “entertaining and brilliantly comic novel”* is sure to appeal to teens, fans of young adult literature, crime buffs, people who still keep old episodes of Leverage on their Tivo (even though their hard drive is getting pretty full) — basically anyone who ever went to high school and wished it could have been just a little bit more thrilling and a whole lot funnier.

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The Academy (The Central Series)
Zachary Rawlins
3.6 Stars (91 Reviews)
Genre: Fantasy | Science Fiction

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Alex Warner’s life hasn’t been a great success – so maybe it’s better that he can’t remember any of it, even the fire that killed his family, the one he was blamed for setting. Still, a horrifying attack by werewolves in a city park is a new and violent low, until Mitsuru, a woman with odd red eyes and tremendous powers, intervenes, turning Alex’s world upside down.

Alex wakes to find himself in a hospital bed in a very different place: the Academy, a school in a hidden, fog-shrouded city named Central, where teenagers with remarkable abilities train to become Operators like Mitsuru, soldiers who use their amazing and frightening powers to fight Witches, Weir, and each other. And Alex is the Academy’s newest student.

In a class of students who can read minds, turn to stone, and sort through possible futures – and staff who can control emotions, set fires with thought, and level mountain sides on a whim – Alex is quickly in over his head. Worse, he has caught the interest of both the cartels vying for control of Central – the fragmented and aristocratic Hegemony, and the ruthless and dictatorial Black Sun. Alex is forced to make his way through a school populated by telepaths, vampires, and most puzzling of all, a number of girls who seem interested in him: Emily, lovely and almost powerless, with orders to make Alex fall in love with her; Anastasia, a Machiavellian heiress trapped in the body of a adolescent; and Eerie, only half-human and not entirely sane, but strangely captivating.

All the while, an elite cadre of Operators drawn from the staff of the Academy – the Auditors – fight brutal battles against the Witches and rebellious cartels, as Alex attempts to navigate the Byzantine politics of Central in the hopes of survival, passing grades, and possibly even a girlfriend.

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His First, Her Last: The Incredible True Story of an American Lost in the Philippines
Jonathan Sturak
2.9 Stars (134 Reviews)
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs | Teen & Young Adult | Travel

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Engaged couple Jason and Hazel travel across the world to meet her family in this true story of love and adventure. The moment Jason steps off the plane in the Philippines, an exotic island caught between the East and the West, the past and the present, grabs hold of this naive American and seduces him with its beauty, its places, and its people. Temptation looms as the best friend of Hazel tests their relationship and touches their souls.

A deeply personal account of the conflict of culture between American excess and Philippine poverty, His First, Her Last explores the ability of love to transcend two worlds apart. But after an accident spills blood on the streets of a remote village, the lives of this couple flash before their eyes.

Will he escape? Will she survive? Will his first trip be her last?

Take a journey across the world to an exotic land where you will find love, life, and what it means to be alive.

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Chasing Down Secrets
Katie Matthews
4.6 Stars (12 Reviews)
Genre: Coming of Age | Romance

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Maria Kaiser was stuck in a concentration camp for five years until Emmett Ritter, a young Nazi, came along. Their heated romance is hidden in the shadows until one day some one sees them. He offers them a way out. But when they get out they wish to be back behind the bars of camp. Nowhere is safe, now that the whole country is looking for them. They cause quite a riot, a nazi and a Jew. Or they would if Maria was really a Jew and hadn’t just been at the wrong place at the wrong time. She never did know why her mother tried to hide them the day they came to her house five years ago. But she’ll soon find she didn’t want to know.

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Gluten-Free Bread: Delicious Easy Homemade Bread
Sophie Miller
4.8 Stars (17 Reviews)
Genre: Cookbooks, Food & Wine

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Gluten-free fuss free bread for all !

In this book you will find a diverse collection of gluten-free recipes for your favorite breads to bake in the oven. There are recipes for sweet breads, savory breads and even sandwich breads including the following

  • Banana Bread
  • Zucchini Bread
  • Garlic & Onion Dinner Rolls
  • Brown Bread
  • Buckwheat and Almond Bread
  • Soda Bread

These recipes call for a variety of easy-to-find gluten-free ingredients such as sorghum flour, rice flour, xanthan gum and more. In many cases, you can find these ingredients in the gluten-free or specialty foods section at your local grocery store. You can also look for them at your local health food store or purchase them online – there are descriptions of the ingredients along with some links of where to purchase for new gluten-free bakers.

In addition to recipes for gluten-free breads, you will also find tips for gluten-free baking sprinkled throughout this book. In the recipe for Cinnamon Raisin Bread, for example, you will find a recipe for making your own gluten-free flour blend. You can use this flour blend to create all kinds of gluten-free breads but you can also use it in other baked goods such as muffins, cakes and other desserts. In reading this book and testing the recipes, you will find that gluten-free baking is easier than you ever imagined and it is not as stressful as you might have thought!

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