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2) Hello, Lulu
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Simple text and illustrations introduce Lulu and her family, Lulu's pets, best friend, and new shoes.
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"Stillman's War: When Sheriff Ben Stillman's deputy and best friend, Leon McMannigle, shoots a young woman, he feels the need to explain himself to her family. His explanation falls on deaf ears. Old Watt Hollister sends his wild sons to exact revenge for their poor dead sister. Wounded, McMannigle is alone and on the run in the mountains, hunted like a calf-killing mountain lion! Ben Stillman isn't at all happy when he gets wind of his friend's fate....
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AVp2s fiction readalong volume 91
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Gregory experiences a new way of life when he moves to Japan with his American mother and his Japanese father.
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Half white and half Indian, Yakima Henry tends to mind his own business among folks who see him as little more than a savage. But when a man named Barstow-who's taking his dead daughter home for burial-is bullied by badmen, Yakima steps in and becomes a target of bandits and lawmen alike.
10) A Family thing
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When an Arkansas man learns that he has an Afro-American half-brother he travels to Chicago to meet him. With the help of their Aunt T the men work through long-held grudges and prejudices.
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Call them outcasts, call them savages--they've been called worse, by their own mothers--but Jackal is proud to be a Grey Bastard. He and his fellow half-orcs patrol the barren wastes of the Lot Lands, spilling their own damned blood to keep civilized folk safe. A rabble of hard-talking, hog-riding, whore-mongering brawlers they may be, but the Bastards are Jackal's sworn brothers, fighting at his side in a land where there's no room for softness....
12) Crouching tiger
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When Ming Da's Chinese grandpa comes to visit, he overcomes his initial embarrassment at his grandfather's traditions and begins to appreciate him.
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Most people hightail it out of Dead River during the severe mountain winters. But bad fortune has driven half-breed Yakima Henry and Sheriff Jack Kelly right into it. While in hot pursuit of bank robbers, Jack manages to take back the gold and take a bullet. He's rapping on death's door and needs a doctor quick. The closest one is in Dead River... Yakima may not make friends quickly, but making enemies has never been a problem for him. In this frigid...
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Things aren't looking good for half-white, half-Indian Yakima Henry. Badly injured in an ambush, he managed to gun down the son of the most powerful family this side of the Missouri River. He doesn't know who'll get to him first: the gunslingers or the wolves. Against her better judgment, Aubrey Coffin drags the dangerous-looking hombre home. Now Yakima's fighting spirit must grow stronger, because an innocent woman is about to be caught in the cross-fire....
15) Indigo blue
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(Adeline Catherine)Comanche volume 3
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Orphaned after her parents were killed by Comanches, Loretta Simpson still lives in terror that the warriors will return, her fear so powerful, she is no longer able to speak a word. Hunter of the Wolf believes that Loretta is a woman of ancient prophecy whom he must honor. But Loretta can only see him as the enemy who has kidnapped her, and she refuses to succumb to his control{u2014}or his touch. Despite the hatred between their peoples, Loretta...
16) The savage breed
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"Yakima Henry may be tougher than anyone else in the Arizona Territory-- as a half-white, half-Indian man, he has to be. So when a pack of thieving curs leaves him in rough country minus one prized horse and two well-worn boots, he aims to get back what's his. The hell Yakima raises in the process lands him in jail, but opportunity is about to spring him out. Wealthy Cleve O'Shannon and his lovely wife, Ashley, have a proposition for Yakima. Cleve's...
17) Wake of vultures
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Shadow volume 1
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"A rich, dark fantasy of destiny, death, and the supernatural world hiding beneath the surface. Nettie Lonesome lives in a land of hard people and hard ground dusted with sand. She's a half-breed who dresses like a boy, raised by folks who don't call her a slave but use her like one. She knows of nothing else. That is, until the day a stranger attacks her. When nothing, not even a sickle to the eye can stop him, Nettie stabs him through the heart...
18) Aloha, Kanani
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When the tropical paradise of Kauai, Hawaii, fails to impress her cousin from New York City, ten-year-old Kanani wonders why nothing seems to make her happy.
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys' descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated,...