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"'What was it like to grow up on TV?' Ron Howard has been asked this question throughout his adult life. In The Boys, he and his younger brother, Clint, examine their childhoods in detail for the first time. For Ron, playing Opie on The Andy Griffith Show and Richie Cunningham on Happy Days offered fame, joy, and opportunity—but also invited stress and bullying. For Clint, a fast start on such programs as Gentle Ben and Star Trek petered out in...
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Around the way girls volume 12
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Caught Between a Good Boy and a Bad Boy by Treasure Hernandez: "Kiesha Simmons is that girl. She graduated top of her high school class, is about to start collage at Howard University, and is presently doing an internship with the top realtor in Miami. She's had a good life so far, but there's one thing she has to do before she takes off for college in the fall: lose her virginity. She just has to decide who is going to be the lucky guy: her boss'...
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"Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed...
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A futuristic family whose everyday world is cluttered with gadgets that anticipated such technological marvels as the Internet and the cellular phone. George is a corporate sprocket at the mercy of his tyrannical boss ; teenage daughter Judy is boy crazy; Elroy's a boy genius; and Jane's a pretty, sensible woman capable of intervening when George gets stuck on the treadmill.
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"The story begins in 1619—a year before the Mayflower—when the White Lion disgorges 'some 20-and-odd Negroes' onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. It takes us to the present, when African Americans, descendants of those on the White Lion and a thousand other routes to this country, continue a journey defined by inhuman oppression, visionary struggles, stunning achievements, and...
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