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"Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else's shoes? Nisha Cantor and Sam Kemp are two very different women. Nisha, 45, lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband inexplicably cuts her off entirely. She doesn't even have the shoes she was, until a moment ago, standing in. That's because Sam--47, middle-aged, struggling to keep herself and her family afloat--has accidentally taken Nisha's gym bag. Now Nisha's...
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"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"More than four decades since readers first met Nancy Harmon and her children comes the thrilling sequel to the groundbreaking book that set the stage for future generations of psychological suspense novels. A lawyer turned successful podcaster, Melissa has recently married a man whose first wife died tragically, leaving him and their young daughter, Riley, behind. While Melissa and her brother, Mike, help their mom, Nancy, relocate from Cape Cod...
4) Tweet cute
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Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
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"Meet Pepper, swim team captain, chronic overachiever, and all-around perfectionist. Her family may be falling apart, but their massive fast-food chain is booming--mainly thanks to Pepper, who is barely managing to juggle real life while secretly running Big League Burger's massive Twitter account. Enter Jack, class clown and constant thorn in Pepper's side. When he isn't trying to duck out of his obscenely popular twin's shadow, he's busy working...
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English
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"When Angela met Jason Powell while catering a dinner party in East Hampton, she assumed their romance would be a short-lived fling, like so many relationships between locals and summer visitors. To her surprise, Jason, a brilliant economics professor at NYU, had other plans, and they married the following summer. For Angela, the marriage turned out to be a chance to reboot her life. She and her son were finally able to move out of her mother's home...
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Pushed to the breaking point, Cara Burrows flees her home and family and escapes to a five-star spa resort she can't afford. Late at night, exhausted and desperate, she lets herself into her hotel room and is shocked to find it already occupied -- by a man and a teenage girl. A simple mistake at the front desk but soon Cara realizes that the girl she saw alive and well in the hotel room is someone she can't possibly have seen: the most famous murder...
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Publisher
Quill Tree Books/Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
149 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Garlic loves spending time with Witch Agnes, Carrot, and her new friend, the Count, who has proven to be a delightful neighbor to the village of vegetable people rather than a scary vampire. But despite Agnes's best attempts to home-brew a vegetarian blood substitute for Count, the ingredient she needs most can only be found at the Magic Market, far from the valley. Before she knows it, with a broomstick in hand, Garlic is nervously preparing for...
10) Snowblind
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"The small New England town of Coventry is haunted by its memories of a deadly winter... in which loved ones were lost, families torn apart, and a town buried in a terrible blizzard. Now, twelve years later, the people plagued by their memories of that storm are haunted once again as a new storm approaches, promising to wreak new havoc. Old ghosts trickle back, and this storm will prove even more terrifying and deadly than the last. With richly textured...
11) Out of darkness
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Series
Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly volume 10
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Little Simon edition.
Physical Desc
139 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Legion of Lava has stirred worry and fear among the regions of Wrenly, and now Ruskin and his dragon friends must wage a war on two fronts: one on the battlefield and one for the very soul of the kingdom.
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Series
Scooby-doo comic storybook volume 4
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Reinforced library bound edition.
Lexile measure
GN 530L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ruh-roh! A dinosaur is on a rampage at the Natural History Museum! It's up to the kids from Mystery, Inc,. to save the exhibits from total destruction. Can they uncover the crook behind the mysterious Gigantosaurus?
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Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
127 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"From a young age, Althalia knew she would someday be the last of her kind--a bruja, tasked with keeping the power and stories of the ancient ways from fading fully into history. Never alone, Althalia works in a paranormal museum with her friends, a real-life Chupacabra and a were-coyote, while living with and caring for her beloved abuela. Through these powerful connections, her skills and knowledge grow. But the prejudice her people have always...
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Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
168 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Not only is high schooler Tasuku Kaname the new kid in town, he is also terrified that he had been outed as gay. Just as he's contemplating doing the unthinkable, Tasuku meets a mysterious woman who leads him to a group of people dealing with problems not so different from his own. In this realistic, heartfelt depiction of LGBT+ characters from different backgrounds finding their place in the world, a search for inner peace proves to be the most...
15) Grumpy Gus
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Publisher
Top That!
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
There once was a monster who was very, very grumpy.
16) Stealing home
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
HL 430L
Physical Desc
111 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sandy Saito looks back to his childhood in 1940s Vancouver, when he was eight years old. He's a happy kid: he goes to school, reads comic books and is obsessed with baseball -- especially the Asahi baseball team, the pride of the Japanese-Canadian community. Then the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor -- and everything changes. The kids Sandy used to play with every day now call him names and chase him from the playground. He and his family are no longer...
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Maud hit puberty she lost her wild magic and her best friend, Odette, rejected her--but now Odette has disappeared, her magic leading her down dark paths, and Maud knows that to rescue her former friend she will have to tread the same paths into a wild, dangerous world.
Maude is the daughter of witches. She spent her childhood running wild with her best friend, Odette, weaving stories of girls who slayed dragons and saved princes. Then Maude...