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Sometimes, there is nowhere safe to hide. It was a typical evening at a mall outside Portland, Maine. Three teenage friends waited for the movie to start. A boy flirted with the girl selling sunglasses. Mothers and children shopped together, and the manager at the video game store tending to customers. Then the shooters arrived. The chaos and carnage lasted only eight minutes before the killers were taken down. But for those who lived through it,...
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"'Tis the season for change and Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) is embracing it, returning from the States to live in the charming village of Letherby and working with her best friend, Suze, in the gift shop of Suze's stately home. Life is good, especially now that Becky takes time every day for mindfulness...which actually means listening to a meditation tape while hunting down online bargains. But Becky still adores the traditions of Christmas: Her...
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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It's the most wonderful time of the year, and the Heather Andrews, security manager at Timberwoods Mall, undoubtedly the busiest. But this Chritmas, Heather has more to contend with than frazzled parents and disgruntled Santas. Angela Steinhart, a young woman who designed the mall's spectaculer holiday displays, has had a premonition that tragedy will stirke on Chirstmas Eve. And Angela's visions have a habit of coming true. Heather wouild love to...
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Sophie Kinsella's debut is a rollicking romp through the perils of shopping and spending, spending, spending! Becky can't resist a sale, and she's only a little overdrawn on her VISA. Besides, that new scarf is just too cute to pass up. Readers will laugh aloud at Becky's retail adventures as she finds new and creative ways to relieve her increasingly burdensome credit card debt. Emily Gray's narration bounces along with Becky and her buying whims,...
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Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Amelia Bedelia and her mother need new shoes, but Amelia Bedelia adores her comfy, broken-in sneakers. But the shoe is on the other foot when Amelia Bedelia spots the perfect pair--only to find out that they belong to Mary Jane!" --
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Pub. Date
2009
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295 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Maggie O'Dell leads an investigation into the bombing of the nation's largest shopping center, uncovering paranoia, racism and a sinister secret agenda that extends to the highest ranks of a white-collar lobby group. As retailers count down to Christmas Eve, Maggie knows that infiltration is the only option--even though the cost could be huge.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Albany, N.Y. A once-bustling mall prepares to shut its doors for the final time. The people inside it dream of something different, something more. As the diverse group prepare for the mall to close, connections are created and completed-- until a shocking act forces them to reevaluate who they are and what they want.
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Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm
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English
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When the shopping cart Kaleb is sitting in rolls out of the parking lot and into the street, he has a wonderful time zipping through town, chased by increasing numbers of characters in a cumulative tale reminiscent of the Golden goose.
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Pub. Date
2008
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1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Lexile measure
660L
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80 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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As Thanksgiving food around town starts to disappear, the Clue Crew realizes that someone is trying to destroy the holiday! Read along to see if the Clue Crew can catch these birdbrained bandits, or if Thanksgiving dinner turns into a recipe for disaster.