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"A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. As the girls take...
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fifth novel. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten--by...
4) Sunny
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Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 3
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Sunny tries to shine despite his troubled past in this third novel in the critically acclaimed Track series from National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds. Ghost. Patina. Sunny. Lu. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds, with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team--a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics. They all have a lot to lose, but they...
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In the middle of the night, in a house in suburban Minneapolis, intruders murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. Other kids with special talents -- telekinesis and telepathy -- are also here. Some, like Luke, are in Front Half, while others graduated to Back Half. In this most sinister of institutions, the director and her staff...
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Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly volume 10
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2023.
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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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"The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King at his finest, using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave in 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,' which reads like a Twilight Zone episode infused with an...
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[2012], p2012
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18 sound discs (22 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Gibbs and Duffy profile the character and characteristics of the men who have served as America's chief executive, exploring how these men worked with and against one another while in and out of office.
10) A Giant Problem
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Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 2
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As giants start waking up and destroying everything around their Florida neighborhood, Nick, Laurie, Jules, and Cindy work frantically to find a solution.
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 19
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"It's sweltering in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Temperance Brennan, still recovering from neurosurgery for an aneurysm, is battling nightmares, migraines, and what she thinks might be hallucinations when she receives a series of mysterious text messages, each containing a picture of a corpse missing its face and hands. Immediately, she's anxious to know who the dead man is and why the images were sent to her. To discover the man's identity, Tempe...
12) The Visitors
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With the smart suspense of Emma Donoghue's Room and the atmospheric claustrophobia of Grey Gardens, this "bizarrely unsettling, yet compulsively readable" (Iain Reid, internationally bestselling author of I'm Thinking of Ending Things) thriller explores the twisted realities that can lurk beneath even the most serene of surfaces. What becomes of a child who grows up without love? Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother John in a crumbling...
13) Molly Bit
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A haunting and provocative debut novel about the stratospheric rise of an enigmatic Hollywood star and her legacy in the vein of Daisy Jones and the Six, from Columbia MFA graduate Dan Bevacqua.
Molly Bit doesn't believe she's destined for success-she knows it.
This certainly helps her get through the countless auditions featuring actors who look and dress just like she does; helps her swallow the indignity of less talented actors landing roles;...
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[2020]
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1 audio media player (8 hrs.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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"Carey Douglas has worked for home remodeling and design gurus Melissa and Rusty Tripp for nearly a decade. A country girl at heart, Carey started in their first store at sixteen, and-more than anyone would suspect-has helped them build an empire. With a new show and a book about to launch, the Tripps are on the verge of superstardom. There's only one problem: America's favorite couple can't stand each other. James McCann, MIT graduate and engineering...
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Sort of super volume 2
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2023.
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274 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
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"Eleven year-old superhero Wyatt Flynn and his little sister Adeline go to Camp Igneous, where they secretly explore a mysterious volcano which may be a key piece in the puzzle of what happened to their missing mother."--