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307261) Finds Trees
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Finds Trees is a story about a dark cloud who knows that he has rain to give trees a drink of water, but he realizes he does not know what trees look like.Go with him on his journey to find the trees as he asks others for help.This book teaches children about the ecosystem, perseverance, and that it is okay to ask for help.Finds Trees is the first book in The Dark Cloud Series, written and illustrated by Brittany Cummings!
307262) Wardenclyffe
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Imagine if you will, a world where our history pages have been smudged, ever so slightly. A world where places and people sort of, well...differ from our current reality.
Our history books suggest the Titanic sank during her maiden voyage and that Nikola Tesla has no place on the mantle of great inventors, but this tale, from the memoirs of Sir Swarley Paxmore, tells a different, skewed story...
307263) Cars on Fire
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"When you live in an adopted country, when you're an exile in your own body, names are simply lists that dull the reality of death."
Cars on Fire, Mónica Ramón Ríos's electric, uncompromising English-language debut, unfolds through a series of female characters-the writer, the patient, the immigrant, the professor, the student-whose identities are messy and ever-shifting. A speechwriter is employed writing for would-be dictators, but plays in a...
307264) The Unlatched Door
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The Unlatched Door, first published in 1920, marks the first appearance of detective Peter Clancy. During her long career, author Emma Redington Lee Thayer (1874-1973) published 60 novels, all but one featuring Clancy, who begins his career with the police; later books have Clancy working as a private detective. Clancy is also later joined by his trusty valet Wiggars, who first appears in the tenth book of the series: Dead Man's Shoes (1929).
307265) Cat in a Red Hot Rage
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Midnight Louie mysteries volume 19
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Cat in a Red Hot Rage is the nineteenth title in Carole Nelson Douglas's sassy Midnight Louie mystery series. This tough talking twenty-pound tomcat PI is playing at the top of his game as he walks the walk and talks the talk on the mean streets of Las Vegas.
Temple Barr and Midnight Louie are up to their tails in froufrou, chapeaux, and murder when the Red Hat Sisterhood convention hits Las Vegas. Electra Lark, Temple's spirited landlady, has dragged...
307266) Aaron's Mate
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Can these destined mates battle time and old beliefs to find each other?
Aaron Tanner is one of the Alpha werewolves of the Greensborough pack. As with all his kindred, Aaron bears a mark which will match his perfect mate. But he's been searching for nearly twenty years... and failing. The ache of longing in his body and soul grows harsher with each passing day. Grayson's mate Reagan brings hope when he spies a young were with the same mark, but...
307268) The Keep in the Marsh
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A village blacksmith from the middle of nowhere, Thomas seeks adventure after surviving a plague that eradicated his homeland.
Following his father's advice and heading east, Thomas finds himself entwined in a surge of attacks by a thieves' guild knows as Neydis. Similarly lost adventurers soon join him along the Queen's Road, and they set their sights on breaking through the grasp of Neydis and finding "safe" adventure in dungeons without any dragons.
Thomas...
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An exciting Victorian-era murder mystery, populated by characters from Wilkie Collins's beloved The Woman in White. Marian Halcolmbe finds and marries her true love, Theo Camlet. But when Theo's first wife, who everyone believed to be dead, reappears, Marian and her brother in law Walter must delve into the darkest and most dangerous corners of London to save Theo from accusations of bigamy and murder, as well as the hangman's noose. Victorian literature's...
307270) Roxy's New Home
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Join Dino Dax and Roxy the raptor in their second adventure together as they meet more dinosaurs, learn Biblical truths, and return back to the present time where Roxy begins exploring her new home.
307271) Cold Pressed
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Cold Pressed (Book 2)No strings attached is all Oliver can offer. He's hiding a broken heart that holds him back from diving into a new relationship, but he'll go on a blind date to make his family happy. Just one date, though; he doesn't have time for love to derail his plans.Divorced and demoted to the night shift, Nick has his own problems. He's got an ex-wife who needs him and a kid with one foot in juvie. The last thing Nick needs is to butt...
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In the year 2214, the Center for Humanistic Study has, discovered an unpublished manuscript by Joanna Demers, a musicologist, who lived some two-centuries before. Her writing interrogates the music of artists ranging from David Bowie and Scott Walker to Kanye West and The KLF. Questioning how people of the early twenty-first century could have believed that music was alive, and that music was simultaneously on the brink of extinction, light is, shed...
307273) Ekaterina and the Firebird
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A new take on an old Russian fairy tale: the quest for a blessing from the elusive firebird. In this iteration, young Ekaterina celebrates her fourteenth birthday, and a rare firebird sighting sets in motion a chain of events that will change her life forever.
307274) Sophie sigue desaparecida
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Español
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Dura, resistente, manipuladora y valiente, Jacaranda Dunne es una antigua oficial de la Policía Metropolitana que se ha trasladado a España para abrir una agencia de detectives en Málaga. Al principio el trabajo de la agencia es mera rutina, perros perdidos, pasaportes robados, maridos infieles, etc. Un día, una mujer llega a la agencia y quiere que JD encuentre a su hija desaparecida y se encuentra investigando el mundo tenebroso del tráfico...
307275) Réminiscence
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Jezabel est perdue, prisonnière de l'Aîné des vampires.
Lawrence, Nicolas et ses autres infants sont traqués.
Leur seule chance est de s'unir, de se dresser contre Diancecht, le plus ancien vampire encore existant, quitte à prendre tous les risques, et apprendre des secrets qu'ils n'auraient jamais dû connaître.
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Née en 1986, passionnée d'écriture depuis l'adolescence, rêveuse intempestive, toujours dans...
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The kingdom hangs within the balance.War threatens Foxwick on all sides.The dreaded Shadowlands gains more souls. From the shrouded trees in Greymist Forest to the arid Blackden Barrens, monsters roam in search of their next victim. Sirens lure ships beneath Merrilea Sea. In cold and snowy Wintermill, royals plot to claim Foxwick as their own, even if they must use dragons and sorcery. Marriage between Foxwick's king and Lochhollow's princess creates...
307277) Tomy sur l'île de la Licorne
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Tomy, petit garçon de sept ans, déborde d'imagination. Un jour, alors qu'il joue sur l'arbre au fond du jardin, subitement, celui-ci se met à lui parler. Dès lors, il découvrira tous les amis du monde invisible qui habitent ce bois. Faisant leur connaissance, il s'envolera sur l'île de la Licorne o Rosie, reine des grenouilles, lui réservera un accueil des plus chaleureux.
307278) Stella and the Elephant
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When Stella Stardust, a ten-year-old girl from northern New South Wales in 1875, was born the mysterious Aboriginal midwife who delivered her placed a strange-smelling amulet around her neck, for a 'special child'. Fortune, the oldest elephant in captivity in the Southern Hemisphere, has been with The Amazing Travelling Stardust Circus for most of his life but wants to return to Africa so he can die there. The night they meet he and Stella save the...
307279) Sweet Summer
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The summer winds bring change to Loving…Minnie Molloy likes surprises, but not when her first love, Adam Manning, appears one hot summer day. He has her remembering, wanting, and hoping for what she thought remained in her past. But when she and Adam spend the day together, she realizes that the past is back and ready to claim her heart again.Adam Manning will take every opportunity to be with Minnie. He hasn't stopped loving her, and all he needs...
307280) From Paris, With Love
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From the bestselling author of Doubting Abbey Every girl dreams of hearing those four magical words Will you marry me? But no-one tells you what's supposed to happen next... Fun-loving Gemma Goodwin knows she should be revelling in her happy-ever-after. Except when her boyfriend Lord Edward popped the question, after a whirlwind romance, although she didn't say no...she didn't exactly say yes either! A month-long cookery course in Paris could be just...
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