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15821) The best Christmas
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[2019]
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"Share in the festive mood with this delightful story about spending time together. From making Christmas cards and decorating the tree, to baking cookies and opening presents with the grandchildren."---Back cover.
15822) Losing spring
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Sutherland volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
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"Caroline Bryer is the daughter of a very conservative TSA agent and former military brat, Morgan Bryer. Her mother, Linsey Bryer, is a descendent of the Sutherland real estate family. Their organized, suburban life in Colonie, New York, is rigorously regulated and leaves little room for deviation from the norm. When Linsey, Morgan, and Caroline attend the wake of their neighbor Mr. Gleeson, they meet his charming daughter Natalie "Nattie" Gleeson,...
15823) The prisoner's wife: a novel
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2020.
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A daring deception plunges a courageous and desperate young woman deep into the horrors of a Nazi POW camp to be with the man she loves. Czechoslovakia, 1944 In the dead of night a farm girl and a British soldier creep through abandoned villages. Izabela and prisoner-of-war Bill have secretly married, and are on the run, searching for Izabela's brother and father, who are fighting the Nazis. The husband and wife have evaded capture in the countryside...
15824) Family Thanksgiving
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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"Share in the joy of Thanksgiving in this heart-warming story about the simple pleasures of sharing family time together."--Back cover.
15825) Red, White, and Whole (Youth
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Told in verse, Reha, already dealing with being the only Indian American student in middle school, must now take care of her mother diagnosed with leukemia."
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the...
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2013.
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It's Christmas in Tinker's Cove, Maine, and Lucy Stone is excited about her acting debut in the town's production of A Christmas Carol. Lucy normally loves planning for the holidays, but this year Tinker's Cove has fallen on hard times. With so many residents struggling to make ends meet, Christmas festivities are a luxury some can't afford. The story's not so bleak at Downeast Mortgage, whose tightfisted owners, Jake Marlowe and Ben Scribner, are...
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2023.
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A character-driven account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, an Anglo-American clash over military strategy that produced a winning plan when World War II could have gone either way. Churchill called it the most important Allied conclave of the war. Until now, it has never been explored in a full-length book. In a secret, no-holds-barred, ten-day debate in a Moroccan warzone, protected by British marines and elite American troops, Franklin...
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(Melanie Bennett).Creekville Kisses volume 4
Pub. Date
2024.
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"Twenty-six-year-old Paige Redmond, single mom and go-getter, can't wait to give her daughter, Evie, the Christmas of her dreams. Nothing can get in Paige's way, not even her newly purchased fixer-upper cottage needing way more fixing than she planned. Paige tackles the holiday with Clark Griswold spirit, amusing the entire town -- except for her humbug next door neighbor, the grumpy but deliciously handsome Professor Henry Hill. With the help of...
15830) Matchup
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"MatchUp takes the pairings of FaceOff and adds a delicious new twist: gender. Eleven of the world's best female thriller writers from Diana Gabaldon to Charlene Harris are paired with eleven of the world's best male thriller writers, including John Sandford, C.J. Box, and Nelson DeMille."--
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Pub. Date
2010
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Married to a man twice her age, quickly widowed, and a mother at only fourteen, Margaret Beaufort is determined to turn her lonley life into a triumph. She sets her heart on putting her son on the throne of England regardless of the cost to herself, England, and even her son. Disregarding rival heirs and the overwhelming power of the York dynasty, she names him Henry, like the king; sends him into exile; and pledges him in marriage to her enemy Elizabeth...
15832) Batman '66 Volume 2
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Batman '66 volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
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"Brand new tales of the Dynamic Duo in the style of the smash-hit TV series from the swingin' '60s!" -- page 4 of cover.
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Alice Nestleton mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Traveling to Atlantic City for a gig, actress Alice Nestleton is surprised by the appearance of a cat at her sixteenth-floor hotel window, and her subsequent search for its owner brings her to the scene of a murder.
15835) Brave the wild river: the untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists...