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241) Operation do-over
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English
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When he is magically transported back to the seventh grade before he and his best friend had a falling out, science nerd Mason gets a chance to stop the chain of events that made his previous life implode.
243) A true home
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
Description
Mona the mouse is precisely the maid they need at the grandest hotel in Fernwood Forest, where animals come from far and wide for safety, luxury, and comfort.
244) Nightcrawling
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
Description
"A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system--a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus...
245) Chica uno
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Alexandra, una exitosa abogada afincada en Nueva York, recibe la noticia de que su madre, muerta en la cárcel, la ha nombrado albacea de su testamento. Aunque nadie en su entorno lo sabe, la protagonista fue años atrás la Chica Uno, la única que logró escapar de la casa donde sus padres la tenían prisionera junto a sus hermanos. Ahora Alexandra deberá ponerse en contacto con los demás, que crecieron en familias adoptivas diferentes,...
246) The lighthouse
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Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction. Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called on to solve a sensitive...
248) Stanley the mailman
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"It's going to be a busy day for Stanley! He gets up early to sort through all of the mail in his post office. Then he sets off through town to deliver it all. Myrtle, Little Woo, and Charlie all receive exciting gifts and letters. But will everyone be happy with what's in Stanley's mail bag?"--
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
Description
"In the newest entry into the Nero Award-winning Parker & Pentecost Mystery series ("my new favorite sleuthing duo"-- Sarah Weinman, The New York Times Book Review), Lillian and Will are hot on the trail of a serial killer whose murders are stranger than fiction. New York City, 1947: For years, Holly Quick has made a good living off of murder, filling up the pages of pulp detective magazines with gruesome tales of revenge. Now someone is bringing...
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift when Yami discovers that her openly gay classmate Bo is also annoyingly cute.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
Description
George and Harold and their doubles, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, have been taking turns going to school, but when the doubles fall prey to their gym teacher, Mr. Meaner, and his method of mind control that turns students into attentive, obedient, perfect children, it is up to original George and Harold to strike back.
252) In memoriam
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, all of whom are safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. They receive weekly dispatches from The Preshutian, their school newspaper, informing them of older classmates killed or wounded in action....
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Ruby and Ned gather eggs from their hens and ride their red truck to deliver the eggs--to the farmer's market, the restaurant, the school, the grocery story, and the bakery. The baker uses the eggs in her yummiest cookies--and gives them to Ruby and Ned!" -- Amazon.com.
"A fun story with maps and mazes shows children where their food comes from"--
254) The weeping tide
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Lore Keeper apprentice Barclay helps his teacher investigate a carnivorous algae bloom and its possible connection to recurring attacks by the Legendary Beast of the Sea.
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©2013
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English
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"When they were very young, royal sisters Anna and Elsa were as close as could be. But then everything changed, and now, they couldn't be more different. They agree on just one thing: they both wish they had a sister more like them. Featuring the princesses of Disney's Frozen, this spirited look a sibling relationships is told in verse and features beautiful illustrations by an artist from the film"--Jacket flap
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