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Cupcake diaries volume 20
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When the Cupcake Club gets a job supplying a neighbor's barbecue, Alexis is excited since her crush will be there, but when she goes clothes shopping with friends, she finds that nothing fits right and she worries that she will not make a good impression.
Author
Series
Marie Sharp volume 1
Language
English
Description
Originally published: London : Fig Tree, 2006.
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Language
English
Description
Jan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by the Nazi racism, who managed to save over three hundred people. Yet their story has fallen between the seams of history. Drawing on Antonina's diary and other historical sources, best-selling naturalist Diane Ackerman vividly re-creates Antonina's life as "the zookeeper's wife", responsible for her own family, the zoo animals, and their "Guests:--Resistance activists and...
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 7
Language
English
Description
"Emma is not thrilled with always needing to rearrange he schedule to babysit her younger brother, Jake, after school. But it's summer, and Emma is free--or so she thinks. Emma's parents have broken the news that really threatens to push Emma over the edge: Emma and Jake are going to the same day camp together. And Emma will have to babysit Jake on the bus. Every day. Can't Emma catch a break?"--Publisher.
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Series
Zion diaries volume 2
Language
English
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"As German stukas circle in British skies, bombing London in repeated air raids, famous violinist Elisa Lindheim Murphy and her journalist husband, John, make an agonizing decision to send their three children to safety in America. But what about all the Jewish refugees left behind in England? Elisa will face the greatest trial of her life as she travels with evacuee children on seas made treacherous by Nazi u-boats."--Publisher's description.
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Series
Pendragon series volume 10
Language
English
Description
Every question is answered, every truth is revealed in the final installment of the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling Pendragon series. The final battle has begun, and the saga's passionate fan base will not be disappointed.
Each of the Travelers returns home to learn the truth about their origins before being reunited for a final, ineveitable confrontation with Saint Dane, whose efforts to control Halla are destroying its very foundations.
8) The arsonist
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Molly Mavity and Pepper Yusef are dealing with their own personal tragedies when they are tasked by an anonymous person with solving the decades-old murder of Ava Dryman, an East German teenager whose diary was published after her death.
9) Black water
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal boy who is catapulted into the middle of an immense, interdimensional conflict full of danger and discovery. His success or failure will ultimately decide the course of human existence.
10) Jedi Academy
Author
Series
Jedi Academy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"My whole life I planned on going to pilot school like the rest of my friends--then I got rejected! Along came a little green guy named Yoda who invited me to Jedi Academy. Now I'm at a school with aliens, robots, and lightsaber-wielding bullies who can lift things with their minds! How am I supposed to compete with that? As if starting middle school wasn't hard enough..." The story of Roan Novachez, Jedi Academy student, is told through comics, journal...
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The Stargate is an intergalactic gateway, developed by an ancient civilization, that links other planets from other solar systems to ours. The U.S. Air Force assembles a Stargate team headed by Colonel Jack O'Neill for interstellar peacekeeping missions.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 15
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
On their a cross-country camping trip, Greg Heffley and his family find themselves stranded at an RV park that's not exactly a summertime paradise and when the skies open up and the water starts to rise, the Heffleys wonder if they can save their vacation--or if they're already in too deep.
Author
Series
Pendragon series volume 8
Language
English
Description
In this installment of the #1 "New York Times" bestselling series Bobby is sent to Ibara, a confounding territory that looks like paradise. However, Bobby is put on the path that will ultimately lead to the final showdown between himself and Saint Dane.
With Saint Dane seemingly on the verge of toppling all of the territories, Pendragon and Courtney set out to rescue Mark and find themselves traveling--and battling--their way through different worlds...
Author
Pub. Date
1957
Language
English
Description
"Contains a total of sixty stories, thirteen of them gathered from works of non-fiction. They cover the entire span of Twain's writing life, [published] from 1865 to 1916, six years after his death ... The stories are arranged chronologically according to the years of first publication, and alphabetically within a given year." A note on the text.
16) Local girls
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Language
English
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Description
Alice Hoffman evokes the world of Gretel Samuelson navigates through loyalty and loss with the help of an unforgettable trio of women: her best friend, Jill, her romance-addled cousin Margot, and her mother, Franny. Told in alternating voices, these funny yet touching stories are a reminder of the ties of blood, and the power of friendship.
17) Tofu quilt
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Growing up in 1960s Hong Kong, a young girl dreams of becoming a writer in spite of conventional limits placed on her by society and family. Based on the author's childhood.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty--even when Prohibition kicks in--and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits mask a childhood rooted in poverty, and her diary, always close at hand, holds her dearest secrets. When the Great Depression hits, Mazie's life is on the brink of...
Author
Pub. Date
c2017.
Language
English
Description
"E.B. White once said that "a book is a sneeze," and it's hard to disagree. Each classic literary work began as a germ of an idea, often conceived in the most unlikely circumstances and transposed despite critical indifference, personal tragedy, and plain old writer's block. But few sneezes are purely random occurrences. Arthur Golden knew he wanted to write about a geisha's family in Japan, he just didn't know how--until he met one. Stephen King...
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