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In 1803, after being exposed as a girl and forced to leave her ship, Jacky Faber finds herself attending school in Boston, where, instead of learning to be a lady, she battles her snobbish classmates, roams the city in search of adventure, and learns to ride a horse.
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Wayside School volume 6
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English
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Follows the adventures and misadventures of students and staff as they cope with the effects of a large, gloomy cloud that has settled over Wayside School.
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Misadventures of Salem Hyde volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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To help her stay out of trouble, her parents find young witch Salem Hyde an animal companion, Percival J. Whamsford III. They do not much like each other, but when Salem enters the school spelling bee and tries to "spell" her way to victory, she needs Whammy's help.
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2023.
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English
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"Katherine, an ambitious New York City attorney, gets diagnosed with a concussion and must be monitored for forty-eight hours to make sure it doesn't get worse. Unfortunately, she forgot to update her emergency contact, so the person they call is her ex-husband, Tom. Unable to be left alone, Katherine reluctantly agrees to travel to Chicago with him for the holidays. But thanks to a blizzard, what should have been a quick plane ride turns into an...
7) Croaked!
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Misadventures of Nobbin Swill volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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When Queen Ermintrude and her obnoxious son, Figbert, arrive to take Princess Angelica to their castle for training--and, eventually, marriage--Nobbin helps Prince Charming solve a mystery and save the princess.
8) Crumbled!
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Misadventures of Nobbin Swill volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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When Nobbin Swill, a royal dung farmer, ventures to the castle, he is drawn into hapless Prince Charming's quest to solve the case of the woodcutter's missing children, Hansel and Gretel.
9) Clocked!
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Misadventures of Nobbin Swill volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Nobbin needs to find the good luck charm that Prince Charming lost right before the big tourney. Can he find that handkerchief and get it back to the Prince, or will he be thwarted by some wicked stepsisters, Rumpelstiltskin, and a mysterious black rider who suddenly enters the tournament?
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2022.
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English
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"Sequel to the author's book The Waters Between Us, a memoir about growing up loving the woods and fields and streams of his native Massachusetts and wanting since boyhood to live like a mountain man in the woods. Having acquired a forest cabin in the course of the first book, There's a Porcupine in my Outhouse details his further adventures hunting and fishing far from other humans"--
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Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 5
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"In this latest misadventure, Nate, the all-time record-holder for detentions, gets to see how the other half lives as he follows his best friend Francis's example and becomes a total neat freak; has Nate totally flipped out?"--
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Shopaholic series volume 9
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English
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"The misadventures of Becky Brandon, née Bloomwood, continue in a new novel full of holiday cheer and--of course--lots of shopping!"--
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2023.
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English
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"Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd (est. 1761) to apply for a job. Allured by the smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap, Darkshire was soon unteetering stacks of first editions and placating the store's resident ghost (the late Mr. Sotheran, hit by a tram). By turns unhinged and earnest, Once Upon a Tome is the colorful story of life in one of the world's...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Joan Orpí (Piera, 1593 - New Barcelona, 1645) is one of the most unknown characters in Spanish history. In this torrential book we are told the odyssey that brought him first to Barcelona, later to Sevilla and finally to America, where he would experience all kinds of outlandish situations. Using historical facts as raw material, and with stellar appearances of characters such as Miguel de Cervantes or the brigand Serrallonga among others, Besora...
15) Second chance
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Fiona Monaghan lived a life as hectic and high-toned as the fashion world itself, jetting back and forth between her stylish Manhattan brownstone and the couture shows of Europe. Fiona was utterly content with her life, until the sweltering June day John Anderson strolled into her office.
A free-spirited editor-in-chief of New York's leading fashion magazine meets a conservative widower with two daughters in this novel about second chances in both...
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2022.
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English
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"The tomato gets no respect. Never has. Lost in the dustbin of history for centuries, accused of being vile and poisonous, subjected to being picked hard-green and gassed, even used as a projectile, the poor tomato has become the avatar for our disaffection with industrial foods - while becoming the most popular vegetable in America (and, in fact, the world). Each summer, tomato festivals crop up across the country; the Heinz ketchup bottle, instantly...
18) Toad
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Sally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world. She spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the doorknobs, waxing the floors. Her only companions are a vase of godfish, a garden toad, and the door-to-door salesman who sells her cleaning suplies once a month. She broods over her deepest regrets: her blighted romances with self-important men, her lifelong struggle to feel at home in her body, and her wayward early twenties,...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Compelling and stunning portrayal of life during and after the American Civil War, No Good Like It Is is an epic tale of the adventures and misadventures of two soldiers who rode with Terry's Texas Rangers. From the moment they met and everything that came after, West Point graduate Second Lieutenant Dobey Walls and veteran Corporal Jimmy Melton always had the same sense of justice. After their years of battle, from the first and final charges of...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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A book that challenges each of us to take control--to make our lives be about something while at the same time remaining clear-eyed about the commitment--The Happiness of Pursuit will inspire readers of every age and aspiration. It's a playbook for making your life count.
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