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When the renowned poet Fiona Skinner is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, The Love Poem, she tells her audience a story about her family and a betrayal that reverberates through time. It begins in a big yellow house with a funeral, an iron poker, and a brief variation forever known as the Pause: a free and feral summer in a middle-class Connecticut town. Caught between the predictable life they once led and an uncertain future that...
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2023.
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"Ghost sisters Clair and Blair have tried their best to get little brother Nicky to be scary, but Nicky is friendly--not scary. Now Nicky is throwing a party and inviting all of his new friends. He wants his sisters to come too--but only if they can be friendly. Can these two older ghosts learn some new tricks?"--
Ghost sisters Clair and Blair want to go to their little brother's party, but they love scaring people and must promise to be friendly...
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2022.
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"All Kait Leddy had ever wanted was a little sister. When Kyleigh was born, they were inseparable; Kait would protect her, include her, cuddle and comfort her, and, to Kyleigh, her big sister was her whole world. As they grew, however, and as Kait entered adolescence, her personality began to change. She was lashing out emotionally and physically, and losing touch with reality in certain ways. The family struggled to keep this side of Kait private--at...
46) Race to Krakatoa
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Inkwell chronicles volume 2
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2023.
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English
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Siblings Everett and Bea set out with their fellow Inklings to uncover the truth behind a new, and mysterious, type of magical ink that is appearing around the world.
47) Emperor of ruin
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2023.
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"The last surviving Chosen, Ashok, has finally risen up and taken control of The Twilight Order. He promises equality and prosperity, but Gyre and Maya know the truth. Only death follows in Ashok's wake. To take him down, Gyre will have to unite old allies--from all across The Splinter Kingdoms and the depths of Deepfire. And Maya will have to seek out a legendary weapon hidden in the mountains that could turn the tide in their battle for freedom"--...
48) North of nowhere
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2023.
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"After five years in hiding from their murderous father, the day Kristen and Ryan McIntyre have been dreading has arrived: Boyd McIntyre, head of a Los Angeles crime family, has at last tracked his kids to a small Montana town and is minutes away from kidnapping them. They barely escape in a small plane, but gunfire hits the fuel line. The pilot, a man who has been raising them as his own, manages to crash land in the middle of the Montana wilderness....
49) Family of origin
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[2019]
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When a controversial scientist drowns while investigating his theories about evolution moving in reverse, his estranged adult children reunite to settle their late father's affairs while trying to understand the research he abandoned them to pursue.
Nolan Grey and his estranged half-sister, Elsa, are trying to pick up the pieces when their father, a once-prominent biologist, drowns off Leap's Island. They travel to their father's field station, a...
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Imposters volume 1
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"Sir Merritt Livingstone has spent a decade serving the monarch in the field, but when pneumonia lands him behind a desk in the War Office Intelligence Division just as they're creating a new secret intelligence branch, he's intent on showing his worth. He suspects an aristocrat of leaking information to Germany as tensions mount between the two countries, but he needs someone to help him prove it, so he turns to The Imposters, Ltd. No one knows who...
52) The sight
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Warriors (Erin Hunter). Power of three volume 1
Warriors power of three volume 1
Warriors. Power of three volume 1
Warriors power of three volume 1
Warriors. Power of three volume 1
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Hollypaw, Jaypaw, and Lionpaw, the children of the ThunderClan warriors Squirelflight and Brambleclaw, learn their powers can help the Clan and begin their apprenticeships; and a prophecy warns of trouble.
53) Outcast
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Warriors (Erin Hunter). Power of three volume 3
Warriors power of three volume Bk. 3
Warriors power of three volume 3
Warriors. Power of three volume 3
Warriors power of three volume Bk. 3
Warriors power of three volume 3
Warriors. Power of three volume 3
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Firestar's grandchildren--Lionpaw, Hollypaw, and Jaypaw--progress in their training to become warrior cats and are drawn for different reasons to the mountains and the Tribe of Rushing Water.
54) Carnival quest
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Candy shop war volume 3
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[2023]
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English
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When the third White sibling brings a carnival to town, giving everyone who visited strange nightmares and weird dreams, the Blue Falcons, with a host of new candies, must tap into the power of their own dreams to battle their greatest adversary yet.
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[2023]
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Two lonely women form a tender bond in this melancholy yet hopeful debut. Henrietta Lockwood feels like she has failed. Having been let go from several jobs, she is now struggling to find something new. When she comes across an ad for the Life Story project, an organization that helps terminal patients write books reflecting on their lives, she applies, not realizing the position will change her forever.
56) Cyprian's secret
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The music box volume 2
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[2023]
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English
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Nola returns to the world of Pandorient, where she and her friends have to figure out what is going on with Cyprian, son of Anton the great Merlinian, while concealing the fact that Nola is from outside.
57) The last aloha
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Maui Island volume 4
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[2022]
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English
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"The Last Aloha continues the binge-worthy saga of the Briscoe family. Ava and her children maneuver more changes as they run the pineapple plantation known as Pali Maui amid a myriad of complications. A surprise wedding ... a renovation of the golf course fraught with issues, including a formidable lender who causes trouble ... a loved one facing a serious illness. All this forces the Briscoes to reevaluate priorities and cling to what is truly important...
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"Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and...
59) Secrets
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2022.
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"With their restoration shop, Cullen and Luna Bodman often find themselves unraveling mysteries for their clients. The old steamer chest Cullen receives is fascinating in its own right. But inside, Cullen discovers a locked diary to be restored to its rightful owner. Luna's budding relationship with U.S. Marshall Christopher Gaines comes under strain as he tries to talk her out of a wild goose chase. But intuition pushes her on, unveiling a surprising...
60) How it ends
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2023.
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"Most of us, when faced with death, wish we could just have a little more time. But what if this is the little more time that we wished for? What are you going to do with it? Grieving siblings Natalie and Bart have differing views on how we die. Natalie, a palliative care nurse, knows how drugs can help ease someone's pain, and do so on their own terms; Bart, a minister, believes that surrendering to what may come can bring peace and wisdom. Through...
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