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1421) From there to here
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A young girl tries to adjust to moving from northeastern Saskatchewan to Toronto, where she misses her father coming home for lunch and looking at the stars at night with her family, but an eight-year-old girl from next door helps her to feel better.
1422) An Atomic Love Story
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A gripping narrative of the love and betrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer, told through the lives of three unique women.
Set against a dramatic backdrop of war, spies, and nuclear bombs, An Atomic Love Story unveils a vivid new view of a tumultuous era and one of its most important figures. In the early decades of the 20th century, three highly ambitious women found their way to the West Coast, where each was destined to collide with the young Oppenheimer,...
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Age : 6-8 years old Reading Level : 1st Grade - 3rd Grade
Discover the funny and thrilling adventures of a little girl and her cat!
Patch is a funny little cat with a strong charachter. He likes to scratch the sofa and climb up curtains, he is always trying to eat our other pets and he is nowhere to be found when he knows he is in trouble.
This story of a unique relationship of 2 inseparable friends is a great for beginning readers.
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A FLIGHT TO SAFETY-BUT THE BODIES KEEP PILING UP...
As told in the previous thriller, The Oven, CIA clandestine operative Woody Stressel and KGB undercover agent Ava Volkov become unlikely partners to solve the mystery of disappearing CIA operators who vanished and whose bodies were never found. The two of them barely escaped being tortured and cremated and having their ashes thrown out with used kitty litter. Woody and Ava became high-value targets...
1425) Are You Kitten Me
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Free to Good Home: two sweet males, need lots of love!
Shane Maguire is over-stressed and under-loved. He's finally landed a respectable job at an upscale restaurant, but the brutal hours have butchered his chances at romance. When his dad suggests he fill the void with a pet, Shane agrees and falls head-over-heels for a gorgeous shelter kitten. There's only one problem: the handsome stranger who claims he saw her first. They can't both adopt her,...
1426) Ruby
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As a former evacuee, feisty Ruby is forced to fend for herself when she returns to her family in London.
Set in the aftermath of WW2, this gripping saga is richly evocative of the period and shows the true grit of our heroine Ruby.
After having lived peacefully in Cambridgeshire as an evacuee, 15-year-old Ruby Blakeley is bought back to reality when her brutish brother Ray comes to take her to the East London suburb of Walthamstow. Far from...
1427) All Change
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Cazalet chronicles volume 5
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Written twenty years after the publication of Casting Off, the final volume of the Cazalet Chronicles begins in 1956 when the death of the family matriarch brings the scattered members of the extended clan back together The death of eighty-nine-year-old matriarch Kitty "the Duchy" Cazalet marks the end of an era-and the commencement of great change for the family. The long, difficult marriage of second son Edward to Villy has ended in divorce and...
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Three fabulous stories for children aged four to 10 about a delightful little mouse called Mousey Mouse, whose favourite colour is pink. Children are finding Mousey Mousey as cute as the little mouse in Julia Donaldson's The Gruffalo and even more magical than Jacqueline Wilson's Glubbslyme. No wonder Heather Flood's book is being acclaimed as the best for young children since Enid Blyton's Noddy and Beatrix Potter's The Tales of Peter Rabbit. In...
1429) Death by Smoothie
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Freelance writer and long‑time Ben & Jerry's addict Jaine Austen uncovers murderers on the mean streets of Beverly Hills, with a little help from her snarky cat, Prozac, in this witty mystery series from acclaimed TV comedy writer and novelist Laura Levine-a lighthearted treat for cat cozy fans and readers of Joanne Fluke, Miranda James, and Laura Childs.
The Bewitched knockoff I Married a Zombie may have flopped in its day, but it's got a devoted...
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A lost man. A rescued cat. A road trip like no other. People everywhere have fallen in love with Willow, the van cat, as she explores the wilds of Australia with Richard, her devoted owner. Now for the first time, Richard and Willow tell the true story behind the images that have captured our hearts ...
Richard East once lived in a suburban house in Hobart, Tasmania, with a career and a mortgage completing the picture. But despite the certainty in...
1431) Kiandra Gold
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In the summer of 18S9, James leaves his sweetheart, Sally, to seek adventure as a stockman in the Snowy Mountains high country. Before the summer is over, the Kiandra gold rush has broken and his life has taken a direction he could never have foreseen. The Snowy River Diggings at Kiandra saw one of the shortest but most turbulent rushes in Australia's gold rush history. In April 1860, at the height of the rush, ten thousand men and women were scouring...
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This 3 In 1 Box Set Compilation includes Kate Cruise's & Timmie Guzzmann's intriguing & interesting snake & sea turtle fact book for kids plus LOL funny Cat Humor book. The compilation includes: Book 1: Sea Turte Discovery Book Book 2: Snake Discovery Book Book 3: Cat Humor Book Book 1: Inside you'll find interesting, intriguing, funny & weird sea turtle moments like: * What Is The History Behind The Origin Of Sea Turtles? * What Are The Various Species?...
1433) Dragons Fall Hard
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Talk about things not going as planned… Welcome to my world.All I wanted was to receive my One True Gift, find my Mate, and live happily ever after. Is that too much to ask? I think not. After all, it's my two-hundredth birthday, and there's not even one slice of cake on this blasted mountaintop.But as momma said, 'All the planning in the world can't beat dumb luck.'So, instead of a party and champagne, I got a trip to Hell without directions, a...
1434) Look Who's Morphing
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First published to acclaim in Australia, Look Who's Morphing by Asian Australian writer Tom Cho is a funny, fantastical, often outlandish collection of stories firmly grounded in popular culture. Often with his family, the book's central character undergoes a series of startling physical transformations, shape-shifting through figures drawn from film and television, music and books, porn flicks and comics. He is Godzilla, a Muppet, a gay white male...
1435) An Independent Woman
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Can she find freedom against the odds? The Great War is over. Times are changing and Serena Fleming is forced to risk everything. Her dying mother confided a shocking secret which means she can no longer stay in the same house as her bullying father. On her 30th birthday she is set to come into the inheritance that will mean she can escape his iron rule. But little does she know how far he will go to thwart her ambitions, and the extent of his desperation...
1436) Super Boba Café Book 1
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First in a series, Nidhi Chanani's Super Boba Café is a sweet and magical middle-grade, full-color graphic novel about a secret teashop, an earthquake-causing monster, and an unforgettable summer.
In the fog-laden hills of San Francisco sits a sleepy independent boba café. Run by Jing Li and guarded by her kitty, Bao, it comfortably fades into the background. But inside the boba café, there's a secret. Jing is the keeper of the monster of San...
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Teaching Company
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[2014]
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"The Smithsonian is a repository of America's history, achievements, aspirations, and identity. It holds the artifacts of great leaders, and those of ordinary Americans. It houses scientific specimens and technological wonders. It is home to art, music, films, writings -- a vast treasure trove of objects of extraordinary beauty and outstanding design. With a collection of some 137 million items in more than two dozen museums and research centers,...
1438) The Old Ducks' Hen Do
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The brand new novel from the #1 bestselling author, Maddie Please! The Old Ducks are back and they are naughtier than ever
'I've loved all of Maddie Please's books but this is my favourite so far - superb characters and a warm, wonderful story. Bravo!' Judy Leigh
Recently retired, Denny Lambert is finding life just a little bit…well, dull. So when her stepsister Juliette announces she's getting married – again! – and invites Denny on a hen...
1439) A Vintage Vacation
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The brand new novel from the #1 bestselling author of The Old Ducks' Club!
'I've loved all of Maddie Please's books but this is my favourite so far - superb characters and a warm, wonderful story. Bravo!' Judy Leigh
Clover Harrington might be sixty-one, but she's still bossing it in the corporate world and can still run rings around her younger colleagues. And then she is made redundant….
Devastated and now suddenly the wrong side of sixty Clover...
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Walker Books
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2021.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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"While no cat can be called ordinary, Leonard is definitely no ordinary cat. In fact, he is an alien, sent on an earthly sabbatical and mistakenly given the body of a rather scruffy stray. Rescued by animal lover Olive, Leonard does his best to study the humans he hoped to join while contending with the indignities of hair balls, kitty litter, and a compulsion to shred the curtains. And as he collects experiences - shared cheese sandwiches, jokes,...
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