Ellen Archer
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Land of Elyon volume 5
Pub. Date
[released 2008], c2008
Description
Twelve-year-old Alexa and her companions unwittingly lead Abaddon, now in the form of an enormous, horrible sea monster, to the secret community known as the Five Stone Pillars when they go to bring the people living there home.
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"The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. In short, either we embrace radical change ourselves or radical changes will be visited upon our physical world. The status quo is no longer an option. In This Changes...
23) Miss Rumphius
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
As a child, Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Every mother and daughter has her own distinctive voice, style, and secrets. When a mother and daughter go on a dream vacation to Paris, they unpack a lifetime of surprising hopes and secrets.
A mother and daughter on vacation in Paris unpack a lifetime of secrets and hopes—with a giant Pattersonian twist at the end!
Every daughter has her own distinctive voice, her inimitable style, and her secrets.
Laurie is an artist, a collector of experiences....
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"Jenny Blake has a theory about life : big decisions often don't amount to much, but little decisions sometimes transform everything. Her theory proves true the summer she's 14, when she makes the decision to pick up a penny embedded in asphalt and consequently ends up stopping a robbery, getting a job, and meeting someone who changes her life forever, Miss Shaw. Together they form a friendship that dares both of them to confront secrets in their...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual offering: "a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton." In fact, Lot 49135 consisted of a nearly complete T. bataar, a close cousin to the most famous animal that ever lived. The fossils now on display in a Manhattan event space had been unearthed in Mongolia, more than 6,000 miles away. At eight-feet high and 24 feet long, the specimen was spectacular, and when the gavel sounded the winning bid was over...
29) A.D. 30: a novel
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Series
A.D. (Ted Dekker) volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"A sweeping epic set in the harsh deserts of Arabia and ancient Palestine. A war that rages between kingdoms on the earth and in the heart. The harrowing journey of the woman at the center of it all. Step back in time to the year of our Lord...A.D. 30. The outcast daughter of one of the most powerful Bedouin sheikhs in Arabia, Maviah is called on to protect the very people who rejected her. When their enemies launch a sudden attack with devastating...
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Jessica worries books volume 2
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Jessica, who worries about everything from her spelling homework to remembering to fill her dog's water dish, learns that fire safety begins with extinguishing her fears.
Author
Series
Sam Briscoe novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
In a stately West Village town house, a wealthy socialite and her secretary are murdered. In the 24 hours that follow, a flurry of activity surrounds their shocking deaths:The head of one of the city's last tabloids stops the presses. A cop investigates the killing. A reporter chases the story. A disgraced hedge fund manager flees the country. An Iraq War vet seeks revenge. And an angry young extremist plots a major catastrophe.
32) Another dawn
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Coleman and Langston series volume 2
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On her wedding day Banner Coleman was a misty-eyed bride -- and a betrayed and jilted woman. The dramatic scene at the altar had shocked the town. It also aroused a storm of emotions -- protective and otherwise -- in Jake Langston. Best friend to Banner's parents and one of the toughest cowhands in Texas, Jake soon found himself in love with Banner and caught in a scandal that could shatter a family. But theirs wasn't the only affair stirring up trouble...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"In 2012, a recovering addict named Don arrived in North Dakota with no money, no connections, and no job. Like many others, Don had heard that the Bakken Shale was being fracked, and within just twelve days, he'd landed a salary of over $100,000 hauling sand. North Dakota was experiencing a resurgence of population and wealth comparable to only one event in American history: the California Gold Rush. Through stories of men like Don--as well as down-on-their-luck...
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Pub. Date
2007
Description
An acclaimed novelist and former 60 Minutes producer grandly reinvents the Dracula epic in the halls of a certain television newsmagazine In the annals of business trips gone horribly wrong, Evangeline Harker's journey to Romania on behalf of her employer, the popular television newsmagazine The Hour, deserves pride of place. Sent to Transylvania to scout out a possible story on a notorious Eastern European crime boss named Ion Torgu, she has found...