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25061) Somebody else sold the world
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[2021]
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"A resonant new collection on love and persistence from the author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize"--
25062) Love redeemed
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Phoebe Christner is thrilled when the families of her close-knit Amish community decide to spend a week at the lake. She feels she's earned a break...and it doesn't hurt that Michael Daugherty will be coming along. They'll find ways to spend time together, and their romance will have time to blossom. But when tragedy strikes, Phoebe and Michael are torn apart by their pain and the knowledge of their guilt. As they both cope with the loss of a loved...
25063) Olivia helps with Christmas
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Olivia books (Ian Falconer) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As she impatiently waits for Santa's arrival, Olivia the pig tries to help with family preparations on the day before Christmas.
25064) Mostly Ghostly
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Abridged versions of classic chillers by Arthur Conan Doyle, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Nesbit, Washington Irving, and others.
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2013.
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Under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), districts with schools that have failed to make adequate yearly progress for three consecutive years are required to utilize Title I funds to provide tutoring services to students in those schools who qualify for free and reduced lunch (a proxy for socio-economic status). The intent of the law is to provide tutoring services outside of the school day to increase the academic performance of those...
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[2018]
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The World Almanacʼ and Book of Facts is America's top-selling reference book of all time, with more than 82 million copies sold. Since 1868, this compendium of information has been the authoritative source for all your entertainment, reference, and learning needs. The 150th anniversary edition celebrates its illustrious history while keeping an eye on the future. Praised as a "treasure trove of political, economic, scientific and educational statistics...
25067) Civil War stories
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1909, 1994
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Popular American writer Ambrose Bierce comes alive in the magnificent collection of short stories. Having been no stranger to the battlefield, Bierce draws upon his experience as a soldier and the stories he heard during the American Civil War in this collection. However, his tales do not happily reminisce about the good times; instead, Bierce's dry wit and love of the macabre guide his stories to much darker places. "Civil War Stories", includes...
25070) The godfather of Kathmandu
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Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries volume 4
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[2010]
Description
John Burdett writes darkly inventive fiction with a comic twist. In The Godfather of Kathmandu, Royal Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is called to a grisly murder scene that could make or break his career, but he's more worried about impressing Tietsin, his new Buddhist guru. However, Tietsin would rather use Sonchai to help him broker a heroin deal worth 40 million dollars. Left with no easy way out and plenty of moral conflict, Sonchai...
25071) The Hot Pink Farmhouse
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Berger and Mitry mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
A new resident of wealthy Dorset, Connecticut, New York film critic Mitch Berger finds himself investigating a homicide when the daughter of famed American sculptor Hangtown Frye is found murdered
25073) Who do you love?
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Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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At bedtime a mother cat and her kitten Holly play the game "Who Do You Love?" and Holly describes everyone she loves and her reasons for doing so.
25074) Blood bound
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Mercy Thompson series volume 2
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[2007]
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Jalopy mechanic and were-creature Mercedes Thompson can change into a coyote whenever she wants to. As a favor, she agrees to back up vampire friend Stefan when he confronts another of his kind. But, being demon-possessed, that vampire proves deadlier than most and before she can do anything to help, Mercedes is in the middle of a war with vampires and werewolves.
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A missing manuscriptA young woman's voyage of discoveryAnd the curious bookshop where it all begins...In this charming novel about the eccentricities and passions of booksellers and collectors, a captivating young Australian woman takes a job at a vast, chaotic emporium of used and rare books in New York City and finds herself caught up in the search for a lost Melville manuscript.Eighteen years old and completely alone, Rosemary arrives in New York...
25076) Wool Omnibus
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Wool Omnibus from the Wool Trilogy volume Books 1 - 5
Pub. Date
[2012]
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"Welcome to the silo ... Thousands of them have lived underground. They've lived there so long, there are only legends about people living anywhere else. Such a life requires rules. Strict rules. There are things that must not be discussed. Like going outside. Never mention you might like going outside. Or you'll get what you wish for"--P. [4] of cover.
25077) The roots of the olive tree
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2012
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Meet the Keller family, five generations of firstborn women-an unbroken line of daughters-living together in the same house on a secluded olive grove in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California.Anna, the family matriarch, is 112 and determined to become the oldest person in the world. An indomitable force, strong in mind and firm in body, she rules Hill House, the family home she shares with her daughter Bets, granddaughter Callie, great-granddaughter...
25078) Phone home, Persephone!
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Myth-o-mania volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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Puts a modern spin on the Greek myth of Hades and Persephone, in which she asks him for a ride to escape her overprotective mother, sneaks into the Underworld, and refuses to leave.
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When Sargent "Sarge" Shriver--founder of the Peace Corps and architect of President Johnson's War on Poverty--died in 2011 after a valiant fight with Alzheimer's, thousands of tributes poured in from friends and strangers worldwide. These tributes, which extolled the daily kindness and humanity of "a good man," moved his son Mark far more than those who lauded Sarge for his big-stage, headline-making accomplishments. After a lifetime searching for...
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