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Whistle Stop AL volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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"Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women-of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth-who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon...
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[Whistle Stop AL] volume 2
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"Bud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop, Alabama, with his mother Ruth, church going and proper, and the fun-loving hell-raiser, his Aunt Idgie. Together they ran the town's popular Whistle Stop Café, known far and wide for its famous "Fried Green Tomatoes." And as Bud often said of his childhood, "How lucky can you get?" But sadly, the railroad yards began to shut down and the town became a ghost town, with...
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19uu
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Al Colby should never have said yes. When asked to smuggle a package from Chile to Peru, he should have run in the other direction. But he needed money, and he wanted the adventure. Now a man is dead, and two beautiful women seem out to seduce Al or kill him-or maybe both. A handful of gunmen, however, definitely aren't planning on seducing him first. And it all has something to do with that package, an ancient manuscript that reads like a treasure...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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"They know exactly when he'll strike... They just have to find him first. In all their years working for the Baywood Police Department, detectives A.L. McKittridge and Rena Morgan have never seen anything like it. Four women dead in forty days, each killed ten days apart. With nothing connecting the victims and very little evidence, the clock is already counting down to when the next body drops. A.L. and Rena will have to act fast if they're going...
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Amina al-Sirafi novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates, she’s survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural. But when she’s tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman, she’s offered...
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2020.
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"Nobody saw a thing. Or so they say... Baywood police department detective A.L. McKittridge is no stranger to tough cases, but when five-year-old Emma Whitman disappears from her day care, there isn't a single shred of evidence to go on. Neither the grandmother who dropped her off, nor the teacher whose care she was supposed to be in, can account for the missing child. There are no witnesses. No trace of where she might have gone. There's only one...
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2014.
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En Nunutuk todo es nieve, fr�Ưo, blancura infinita. Pero el peque�ło Ukluk sabe que esto va a cambiar. El mundo se derrite, y solo Ukluk sabe por qu�♭. La vuelta al mundo es una coleccion inspirada en culturas ancestrales del planeta. En cada una predomina un paisaje -hielo, r�Ưo, bosque, mar, monta�ła-, pero todas comparten valores tan antiguos como la humanidad misma: el amor por la tierra que nutre y sostiene, el...
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2008
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The stories from the Winged Horse Classics series have been compiled in this special edition with audio CD. The combination of lively narration, text, and modern illustrations will thrill and delight young listeners and readers. This volume includes "The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Like Salt, The Lion and the Rat, and The Tin Soldier." Los cuentos de la coleccion Caballo alado clasico han sido compilados en esta edicion especial con CD de audio. La combinacion...
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