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"Faith Ferguson is New York's most in-demand wedding planner, an arbiter of taste for elegant affairs, lavish ceremonies, and exclusive f�etes. She appreciates a simple celebration as much as a dazzling event, for she knows that a dream wedding is not necessarily the most expensive one. As much as Faith enjoys her work, her two failed engagements leave her with no desire to get married herself. She finds fulfillment in her close relationship with...
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New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Though written at the end of the first half of the twentieth century this is essentially a nineteenth century novel written with a twentieth century sensibility. A few things give it away as a twentieth century novel - regular trains, even to remote rural areas, and a gramophone as well as the fact that, unlike most nineteenth century novels, none of the main characters survives unscarred. Indeed, most of them die, usually relatively unpleasant deaths....
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"A woman fresh out of a failed marriage has seemingly written her soulmate into existence--only to discover that great love begets greater tragedy--in this fantastical reimagination of Romeo and Juliet. Helene Janssen has been dreaming of Romeo since she was cast as Juliet in her school play in eighth grade. With her father dying from an incurable brain tumor and the boy cast opposite her a jerk, Helene invented her own Romeo--an imaginary friend...
6) Duck days
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Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Third-grader Lauren, who has Autism Spectrum Disorder, is practicing the skill of 'going with the flow,' but finds it difficult when she learns that her best friend Irma has made another friend, Jonas. Meanwhile, Lauren is dreading a looming mountain bike day at school. Her classmate Ravi teases anyone with training wheels like hers. Lauren feels better about Jonas when he tells her how important she is to Irma, and he helps her face the mountain...
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Izdatelʹstvo
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Russian
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"Понедельник начинается в субботу. Сказка для научных работников младшего возраста" - под таким заголовком в 1965 году вышла книга, которой зачитывались и продолжают зачитываться все новые и новые поколения. Герои ее, сотрудники НИИЧАВО, - Научно-исследовательского...
9) Blood orchid
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Holly Barker novels volume 3
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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Grieving over the loss of her fiance, Chief of Police Holly Barker throws herself into her law enforcement job and joins forces with a handsome FBI agent to investigate the murders of two Miami businessmen, which leads her to the town of Orchid Beach and into the middle of a lethal real-estate scam.
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Publisher
B de Blok
Pub. Date
©2020
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Español
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"Nura ha descubierta el secreto que guarda el ombligo. Ahora ya sabe que de él sale un hilo invisible que la une a todas las personas que más quiere: su madre, su padre, sus abuelos, sus tíos, sus primos, sus amigos... Nunca más tendrá miedo cuando no estén con ella, porque sabe que ese hilo la une a ellos, más allá del tiempo y del espacio, ¡y que estarán conectados para siempre! Un cuento sobre los vínculos que nos unen con quien más...
11) Badaq
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Plaza & Janes
Pub. Date
2023
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Español
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"1583. Una badaq -o rinoceronte indonesio- pace tranquilamente en la isla de Pawu. Cuando llega un galeón castellano, el animal es testigo de las relaciones entre colonizadores e indígenas y se convierte en moneda de cambio entre ellos. La llevan hasta Madrid, donde su vida correrá peligro si no consigue escapar de un destino sin sentido. A su alrededor, se teje una trama de intereses y corruptelas entre políticos sin escrúpulos, libertinos codiciosos...
12) Hyperion
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
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English
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On the night before Armageddon, seven people set out on a pilgrimage to Hyperion's Valley of the Time Tombs, where the creature Shrike awaits them.
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Penguin Books
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1989, ©1988
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English
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Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is charged with leading the demoralized men of the 95th Rifles to safety through the enemy-infested mountains of Spain and discovers that turning to Spanish soldier Blas Vivar for help may be a fatal mistake.
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Series
Major eights volume 6
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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The Major Eights enter a competition at Center Stage Café but Scarlet is distracted, both by a mean new singer in a rival band and by an unsigned valentine.
Author
Series
Major eights volume 2
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The fame the Major Eights experience after the Battle of the Bands competition goes to Scarlet's head and she signs up for the school's talent show as a solo artist.
16) Creeboy
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James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Set in the 2000s on the fictional reserve of Pâ-ko-sey-i-mo-min, 16-year-old Josh "Creeboy" navigates the world of Indigenous gang life. His dad, the leader of one of the gangs on his reserve, is in jail, and his older brother Darion has taken his place. Josh is unsure whether gang life is for him -- that is until Darion is killed during a run-in with a rival gang. Angry, hurt and frustrated by systemic racism against Indigenous peoples, Josh, now...
17) Denison Avenue
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English
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"A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vulnerable Chinese Canadian elders. Bringing together ink artwork and fiction, Denison Avenue by Daniel Innes (illustrations) and Christina Wong (text) follows the elderly Wong Cho Sum, who, living in Toronto's gentrifying Chinatown-Kensington Market, begins to collect bottles and cans after the sudden loss of her husband as a way to fill her days and keep...
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Harvey Hammer volume 1
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Aladdin Quix
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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In the first book of a Shark School series spin-off, young hammerhead shark Harvey Hammer has his first day at school! It's Harvey Hammer's first day at Kelpmentary School. Harvey dreams of being just like King Krusher, his comic book hero, but as the new shark in town, he worries he'll sink before he swims with the rest of the kids.
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Series
Major eights volume 3
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Unless Maggie and her partner can do well on their science fair project, she will not be allowed to perform with the Major Eights at the banquet. Includes directions for making goo.
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Ballantine
Pub. Date
©1998
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English
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Drawn from his centuries-long slumber, Azriel, an embittered immortal and Servant of the Bones, becomes a witness to the murder of an innocent girl, a crime that leads him into the conflict between a great leader of the Hasidim and his stepson, a diabolical cult leader.
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