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It's not romantic, Torrey says. It's physics. For every letter there is an equal and opposite, you know…letter. Sheila's life is built of little thievings. Adrift in her mid-thirties, she sleeps in fragments, ditches her temp jobs, eavesdrops on her neighbor's Skype calls, and keeps a stolen letter in her nightstand, penned by a UPS driver she barely knows. Her mother is stifling and her father is a bad memory. Her only friends are her mysterious,...
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The Sacketts volume 13
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When Flagon and Gallaway Sackett went to the town of Tazewell, Tennessee to pay a debt their father had incurred, they were not looking for trouble. Black Fetchen and his clan had other ideas, but they let the Sacketts get the drop on them. Humiliated, Fetchen swore to get even. He thought he saw a chance to do that when the two men agreed to escort sixteen year old Judith Costello, who had a crush on Fetchen, to her father's ranch in Colorado. With...
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Another day volume 1
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"Ten years ago this season, Gregory Maguire wrapped up the series he began with Wicked by giving us the fourth and final volume of the Wicked Years, his elegiac Out of Oz. But "out of Oz" isn't "gone for good." Maguire's new series, Another Day, is here, twenty-five years after Wicked first flew into our lives. Volume one, The Brides of Maracoor, finds Elphaba's granddaughter, Rain, washing ashore on a foreign island. Comatose from crashing into the...
6) La Faraona
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Ardustry
Pub. Date
[2005]
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Español
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A millionaire wants to leave everything to his granddaughter, a wanna-be singer who's looking for fame. He sends someone for her, but other people intend to steal her inheritance and set a trap for her.
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iUniverse
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c2006
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English
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Without grandmothers or grandfathers, too many children from eighteen years old and younger would not receive the emotional support or have their basic needs met, which could contribute to them becoming healthy adult people. Letters To My Granddaughter focuses on the life of one family's journey from St. Louis, Missouri, to the housing projects of San Francisco, California. Eight years later, they moved to the suburbs of San Mateo County, California....
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Cranberry volume 1
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Purple House Press
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[2012]
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English
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Maggie and her grandmother each invite a guest to their Thanksgiving feast, featuring Grandmother's own cranberry bread, made from a secret recipe.
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"Grandmother lives with Grace's family. She teaches her how to measure water for rice. She tells her stories about growing up in China and together they savor the flavors of her childhood. Grandmother says goodbye when she drops Grace off at school every morning and hello when she picks her up at the end of the day. Then, Grandmother stops walking Grace to and from school, and the door to her room stays closed. Father comes home early to make dinner,...
10) The switch
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Leena is too young to feel stuck. Eileen is too old to start over. It's time for the switch. Ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, Leena escapes to her grandmother Eileen's house for some overdue rest. Newly single and about to turn 80, Eileen would like a second chance at love. But her tiny Yorkshire village doesn't offer many eligible gentlemen.So Leena proposes a solution: a two-month swap. Eileen can...
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Catapult
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2022.
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Bitter Orange Tree is a profound exploration of social status, wealth, desire, and female agency by Jokha Alharthi. It presents a mosaic portrait of one young woman's attempt to understand the roots she has grown from, and to envisage an adulthood in which her own power and happiness might find the freedom necessary to bear fruit and flourish. Zuhour, an Omani student at a British university, is caught between the past and the present. As she attempts...
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Wicked years volume 4
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Maguire returns with the final installment in his transformative work, a thrilling and compulsively readable saga in which the fate of Oz is decided at last. The stirring, long-awaited conclusion to the extraordinary bestselling series begun with "Wicked", "Out of Oz" is a magical journey rife with revelations and reversals, reprisals and surprises--the hallmarks of the brilliant and unique imagination of Maguire. 592 pp. (General Fiction)
13) What Rose forgot
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In New York Times bestselling author Nevada Barr's gripping standalone, a grandmother in her sixties emerges from a mental fog to find she's trapped in her worst nightmare Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover that she's been committed to an Alzheimer's Unit in a nursing home. With no memory of how she ended up in this position, Rose is sure that something is very wrong. When she overhears one of the administrators...
14) Noodle magic
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Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
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2014.
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English
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Grandpa Tu is famous for his special noodles, and as the emperor's birthday approaches, he encourages his granddaughter, Mei, to find her own noodle magic.
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Maintaining tenuous contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, and with Holmes' young granddaughter in her safekeeping, Russell will have to call on instincts she didn't know she had as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice.
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Cuento de Luz SL
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Español
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"Una abuela y su nieta pasean por el campo durante varios dias de verano. La anciana le explica a la nina el maravilloso mundo de las abejas y por que tan bellos insectos son tan importantes para la vida en nuestro planeta. Pero pasados los anos, la nieta, convertida ya en mujer, regresa con su hijo al lugar donde estuvo la casa de su abuela y, gracias al baile de las abejas, descubriran algo que nunca podran olvidar."--Amazon.com.
"A beautiful hymn...
18) Our favorite day
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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Follows Papa and his granddaughter as they spend another Thursday together.
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WHO IS KATE BLACKWELL?
She is the symbol of success, the beautiful woman who parlayed her inheritance into an international conglomerate. Winner of a unique position among the wealthy and world-renowned. And she's a survivor, indomitable as her father, the man who returned from the edge of death to wrench a fortune in diamonds from the bleak South African earth. Now, celebrating her ninetieth birthday, Kate surveys the family she has manipulated,...
20) A dandelion wish
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Never girls volume 3
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"Mia and her friends have discovered a magical passageway to Never Land! But when her little sister Gabby goes to Never Land alone, the passageway closes up, with a fairy stuck on the Main Land side, too"--
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