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"Ten years ago, Julie Portland accidentally killed her best friend, Reba. What's worse is she got away with it. Consumed by guilt, she left the small town of Lawrence Mill, Mississippi, and swore nothing would ever drag her back. Now, raising her daughter and struggling to make ends meet in Manhattan, Julie still can't forget the ghost of a girl with golden hair and a dangerous secret. When August, Reba's first love, begs Julie to come home to find...
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Publisher
Book and Play Co
Pub. Date
2021
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Español
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La Alocada sorpresa para Agustina, es escrito por la Venezolana Lismar Marcano. Es un cuento ilustrado muy divertido con 11 personajes. Agustina, es una tortuga y sus amigas deciden hacerle una fiesta de cumplea�nos sorpresa, la cual se convierte en un alocada e improvisada celebraci�on.
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2003?]
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English
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A quintessential American heroine, Eliza Birdwell is a wonderful blend of would-be austerity, practicality, and gentle humor when it comes to keeping her faith and caring for her family and community. Her husband, Jess, shares Eliza's love of people and peaceful ways but, unlike Eliza, also displays a fondness for a fast horse and a lively tune. With their children, they must negotiate their way through a world that constantly confronts them-sometimes...
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Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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A modern fairytale' with zombies! Oliver lives alone in his late parents' suburban home and faces rejection at every turn. He is tasked with making new friends, and decides his best bet is to build a perfect TV family starting at the local cemetery' where he digs friends up one at a time!
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Nantucket legacy volume 3
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English
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After three years on a whaling voyage, Henry Macy returns to Nantucket to news that his grandmother has passed, bequeathing her vast fortune to him and his sister, Hitty. And it was truly vast. But Lillian Coffin was no fool. The inheritance comes with a steep cost, including when they should marry and whom--a Quaker in good standing, of course. But if they relinquish the inheritance, it all goes to Tristram Macy, their father's thieving business...
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Quaker midwife mystery volume 5
Publisher
Beyond the Page Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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No stranger to judgmental attitudes in her small town of Amesbury, Quaker midwife Rose Carroll is nonetheless stunned when society matron Mayme Settle publicly snubs her good friend Bertie for her nontraditional lifestyle. When Mrs. Settle is later found murdered--and a supposed witness insists Bertie was spotted near the scene of the crime--the police have no choice but to set their sights on the slighted woman as their main suspect. Rose is certain...
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Nantucket legacy volume 2
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English
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Six long years ago, Captain Reynolds Macy sailed away from his bride, looking forward to the day when he would return to Nantucket Island with a ship's hold full of whale oil. But when that momentous day finally arrives, Ren soon discovers that everything has changed in his absence. Everything. "Is nothing on this island as it appears to be?" he whispers in despair.
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John dies at the end volume 2
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
�2012
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English
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"Fan favorite David Wong takes readers to a whole new level with this blistering sequel to the cult sensation John Dies at the End, soon to be a movie starring Paul Giamatti Originally released as an online serial where it received more than 70,000 downloads, John Dies at the End has been described as a "Horrortacular", an epic of "spectacular" horror that combines the laugh out loud humor of the best R-rated comedy, with the darkest terror of H.P....
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Animal rescue friends volume 1
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Welcome to Animal Rescue Friends, where any stray can find a friendly face--furry or otherwise. This first collection of middle-grade comics includes five tales of found family: A lonely girl living in the suburbs finds happiness with a stray pit bull; a protective mama ferret and her six kits learn to trust a shelter volunteer; a shy boy stands up for himself with the help of a strong-willed bunny; a cantankerous cat helps to mend a troubled relationship;...
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Film Detective
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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When sheltered by a Quaker family, he falls for the familys angelic daughter, Penelope. Though she brings on a transformation in Quirts hard-boiled character for the better, he is ever-obsessed with avenging the killing of his foster father.
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Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Hard knox: Joe Knox, a hard-nosed Marine officer, is shocked when he returns to his alma mater and finds it in shambles. Agreeing to shape-up this motley group, he enlists the aid of long-time friend, Leroy Tuttle, a tough Marine Drill Sargeant.
Coach of the year: Set in the 1970s. Chicago Bears football star Jim Branden (Conrad) comes back from Vietnam in a wheelchair. Jim hopes for a coaching job with his team but is turned down because of his...
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English
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Mark Twain meets classic Stephen King -- a bold new direction for widely acclaimed Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale.
May Lynn was once a pretty girl who dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star. Now she's dead, her body dredged up from the Sabine River.
Sue Ellen, May Lynn's strong-willed teenage friend, sets out to dig up May Lynn's body, burn it to ash, and take those ashes to Hollywood to spread around. If May Lynn can't become a star, then...
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English
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"Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker who works tirelessly in Vichy France to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. After crossing the treacherous Pyr�en�ees, Grace returns home to Oregon with a brother and sister whose parents were lost during the war. Though Grace and her husband love �Elias and Marguerite as their own, echoes of Grace's past and trauma from the Holocaust tear the Tonquin family apart. More than fifty years after they disappear,...
19) Lesson in hope
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Series
Hope series (Philip Gulley) volume 2
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Sam Gardner has been pastor of Hope Friends Meeting for just four months when ninety-eight-year-old member Olive Charles passes away. What's more shocking news is that Olive has left her entire estate--worth nearly one million dollars--to the meeting. At first the gift sounds to Sam like a godsend. Yet as word of the unexpected windfall spreads, it stirs up a storm of conflicting opinions among the church members as to how the money would best be...
20) Steal away home
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Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
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In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in Kansas in the late 1850s operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.
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