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Caillou learns what the real meaning of Thanksgiving is.

Facts about dinosaurs, presented in graphic novel format.

Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...

"Bella Lasquito es el monstruo más desordenado de todo Villasusto. Su baba es la más viscosa y su mugre es la más mugrienta. Boris Limpitoff es el más ordenado. Aspira sus murciélagos y quita el polvo de las telarañas. Boris y Bella son vecinos. No se llevan bien. ¿Qué podría unirlos?"--Back cover.

"Mae West, owner of Happy Trails Campground, never thought she would become an actress like her namesake. Calling herself an actress might be far stretch as she plays a minor role in the local Civil War reenactment BATTLE AT CAMP WILDCAT. When the reenactment doesn't go as planned, not one but two of the town's folks aren't playing dead. . .they were MURDERED!Come to find out there was a prison break and the serial killer is believed to be in Normal...

"As a barrister in 1819 London, William Snopes defends the poor against the powerful--but that changes when a struggling heiress arrives at his door with a mystery surrounding a missing letter from the king's regent and a merchant's brig. As he digs deeper, he learns that the forces arrayed against them are even more powerful than he'd imagined"-- 1818 London. In a last-ditch effort to save her faltering estate, Lady Madeleine Jameson invested in...

"Sixteen-year-old Susan Smithson - pretty but poor, clever but capricious - has just been expelled from a school for young ladies in London. At the mansion of the formidable Lady Catherin de Bourgh, she attracts a raffish young nobleman. But at the first hint of scandal, her guardian dispatches her to her uncle Collins' rectory in Kent, where her sensible cousin Alicia lives and 'where nothing ever happens.' Here Susan mischievously inspires the local...

Jack West Jr has made it to the Supreme Labyrinth. Now he faces one last race - against multiple rivals, against time, against the collapse of the universe itself - a headlong race that will end at a throne inside the fabled labyrinth. But the road will be hard. For this is a maze like no other: a maze of mazes. Uncompromising and complex. Demanding and deadly. It all comes down to this. For it ends here - now - in the most lethal and dangerous place...

"Amanda Jackson has always longed to be a mother. The early weeks of her first pregnancy are a mixture of joy, anticipation, and uncertainty as she and her husband prepare for the journey ahead. Then comes a devastating loss. Even though her doctors tell her otherwise, Amanda believes she's still pregnant. Her diagnosis is a rare, mysterious condition called pseudocyesis. Betrayed by her mind and body and her marriage strained, Amanda turns to neuroscientist...

Kate's hot new pen pal is a welcome distraction from her horrible boss. But nobody is as distracting as Elliot Miles...and he knows it. But lately things are getting weird at work. Elliot's being attentive. His eyes linger a little longer than they should, and there's a heat behind them that Kate hasn't felt before. And then he tells her that her vulnerability is appealing. But when was she vulnerable? Horror dawns... Has her boss been reading her...