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Kinky Friedman volume 16
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English
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Walter Snow, not getting anywhere with his great novel, meets Clyde Potts, a beautiful intelligent, perhaps psychic, woman. Things quickly spin out of control as some of the pranks they pull backfire.
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Queen of babble novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Lizzie Nichols is back, pounding the New York City pavement and looking for a job, a place to live, and her proper place in the universe (not necessarily in that order).
"Summer Fling" Luke's use of the "L" (Living Together) word has her happily abandoning plans to share a one-room walk-up with best friend Shari in exchange for cohabitation with the love of her life in his mom's ritzy Fifth Avenue pied-à-terre. Lizzie's landed a non-paying gig in...
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English
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Emily has a tendency to live with one foot out the door. For her, the best thing about a family crisis is the excuse to cut and run. When her mother dramatically announces they've found a lump, Emily gladly takes a rain check on life to be by her mother's side, leaving behind her career, her boyfriend, and those pesky, unanswerable questions about who she is and what she's doing with her life. But back in her childhood bedroom, Emily realizes that...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
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Join Hubie once again as he faces his comically horrific fears during his first trip to the school library.
Mrs. Beamster may be the school librarian, but to the kids at school, she's the "Laminator." If she catches you whispering, you're laminated! How will Hubie ever survive his first library trip?
5) Legal tender
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 2
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English
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Bennie Rosato is a maverick lawyer, and business at her law firm has never been better. Then, without warning, a savage murder tears the firm apart. All evidence points to Bennie, who has motive aplenty and an unconfirmable alibi. Her world turns upside-down as the lawyer becomes the client, and the law is now after her. When another killing takes place, Bennie runs for her life, a fugitive armed only with her wits and courage. She is determined to...
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Flat Stanley volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
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The members of the Lambchop family react differently when a boisterous genie grants their wishes for fame, power, and the ability to fly.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Two rival candidates for a homeowner's association presidency are about to find out how dirty suburbanites fight in this steamy new romantic comedy from Alexa Martin. After years of hustling, Collins Carter has finally made it... back to her parents' house. Between tending to the compost with her newly retired dad and running into her high school nemesis at the only decent coffee shop in town, Collins realizes this subdivision from hell she swore...
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Pig the pug volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Language
English
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Pig the Pug loves to roll in all sorts of disgusting garbage, and track dirty paw prints all over the house; he does not like the idea of a bath, but when his plan the stop up the tub seriously backfires he decides that bath time must be endured--after all he can always find some more garbage to roll in.
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English
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In this deliciously sassy novel, three very different women bond when they find themselves in more than one kind of trouble. It's the story of how sometimes you have a secret that can get you in---and out---of dire straits. It's about romance, friendship, kids, revenge, affairs, and, most of all, a love of the well-heeled things in life.
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Teeny Templeton mysteries volume 2
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English
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Charleston pastry chef Teeny Templeton witnesses a murder that reveals that her boyfriend Coop O'Malley may be the father of the victim's ten-year-old daughter.
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English
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"A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, with everything that readers love about her novels-the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop. In this brilliant volume, nothing is quite as it seems. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over...
13) Getting over it
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English
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Helen Bradshaw isn't exactly living out her dreams. She's a lowly assistant editor at GirlTime magazine, she drives an ancient Toyota, and she has a history of choosing men who fall several thousand feet below acceptable boyfriend standard. Not to mention that she shares an apartment with a scruffy , tactless roommate, her best girlfriends are a little too perfect, and the most affectionate male in her life-her cat, Fatboy-occasionally pees in her...
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English
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"On a quest to settle a score with the man who destroyed his life, Boyd Halverson robs a bank and takes a hostage. At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in northern California. "How much is on hand, would you say?" he asked the teller. "I'll want it all." "You're robbing me?" "Not you," Boyd replied, revealing a Temptation .38 Special. Angie Bing, the teller, scraped together $81,000. Boyd stuffed...
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Secret diary of Hendrik Groen volume 1
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English
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Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon. Granted, his daily strolls are getting shorter because his legs are no longer willing and he has to visit his doctor more than he'd like. Technically speaking he is ... elderly. But surely there is more to life at his age than weak tea and potted geraniums? Hendrik sets out to write an expos©♭: a year in the life of his care home in Amsterdam, revealing...
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English
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Cliff, a sixty-something protagonist, divorced and robbed of his farm by a late-blooming real estate shark of an ex-wife, takes a road trip across America, armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States and a mission to rename all the states and state birds to overcome the banal names men have given them. Cliff's adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student from his high school-teacher days twenty-some years before, to...
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Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
220 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Seventh grade is no fairy tale. From the bestselling author of Okay Witch comes an utterly enchanting graphic novel-diary hybrid about a twelve-year-old girl living an ordinary life in a magical land disappointment, friend drama, adventure, mystery, and all!" -Provided by Publisher
18) I spy Fly Guy!
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Series
Fly Guy volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
310L
Language
English
Description
While playing hide-and-seek with Buzz, Fly Guy is taken away by a garbage man. Is Fly Guy gone forever?
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English
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Teri and Phil, a couple living in a world where mortals and gods coexist, have never felt the need for a personal god, but a series of misfortunes leads them to Pantheon.com where they find Luka, the raccoon god of prosperity, who takes his good luck with him when he learns Teri and Phil do not want him to move in with them.
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