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1) The edge
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"The 6:20 Man is back, dropped by his handlers into a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murder of a CIA agent who knew America's dirtiest secrets--can Travis Devine uncover the truth before his time runs out? When CIA operative Jenny Sikwell is murdered in rural Maine, government officials have immediate concerns over national security. Her laptop and phone were full of state secrets that, in the wrong hands, endanger the lives of countless...
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"When Annie Brown, a fun-loving woman, suddenly dies, her husband, best friend, and her children all struggle to find ways to go on after the loss of the woman who was the center of their lives, and who made life happy, fun, and secure. Her husband is overwhelmed with four children to raise, and turns to his teenage daughter for help, and to an old girlfriend for solace. Annie's best friend struggles again with opioid addiction, having depended on...
3) Ours
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"It opens in the year 1834 as a Black woman with magical powers named Saint founds a small settlement north of St. Louis with some slaves she has liberated, making the town invisible to the outside world by placing conjure stones around its perimeter; as the inhabitants of the town discover, however, Saint has provided them safety but not necessarily freedom. As the next four decades pass, more characters enter the novel, including two young boys...
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Seventeen-year-old Sid lives in a tourist town where magic lies buried beneath the earth, but other than that, has a completely ordinary existence, until one day her brother goes missing and the ground opens up, unleashing the magic and zombies within
Sid Spencer has always been the most normal girl in her abnormal hometown, a tourist trap built over one of the fault lines that seal magic away from the world. Meanwhile, all Sid has to deal with is...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023
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English
Description
"After a long, cold winter, doors finally open, and children spill out like candies from a box. Amanda is the last one out of the apartment building, with a carton of chalk in her hands. On every inch of the pavement outside, the children draw pictures of flowers and trees, mushrooms and snails, and a few very unexpected things. It's a concrete garden. Their creativity, unfettered in the open air, brings something beautiful, something hopeful, to...
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Tales of the city volume 10
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English
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"The long-awaited tenth novel in Maupin's beloved and bestselling Tales of the City series, Mona of the Manor follows the adventures of Mona Ramsey--now the widowed Lady of a glorious old manor in the Cotswolds--and her fabulous butler-slash-adopted-son Wilfred, as they work to help an American visitor who has gotten herself in trouble"--
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Colorful, psychedelic sneakers hang from telephones wires all over the city. Up in the sky, they hang for all to marvel at. But when a few special pairs get knocked down, the kids have to try them on. Soon they're racing, dancing, learning to fly!̀ These enchanted sneaks are out of this world--but where did they come from? And who would ever leave these behind?
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"One rainy night fifteen years ago, a knock at the door changed Liss Kehoe's life forever. On that night, Ashley Hay stood on Liss's front porch and handed over her brand-new baby Callan. She was never seen or heard from again. Since then, Liss has raised Callan as her own, and loves him as fiercely as any mother would. But in the back of her mind, she's always wondered whether Ashley is still out there somewhere--and feared what might happen if she...
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Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023
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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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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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When she moved to Stoneham, city slicker Tricia Miles met nothing but friendly faces. And when she opened her mystery bookstore, she met friendly competition. But when she finds Doris Gleason dead in her own cookbook store, killed by a carving knife, the atmosphere seems more cutthroat than cordial. Someone wanted to get their hands on the rare cookbook that Doris had recently purchased-and the locals think that someone is Tricia. To clear her name,...
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Underlined
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Teens Hannah and Noah, who each have different ideas of how to spend Hanukkah, team up to save the last Jewish remnant in small-town Texas
New Yorker Hannah Levin is allergic to horses and tinsel. Unfortunately, she's surrounded by both when she's snowed in at her grandmother's home in a small Texas town. Missing latkes and reliable Wi-Fi, Hannah wanders into an old deli where she meets the only other Jewish teen around: Noah, who happens to be equal...
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[Distributed by] Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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It's life in the big city, with Grandpa, Grandma, Abner the pig, and a host of other friends and neighbors, the likes of which couldn't be found anywhere else but here, on Hey Arnold! Kick back and enjoy the full Season 1 collection of the cult favorite that made football-headed 4th graders all the rage!
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Nickelodeon
Pub. Date
©2013
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English
Description
"Hey football-head fans, it's time to kick back and dive into Season 4 of Hey Arnold! on 2 laugh-packed discs! See Helga as a model, Grandpa back in school, Arnold on the synchronized swimming team, and Arnold and Helga raising ... an egg? It's big-city antics for the small screen, Arnold style!"--Container
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
Description
When his class wins a trip to San Lorenzo, the last known place his parents were seen, Arnold is excited to finally uncover exactly what happened to his mom and dad. But the road to the truth proves to be more than he bargained for when pirates kidnap him and his friends. Even if they band together to escape their clutches, will the hazardous jungle and the mysterious Green-Eyed People get in the way of the long-awaited reunion he's dreamt of his...
19) Song in the city
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
Description
Emmalene, a young blind girl, thinks the city sounds like a song and grows frustrated with her dismissive grandmother, until her grandmother finally listens from Emmalene's perspective
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