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881) Bonded by Death
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My Ex. My Liar. My Demon.My type is bad boys that will screw me over and leave me walking funny. No matter how much they tempt me or my ruined heart-I know better than to trust my own taste in men.My ex taught me that love isn't sweet, patient, or kind. It's cruel and it hurts. He'll do anything for a second chance, but I can't forget the flames that burned me from the inside out three years ago.My liar is forbidden, but I'm haunted by his slate blue...
882) Neighborhood Watch
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A killer terrorizes the morally bankrupt residents of an upscale neighborhood, leading them to turn to-and on-one another to survive.The neighborhood of Oleander Court is the poster child for suburban bliss. The residents compare lawns beautified by hired help. They monitor home values. They toss perfect furniture because they wanted tapioca, not beige.But when a string of murders rips through the neighborhood, suspicions abound as new secrets come...
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Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 21
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Little Simon
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2024
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Convinced their principal is a witch, Andres and Desmond's next step is to find out if she is a good one or a bad one
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Colección compactos volume 454
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Editorial Anagrama
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2016
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Español
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Chronicles the off-beat and occasionally extraterrestrial journeys, notions, and acquaintances of galactic traveler Arthur Dent
"Un jueves a la hora de comer, la Tierra es inesperadamente demolida para poder construir una nueva autopista hiperespacial. Arthur Dent, un tipo de lo más corriente que esa misma mañana ha visto cómo echaban abajo su propia casa, considera que eso supera lo que una persona puede soportar. Pero, desgraciadamente, el fin...
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This book combines the first 5 stories in The Loki Adventures for the complete story arc experience.
Loki, Norse god of mischief, has been paroled to earth for a crime he swears he didn't commit. Of course, who would believe the Trickster? Odin has charged Loki with protecting the humans of Midgard from unfriendly transdimensional beings. But Loki has a plan to prove his innocence and get back to Asgard. Unfortunately, someone wants to stop him. The...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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This second book in the epic Last Dragon Charmer series is perfect for fans of Soman Chainani's School for Good and Evil and Chris Colfer's Land of Stories.
When mysterious magic transported Prince Caden from the Greater Realm to seemingly normal Asheville, North Carolina, he was shocked to discover it was home to the most dangerous villains ever banished from his homeland. And that a great and powerful Elderdragon rules them all.
Now Caden...
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Yodelers, geriatric Zumbaers, crafts, and . . . a basket of puppies?Obadiah (Di) Goode is having a weird day. As the only African-American in the less-than-stellar Prospector's Rest, North Carolina Sheriff's Department, he's used to being sent out to take his colleagues' lunch orders. Even if the local talent can be a little odd, discovering a basket of newborn puppies on the department doorstep is not the usual sight at the town's annual Crafts Fête.Still,...
888) A Study in Shih Tzus
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Poochnapped in Prospector's Rest!Yesterday, the worst Obadiah (Di) Goode had to worry about was his new job as the head of the Prospector's Rest, North Carolina Sheriff Department's crafting circle. While he'd thought that trying to teach macramé to old timers with ten thumbs and knitting to former rent-a-cops who keep trapping their own fingers in the twisted wool was bad enough, suddenly the town's visitor-friendly Mystery Weekend takes an unwelcome...
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What do you do when the only giant you know is knocked out like sleeping beauty? And you're worried it might be your fault. . . When the beloved Mr. Giant keels over after eating a bowl of soup in the Royal Marigold Restaurant, it's a recipe for trouble for eleven-year-old Prince William of Marigold. Now William--a.k.a. the comic strip artist known as "Jack"--is facing charges of attempted giant-killing. The evidence against him? His newly published...
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Meet the funniest kid in fiction and follow his life's ups and downs told through laugh-out-loud letters, emails, texts and more! Hi there, My name is Harry Riddles and I am ten years old which my mum says is too young to have problems but she is WRONG. My dad just lost his job, which means we might have to move house and I need money to make my mega-amazing zombie movie but there is NO WAY I will sell my X-box! I've written to the Queen, Harry Styles,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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"Give this to fans of Encyclopedia Brown who are looking for longer (and funnier!) well-plotted mysteries." -Booklist on Howard Wallace, P.I.
"My partner scanned the message and a slow grin took over her face as she said our four favorite words: 'We have a case.'"
HOWARD WALLACE IS BACK!
Middle-school detectives Howard Wallace and Ivy Mason are itching for a juicy case. But when their friend and cohort Marvin hires them to prove his nephew-...
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Twelve short stories of speculative fiction from "an author who genuinely comes close to defying all attempts at description. A true original" (Infinity Plus).
Enter the boundless realms of science fiction, fantasy, horror, the weird, the surreal, and the absurd with a dozen stories from acclaimed author Paul Di Filippo. Watch as a man tries to adapt when his intense connection with instinct and nature vanishes in "Before and After Science,"...
893) Roman Count Down
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"Ike Schwartz outing combines high-tech detection with routine sleuthing" -Booklist
Ruth Harris, Sherriff Ike Schwartz's fiancée, is involved in a near fatal automobile accident. But Ike is convinced the crash was rigged. Even though he is embroiled in a close election, has no jurisdiction over the investigation, and can find no support in the usual law enforcement community, he places himself on leave and goes rogue to investigate and seek the...
894) Prodigal Son
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"With the clarity of Robert B. Parker and the complexity of Michael Connolly, [this thriller] disturbs and charms at the same time." -Booklist
Once a cancer patient, former Orlando detective Mike Garrity is a survivor-for now, at least. Death has a way of following him around, like a black cloud over his head. If it's not his own mortality he's thinking about, it's someone else's. Like his teenage daughter's friend who just died of a suspected...
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Fowl play! Jack's and the Beanstalk's goose and all her precious golden eggs are missing. Fairy Goose Unit Ducktectives Jack B. Quack and Hickety Pickety McChickety won't rest when there's been an egg-napping from the nest. They put their birdbrains together to find suspects. But will they quack¿er, I mean, crack the case, or are they on a wild goose chase?Join Jack B. Quack & Hickety Pickety McChickety for a whole lot of Fairy Goose fun in book...
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It's summer vacation, but twelve-year-old Raksha isn't doing much relaxing. There is one project left before her Science Squad team earns their last badge (and a trip to Hawai'i on the line!), when she gets an opportunity to attend a highly competitive fashion camp that is too good to pass up. It isn't long before her Science Squad work hunting for zombie bees is taking over her life. She hardly has time to prepare for her fashion camp runway show....
897) Head Games
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"[A] thriller that reads like a high-speed theme park ride . . . with dark humor so sharp it'll make you bleed." -Brian Freeman, New York Times–bestselling author
Former Orlando detective Michael Garrity doesn't have a good track record when it comes to women. With two ex-wives and a teenage daughter he rarely sees, the most significant relationship in his life right now is with the tumor in his head. Terminal cancer is no joke, but Mike...
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Some men are destined for danger
Texas Ranger Tom Bell is simply tracking a fugitive killer in 1931 when he rides into Kilgore, a hastily erected shanty town crawling with rough and desperate men-oil drillers who've come by the thousands in search of work. The sheriff of the boomtown is overwhelmed and offers no help, nor are any of the roughnecks inclined to assist the young Ranger in his search for the wanted man.
In fact, it soon becomes apparent...
899) Sabotage Stage Left
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Howard and Ivy return for a third adventure! This time, the drama's backstage when someone sets out to sabotage the school play...and frame Howard.
"I wasn't taking the fall for this. You couldn't force a guy into a job and then blame him when it all went sideways."
Spring (musical) fever has hit the Grantleyville Middle School Drama Club! Since Ivy Mason is busy with the production, she decides to take a break from sleuthing, while Howard Wallace...
900) The Sinful Stones
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James Pibble mysteries volume 3
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Scotland Yard detective James Pibble travels to a remote Scottish island to free an old man from a dangerous cult of self-proclaimed saints and saviors in this mystery by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson Ninety-two-year-old Sir Francis Francis summons James Pibble to an isolated island in the Hebrides to find out who pilfered the memoirs he was in the process of writing. The Nobel Prize–winning scientist was one of the builders of the first...
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