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4) Pick me!
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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All the different flavors of ice cream believe they are best, and beg to be picked--until Rocky Road tells them that being picked means getting eaten
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Space Holes volume 1
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English
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"Saving an alien planet is nothing compared to meeting your sales quota. Untrained tag-along, Marcus Aimond, aboard humanity's first intergalactic exploratory commerce vessel has a singular mission: sell off-brand misprinted merchandise. When the rookie and his crew encounter the Nerelkor, a frog-like civilization, equipped with heavy weaponry and bureaucracy, he is thrust head-first into an alien civil war. The opposing factions, Rejault and Dinasc,...
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Finlay Donovan novels volume 4
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English
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"Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime Vero are in sore need of a girls' weekend away. They plan a trip to Atlantic City, but odds are-seeing as it's actually a cover story to negotiate a deal with a dangerous loan shark, save Vero's childhood crush Javi, and hunt down a stolen car-it won't be all fun and games. When Finlay's ex-husband Steven and her mother insist on tagging along too, Finlay and Vero suddenly have a few too many meddlesome...
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Secrets of Ravensbarrow volume 1
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English
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"The secrets of Ravensbarrow have been buried far too long. Now they're waking up . . . For fans of My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish and The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter, a laugh-out-loud new series that kicks off in a school infested with brain-eating hamsters. Book 1: Teddy vs. the Fuzzy Doom Starting at a new school is hard enough for an anxious kid like Teddy. But Ravensbarrow Elementary seems extra unsettling. First, there are the zombielike...
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The geezers are back! An international bestseller, regularly topping the graphic novel bestseller lists across Europe - with hundreds of thousands of copies sold. Come find out why the geezers have won the hearts of so many...in this gorgeously illustrated, beautifully written graphic novel series.
The Old Geezers Vol 2 includes two new stories, featuring three septuagenarians who have been friends since childhood: Antoine, Emile, and Pierrot. In...
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Life is never dull in Little Bardon, as Kelvin Brown discovers in 'I'm not one to gossip - tales from a small village'.
The 32 short stories about characters living - and dying - in this small country village close to Essex Marshland paint a picture of a community from whom no secret is safe and no opportunity to gossip is missed.
Each story is stand-alone, but they mostly interlink in some way.
Many of the stories revolve around the pub,...
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Excerpt: "I did not need a war of nations to learn about the courage and humour of the British soldier. As a book I wrote called "Mr. Thomas Atkins" shows, I had studied and appreciated him during the thirty-one years in which I served as Chaplain to the Forces. Still, it was pleasant to read despatches and letters from the seat of war highly praising my old friend. This book is based upon the strong, clear letters of Mr. Thomas Atkins (I am never...
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Get the Summary of Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Lessons in Chemistry" follows the story of Elizabeth Zott, a chemist and mother in 1961, who becomes an unexpected television star with her cooking show "Supper at Six." Despite her scientific expertise, she faces sexism and professional challenges, including being nicknamed "Luscious Lizzie" by the media. Her life's trajectory...
15) Bad Review 2
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Just when you thought browsing the library's comedy section was safe, you came across yet another P T Saunders's outrageous comedies. Bad Review 2 Saunder's new cringe-worthy comedy. After Jeffers' near-death confession, about himself being Penelope's real Father, things are about to change for all of the characters.For some, the changes in their circumstances will be positive, and other individual changes devastating.Once again, Saunders has created...
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Ever fantasized about escaping the daily grind to run your own camping and caravanning site? Prepare for an adventure unlike any other. Beyond the allure of the great outdoors lies a vibrant tapestry of unique personalities. From quirky characters to those with unconventional habits, life under canvas or in cozy caravans can unleash unexpected behaviors and wild inclinations. Dive into a world where inhibitions are shed and the truly eccentric come...
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Circuses and parades go wildly awry when James Sauerbaugh joins a band of Shriners as a substitute trombonist. The band members are ancient and bombed out of their minds, but James comes to relish the friendships and wild fun on the bus and on parade floats. When Moses Grand, a fellow trombonist, rescues him from death at the hands of a ruthless killer, the story takes an ironic twist. Nobody can have enough books with circuses and parades in them....
18) God of Drunks
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During a stag dinner, a married man makes a startling confession.
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The part-observed anatomy of a man who, without question, is a revered local Glasgow Godfather. Well! That's what they all know this self-made man as.
We may judge his justified reasoning and that of his diverse cohorts as we observe their continuing operations from the city streets to behind the wall at 81, the avenue number of Barlinnie Prison.
The man himself is known to all by the name of 'Bulldog.' In 1968, there were 3,501,564 global births,...
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Stacie, Tiffany and Yadira hope to shut down their rental house and get back their security deposit before leaving town, but first they have to fix the gaping hole in the adobe wall and rid themselves of unwanted graduation "presents," both the result of an uproarious final party. This comic co-ed romp will keep you chuckling.
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