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Book cover for "Night lunch".
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Tundra Books
Pub. Date:
[2022]
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 450L
Language:
English
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"A mysterious cook whips up midnight meals for fellow night owls in a lavish lunch cart while a hungry mouse looks on in this atmospheric picture book inspired by the forerunner of food trucks and diners. A delectable picture book inspired by forerunners of food truck, for fans of The Night Gardener. Noses sniff the air as mouthwatering smells waft down city streets, luring growling bellies to the Night Owl. Inside this elegant, horse-drawn establishment,...
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Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Night Lunch is a shapeshifting sonnet sequence set in the cold waters off the North Coast of Labrador. Reflecting Chaulk's own experience, the speaker-a young deckhand on a freight and passenger ferry servicing isolated communities-endures long irregular work hours, weather, icebergs, and loneliness, all the while navigating the taut intersections of race, labour, class, and masculinity. That Chaulk has Inuit family in and from Labrador makes this...
Book cover for "Lunch on the Phaeton".
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C.J.Night
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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You can't run away from yourself, they said, but this guy still managed to do it, hiding from his past life and his mind on the coast of Japan. The fugitive foreigner barely remembers his past, and lives for today, lost in the waters of the Pacific Ocean.But his past finds him in the person of his sister, who comes to visit him. Because of her arrival, he begins to remember himself, where the ghosts of the past, along with the phantoms of the present,...
Book cover for "The wild cats of Piran".
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Publisher:
Young Europe Books
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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Collects nine tales about Queen Felicia and her colony of wild cats as they battle an army of rats, a German shepherd, and meddling humans.
Book cover for "Through a glass, darkly".
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English
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5 stars
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On a luminous spring day in Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti and Inspector Vianello play hooky to help get Vianello’s friend Marco Ribetti—an environmental activist arrested during a protest against toxic waste being dumped into the city’s waters—released from prison. But on the steps of the police headquarters, they come face-to-face with Ribetti’s cantankerous father-in-law, who has been overheard making threats against Ribetti. And...
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English
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4.2 stars
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"A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting historical thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant"--
Book cover for "Leave the world behind".
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English
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2.9 stars
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Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. The houseowners, Ruth and G. H., arrive in the middle of the night in a panic. They say a sudden blackout has swept the city: the TV and internet are down, and no cell phone service. Is the vacation...
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Series:
Will Trent volume 9
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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On a serene summer Sunday, a routine admission for a run-of-the-mill surgery at Atlanta's Emory Hospital goes tragically wrong, setting off a catastrophic wave of destruction that sends the facility and the surrounding area into lockdown. One of the city's largest and most prestigious institutions, Emory is situated near the Centers for Disease Control, the FBI counter-terrorism headquarters, and a large children's hospital. Anything that happens...
Book cover for "Bikur ha-Tizmoret".
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Publisher:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2008]
Language:
Hebrew
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The Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives in Israel from Egypt for a cultural event. Once there, they find the expected delegation is not there to meet them. Arrangements to get to their destination of Petah Tiqva have not been taken care of either. They find their own ride and arrive instead at the remote town of Beit Hatikva. Stuck there until the next morning's bus, the band, lead by the repressed Tawfiq Zacharaya, gets help from the worldly...
Book cover for "Days of future passed".
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Publisher:
Deram
Pub. Date:
[1986]
Language:
English
Book cover for "Ruby the copycat".
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English
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Ruby insists on copying Angela, until her teacher helps her discover her own creative resources.
Book cover for "Dusk, night, dawn".
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English
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"In Anne Lamott's new book, she confronts the harsh truth that many of us grapple with every day: How can we recapture the confidence we once had in the world and in the future as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad news piles up every day -- from climate crises to threats to democracy to daily assaults on civility -- how can we mere mortals cope? Where, Lamott asks, "do we start to get our joy and hope and our faith...
Book cover for "Sweet Paul eat & make".
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date:
©2014
Language:
English
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"It began as a little blog highlighting the recipes and crafts of the Norwegian-born food and prop stylist Paul Lowe. Six years later, Sweet Paul is an online magazine followed by millions and a print quarterly sold nationwide in specialty stores. Praised by the New York Times as " a trove of seasonal delights," it is turning heads with its easy, elegant food and style-setting aesthetic.Divided into Morning, Brunch, Noon, and Night, with color palettes...
Book cover for "Bella loves Bunny".
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Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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The friendship between a little girl and her favorite stuffed animal makes each day special, from morning until night.
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Tinker's Cove's Own Amateur Sleuth Lucy Stone Discovers That School Days Can Be Murder. It's back to school time in the peaceful Maine town of Tinker's Cove, and for mother-of-four Lucy Stone it isn't a moment too soon. But trouble at the local elementary school soon has the sometime crime-solver juggling family, job, and night classes with another mystery to solve. And it starts with a bang. A bomb goes off with the noon lunch bell, but not before...
Book cover for "I Suck at Girls".
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From the #1 New York Times bestseller author of Sh*t My Dad Says, Justin Halpern, comes a laugh-out-loud funny and deeply touching collection of personal stories about relationships with the opposite sex, from a first kiss to getting engaged and all the awkward moments in between. Fans of biting, honor-infused memoirs such as Me Talk Pretty One Day and Assassination Vacation will find Halpern's I Suck at Girls an unforgettable journey into the best...
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Lexile measure:
800L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls “Daniel”) stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says.... Khosrou’s stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them, back to the sad, cement refugee camps of Italy…and...
Book cover for "All fishermen are liars".
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English
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Just before Christmas, Linda meets up with her best friend and fellow fisherman Alden Leeman for lunch and a drink at the Dry Dock, a well-worn watering hole in Portland, Maine. Alden, the captain of Linda's first fishing expedition, has seen his share of mishaps and adventures at sea. When Linda shares memories of navigating her ship through one of the craziest storms she's ever seen, Alden quickly follows up with his own tales. Then other fishermen,...
Book cover for "Salty, cheesy, herby, crispy snackable bakes".
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Publisher:
Countryman Press
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"Jessie Sheehan’s lickety-split recipes, dynamic personality, and kitchen savvy advice have made her a beloved food personality on social media. In Salty, Cheesy, Herby, Crispy, she relies on the same assemble-in-minutes-with-everyday-ingredients mandate that has become her calling card, but now ventures into new flavor territory. Eschewing marshmallow creme in favor of pimiento cheese, Sheehan bakes up scrumptious, savory treats that are perfect...
Book cover for "The hormone fix".
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Publisher:
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date:
[2019]
Language:
English
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"For women approaching or in menopause, a revolutionary diet and holistic lifestyle program for easier weight loss, better sleep, diminished hot flashes, a clearer head, and a rejuvenated sex drive. Prepare tothrive. As women approach menopause, many start to experience the physical and emotional indignities of hormonal fluctuation: metabolic stall and weight gain, hot flashes and night sweats, insomnia, memory loss or brain fog, irritability, low...