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Series:
Murphy Shepherd novels volume 3
Language:
English
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"When his beloved mentor and friend disappears without a trace, Murphy Shepherd, who lives by the mantra that love always shows up, engages in a cat-and-mouse game that tests him both physically and mentally at each turn."--
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Series:
Record Keeper volume 1
Language:
English
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The Record Keeper is a visceral and thrilling near-future dystopia examining past and present race relations. After World War III, Earth is in ruins, and the final armies have come to a reluctant truce. Everyone must obey the law--in every way--or risk shattering the fragile peace and endangering the entire human race. Although Arika Cobane is a member of the race whose backbreaking labor provides food for the remnants of humanity, she is destined...
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Publisher:
Will Decker
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
Book 4 in the George 'Mac' McClain Action/Adventure series. With Eddy now working as his official partner, Mac takes on the job of protecting a Federal witness in a racketeering case. Soon after taking custody of the witness, they are ambushed by a sweeper team. Mac doesn't believe it's coincidence that they knew where to find them and immediately suspects their contact in the justice department. Not sure where to turn for help, Mac leads them into...
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Publisher:
Legacy Book Press
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
No secret stays buried forever.In a small Midwestern town during the 1950s, Evelyn, a young wife and mother, methodically documented her life through various hobbies: taking photos, creating scrapbooks, and But in doing so, she inadvertently lays the groundwork for her future granddaughter, Allison, a young wife and mother herself, to unearth a hidden past.In 2015, Allison gave her father a consumer DNA test as a gift. Unexpected results appear, which...
Publisher:
DTTV PUBLICATIONS
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
In this Book, the tales of the ancient gods of ancient Egypt are told, legends that circulated during the time described by the Egyptians as the "morning of the world," initially carved in stone and preserved on papyrus for millennia until today.In addition to compelling interest in ancient Egypt's religion and culture, this Book also fuels the imagination about the lost knowledge of the Egyptians.Each ancient piece of literature in the Book has notes...
Publisher:
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
Recovering addict and amputee John Wood finds himself in a stranger-than-fiction battle to reclaim his mummified leg from Southern entrepreneur Shannon Whisnant, who found it in a grill he bought at an auction. The stranger-than-fiction chain of events soon sets John heading to his certain demise. Just in time, however, another twist in these fantastical occurrences gives John a final shot at becoming whole for the first time in his life.
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Series:
Record Keeper volume 2
Publisher:
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
"Return to the startlingly original dystopian world of The Record Keeper in this stunning sequel. Join Arika Cobane as she continues her fight for freedom. With General Arika Cobane at the helm, the Rebels take control of the Kongo territory and elect a Council to negotiate peace. Everything changes when the Council concedes to a last-minute English demand: the war criminal, Arika Cobane, must stand trial for crimes carried out during the revolution....
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Lexile measure:
950L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Harry is in his fifth year at Hogwarts as the adventures continue. There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror? Harry has a lot on his mind for this, his fifth year at Hogwarts: a defense against the dark arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey; a big surprise on the Gryffindor Quidditch team; and the looming terror...
9. Fledgling
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Series:
Keeper's records of revolution volume 1
Publisher:
Kokila
Pub. Date:
2024
Lexile measure:
900L
Language:
English
Description:
Raisa of Upper Earth has only lived a life of privilege and acquiescence. Ever dutiful, she accepts her father's arrangement of her marriage to Lein, Crown Prince of the corrupt, volatile lands of Lower Earth. Though Lein is a stranger, Raisa knows the wedding will unite their vastly different worlds in a pact of peace: an infusion of Upper Earth technology will usher in the final age of enlightenment, ending war between humans forever. Or is justice...
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English
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Upbeat cancer survivor Lydia and her pragmatic sister, Margaret, start a "Knit to Quit" group in their Blossom Street yarn store in Seattle, bringing in a delightful assortment of customers for weekly self-help sessions, including a local baker who wants a baby as much as Lydia does, a super-stressed chocolate magnate who takes the knitting class after his doctor suggests it, and a young woman who is trying to quit obsessing about a broken engagement....
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Publisher:
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date:
[2023]
Language:
English
Description:
"Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II in order to record this unparalleled time, and maintained by devoted archivists. The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way before, from the stories of a Nazi sympathizing police officer to a Jewish journalist who documented daily activities at a transport camp."--
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Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel’s celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have trekked to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where Harper Lee, known to her friends as Nelle, has lived with her sister, Alice, for decades, trying and failing to get an interview with the author. But in 2001, the...
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Publisher:
Annick Press
Pub. Date:
2022
Lexile measure:
1060L
Language:
English
Description:
"From healing to astronomy to our connection to the natural world, the lessons from Indigenous knowledge inform our learning and practices today. How do knowledge systems get passed down over generations? Through the knowledge inherited from their Elders and ancestors, Indigenous Peoples throughout North America have observed, practiced, experimented, and interacted with plants, animals, the sky, and the waters over millennia. Knowledge keepers have...
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Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
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New York social maven Priscilla Bingham discovers a hidden cache of letters that reveal her late husband's affair with a sophisticated dominatrix who has recorded the intimate details of their relationship, a finding with which Priscilla becomes increasingly obsessed.
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Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"Her family name tarnished, Josephina escapes to a remote North Carolina island to oversee the restoration of a lighthouse--one complete with ghost stories, rumors, and notes tucked into the old stone walls. Perhaps if she can untangle the secrets of the past she can restore a family's reputation and correct the course of her own life in the process"--
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets. "The thing about books,' she said 'is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of." On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found... For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these...
19. Keeper
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Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Lexile measure:
780L
Language:
English
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In an interview with a young journalist, World Cup hero, El Gato, describes his youth in the Brazilian rain forest and the events, experiences, and people that helped make him a great goalkeeper and renowned soccer star.
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English
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"Social justice work, we often assume, is raised voices and raised fists. It requires leading, advocating, fighting, and organizing wherever it takes place--in the streets, slums, villages, inner cities, halls of political power, and more. But what does social justice work look like for those of us who don't feel comfortable battling in the trenches? Sensitive souls--including those who consider themselves highly emotional, empathic, or introverted--have...