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1. Aisle nine
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date:
©2024
Language:
English
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Even though the world is filled with portals to hell and bloodthirsty demons pop out of them on the reg, Jasper spends his days and nights working as a check-out clerk at the Here For You discount mart. Sure, there's even a hell portal in aisle nine, which means he could be maimed, dismembered, or even eaten whole during every shift, but at least at the mart he can be near his crush, Kyle Kuan. That she doesn't seem to even notice that he exists seems...
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English
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Spanning 500 years of British history, a revealing look at the secret lives of some great (and not-so-great) Britons, courtesy of one of the world’s most engaging royal historians
Beleaguered by scandal, betrayed by faithless spouses, bedeviled by ambitious children, the kings and queens of Great Britain have been many things, but they have never been dull. Some sacrificed everything for love, while others met a cruel fate...
Beleaguered by scandal, betrayed by faithless spouses, bedeviled by ambitious children, the kings and queens of Great Britain have been many things, but they have never been dull. Some sacrificed everything for love, while others met a cruel fate...
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English
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Plus-sized private eye Savannah Reid is about to discover the answer to that age-old question: What could be worse than going back home to the Deep South in the height of August humidity? It's going home to a wedding--not your own--without a ring on your finger or a date on your arm. But a hideous bridesmaid's dress is the least of Savannah's problems after her kid brother is arrested for murder. . . As the oldest of nine siblings, Savannah has attended...
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Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
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"What if you couldn't afford nine dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn't escape as she watched the debate about America's meals unfold, one that urges us to pay food's true cost - which is to say, pay more. So in 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America. For nearly a year, she worked, ate, and lived alongside the working poor to examine...
5. Hop Scot
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Publisher:
Severn House
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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It's all aboard for a Campbell Clan Christmas! Lexy swaps cinnamon lattes for boiled sprouts when the Last Ditch crew travel from California to an idyllic Scottish village for the holidays, but something very unmerry is lurking below the surface . . . Lexy Campbell is long overdue a trip to Scotland to see her parents, and an unexpected death in the extended Last Ditch Motel family makes Christmas in a bungalow in Dundee with nine others seem almost...
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English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not. In this book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories...
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It's natural to want your kids to have a secure future. But when it comes to teaching the next generation how to handle money, parents are failing. Still there is hope! Financial expert Mary Hunt shows parents how to raise kids who have a healthy relationship with money--even if the parents themselves have made financial mistakes along the way or are struggling financially right now. Drawing from solid statistics and her own hard-won knowledge and...
8. Supermarket
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Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date:
©2019
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
"A stunning debut novel from one of the most creative voices of our generation, Bobby Hall--a.k.a. Logic. Flynn is stuck--depressed, recently dumped, and living at his mom's house. The supermarket was supposed to change all that. An ordinary job, routine hours, a steady check. Work isn't work when it's saving you from yourself. But things aren't quite as they seem in these aisles. Arriving to work one day to a crime scene, Flynn's world begins to...
10. River of dreams
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Series:
Novels of the Nine Kingdoms volume 8
Publisher:
Berkeley Sensation
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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Aisling of Bruadair discovers that her quest to save her country is far from over as she, with the help of expert swordsman Runach of Ceangail, must solve a great mystery to stop the Nine Kingdoms from being plunged into eternal darkness.
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Series:
Endgame volume 2
Publisher:
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
[2015]
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HL: High-Low 730L
Language:
English
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In New York, Aisling Kopp believes the unthinkable: that Endgame can be stopped. Kingdom of Aksum, Ethiopia. Hilal ibn Isa al-Salt narrowly survived an attack that leaves him horribly disfigured--but he carries a secret that can help redeem humanity--and maybe even be used to help defeat the beings behind Endgame. London, England. Sarah Alopay has found the first key. Two keys--and nine Player--remain. The keys must be found, and only one Player can...
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Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Are Parents People? (1924) is a collection of stories by Alice Duer Miller. Inspired by her work as an activist for women's suffrage, Miller explores themes of independence, agency, and female desire while illuminating the subject of divorce. Her work was adapted into a 1925 comedy film starring Betty Bronson, Florence Vidor, and Adolphe Menjou. "There they were-her mother looking down at her so calmly from the gallery and her father waiting so confidently...
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Publisher:
Harlequin
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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She sold the Zagorakis diamond…but he'll buy her back! A bright red, sleek Ferrari in the English village of Little Molting was always going to create a sti-but for schoolteacher Kelly it only means one thing. Her ex, Alekos Zagorakis, has stormed back into her life the way he left it: completely on his own terms. Four years ago Kelly stood, bouquet in hand, realizing that her gorgeous Greek groom wasn't walking down the aisle to meet her. Now he's...
14. Aching for Andy
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Publisher:
Metamorphosis Manuscripts
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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The perfect one-night stand landed in Sondra's lap, well, her bed, and the uninhibited encounter exceeded her wildest dreams. But now Sondra is crouched behind a grocery cart in the frozen foods aisle, dressed to the nines, trying to be invisible. How could a transient encounter with a sexy doctor derail Sondra's self-esteem, job stability, and entire life? And if she must be haunted by her one tiny indiscretion, why must her tormentor be a gorgeous,...
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Publisher:
Sourcebooks Inc
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
Soon to be a major motion picture called 'The Right Kind of Wrong,' starring Ryan Kwanten from True Blood! 'Kelly Palamino's engagingly idiosyncratic voice falls somewhere between On the Road and Bright Lights, Big City. He's the Lone Ranger in love, riding out the rough patches on a Thorazine habit.' -People At twenty-nine, Kelly Palamino's a little off-kilter but settled into his career of professional dishwasher. His big, blond, ex-hippie wife...
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Publisher:
SoundCraft Audiobooks
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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A collection of observations about the male of the species from one of the 20th century's most celebrated and renowned humorists, "Men I'm Not Married To" is a series of descriptions of nine men, all of whom Parker managed to avoid accompanying down the aisle. Some longer, some very short, each of these descriptions shows Parker's full range of wit, sardonic humor and wry cynicism. Dorothy Parker - social commentator, political reformer and legendary...
17. Twisted fate
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Publisher:
Northampton House Press
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
"Laina Jorden can barely drag herself out of bed before lunch. Her Staten Island bookstore is failing, her room's a disaster, and she's lost her belief in fate since her childhood sweetheart moved away, leaving her brokenhearted. Any man who asks her out she quickly kicks to the curb. No one can compare to Jared. Then her roommate forces her to attend his cousin's wedding, and she's suddenly walking down the aisle as an emergency bridesmaid in a dress...
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David Novak learned long ago that you can't lead a great organization of any size without getting your people aligned, enthusiastic, and focused relentlessly on the mission. But how do you do that? There are countless leadership books, but how many will actually help a Taco Bell shift manager, a Fortune 500 CEO, a new entrepreneur, or anyone in between? Over his fifteen years at Yum! Brands, Novak has developed a trademarked program he calls Taking...
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Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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Americans on both sides of the aisle love to reference the Constitution as the ultimate source of truth. But which truth? What did the framers really have in mind? In a book that author R. B. Bernstein calls "essential reading," acclaimed historian Ray Raphael places the Constitution in its historical context, dispensing little-known facts and debunking popular preconceived notions. For each myth, Raphael first notes the kernel of truth it represents,...
20. Rich Friends
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Publisher:
Open Road Media
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
New York Times-bestselling author Jacqueline Briskin's steamy romantic saga about two generations of a privileged California family that chases the American dream, from the post-World War II boom years to the turbulent, psychedelic 1960s The year 1946 in America is a time for seizing opportunities - and the best way for a woman to get ahead is to marry well. Descended from the wealthy Van Vliets, owners of a successful supermarket chain, Em Wynan...