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2025
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday and The Ways We Hide She came from a lineage known for good fortune...by those who don't know the whole story. Portland, 1888. Amid the subterranean labyrinth of the notorious Shanghai Tunnels, a woman awakens in an underground cell, drugged and disguised. Celia soon realizes she's a "shanghaied" victim on the verge of being shipped off as forced labor, leaving behind those she loves...
3. Good fortune
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English
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"When Elizabeth Chen's ever-hustling realtor mother finally sells the beloved if derelict community center down the block, the new owners don't look like typical New York City buyers. Brendan Lee and Darcy Wong are good Chinese boys with Hong Kong money.Clean-cut and charismatic, they say they are committed to cleaning up the neighborhood. To Elizabeth, that only means one thing: Darcy is looking to give the center an uptown makeover. Elizabeth is...
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Publisher:
Dial Books for Young Readers, published by the Penguin Group/Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date:
[2014]
Language:
English
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"Bedtime can be fun, especially for Ladybug Girl and Bingo. From bath-time bubble beards, to pajamas with wings, to special good-nights for all of her stuffed animals, Ladybug Girl puts her own unique and cozy twist on the nightly ritual."--Back cover.
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English
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"Girls, be good" is an omnibus novel that consists of twenty short stories connected by a single framing narrative: just after the fall of the Berlin wall, foreign investors feel good about the investment climate in Eastern Europe and decide to open a huge toy factory in ex-Yugoslavia, where they are going to produce a hit range of toys designed for girls: small, plush lemurs called Aya, that will be sold all over the world. Before long, though, their...
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Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date:
2015
Lexile measure:
940L
Language:
English
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"An illustrated account of the life of John Howland, the young servant who was indentured to Pilgrim John Carver, describes how he embarked on the Mayflower and survived a fall off the ship before helping his ill shipmates by scouting out a safe harbor." --
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Daughters of the Gentry volume 2
Language:
English
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She is waiting to be loved for the very first time. He is waiting to love her. But someone is dead set on making sure that never happens. Widowed Arabella Northwick went from the home of a father who didn't love her to the home of a husband who didn't love her. It would seem at last she was on the cusp of forging a happier future for her baby and herself, were it not for her dead husband's brother, who is determined to keep them captive. Theo Dawson...
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Publisher:
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date:
[2020]
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 580L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"It's time to celebrate Chinese New Year! Join Alex as she gets ready for the holiday and shares her family's traditions with her best friend, Ethan"--Page [4] of cover.
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English
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"Em's Awful Good Fortune takes its reader across the world and deep into the heart of its trapped, privileged, suffering, and, ultimately, invincible narrator." -Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Set against the backdrop of the expat lifestyle, Em's Awful Good Fortune is about marriage-love and family, work and compromise, betrayal and heartbreak, resentment and resolution. Weaving back and forth in...
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Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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In the tradition of My Dark Vanessa and The Divines, a bold coming-of-age novel set in the competitive, high stakes and controversial world of elite gymnastics Martina wants to be the best gymnast in the world. But so does everyone around her. During one week of intense competition, Martina and her teammates are tested to the limit. Any sign of weakness can quickly spell the end. And within seven days, an intense obsession will lead to murder. Every...
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English
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"David Blixt pens a heroine for the ages in "What Girls Are Good For," which follows the extraordinary career of pioneer newspaperwoman Nellie Bly. A pint-sized dynamo who refuses to stay in the kitchen, Nellie fights tooth and nail to make a name for herself as a journalist, battling complacent men, corrupt institutions, and her own demons along the way. This real-life Lois Lane had me cheering aloud as I turned the pages - simply a delight!" - Kate...
13. Good fortune
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Publisher:
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date:
[2010]
Lexile measure:
760L
Language:
English
Description:
Brutally kidnapped from her African village and shipped to America, a young girl struggles to come to terms with her new life as a slave, gradually rising from working in the fields to the master's house, secretly learning to read and write, until, risking everything, she escapes to seek freedom in the North.
14. Good Fortune
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Publisher:
Leslie Bratspis
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
Ancient Chinese wisdom secretly passed through handwritten fortunes guides the lives of two men from different cultures faced with similar problems. Each overcomes adversity through personal journeys of change. Michael Hamilton, an American stranger, is guided by aged scholar, Chow Lee Tong, who clandestinely guides him each time he eats at Good Fortune restaurant whenever he faces a new crisis. Tong overhears Michael's conversation, then composes...
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Publisher:
Europe Editions
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
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"Jay Gladstone was born to privilege. He is a civic leader and a generous philanthropist, as well as the owner of an NBA team. But in today's New York, even a wealthy man's life can spin out of control, no matter the money or influence he possesses. Jay sees himself as a moral man, determined not to repeat his father's mistakes. He would rather focus on his unstable second marriage and his daughter Aviva than worry about questions of race or privilege....
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Publisher:
Those Johnson Girls
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
When Lydia Bennett runs off and gets engaged to Mr. Wrong, she'll have no idea it'll be for all the right reasons. Chatterbox Lydia Bennett has always felt like the stepchild in her redheaded family. To get out from the shadows of her successful older sisters, she starts a gossip blog fueled by info from her best friend, and heiress Emma. When Lydia gets the chance to write a story for the city paper, she'll need to expose one of the bull riders in...
18. Her Good Fortune
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Publisher:
Harlequin
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
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HER HOMECOMING... Back home in Texas and ready to get her life in order,Gloria Mendoza knew men were a distraction she couldn't afford. So when she was offered assistancefrom CEO Jack Fortune to get herbusiness up and running, Gloria sensedit would take incredible willpower toignore the not-so-subtle attraction thatsimmered between WAS HIS UNDOING As a top-notch businessman, Jack was used to beingin control. And yet whenever he was around feisty,sultry...
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Publisher:
Collective Ink
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description:
Has your life ever flashed before you? Sumangali Morhall chased everything Western society taught her to pursue, material wealth, academic success, and even the perfect relationship, only to discover something deeply significant was still missing. A sudden near-death experience opened her eyes, and her life began anew. Left with nothing and nobody to rely on, her inner strength blossomed and her spiritual search began in earnest. Her journey led her...
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
The book is solidly based on archival and museum research. The principal characters, Olof Bergh and Anna de Koningh, are historical personages on whom documents exist in the Cape Archives and in published archival sources. The chief male character, Olof Bergh, was a Dutch East India Company employee whose career can be followed archivally in some detail. His story provides an armature on which the story of Anna de Koningh can be created. Unsurprisingly,...