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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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Documents the adoption of three unruly rescue dogs that transform the Zusak family's life, revealing the chaos, love, and unexpected lessons while exploring the deeper connections between humans and animals.
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Vera Stanhope volume 11
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity in print and on TV, this stunning eleventh book explores the web of secrets surrounding a young man's death. The man's body is found in the early morning light by a local dog walker in the park outside Rosebank, a home for troubled teens in the coastal village of Longwater. The victim is Josh, a staff member, who was due to work the previous night but never showed...
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Three Men volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
Description:
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction...
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Publisher:
William Collins
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Description:
In 1997 the author, aged 17, escaped North Korea for China. Her mother's first words over the telephone to her lost daughter were "don't come back". The reprisals for all of them would have been lethal. Twelve years later she returned to the North Korean border in a daring mission to spirit her mother and brother to South Korea in a very costly and dangerous journey. This eloquent book offers the first credible account of ordinary life in North Korea...
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English
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The New York Times Bestseller "A gripping journalistic procedural… Spotlight meets Erin Brockovich." -Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times "Julie K. Brown's important book offers not just a definitive account of the Epstein case, but a compelling window into her own experiences as a dogged reporter at a regional newspaper, facing off against powerful interests set against her reporting." -Ronan Farrow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Catch and...
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Publisher:
HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date:
©2021
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Two of the world's most popular and trusted pet care advocates, drawing on wisdom from top geneticists, microbiologists, and longevity researchers, arms readers with the knowledge needed to make wise choices to keep their dogs healthy and happy for years to come.
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Publisher:
Ratatoskr Press
Language:
English
Description:
This box set collects Against Impassable Barriers, Over Freezing Altitudes, and At Galactic Central, the fourth, fifth and sixth books in the Travels of Scout Shannon series. Stranded on the far side of the moon with her friends, Scout Shannon waits for rescue from galactic central. Hunted by two sets of enemies, surrounded by an impenetrable barrier maintained by an almost alien class of humans, time runs short. Caught between two factions of a powerful...
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Don't miss Aiden and Izzy's story, a small-town, brother's best friend romantic suspense from USA Today bestselling author Morgan James. Isabella Thorne is precisely that-a thorn in my side. For years, my best friend's little sister has tagged along behind us, dogging our every step. She's wildly independent and outspoken… and the most tempting woman I've ever met. When two young women disappear from her college campus, Izzy comes to me for help....
10. The lying game
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English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
The text message arrives in the small hours of the night. It's just three words: I need you. Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her. At school Isa and her three best friends used to play the Lying Game. They competed to convince people of the most outrageous stories. Now, after seventeen...
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English
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The inimitable Daniel Pinkwater (The Hoboken Chicken Emergency) brings his zany wit and wisdom to a gentle middle-grade adventure following a kid's off-the-beaten-path journey, featuring an unfocused spiritual guide, a not-quite-dwarf, a graffiti "artist," a ghost whale, and mystical shenanigans galore. "Crazy in Poughkeepsie is a ludicrous romp reminiscent of the Muppets! This is a book that will make you laugh, grin, and maybe look for more whimsy...
12. Inside the Wild
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Publisher:
Burnstown Publishing House
Pub. Date:
2007
Language:
English
Description:
Inside the Wild offers us forty-three first-hand stories about hunting, wildlife, and wilderness that are written in the tradition of William Faulkner's hunting stories like The Bear. Inside the Wild tells the truth about hunting in a hard-edged way. After people read this book, thirty million hunters in North America won't be able to hide in the woods anymore. Inside the Wild takes you inside the brutal, fascinating and disappearing wilderness...
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Publisher:
Dundurn Press
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
All three books of Karen Hood-Caddy's critically acclaimed Wild Place series are now available in this eBook bundle! Join Robin from the very beginning as she opens her secret animal shelter, The Wild Place, and learns to stand up both for herself and the animals she protects. Includes: Saving Crazy: Robin and her activist sidekick Zo-Zo have a crush on the same boy. But when he chooses Robin, Zo-Zo is angry and cuts off their friendship. Robin's...
14. Street Kid
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Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2008
Language:
English
Description:
John Peel's programme Home Truths first brought Judy's moving childhood story to light - Abducted by her psychotic spiritualist father and kept like a dog in the backyard, brutalised at the hands of nuns in a Manchester orphanage, and left to live wild on the streets. But Judy survived and today has founded 7 children's centres in South Africa. John Peel first brought Judy's moving childhood story to light on 'Home Truths'. Abducted by her psychotic...
15. Thrilling Affair
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Publisher:
Tracy Cooper-Posey
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
Fatal Wild Child Reviewer Top Pick, The Romance Reviews Not all armor is visible. Can he win through hers? When Seth O'Connor pulls Gabrielle Sherborne out from under her wrecked car in the middle of an icy river high in the Canadian Rockies just before Christmas, he never thought someone might actually be gunning for the infamous wild child of the famous Hollywood director, Cameron MacKenzie Sherborne III, and the family that puts up with her antics....
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Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Robert M. Johnson III is a wildlife specialist, conservationist, and biology teaching associate at Coastal Carolina University. Sharon L. Gilman is a biology professor and Daniel C. Abel is a marine science professor at CCU. His books include Shark Biology and Conservation (illustrated by Elise Pullen). Elise Pullen is a marine biologist and illustrator. A marvelously illustrated look at the most...
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From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women. This book comprises Sexton's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems form her last years.
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English
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"Shakespeare meets Dashiell Hammett in this wildly entertaining murder mystery from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore—an uproarious, hardboiled take on the Bard’s most performed play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, featuring Pocket, the hero of Fool and The Serpent of Venice, along with his sidekick, Drool, and pet monkey, Jeff."--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher:
Catapult
Pub. Date:
[2021]
Language:
English
Description:
"Gathering pieces written during the past three decades, Indigo ranges widely in subject matter and tone, opening with "Cleve Dean," which takes Padgett Powell to Sweden for the World Armwrestling Federation Championships, through to its closing title piece, which charts Powell's lifelong fascination with the endangered indigo snake, "a thinking snake," and his obsession with seeing one in the wild. "Some things in between" include an autobiographical...
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Publisher:
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date:
©2024
Language:
English
Description:
"Thunder the dog likes to take naps by the sunny window, sniff around for hidden treats, play fetch, and get cuddles from her favorite human, Sage. Though Thunder wants to be good for Sage, she's having a ruff time stopping herself from doing things she knows are wrong - like barking, digging, and chasing suspicious furballs around the yard. She's shocked when her inner Wolf appears one day and reveals the truth behind these irresistible impulses....