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When Bad Things Happen to Rich People is a novel of social satire, a black comedy set in Chicago in the summer of 1995. The novel's protagonist, Nix Walters, is an adjunct instructor of English at a communications college in the loop with few prospects for advancement. He had become a literary punch line when his novel, touted as the next big literary phenomenon, was universally panned by critics. He and his pregnant wife, Flora, are struggling financially;...
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My weird school volume 20
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When the hippie crossing guard, Mr. Louie, puts a love potion in the water fountain before Valentine's Day, everyone at Ella Mentry School falls in love.
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Amelia Bedelia chapter books volume 5
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148 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Picked last for kickball, Amelia Bedelia gets another chance to prove her athleticism when her class holds a mini-Olympics.
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Adventures of Captain Underpants volume 1
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English
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When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.
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278 pages ; 22 cm
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After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing of the founder of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack accompanies his slightly mental elderly mentor, Miss Volker, on a cross-country run as she pursues the oddest of outlaws.
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When shoelace heir Neddie Wentworthstein and his family take the train from Chicago to Los Angeles in the 1940s, he winds up in possession of a valuable Indian turtle artifact whose owner is supposed to be able to prevent the impending destruction of the world, but he is not sure exactly how.
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Charlie and Mouse volume 3
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Charlie and Mouse are getting ready for Mom's birthday and things are not going exactly as planned ... but with plenty of humor and imagination, they'll prove that sometimes when things are not perfect, what they turn out to be is even better.
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Everyman's library volume no. 309
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xxxiii, 787 pages ; 22 cm.
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243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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In 1983 seventh-grader David Da-Wei Horowitz has a lot to worry about -- his bar mitzvah is coming soon, his Jewish and Chinese grandmothers argue about everything, his teammates for the upcoming trivia contest, Scott and Hector, do not like each other, he is beginning to notice girls, and Scott has persuaded him to begin digging a fallout shelter just in case the Cold War heats up.
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298 pages ; 22 cm.
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In the summer of 1986, eleven-year-old April Grace, who lives on a rural Arkansas farm with her family, across a field from her grandmother, has her sense of Christian charity tested when a snooty couple from San Francisco moves into a dilapidated house down the road and her grandmother takes up with a loud, obnoxious, and suspicious-acting Texan.
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Bad guys volume 17
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186 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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"OK. It's time to stop messin' around. In this book, the One is going to be reunited with the Others. You are going to actually meet the real dread overlord Splaarghön. And one character is going to change everything you thought you knew. This is the one you've been waiting for!"--
16) Ruffing it
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Dog diaries volume 5
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185 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Excitedly accompanying his human family on a camping vacation in the woods, canine Junior happily chases raccoons, fetches sticks and doggy-paddles in the lake, before an obedience-obsessed human arrives and spoils his fun.
17) Wink: a novel
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"Ross Maloy just wants to be a normal seventh grader. He doesn't want to lose his hair, or wear a weird hat, or deal with the disappearing friends who don't know what to say to 'the cancer kid.' But with his recent diagnosis of a rare eye cancer, blending in is off the table. Based on the author's real life experience." --
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xxiii, 595 pages ; 25 cm
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Set in the 1950's, this epic, Warholian novel presents a brilliant and wholly original take on the years leading up to the Kennedy assassination. Where were you when you first heard President Kennedy had been shot? This is a question most people can answer, even if the answer is "I wasn't born yet." In this epic novel, David Bowman makes the strong case that the shooting on November 22nd, 1963 was the major, defining turning point that catapulted...
19) Captain Underpants and the preposterous plight of the purple potty people: the eighth epic novel
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Captain Underpants volume 8th epic novel
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172 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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When George and Harold use their traveling purple potty to travel to another dimension where the school is nice and the principal, Mr. Krupp, thinks they're funny, they meet up with their evil twins and must face their cleverest enemies ever -- themselves.
20) Dragon's breath
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Tales of the frog princess volume 2
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English
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ADVENTURE STORIES. Emma and Eadric have no sooner turned back into humans (from being frogs) than Emma's mother is in a panic, Aunt Grassina is distracted because she's found her true love turned into an otter, and Emma's magic is so out of control she sends herself to the dungeon by mistake. The neighboring kingdom has chosen this moment to attack, and if Emma can't get Grassina's mind back on protecting the kingdom, life as they know it in Greater...
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