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21) Sun at midnight
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English
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From the critically acclaimed author and "master storyteller" (Cosmopolitan), a sweeping saga of loss and redemption that centers on Alice, who as a scientist, relies on method, precision, and tangible proof. But when her relationship with Oxford artist Peter Brown collapses spectacularly, she is forced to use her skills to evaluate her own life for the first time. In her thirties, childless, and tied to Oxford by her work, it's time to break away....
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Magic tree house volume 40
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109 pages ; 20 cm.
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Español
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The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Antarctica to search for the fourth secret of happiness for Merlin.
La casa mágica del árbol lleva a Jack y Annie a la Antártida para buscar el cuarto secreto de la felicidad para Merlín.
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355 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"A curmudgeonly but charming old woman, her estranged grandson, and a colony of penguins proves it's never too late to be the person you want to be in this rich, heartwarming story from the acclaimed author of Ellie and the Harpmaker. Eighty-five-year-old Veronica McCreedy is estranged from her family and wants to find a worthwhile cause to leave her fortune to. When she sees a documentary about penguins being studied in Antarctica, she tells the...
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120 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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"When Callie finds herself in the Antarctic, she's thrilled to meet a colony of Adélie penguins, ready to march north for the winter! But then a blizzard blows in, separating a baby penguin and her injured mother from the group" -- Page [4] cover.
25) The split
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382 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"No matter how far you run, some secrets will always catch up with you ... The remote Antarctic island of South Georgia is about to send off its last boat of the summer - which signifies safety to resident glaciologist Felicity Lloyd. Felicity lives in fear - fear that her ex-husband Freddie will find her, even out here. She took a job on this isolated island to hide from him, but now that he's out of prison, having served a term for murder, she knows...
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4 audio discs (5 hrs. 9 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Merlin the magician will not eat or sleep or speak to anyone. The enchantress Morgan asks young Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania for help. Jack and Annie know they have to search for one of the four secrets of happiness to help Merlin the magician find joy in his life again. And so they head off in the magic tree house for Florence, Italy, in the early 1500s, then to a misty island in the middle of nowhere, then to the continent of Antarctica....
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360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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" Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks do you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are the questions that decide who has what it takes to live at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54°F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty, unmoored by a family tragedy and floundering in her career...
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290 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A magical, intoxicating debut novel, both intimate and epic, that braids the past, present, and future of two lovers bound by the passing of great comets overhead and a coterie of remarkable ancestors. When Róisin and François meet at a remote research base on the frozen ice sheets of Antarctica, they are immediately drawn to each other. At first glance, the pair could not be more different. Older by a few years, Róisin, a daughter of Ireland...
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557 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
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English
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In December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on an island off the coast of Washington State make an extraordinary discovery, but a tragic accident suspends further investigation. In the present, Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon team, chasing the remanants of a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, stumble upon a shocking revelation. His efforts to untangle the mystery lead first to that island, and then much farther back, to an ancient Chinese...
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