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221) Swim team
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245 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Manatees - until she's stuck with the only elective that fits her schedule: the dreaded Swim 101. The thought of swimming makes Bree more than a little queasy, yet she's forced to dive headfirst into one of her greatest fears. Lucky for her, Etta - an elderly occupant of her apartment building and former swim team captain - is willing to help. --
222) Yard sale
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
Description
When Mr. Flotsam has a yard sale in the quiet town of Spudville, his neighbors are first upset, then delighted, by their unusual purchases.
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340 pages ; 21 cm
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English
Description
"Interior Design School? Check. Cute little house to fix up? Also check. Sexy, grumpy neighbor who is going to get in the way of all your plans? Check. Unfortunately. Grace Travis definitely has it all figured out. In between finishing interior design school and working a million odd jobs, she'll get her degree. She'll have her dream job. And most importantly, she'll have a place to belong, something her cold, manipulative mother could never make...
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279 pages ; 19cm.
Language
Español
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El policía nacional Moisés Guzmán se acaba de jubilar y adquiere un pequeño apartamento en la localidad de Blanes, donde piensa pasar su primer verano como pensionista. En el mismo bloque de viviendas coincide con una joven que huye de su padre maltratador, un escritor jubilado obsesionado por terminar su último libro, y un hombre solitario que se hace acompañar por un perro. Durante la primera semana, muere un hombre en el interior de su...
225) Snow and sorcery
Series
Cardboard kingdom volume 3
Physical Desc
311 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The kids of the Cardboard Kingdom go on a new adventure! This time, they are in search of new friends--but what they discover is a lot more like enemies... It's winter break in the Cardboard Kingdom, and kids from the town across the park want to play together! But according to the evil Sorceress, not just anyone can join the kingdom... So it's not long before the two communities spiral into battle. Will the Sorceress realize the error of her ways...
226) At first spite
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Series
Harlot's Bay novel volume 1
Language
English
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Description
After her fiancé's brother convinces him to break up with her before the wedding, Athena Greydon moves into a ten-foot-wide Spite House between the two and engages in some well-deserved payback.
When Athena Greydon's fiancé ends their engagement, she has no choice but to move into the Spite House she recklessly bought him as a wedding gift. This is a problem, for several reasons: The house, originally built as a brick middle finger...
227) The silence: a novel
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295 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"It is 1997, and in a basement flat in Hackney, Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father phoning from Sydney. 30 years ago, in the suffocating heat of summer 1967, the Greens' next-door neighbor Mandy disappeared. At the time, it was thought she had fled a broken marriage and gone to start a new life; but now Mandy's family is trying to reconnect, and there is no trace of her. Isla's father Joe was allegedly the last...
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390 pages ; 24 cm
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English
Description
"A family saga about two Irish American families in a New York suburb, the love between two of their children, and the tragedies that threaten to tear them apart and destroy their futures"--
Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope are two NYPD rookies assigned to the same Bronx precinct in 1973. They aren't close friends on the job, but end up living next door to each other outside the city. What goes on behind closed doors in both houses -- the loneliness...
229) The child
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Language
English
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"The author of the stunning New York Times bestseller The Widow returns with a brand-new novel of twisting psychological suspense. As an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section of London, a workman discovers a tiny skeleton, buried for years. For journalist Kate Waters, it's a story that deserves attention. She cobbles together a piece for her newspaper, but at a loss for answers, she can only pose a question: Who is the Building Site Baby?...
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Language
English
Description
"Jane Morgan is a valued member of her law firm -- or was, until a prudish neighbor, binoculars poised, observes her having sex on the roof of her NYC apartment building. Police are summoned, and a punishing judge sentences her to six months of home confinement. With Jane now jobless and rootless, trapped at home, life looks bleak. Yes, her twin sister provides support and advice, but mostly of the unwelcome kind. When a doorman lets slip that Jane...
231) The Bertie project
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Series
44 Scotland Street volume 11
Language
English
Description
"Bertie's mother Irene returns from the Middle East to discover that, in her absence, her son has been exposed to the worst of evils -- television shows, ice cream parlors, and even unsanctioned art at the National Portrait Gallery. Her wrath descends on Bertie's long-suffering father, Stuart. But Stuart has found a reason to spend more time outside of the house and seems to have a new spring in his step. What does this mean for the residents of 44...
232) Big tree down!
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
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English
Description
"After a summer thunderstorm knocks down Big Tree, a young boy watches his neighborhood come together to clean up and plant Little Tree"--
233) November night
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Series
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70 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
"As Thanksgiving approaches, Nate and Lucy must help Bradley and Brian find out what their shady new neighbors are up to"--
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 30 cm
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English
Description
Emma can't wait for Christmas - the tree, the presents, the delicious dinner! Dad and Susan want Christmas to be perfect but things aren't going to plan - and then their turkey disappears! Will Christmas be ruined? As Emma encourages her parents to appreciate what they have, their neighbours come knocking to help the family have a very merry Christmas.
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Series
44 Scotland Street volume 13
Language
English
Description
Summer has come to Scotland Street. The long days have prompted its denizens to engage in flights of fancy. Some, like the Duke of Johannesburg's plan to create a microlite seaplane, are literal flights, and some, like the vain Bruce Anderson's idea of settling down with one of his many admirers, are more metaphorical. With the domineering Irene off pursuing academic challenges, Stuart and Bertie are free to indulge in summer fun. Stuart reconnects...
236) On a quiet street
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Physical Desc
320 pages ; 21 cm
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English
Description
"Cora thinks her husband, Finn, is cheating--she just needs to catch him in the act. That's where Paige comes in. Paige lost her son to a hit-and-run last year, and she's drowning in the kind of grief that makes people do reckless things like ... agreeing to Cora's plan to reveal what kind of man Finn really is. All the while, their reclusive new neighbor, Georgia, is acting more strangely every day. But what could such a lovely young mother possibly...
237) Pug's snow day
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Series
Diary of a pug volume 2
Physical Desc
72 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bub the pug has never seen snow before, and when Duchess the cat tells him it is frozen rain he is appalled and does not want to go out even to play with his human, Bella -- but the week is about to get worse because a new family has moved in next door, and they apparently have a pet monster (at least if Nutz the squirrel can be believed) and Bella's mother has arranged a play date for Sunday.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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"Richard Scarry's Busytown is a wonderful place, with so many things to see and do! Now children ages two to five can join the fun with this Super Silly Seek and Find board book! Kids can search the busy full-color pages for their favorite characters and tons of hidden objects! A great way to introduce children to Richard Scarry's Busytown"--
239) Beach read
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361 pages, 10 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They're polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next...
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xii, 159 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"A bossy child who lives under a white cloth near a tree; a schoolgirl who keeps doll's brains in a desk drawer; an old man with two shadows, one docile and one rebellious; a diplomat no one has ever seen who goes fishing at an artificial lake no one has ever heard of. These are some of the inhabitants of People From My Neighborhood. In their lives, details of the local and everyday -- the lunch menu at a tiny drinking place called the Love, the color...
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