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1281) A plateful of murder
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435 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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The Quilliam sisters, who run the Inn at Hemlock Falls, must work together to solve a murder at the History Days Festival and a murder and disappearance related to a TV show contest.
1282) Wild nights with Emily
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1 videodisc (86 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In the mid-nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson is writing prolifically and enjoying a passionate, romantic relationship with her friend and sister-in-law Susan. While seeking publication of some of her poems, Emily finds herself facing male literary gatekeepers too confused by her genius to take her work seriously. Instead, her work attracts the attention of an ambitious woman editor, who also sees Emily as a convenient cover for her own role in buttoned-up...
1283) Bombay ice: a novel
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394 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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A DAZZLING NOVEL OF MURDER AND MONSOONS, OF POISON AND SEDUCTION, OF LONG-BURIED SECRETS AND LETHAL BETRAYALS ...
Rosalind Benegal is a BBC correspondent who has spent years distancing herself from surreal memories of a childhood spent in India. But lately, her long-lost sister, Miranda, has taken to sending Rosalind cryptic postcards all the way from Bombay. In swirling script, Miranda claims she's being followed by a eunuch. She alludes to her...
1284) Windswept
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English
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Years after her sisters venture Outside and vanish in a snow squall, thirteen-year-old Tag sets out to rescue the lost Youngers, accompanied by an unlikely crew: Boots, who can climb anything; Ant, who will eat anything; and Ren, who will say anything. Includes author's note.
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A novel in prose and verse by the author of the National Book Award-longlisted Blood Water Paint follows the experiences of a teen who finds courage in the story of a 15th-century avenger when her sister's rapist is set free without prison time.
"Em Morales's sister was raped after a frat party. A jury found the attacker guilty on all counts - remarkable verdict that Em felt more than a little proud of, since her passionate social-media advocacy...
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5 worlds volume 2
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244 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
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English
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Sisters Jessa and Oona, and new friend Ram Sam Sam, try to stop the Cobalt Prince from Toki, who orders a strike on Mon Domani, starting a new war between the worlds.
1287) Just under the clouds
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229 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Since her father's death, Cora, twelve, longs for a permanent home for herself, her special-needs sister, and their mother while navigating middle school and studying trees using her father's field notes.
1288) Under the broken sky
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293 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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English
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When Soviet troops invade Japanese-occupied Manchuria during the last days of World War II, twelve-year-old Natsu Kimura must care for her younger sister as they struggle to survive and return to Japan.
1289) Our kind of people
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357 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Helen Wilcox has one desire: to successfully launch her daughters into society. From the upper crust herself, Helen's unconventional, if happy, marriage has made the girls' social position precarious. Then her husband gambles the family fortunes on an elevated railroad that he claims will transform the face of the city and the way the people of New York live, but will it ruin the Wilcoxes first? As daughters Jemima and Alice navigate the rise and...
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xviii, 492 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"They were the Princess Dianas of their day--perhaps the most photographed and talked about young royals of the early twentieth century. The four captivating Russian Grand Duchesses--Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Romanov--were much admired for their happy dispositions, their looks, the clothes they wore and their privileged lifestyle. Over the years, the story of the four Romanov sisters and their tragic end in a basement at Ekaterinburg in 1918...
1291) The fix-it man
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Meet Joshua James, the fix-it man. If he can't fix it, no one can! When a stinky problem arises, Joshua James takes matters into his own hands with a little help from his younger sister, Sophie. -- Amazon.com.
James can fix anything that comes his way and with help from his sister, he sets out to solve an extra-stinky problem.
1292) A better bad idea
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298 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Evelyn Peters is desperate. Desperate for a way out of McNair Falls, the dying southern town that's held her captive since the day she was born. Desperate to protect her little sister from her mother's terrifying and abusive boyfriend. And desperate to connect with anyone, even fallen golden boy Ashton Harper, longtime boyfriend of the girl Evelyn can never stop thinking about--beautiful, volatile, tragically dead Reid Brewer. Until a single night...
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1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
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A pesar de que Ana Paula descubrió que su prometido le es infiel, quiere perseguir su boda de ensueño. Por una serie de eventos divertidos termina dormida en la caja de una camioneta que la lleva a la selva. A pocos dias de su boda, vestida de novia y sin comunicatión con la civilización, Ana Paula convence a un "Curandero de la Selva" a que la lleve de regreso a casa. Lo que ella no sabe es que los caminos inesperados son los que pueden cambiarte...
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xiii, 362 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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A biography of Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret examines their early idyllic youth as the closest of sisters as well as their often fraught relationship after their father's death and Elizabeth's ascension to the throne.
They were the closest of sisters until their uncle Edward Vlll decided to abdicate the throne. Then the dynamic between Elizabeth and Margaret was dramatically altered. Forever more Margaret would have to curtsy to her...
1295) The secret life of bees
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Lily Owens is a young girl who lives on the peach farm that her abusive father owns. Rosaleen is a black woman hired by Lily's father to be a stand in mother for Lilly. Rosaleen insults some of the biggest racists in their town. Lily and Rosaleen run away to a town Lily believes that her mother once lived in. They go to live with the three Boatwright sisters on their honey farm. She finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping.
1296) Clap when you land
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417 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people ... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to...
1297) Venus and Serena
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1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An unfiltered look into the remarkable lives of the greatest sister-act professional tennis has ever seen. With unprecedented access, the film tells the inspiring story of how these two women, against all odds, but with the help of visionary parents, made it to the top.
1298) Little universes
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474 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Two sisters struggle with the secrets brought to light in the aftermath of their parents' sudden death.
When a tsunami strikes the island where their parents are vacationing, Mae and Hannah Winters are forced to move to Boston from sunny California for the rest of their senior year. Each girl struggles with secrets their parents' death has brought to light, and with their uncertainty about the future. -- adapted from jacket
1299) When we make it
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375 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Sarai uses verse to navigate the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn, questioning the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives.
A first-generation Puerto Rican eighth grader, Sarai can see with clarity the truth, pain, and beauty of the world both inside and outside her Bushwick apartment. Together with her older sister Estrella she...
1300) Shine on, Luz Véliz!
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English
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Eleven-year-old injured soccer player Luz has a hard enough time reframing her identity as a computer programmer, but when her Guatemalan half-sister moves in, she learns what it truly means to start over. Includes author's note.
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