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309 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to "America's Playground" and move into the apartment above their bakery. The apartment is where they raised their two daughters, Fannie and Florence, and, despite the cramped quarters, it still feels like home. Now Florence has returned from college, determined to spend the summer training to swim the English Channel, and Fannie, pregnant again...
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270 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"A charismatic man's death leaves his family asking questions and exposing secrets, revealing the man they loved as an unrepentant pathological liar in this explosive thriller from film producer and author Nina Sadowsky. Justin Childs is handsome, likeable, smart. A devoted son to his mother, Carol; a loving husband to his wife, Annie; and a surefooted, savvy business partner to his best friend from college, Will. To so many, the perfect man. He's...
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312 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"Charlotte has everything in life that she ever could have hoped for: a doting, artistic husband, a small-but-thriving flower shop, and her sweet, smart five-year-old daughter, Daisy. Her relationship with her mother might be strained, but the distance between them helps. And her younger brother Rocco may have horrible taste in women, but when he introduces his new girlfriend to Charlotte and her family, they are cautiously optimistic that she could...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"Twins Katie and Kimmie know how important it is to love their neighbors, and one way their Pastor Jimmy says they can do this is to always tell the truth. But when Katie hits a baseball through the Mumfords' kitchen window, she learns that telling the truth is sometimes the hardest thing to do"--
65) The white lie
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448 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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The Salter family orbits around Peattie House, their crumbling Scottish estate filled with threadbare furniture, patrician memories, and all the secrets that go with them. While they are gathered for their grandmother's seventieth birthday, someone breaks the silence. The web begins to unravel. But what is the white lie? How many others are built upon it? How many lives have been changed because of it? Only one person knows the whole truth.
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213 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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"When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job in Tokyo to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that, as the only woman at her new workplace -- a company that manufactures cardboard tubes -- she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can't clear away her colleagues' dirty cups -- because she's pregnant and the smell nauseates her. The only thing is ... Ms. Shibata is not pregnant. Pregnant Ms. Shibata...
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306 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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When a woman conceals her sister's death to claim their joint inheritance, her deception exposes a web of dangerous secrets.
"Robin Voigt is dead. If Leslie had arrived at her sister's cramped Las Vegas apartment just hours earlier, this would have been their first reunion in a decade. In the years since Robin ran away from home as a teenager, Leslie has stayed in New Mexico, taking care of their dying father even as she began building a family of...
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English
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"The next novel in the Chief Inspector Gamache series"--
"You're a coward." Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache. While the residents of the Quebec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together, the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request. He's asked to provide security...
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xiii, 207 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Sadie Robertson Huff dives deep into exploring who we are allowing to influence our daily thoughts and actions. With an excellent grasp of scriptural truths, using current research, surveys, and personal and biblical stories, Sadie draws on her own experience as a social media influencer. This book is perfect for young Christians wondering how they can live a vibrant, bold, and uncompromising life of faith in God by following the Messiah-the ultimate...
70) The Whopper
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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A little boy named Percy tells a lie, which turns into the Whopper, a hungry and persistent monster. As Percy's guilt grows, the Whopper does too, until finally ... the Whopper eats Percy! It is only when the Whopper threatens to also eat Percy's brother that Percy finally speaks up --
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Wild Thornberrys volume 1
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1 volumes (unp.) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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As the Thornberrys explore an island in Indonesia, a Noisy Friarbird who likes to sound false alarms warns them of so many imaginary dangers that they do not believe him when he announces a real threat.
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340 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Lisa lives for her daughter Ava, her job and her best friend Marilyn. When a handsome client shows an interest in her, Lisa starts daydreaming about sharing her life with him, too. Maybe she can trust again ... and let her terrifying secret past go. When Ava rescues a boy from drowning and their pictures are all over the news for everyone to see, Lisa's world explodes. Now everything she has built is threatened, and Lisa doesn't know who she can trust....
74) El gigantosaurio
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1 volume (unnumbered) : color illustrations ; 26 x 30 cm
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Español
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Las mamás dinosaurios dijeron: "Mis pequeños, tengan cuidado con el Gigantosaurio, que es muy feroz y cerca lo vieron". ¡Sus pisadas hacen pum! ¡Sus quijadas hacen crac! ¡En un abrir y cerrar de ojos, puede con ustedes saciar sus antojos! Acompaña a los jóvenes dinosaurios Cabezadura, Chiqui, Crestudo y Piquito en esta alocada aventura prehistórica de Jonny Duddle, el mismo autor e ilustrador de El devorador de piratas.
"In this fun twist...
75) The plot
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322 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written - let alone published - anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn't need Jake's help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast...
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309 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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English
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Big lies are told by governments, politicians, and corporations to avoid responsibility, cast blame on the innocent, win elections, disguise intent, create chaos, and gain power and wealth. Big lies are as old as civilization; they corrupt public understanding and discourse, turn science upside down, and reinvent history. The future stewards of our world require a how-to manual for seeing through big lies and thinking critically, because big lies...
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325 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"Riotous and riveting, this is the story of a charming college professor who most definitely did not--but maybe did--kill his ex-wife. Or someone else. Or no one. Irby plays with the thriller trope in unimaginably clever ways. Edwin Stith, a failed novelist and college writing instructor in upstate New York, is returning home for the weekend to Richmond, Virginia, to celebrate his mother's wedding--to a much younger man. Edwin has a peculiar relationship...
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1 videodisc (37 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
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La gallinita roja = The little red hen: An industrious, hardworking hen teaches her friends a thing or two about helping out in this classic story. La sopa de piedras = Stone soup: Three clever soldiers devise a plan to get food and lodging from the selfish inhabitants of a French village during the time of Napoleon. Por qué los mosquitos zumban en los oidos de la gente = Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears: A tall tale sets off a chain of mishaps...
79) The lying game
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On a cool June morning, a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic coastal village of Salten along a tidal estuary known as the Reach. Before she can stop him, the dog charges into the water to retrieve what first appears to be a wayward stick, but to her horror, turns out to be something much more sinister. The next morning, three women in and around London -- Fatima, Thea, and Isabel -- receive the text they had always hoped would never come, from...
80) Golden State
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321 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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A veteran of the Speculative Service in an alternate-world California where the law and truth are valued above all else uses his rare authority to question the facts when truth enforcement is manipulated for corrupt purposes.
"In a strange alternate society that values law and truth above all else, Laszlo Ratesic is a nineteen-year veteran of the Speculative Service. He lives in the Golden State, a nation standing where California once did, a place...
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