Helen Cooper
1) Pumpkin soup
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The Cat and the Squirrel come to blows with the Duck in arguing about who will perform what duty in preparing their pumpkin soup, and they almost lose the Duck's friendship when he decides to leave them.
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"Lucy and her husband, Adam, have been best friends with another couple, Cora and Scott, for years. The four are practically family at this point-they vacation together, co-own a beach cottage, and their young children are inseparable. So Lucy is devastated when, while looking at a colleague's photos of a trip to the Maldives, she spots a picture of Scott, apparently on a luxurious holiday with another woman. Lucy is determined to protect her best...
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"From her downstairs apartment in suburban London, Emma has often overheard the everyday life of the seemingly perfect family upstairs--Steph, Paul and teenage daughter Freya--but has never got to know them. Until one day, she hears something that seizes her attention: Freya has vanished and the police are questioning Steph and Paul about their life. Do either of you have any enemies? Anyone who might want to harm or threaten you? The effects of Freya's...
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One year ago, Leah's feisty 21-year-old niece, Amy, mysteriously drowned in the beautiful lake near her family-owned resort in Northern Italy. Now, Leah's grief has caught up with her, and she decides to return to Lake Garda for the first time since Amy's death. What she finds upon her arrival shocks her--her sister, brother-in-law, and surviving niece, Olivia, seem to have erased all memories of Amy, and fought to have her death declared an accidental...
5) Dog biscuit
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A little girl eats a dog biscuit by mistake and worries about the consequences. Includes recipe for "human-being treats."
10) Sandmare
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A powerful wish allows the horse that Polly and her father draw in the beach sand to come to life and pursue her dream of reaching the stars.
11) Delicious
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Unable to find a suitable pumpkin to use for soup, Cat and Squirrel attempt to make other versions for Duck, their fussy friend, but it's only when they find a way to make the dish orange that Duck agrees it's the best soup he ever tasted.
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"The invitation to the Gee Museum was delivered by bees. It wasn't addressed to anyone, but Ben knows that it was meant just for him. Why else would the images on the card stir up memories of his father, lost long ago at sea? When Ben makes his way to the museum, he finds a collection of curious talking animals who have been awaiting his arrivel, determined that he is the only one who can save the place. But Ben will have to outwit a devious rival...
13) Villette
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With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. Charlotte Brontë's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully...
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"When the rescuers meet the boat, there are only two people left: a little one and a bigger one. The bigger one remembers the uncertainty of the trip across the ocean, but the little one has stopped thinking about all that. Can the little one and a very special butterfly help the big one move forward?" --
15) Tatty-Ratty
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When Molly's stuffed rabbit gets lost, she and her parents imagine all the adventures it is having before returning home.
19) The poetry book
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"An accessible guide to the most important poems ever written-- from the Epic of Gilgamesh to The Waste Land--and the poets behind them. Discover the key themes and ideas behind the most important poems ever written, and the poetic geniuses who wrote them."--Provided by publisher.
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New Standalone book from New York Times Bestselling authors J.S. Cooper and Helen Cooper
Aiden Taylor.
He's devastatingly handsome, sexy, arrogant and he's out of reach.
He's my best friend's brother and the one man I can't have.
However, now that my best friend Liv is getting married, I'm seeing him more than ever.
And he's doing things to me that are making it hard for me to forget him.
Or that night we