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199282) The tale of the outcasts: 6
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Two immortal great demons have each chosen a human companion to pass the endless years. Marbas' choice was a lonely girl, while Dantalion's was a bloodthirsty maniac. Their pacts with these humans began as mere diversions, but developed into unique relationships over time. When their chosen paths bring them into direct conflict, each demon's pride is on the line.
199283) This place of wonder: a novel
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When famous chef Augustus Beauvais dies suddenly, he leaves behind four women--an ex-wife, a girlfriend, an estranged daughter, and a stepdaughter--who must grapple with their feelings of anger and loss and find a way to move on with their lives.
199284) Journey to the Livewood
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"Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo have been tirelessly preparing to prove their bravery and face the source of all the mischief that's been happening recently. But when they enter the Livewood forest, nothing goes according to plan. The woods are full of Timbersnakes, slumberslime, and devious traps that could doom them! And something's been leaving clues to guide them through the Livewood-- but what? Will they be able to save their friends...
199285) T. Rexes can't tie their shoes
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"An humorous, alphabetical look at all the things animals can't do but kids can"--
199286) The chicken who saved Christmas
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"What would happen if Santa had a cold and couldn't get out of bed on Christmas Eve? Who would load the sleigh with presents and help him on his way? Santa's elves? His reindeer? Or his quick-thinking chicken? ..."--Cover back.
199287) Bella & Bean
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When Bean constantly distracts her while she tries to write, Bella finds her poems taking unexpected and silly twists, till she realizes she has written a wonderful poem about her best friend.
199288) Pokemon adventures: 02
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Pokémon Trainer Red goes missing, prompting his faithful friend Pikachu to team up with Trainer Amarillo del Bosque Verde in order to search for him. A quest of smarts, skills, and help from their friends ensues, pitting Yellow and Pikachu against the Elite Four in their mysterious headquarters on Cerise Island.
199289) Sun & moon: a giant love story
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A girl giant, afraid of the light, and a boy giant, afraid of the dark, live lonely lives following only the moon or the sun until an eclipse brings them together.
199291) The boss baby
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When seven-year-old Tim Templeton's new baby brother strides in the front door wearing a suit and toting a briefcase, it is clear who is in charge and will be receiving all the attention of their parents.
199292) Gleam
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King Midas made me the woman I am today. Notorious. Unattainable. His. The thing about being confined is that you believe it's to keep the bad out. ...Until you realize it's about keeping you in. I'm now in a strange kingdom surrounded by liars, with no allies of my own, but I won't sit idly by and let myself wither. No, there's something that's bloomed from the pit of my repression. Something dark. Something angry. But the last thing I expected was...
199293) My darling detective
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"Jacob Rigolet, soon to be fired from his position as assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auction to see his mother, Nora Ives Rigolet, until that day head librarian at Halifax Free Library, walk almost casually up the aisle and fling an open jar of black ink at master photographer Robert Capa's "Death on a Leipzig Balcony." Jacob's fiancee, the erotically accomplished Detective Martha Crauchet, is assigned to the interrogation....
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"The Justice League and the Suicide Squad--the World's Greatest Heroes and its worst--went to war. A team unlike any other rose from the ashes. Batman. Black Canary. Vixen. The Atom. The Ray. Killer Frost. Lobo. Some are heroes, some are villains and some exist in the gray area in between. But the Caped Crusader sees the potential in all of them to show everyday people that their superhuman guardians are just like them: capable of fighting for justice...
199296) The operative
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Based on Yiftach R. Adi's book, The English Teacher, this film, directed by Yuval Adler, is a taut psychological thriller about a young Western woman recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
199297) Animal babies like to play
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Animal babies from Alligator to Zebra play, explore, and wonder in this celebration of children in all their glorious diversity.--
199298) The integral trees
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Leaving Earth, the crew of the spaceship Discipline prepared for a routine colonization assignment. What they weren't prepared for was the smoke ring: an immense, gaseous envelope that had formed around a neutron star directly in their path. The Smoke Ring was home to a variety of plant and animal life-forms evolved to thrive in conditions of continual free-fall. When the Discipline encountered it, something went wrong. The crew abandoned
...199299) All is Nat lost
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Nat's class trip is a bigger adventure than she imagined! Nat is on an overnight class trip to Philadelphia, which is her first time in a big city without her parents. And it's a big deal because Nat's mom and dad are finally giving her the independence she's been longing for. But the trip is off to a bad start--with one disaster after another--and if things keep up, Nat's on track to lose her newfound freedom for good! Can she turn things around...
199300) We come to our senses: stories
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"For readers of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and Redeployment, a searing debut exploring the lives of veterans returning to their homes in the South. Lacerating and lyrical, We Come to Our Senses centers on men and women affected by combat directly and tangentially, and the peculiar legacies of war. The story "Evie M." is about a vet turned office clerk whose petty neuroses derail even her suicide; in "We Come to Our Senses," a hip young couple...