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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob--Mitchell: Jacob de Zoet, having arrived in Nagasaki Harbor's Dejima in 1799, has intentions to make a fortune in five years and return home to Holland to win the hand of his finacee, but he meets the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and finds his plans changing and his life in danger. | ![]() |
Sleepwalker--Robards: While house-sitting for her Uncle Nicco, policewoman Micayla Lange catches Jason Davis in the act of stealing money from her uncle's locked safe, but when they both find incriminating photos that implicate Nicco in the murder of a city councilman, Micayla and Jason hurtle into a race for their lives. | ![]() |
Down the Darkest Road--Hoag: Lauren Lawton and her younger daughter Leah pick up and move to Oak Knoll four years after the unsolved disappearance of her oldest daughter, but when the man Lauren suspects of taking her child shows up in their new home town, the detectives start to uncover new clues. |
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77 Shadow Street--Koontz: Past horrors are returning to the residents of Pendleton, and no one seems to know why. | ![]() |
Death Benefit--Cook; Medical student Pia Grazdani, researching the creation of replacement organs for critically ill patients with the hopes of helping millions of people and overcoming an abusive childhood, teams up with classmate George Wilson to investigate a tragedy at the lab, while two ex-Wall Street whiz kids try to figure out a way to make money by manipulating private insurance information. | ![]() |
High Country Bride--Miller: Arizona rancher Angus McKettrick, in an attempt to get his sons to settle down, announces that the first one to marry and produce an heir will inherit the Triple M ranch, but the mail-order bride Rafe has sent for has a past that could jeopardize his chances. |
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Gun Games--Kellerman: Los Angeles homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus welcome the teenage son of a troubled former friend into their home and Peter begins to investigate the alleged suicide of another teenager, leading him to a nasty group of rich and privileged students with a penchant for guns and violence. | ![]() |
The Devil Is Waiting--Higgins: Los Angeles homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus welcome the teenage son of a troubled former friend into their home and Peter begins to investigate the alleged suicide of another teenager, leading him to a nasty group of rich and privileged students with a penchant for guns and violence. | ![]() |
Love In a Nutshell--Evanovich: Kate Appleton plans to turn her parents' summer house, The Nutshell, in Keene's Harbor, Michigan, into a bed and breakfast, but she needs cash and a job, and Matt Culhane needs to find out who is sabotaging his company; together they will smoke out a saboteur, save Kate's family home, stop a killer, and get to know each other a lot better. |
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Need To Know--Grippando: Kate Appleton plans to turn her parents' summer house, The Nutshell, in Keene's Harbor, Michigan, into a bed and breakfast, but she needs cash and a job, and Matt Culhane needs to find out who is sabotaging his company; together they will smoke out a saboteur, save Kate's family home, stop a killer, and get to know each other a lot better. | ![]() |
Breakdown--Paretsky: When tweens in Chicago's Carmilla Club hold an initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse, a man stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. For V.I. Warshawski, the questions multiply faster than the answers, and she finds herself fighting enemies who are all too human.. | ![]() |
The Hunter--Lescroart: A mysterious texter leads private investigator, Wyatt Hunter, on a chase to solve a murder. |
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The Rope--Barr: Escaping a broken-hearted past, thirty-five-year-old Anna Pigeon heads west and takes a job as a seasonal employee at the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area in Arizona. Just days later, she finds herself abducted and left naked at the bottom of a dry natural well from which she must find the courage and will to escape. | ||||
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Across the Universe--Revis/bk 1: Amy, having been cryogenically frozen and placed onboard a spaceship which was supposed to land on a distant planet three hundred years in the future, is unplugged fifty years too early and finds herself stuck inside an enclosed world ruled by a tyrannical leader and his rebellious teenage heir and confused about who to trust and why someone is trying to kill her. A Million Suns--Revis/bk. 2: Amy is unplugged and holds to the hope that life on "Godspeed" will be better with Elder in charge, but when she and Elder discover shocking news about the ship, they must race to decipher a puzzle while romance blossoms between them. |
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Daughter of Smoke and Bone--Taylor: Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known. |
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Between Shades of Gray--Sepetys: In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note. |
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Death Sentence--Smith/bk3: After his failed attempt to escape from Furnace Penitentiary, Alex struggles to survive the bloodstained laboratories beneath where monsters are manufactured, with a death sentence--or worse--hanging over his head. | ![]() |
Chime--Billingsley: In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about. | ||
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Alcatraz Versus the Knight of Crystallia--Sanderson: Alcatraz and Grandpa Smedry make a pilgrimage to Crystallia in the Free Kingdom where they are shocked to find the city under siege by the Evil Librarians--led by Alcatraz's own mother. | ![]() |
Seizure--Reichs: Tory Brennan and her friends team up to save the Loggerhead Island Research Institute when it runs out of funding and make tracks for Charleston, where the treasure of the she-pirate, Anne Bonney, was lost but never found, but Tory and her friends are not the only ones searching for the treasure and their special powers might not be enough to keep them out of trouble this time around. | ||
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If I Ran the Dog Show--Seuss characters: The Cat in the Hat attends the Short-Shaggy-Tail-Waggy Super Dog Show, where purebreds and mutts of all shapes and sizes compete, and learns how dogs use their tails for balance, how well they see in dim light, and more. |
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Happy Birthday, Princess!--Disney characters: The Disney princesses celebrate their birthdays. | ![]() |
Barbie I Can Be a Horserider--Barbie doll characters: Barbie learns what it takes to become a horse riding champion. |
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Easter Engines--Thomas the Train characters: Thomas the tank engine and his friends get ready to celebrate the Easter holiday. |
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Skippyjon Jones--Schachner: Skippyjon Jones, a little kitten with a big imagination, is sent to his room to contemplate what it means to be a cat, but instead embarks on an imaginary adventure in which his Zorro-like alter ego, El Skippito, rescues a group of chihuahuas from a bean-eating bumblebee. | ![]() |
Skippyjon Jones and the Big Bones--Schachner: Mischievous Siamese cat Skippyjon Jones enters the land of dinosaurs in search of "Skipposaurus" and finds himself facing off against a T-Mex with his old friends, the Chimichango chihuahua gang. |
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Skippyjon Jones In the Dog House--Schachner: Skippyjon Jones is a Siamese cat who wants to be a Chihuahua dog. |
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Skippyjon Jones Lost In Spice--Schachner: Skippyjon Jones, the Siamese cat that thinks he is a Chihuahua dog, has an adventure on Mars. | ![]() |
Curious George Colors Eggs--Curious George characters: George helps Steve and Betsy dye eggs, but when he accidentally falls into yellow dye, George experiments with the different colors to see which one will turn him brown again. |
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Pinkalicious: Pinkie Promise--Kann: Pinkalicious borrows paint from her friend to complete a picture for her teacher and must come up with a creative solution when she uses all of the pink, red, and white paint. |
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Pinkalicious: Pink Around the Rink--Kann: Pinkalicious's new ice skates are plain white, so before she takes them out on the ice she decides to color them with her cotton candy pink magic marker. | ![]() |
Pinkalicious--Kann: After eating too many pink cupcakes, Pinkalicious turns pink and enjoys everything about being her favorite color. |
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SpongeBob and the Princess--SpongeBob characters: When the driver of a noisy truck tells SpongeBob to expect a delivery of Princess Napkins the next day, Sponge Bob misunderstands and soon all of Bikini Bottom is gathered to meet the princess. |
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Bikini Bottom Riddles--Sponge Bob characters: Presents a collection of riddles featuring Sponge Bob and his friends in Bikini Bottom. |
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Fancy Nancy and the Too-Loose Tooth--O'Connor: Nancy is about to lose her first tooth, but if she can prevent it from falling out until she arrives at school she will get a special necklace from the nurse. |
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The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players. |
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Inspired by
the amazing true story of a brave dolphin and the compassionate strangers
who banded together to save her life. Swimming free, a young dolphin is
caught in a crab trap, severely damaging her tail. She is rescued and
transported to the Clearwater Marine Hospital, where she is named Winter.
But her fight for survival has just begun. Without a tail, Winter's
prognosis is dire. |
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When a tragedy strikes close to home, four police officers struggle with their faith and their roles as husbands and fathers. Together they make a decision that will change all of their lives. | |||||
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Mickey Tussler, an autistic pitcher, joins a minor league baseball team and has a profound effect on the team and manager Arthur 'Murph' Murphy over the course of a season. |
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Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to build and train a championship contender. |
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