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2021.
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At Books & Moore, the musty bookstore her family has owned for generations, Madeline knows nothing is going to stop her from coming back after college to take over the store from her aunt. Then a chain bookstore called Prologue opens across the street and threatens to shut them down. Jasper, the guy who works over at Prologue, seems intent on ruining her life. Not only is he taking her customers, he has the unbelievable audacity to be extremely cute!...
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2021.
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"A wedding harpist disillusioned with love and a cater-waiter who's a hopeless romantic flirt and fight their way through a summer of weddings in this effervescent romantic comedy"--
Their families have been in business together for years: Quinn Berkowitz's parents are wedding planners (she's the harpist), and Tarek Mansour's own a catering company. At the end of last summer, Quinn confessed her crush on him in the form of a rambling email-- and...
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Donut dreams volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
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133 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Lindsay Cooper is about to start middle school. In her free time, she works at her family's restaurant, The Park View, handing out the world's most delicious donuts at the Donut Dreams counter. Her grandmother started the counter as a way to send Lindsay's dad to college, and Lindsay wants to use her job the same way--to make her dream of going to school far away from her small town a reality. Home feels different ever since Lindsay's mom passed...
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"Two teen girls, former best friends and one-time lovers, go on a summer road trip in an ice cream truck"--
Fallon and Chloe were best friends until last summer. They hooked up right before Chloe left for college, and after a series of misunderstandings they are now not speaking to one another. A year later Chloe is home from school, and Fallon is doing everything in her power to avoid her... which is especially difficult because their moms own the...
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Nightmare thief volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
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283 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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When Maren breaks the strict rules of her family's dream shop to help her comatose sister, she is caught and blackmailed by a woman with evil plans for the town of Rockpool Bay.--
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Ellie's deli volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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volumes cm
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"When Ellie accidentally overhears that her family deli is most likely going to close, she does the only thing she can think of. She makes a wish on matzo ball soup. Eleven-year-old Ellie is feisty, determined, and a little bit anxious. She considers Lukshen Deli part of the family-after all, it's been around for four generations, ever since her great-grandmother opened it. Along with her BFF, Ava; her sisters, Anna and Mabel; her lunch buddies, Aanya,...
7) The takeout
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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230 pages ; 22 cm
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Twelve-year-old Mia uses Filipino folk magic to take down the shady chef brothers who are threatening her family's food truck.
Mila may have moved to Coral Beach months ago, but it still doesn't feel like home. She wants to belong, but a few awkward incidents with her new friends make her wonder if she'll ever neatly fit into the super-samey small town. Mila feels the only place she can be herself is at her dad's Filipino-Indian food truck, The Banana...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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350 pages ; 22 cm
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Twelve-year-old Pearl Li tries to gain her family's acceptance and save her favorite boba tea shop by selling her crocheted amigurumi dolls.
Pearl Li is ready to spend the summer before seventh grade hanging out with her two best friends, crocheting the cutest amigurumi dolls, and visiting her favorite tea shop, Boba Time. Its quirky owner, Auntie Cha, is the only adult Pearl can confide in about her art--if only her tech-obsessed family would understand...
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Katsuyamas never quit -- but seventeen-year-old CJ doesn't even know where to start. She's never lived up to her mom's type A ambition, and she's perfectly happy just helping her aunt, Hannah, at their family's flower shop. She doesn't buy into Hannah's romantic ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings, but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet, CJ discovers a knack she never knew she had. A skill she might even be proud of. Then her...
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Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 5
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
364 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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Twins Bick and Beck Kidd and their family of professional treasure hunters race against mercenaries, rival treasure hunters, and a lumber baron through the jungles and mountains of Peru in search of Paititi, the legendary lost Inca city of gold, in hope of conserving the archaeological treasure and preventing deforestation of the rain forest.
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House on Sunrise Lagoon volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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210 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Eleven-year-old Sam, who lives with her siblings and mothers in a house on Sunrise Lagoon, tries to come up with a plan to save the family's charter boat business before the summer is over"--
14) Tweet cute
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2020.
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Pepper is a swim team captain, chronic overachiever, and all-around perfectionist. Her family may be falling apart, but their massive fast-food chain is booming-- thanks to Pepper, who is secretly running Big League Burger's massive Twitter account. Jack is a class clown and a constant thorn in Pepper's side. He works at his family's deli. His relationship with the business that holds his future might be love/hate, but when Big League Burger steals...
15) Salt and Sugar
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"To save her family's bakery, Salt, which as been at war with the Molinas' bakery, Sugar, across the street, Lari Ramires does the unthinkable by teaming up with Pedro Molinas to save both their bakeries, falling in love in the process"--
16) Welcome home!
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Marguerite Henry's Misty Inn volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
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112 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"Willa Dunlap and her younger brother, Ben, are new to Chincoteague Island. Their parents are busy planning the opening of a bed-and-breakfast, which gives the kids plenty of time to explore. But with so many new people and places to get used to, Willa worries Chincoteague will never, ever feel like home"--Jacket flap.
17) Glimpsed
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Pub. Date
2021.
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376 pages ; 22 cm
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As eighteen-year-old high school Fairy Godmother Charity faces an existential crisis and blackmail from Noah, on whom she has a crush, she learns a great deal about her magic and herself.--
Charity doesn't wear a poofy dress or go around waving a wand, but she is a fairy godmother. She knows the deepest desires of the student population at Jack London High School -- because she can glimpse their perfect futures. When Charity fulfills a glimpse that...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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337 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"When Great Aunt Beauregard announces her intentions to bring budding engineer John into the family business of coffin manufacturing for the rest of his natural life--and, worse, to teach his sister Page to embalm--John decides enough is enough, and the two of them head out on the lam, maybe joining the circus"--
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2021.
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Aaron Stein's friends have gone to college and moved on with their lives, while he has been left behind in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State, running a failing bookshop with his dad, Ira. When an opportunity to sell the store arises, Aaron thinks it's his only way out. He doesn't account for Chad, a wheelchair bound optimist. Or the town's out-of-work lumberjacks taking on the failing shop as their pet project. Or Hannah, a musician who might...
20) Café con Lychee
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"Theo Mori and Gabriel Moreno have always been at odds. Their parents own rival businesses-an Asian American café and a Puerto Rican bakery-and Gabi's lack of coordination has cost their soccer team too many games to count. Stuck in the closet and scared to pursue his own dreams, Gabi sees his parents' shop as his future. Stuck under the weight of his parents' expectations, Theo's best shot at leaving Vermont means first ensuring his parents' livelihood...
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