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1) Lucky duck
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Susan the duck keeps feeling unlucky, so when a wolf shows up with gifts she has won it seems like her luck is turning around, but soon she realizes the wolf's intentions may not be as helpful as she imagined.
2) East is East
Author
Pub. Date
1991, ©1990
Physical Desc
xii, 364 pages ; 20 cm
Description
Young Japanese seaman Hiro Tanaka, inspired by dreams of the City of Brotherly Love and trained in the ways of the samurai, jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and swims into a net of rabid rednecks, genteel ladies, descendants of slaves, and the denizens of an artists' colony. In the hands of T. Coraghessan Boyle, praised by Digby Diehl in Playboy as "one of the most exciting young fiction writers in America," the result is a sexy, hilarious tragicomedy...
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Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
ix, 292 p. ; 17 cm.
Description
When Northelm Boarding School is terrorized by a deadly demonic ghost named Hatchet Jack, M.J. Holliday, gifted with the ability to communicate with the dead, is hired to send Hatchet Jack back to hell, while dealing with an uncooperative dean, her partners, and a gorgeous doctor.
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Pub. Date
2004.
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xiv, 287 pages ; 22 cm
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"She's Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler's Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He's Carter Bayoux, her first American: a hard-drinking, middle-aged black intellectual. Lore Segal's novel tells the story of their unforgettable love affair."--Book Jacket.
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Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 18
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Hasta ahora, el instituto no ha sido lo que diríamos un camino de rosas para Greg Heffley. Así que cuando la ciudad amenaza con cerrar el edificio porque está en ruinas, a Greg no se le ve muy afectado. Pero cuando se entera de que no lo enviarán al mismo instituto que a su mejor amigo, Rowley Jefferson, las cosas cambian. ¿Podrán Greg y sus compañeros salvar su instituto antes de que lo cierren para siempre? ¿O será este el inicio...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"Once upon a time teenage Aurora Evans met a hockey player at the Mall of America. He was from Canada. And soon, he was the perfect fake boyfriend, a get-out-of-jail-free card for all kinds of sticky situations. I can't go to prom. I'm going to be visiting my boyfriend in Canada. He was just what she needed to cover her social awkwardness. He never had to know. It wasn't like she was ever going to see him again... Years later, Aurora is teaching kids'...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
In this giggle-inducing story, the narrator is WRONG about everything, including that bicycles say cock-a-doodle-doo and firefighters shout Ding Dong! before putting out a fire, until the characters within the book set him straight.
10) At first spite
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Series
Harlot's Bay volume 1
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
After her fiancé's brother convinces him to break up with her before the wedding, Athena Greydon moves into a ten-foot-wide Spite House between the two and engages in some well-deserved payback.
When Athena Greydon's fiancé ends their engagement, she has no choice but to move into the Spite House she recklessly bought him as a wedding gift. This is a problem, for several reasons: The house, originally built as a brick middle finger...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Description
"Attention, reader: You're going to LOVE this book! No, really, you are. It's got everything you could ever want: comedy, drama, action, heart. Plus--are you ready? It's got homework! Ahh yeah! And a trip to the best place ever, the dentist! Ahhhh yeahhh! Additionally--brace yourself--it's got raisins! Nature's candy. AHH YEAHHH! This book is so great, you won't be able to stop reading it. I DARE you not to have fun"--
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"A monstrously fun story that puts a wholesome twist on a familiar fear." -- Provided by publisher.
Blossom loves jumping snake, swimming in the bog, and playing slime ball. She doesn't love the creepy sounds above her bed that no one else seems to notice. Determined to get to the top of it once and for all, Blossom hatches a plan that leads her to find courage...and a new friend. This is a wholesome twist on a familiar fear that will make you wonder--what...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Description
"This little pea is hungry! So hungry it swallows a sprout, slurps up some soup, munches the bread, gobbles the cake, noshes the pickle, guzzles the cheese, drinks all the tea, and even chomps down the table it's all served on. After all that, it needs to sleep. But whose dinner did it steal? And whose mattress is the now-humongous pea resting under? This wickedly funny mash-up of 'The princess and the pea' and 'There was an old lady who swallowed...
15) The imposter
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"Skunk wants to be a dog. Everyone loves dogs. And every dog seems to have exactly what he's looking for: a home and a family. When Skunk sees a "lost" poster for Max the dog, he wonders if he can pass himself off as the missing pet. He enlists the help of three neighborhood critters -- a racoon, a cat, and a squirrel -- who train him in the art of being a dog with hilarious results. But, uh-oh, there's just one thing Skunk didn't account for"--
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"From the author of Mr. Malcolm's List comes a delightful romantic comedy set in Regency England about a widow who takes high society by storm. Diana Boyle, a wealthy young widow, has no desire to ever marry again. Particularly not to someone who merely wants her for her fortune. So when she discovers that she's listed in a directory of rich, single women she is furious, and rightly so. She confronts Maxwell Dean, the man who published the Bachelor's...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
397 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Armed with talismans, including an enchanted jacket that gets people to do anything, a baseball bat that fixes anything it breaks and a manifestation stone that makes anyone fall in love, Rosie, her older sister Caro and Zeke find their lives intertwined in magical and hilarious ways"--
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