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[2015]
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96 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm.
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A bug flies through an open door into a house, through a bathroom, across a kitchen and bedroom and into a living room ... where its entire life changes with the switch of a button. Sucked into the void of a vacuum bag, this one little bug moves through denial, bargaining, anger, despair and eventually acceptance -- the five stages of grief -- as it comes to terms with its fate. Will there be a light at the end of the tunnel? Will there be dust bunnies...
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It's a dirty galaxy and someone has to clean it.
Avoiding the wealthy inhabitants on the upper levels of Station Kelly Kornienko is bot-programmer Triana's number one rule. Well, number two, right after "eat all the chocolate."
But when one of her cleaning bots finds a dead body, all the rules go out the airlock. A highly connected security agent interrupts her routine with stories of missing bodies, and Triana can't ignore him; it's cooperate or...
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2022.
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"Peggy Rowe is at it again--this time giving a hilarious inside look at her writing career."--Provided by publisher.
Rowe has been writing all of her adult life- even through years of constant rejection from publishing houses. Between her tenacity and the encouragement of her family, her breakthrough finally came-- at the age of eighty! Here she shares her journey of attending myriad writers' conferences and honing her ability to see humor in everyday...
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Tommy is a vacuum cleaner salesman gripped by the fever of closing the deal. He lives on rice stored in his glove compartment and listens to motivation tapes of his own voice shouting. He's sure the Golden Vac (the holy grail of vacuum salesmanship) can be his - if only he hadn't been saddled with Pete, a meek sales trainee trying to help his girlfriend quit stripping.
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From the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend I'm Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voices in fiction, a delightfully one-of-a-kind novel about a cleaning lady named Mona and her struggles to move forward in life.
Soon to be an FX television show starring Lola Kirke.
Mona is twenty-six and cleans houses for a living in Taos, New Mexico. She moved there mostly because of a bad boyfriend-a junkie named Mr. Disgusting, long story-and her...
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New York Times Bestseller
Do you believe in magic? Can you imagine a war between wizards? An exciting journey in an airship or down in a submarine? Would you like to meet the fastest truncheon in the Wild West?
The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner is the second fabulously funny short-story collection from the late acclaimed storyteller Sir Terry Pratchett, author of the beloved and bestselling Discworld fantasy series. A follow-up
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Lidsville volume 3
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Weenie wants to create a flying carpet to help Mark escape from Lidsville.
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Embark on a joyful journey through household chores in "Why Women Prefer to Wipe and Men to Vacuum: Together Making Housework More Fun." Explore the humor and camaraderie in mundane tasks, learning to transform cleaning into a bonding experience. Delve into the gendered preferences in housekeeping and how they've evolved, finding joy in personalized chore charts and communication strategies. From dance-offs to decluttering, discover how to navigate...
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Gridman The Hyper Agent volume 32
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Three computer-savvy kids, Naoto, Yuka and Ippei created their own videogame superhero, but then discover it possessed by an inter-dimensional police officer, Gridman.
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Rusty Rivets volume 3
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Liam wants to visit an amusement park but when obstacles delay them, Rusty makes Liam his own theme park.
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Lyla in the Loop volume 8
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When the Loops vacuum breaks, Luke, Lyla and Everett test vacuums to pick the best one. / When the Loops don't have the right ingredients to make cookies, the kids set out to make them using substituted ingredients.
20) Happy-go-lucky
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The best-selling author offers a new collection of satirical and humorous essays that chronicle his own life and ordinary moments that turn beautifully absurd, including how he coped with the pandemic, his thoughts on becoming an orphan in his seventh decade, and the battle-scarred America he discovered when he resumed touring.
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