Brilliance Audio (Firm)
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Another such wave could easily be the end of us. I had to do something, fix something, save the boat, save myself.
But what?
Gary Paulsen takes readers along on his maiden voyage, proving that ignorance can be bliss. Also really stupid and incredibly dangerous. He tells of boats that have owned him—good, bad, and beloved—and how they got him through terrifying storms that he survived by sheer luck. His spare prose conjures...
But what?
Gary Paulsen takes readers along on his maiden voyage, proving that ignorance can be bliss. Also really stupid and incredibly dangerous. He tells of boats that have owned him—good, bad, and beloved—and how they got him through terrifying storms that he survived by sheer luck. His spare prose conjures...
122) Maybe this time
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North Archer, Andie Miller's ex-husband, asks her to become the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already--and live in a haunted house! What follows is a hilarious adventure in exorcism, including a self-doubting parapsychologist, an annoyed medium, her Tarot-card reading mother, an avenging ex-mother-in-law, and, of course, her jealous fiancé. And just when Andie thinks things couldn't get more complicated, North shows...
123) Juana & Lucas
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Juana and Lucas volume 1
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[2016]
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A spunky young girl from Colombia loves playing with her canine best friend and resists boring school activities, especially learning English, until her family tells her that a special trip is planned to an English-speaking place.
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Beautiful, lyrical prose, told in two voices, lifts up a poignant story of two traumatized teens who find each other in a small riverside town. i am the girl manny loves. the girl who writes our story in the book of flying. i am alice. Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone. Something inside Alice is broken: she remembers words but struggles to speak them. Still, Alice knows words are for sharing, so she pins them to posters...
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"It's undeniable-technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence, worthy of both celebration and analysis. We learn more and retain it longer, write and think with global audiences, and even gain an ESP-like awareness of the world around us. Modern technology is making us smarter, better...
126) Trading Christmas
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Through an internet site, Charles and Emily arrange to swap houses for the holiday. Emily goes to Boston and discovers that her daughter has gone to Florida. Charles arrives in Leavenworth to discover that it's not the prison town, it's Santa's village! Through all the mix-ups and misunderstandings, amid the chaos and confusion, romance begins to emerge in unexpected ways. Because everything changes at Christmas!
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Once the center of madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse, the 1800s Gilded Age palace known as the Pendleton, has been re-christened in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building. But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, and elevators plunge into unknown depths.
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In 1915, Naomi and Sally Durance, two spirited Australian sisters, join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their fathers farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Though they are used to tending the sick, nothing could have prepared them for what they confront, first on a hospital ship near Gallipoli, then on the Western Front. Yet amid the carnage, the sisters become the friends they never were at home and find themselves courageous...
129) Chaos in death
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[2012], ℗2011
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3 audio discs (3 hr., 41 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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A psychotic killer roams the city with a satchel of scalpels, fresh off a triple kill. A mysterious drug pumps through his veins, making him dance in the streetlight and twirl his cape like Jack the Ripper. Eve Dallas is the tough lieutenant hot on his trail, but it's unlike any case she's ever been assigned, or any killer she's ever pursued. A police sketch reveals the killer has green skin, swollen red eyes, goblin ears, and a dislocated jaw-structure...
130) Wild ride
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p2009
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11 sound discs (12 hr., 26 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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When Mary Alice Brannigan comes home to Ohio to restore the Dreamland amusement park, she doesn't expect to fall in love with a clown. Nor does she expect to find that she's the newest recruit in the Guardia, an elite team of demon fighters formed centuries before to guard the five Untouchables, the most powerful demons in the history of the world, now imprisoned right there in Dreamland.
131) Divided allegiance
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p2010
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15 sound discs (18 hr., 29 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Paksenarrion, a simple sheepfarmer's daughter, yearned for a life of adventure and glory, such as was known to heroes in songs and story. At age seventeen she ran away from home to join a mercenary company. Here, Paks leaves the Duke's company to follow the path of Gird alone. On her lonely quest she encounters the other sentient races of her world.
132) Lost boy lost girl
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p2011
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8 sound discs (9 hr., 1 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son--beautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill--vanishes from the face of the earth. To his uncle, horror novelist Timothy Underhill, Mark's inexplicable absence feels like a second death.
133) Ghost of a chance
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p2011
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6 sound discs (6 hr., 49 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Anne Silver and an ex-CIA agent work to expose a clever ring of swindlers. These two must also face their unlikely love.
134) Wonder
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Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his clasassmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
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Sonia's entire village believes she has a gift, but it's only in leaving home that she finds out who she truly is. A compelling tale from a rich new voice in young adult fiction.
Sixteen-year-old Sonia Ocampo was born on the night of the worst storm Tres Montes had ever seen. And when the winds mercifully stopped, an unshakable belief in the girl's protective powers began. All her life, Sonia has been asked to pray for sick mothers or
136) Wicked ways
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"A spine-tingling thriller in which one woman's birthright holds the key to a rash of brutal murders"--
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Judy Moody volume 12
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When it is "Backward Day," Judy must turn her usual sour mood upside down and be happy and nice for a change.
138) Truth-stained lies
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Three sisters--a blogger, a cab driver, and a stay-at home mom--investigate to try and clear their brother's name after he is accused of murder.
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Lost fleet volume 2
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To ward off an attack by the Syndics, Geary orders the fleet to the Sancere system where they engage in combat, which takes its toll on the officers and crew of the Alliance, prompting a mutiny that divides them.
140) Honor bound
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Honor bound volume 1
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In 1942 First Lieutenant Cletus Frade, a Marine aviator, and two others are sent to Buenos Aires to sabotage the resupply of German ships and submarines.