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EllRay Jakes series volume 8
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English
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Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes of Oak Glen Primary School is looking for a new best friend, and he decides that the best way to find one is to come up with a bunch of amazing things to do at recess--and see who shares in the fun.
4) Dead flip
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Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"Eighteen-year-olds Cori and Maz, once inseparable best friends, reunite to solve the mystery of what happened to their other friend Sam--who disappeared six years ago and has now returned, not having aged at all"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Last kids on Earth volume 7
Language
English
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This much anticipated seventh book in the best-selling series finds Jack, Quint, June and Dirk continuing their journey with new friends, new stakes and a new ride.
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Series
Captain Awesome volume 22
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After seeing a real-live magic show, Eugene has decided he wants to become a magician. So he studies magic tricks and practices them on anyone he can: his best friends, his parents, and even his baby sister. Then his teacher announces that her students will all be sharing something new they've learned recently, and Eugene knows this is the perfect chance to show his skills. For his biggest trick yet, Eugene will make the class pet hamster, Turbo,...
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"'Can I just be Marissa, please? I want to be hilarious and sexy and smart and insanely knowledgeable about wine.' --Mindy Kaling A fresh, fun, and unpretentious guide to wine from Marissa A. Ross, official wine columnist for Bon Appetit. Does the thought of having to buy wine for a dinner party stress you out? Is your go-to strategy to pick the bottle with the coolest label? Are you tired of choosing pairings based on your wallet, instead of your...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion. Bunny Mellon, who died in 2014 at age 103, was press-shy during her lifetime. With the co-operation of Bunny Mellon's family, author Meryl Gordon received access to thousands of...
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Pub. Date
[1934]
Edition
Original text.
Language
English
Description
A psychiatrist, Dick Diver, treats and eventually marries a wealthy patient, Nicole. Eventually, this marriage destroys him. A story of Americans living on the French Riviera in the 1930s is a portrait of psychological disintegration as a wealthy couple supports friends and hangers-on financially and emotionally at the cost of their own stability.
12) The long ride
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In New York in 1971, Jamila and Josie are bused across Queens where they try to fit in at a new, integrated junior high school while their best friend, Francesca, tests the limits at a private school.
13) Dear Sweet Pea
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Series
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English
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Patricia “Sweet Pea” DiMarco wasn't sure what to expect when her parents announced they were getting a divorce. She never could have imagined that they would have the “brilliant” idea of living in nearly identical houses on the same street. In the one house between them lives their eccentric neighbor Miss Flora Mae, the famed local advice columnist behind “Miss Flora Mae I?” Dividing her time between two homes is not easy. And it doesn't...
14) Bud, not Buddy
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English
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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
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English
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It's 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He's terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he's gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media's images of men dying of AIDS. Judy is an aspiring fashion designer who worships her uncle Stephen, a gay man...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
In Season Three of this Emmy nominated comedy, the safety of Tandy and the group is in jeopardy as armed intruders storm the Malibu beach near their home, and no one can agree on what to do. When Todd suffers from major remorse, Tandy tries to lift his best friend’s spirits, even if it requires a few white lies. And after finding a mysterious note left by Melissa that says Goodbye, the gang sets off to go look for her.
17) Cameron Diaz
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Cameron Diaz was thrown into the spotlight at the age of 16, when working as a fashion model she graced the covers of seventeen magazines in two years. At 22 she auditioned and won a role in "The Mask" with Jim Carrey; then, proving she was no one-hit wonder, appeared in ten movies over the next four years, including "Feeling Minnesota" with Keanu Reeves, "There's Something about Mary" and "My Best Friend's Wedding".In 2000 she became the second woman...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken--with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity--is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, a first-generation...
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English
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"From her Italian American childhood through singlehood, raising and feeding a growing family, divorce, and a new marriage to food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of a good meal. Growing up, she tasted love in her grandmother?s tomato sauce and dreamed of her mother?s special-occasion Fancy Lady Sandwiches. Later, the kitchen became the heart of Hood?s own home. She cooked pork roast to warm her first apartment, used...
20) Green: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Boston, 1992. David Greenfeld is one of the few white kids at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School. Everybody clowns him, girls ignore him, and his hippie parents won't even buy him a pair of Nikes, let alone transfer him to a private school. Unless he tests into the city's best public high school--which, if practice tests are any indication, isn't likely--he'll be friendless for the foreseeable future. Nobody's more surprised than Dave when...
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