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School for Good and Evil volume 1
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Best friends Sophie (princess wannabe) and Agatha (witchy loner) are headed (via kidnapping) to the School for Good and Evil, but their assumed destinies are reversed.
2) Flying Solo
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Opportunity is knocking at the door of Mr. "Fab" Fabiano's sixth-grade class. Mr. Fab is absent and a substitute never arrives. The class wants to prove that kids rule, so they decide to run the class on their own. Super-smart Karen leads the way in the class routines and most of the kids join in. But for Rachel White, this isn't just any day. Rachel's been silent for six months and communicates by writing notes. Rachel knows today is exactly...
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Domestic equalizers volume 5
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To commemorate Elvis Presley's birthday, Hogg's Drive-In in Salt Lick, Texas displays an "actual" pair of Elvis's blue suede shoes until someone swipes them right out of their display case. Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina Perkins-Martin are shocked and the plucky, detecting duo agrees to help the town's inept sheriff track down the royal blue loafers.
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"When Maze returns to Wildstone for the wedding of her estranged bff and the sister of her heart, it’s also a reunion of a once ragtag team of teenagers who had only each other until a tragedy tore them apart and scattered them wide. Now as adults together again in the lake house, there are secrets and resentments mixed up in all the amazing childhood memories. Unexpectedly, they instantly fall back into their roles: Maze their reckless leader,...
5) Santa cruise
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Santa's Crew volume 1
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At Ridgewood High, Amy, Frankie, Rachael and Nina formed a deep bond. Now, 15 years after leaving school behind, they're back for a reunion, laughing, reminiscing and chatting how much has changed - and how much hasn't. Nina, once the star of every school play, moved to Hollywood and landed a recurring role on a sitcom. Amy, fondly known as 'the brains of the operation,' is now a Silicon Valley bioengineer. Outgoing and compassionate, Frankie works...
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"Claire Luchette's debut, Agatha of Little Neon, is a novel about yearning and sisterhood, figuring out how you fit in (or don't), and the unexpected friends who help you find your truest self"--
For the last nine years Agatha and her sisters work together, laugh together, pray together. The four of them are devoted to Mother Roberta and to their quiet, purposeful life. When the parish goes broke, the sisters land in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, a former...
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Dragon girls volume 7
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"A super collectible series that celebrates the inner fire of everyday girls! Rosie, Phoebe, and Stella all share an incredible secret---when they travel to a place called the Magic Forest, they can transform into powerful creatures called Night Dragons. Once there, the friends must save the Magic Forest from an evil that threatens to banish nighttime--forever. Rosie is determined to help! Her first task is to save the forest's magical daydreams from...
8) Forest
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Amber has been spending a lot of time in the forest lately. She feels at home there. Safe. She's also discovered a strange and unexpected world in the upper branches of the trees. A world filled with peace and a quiet beauty. She's even found a new friend. But Amber is about to discover that everyone doesn't feel the same way about her special place. That they will actually want to destroy it. And she will do everything she can to make sure...
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"L. Alison Heller, whose work has been praised by Liane Moriarty as "warm, witty...refreshingly true to life," explores the ultimate sacrifices of parenting in The Neighbor's Secret, a propulsive and juicy novel filled with gripping twists and instantly recognizable characters. How well do you really know your neighbors? With its sprawling yards and excellent schools, Cottonwood Estates is the perfect place to raise children. The Cottonwood Book Club...
10) Can't look away
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"From the author of Tell Me Lies and Too Good to Be True comes Carola Lovering's Can't Look Away, a sexy suspense novel about the kind of addictive, obsessive love that keeps you coming back--no matter how hard you try to look away. In 2013, twenty-three-year old Molly Diamond is a barista, dreaming of becoming a writer. One night at a concert in East Williamsburg, she locks eyes with the lead singer, Jake Danner, and can't look away. Molly and Jake...
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Godmothers to one another's children, four women who married into a prosperous Italian family must come together, despite secrets and betrayals, when their husbands are forced to leave them during World War II, pitting them against notorious gangsters who run the streets of New York City.
Filomena is a clever and resourceful war refugee with a childhood secret, who comes to America to wed Mario, the family's favored son. Amie, a beautiful and dreamy...
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"Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in Lucy Jago's A Net For Small Fishes, a gripping dark novel based on the true scandal of two women determined to create their own fates in the Jacobean court. With Frankie, I could have the life I had always wanted . . . and with me she could forge something more satisfying from her own . . . When Frances Howard, beautiful but unhappy wife of the Earl of Essex, meets the talented Anne Turner, the two strike up an unlikely,...
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When a thunderstorm grounds all flights following a huge Muslim convention, four unlikely kids are thrown together. Feek is stuck babysitting his younger sister, but he's rather be writing a poem that's good enough for his dad, a famous poet and rapper. Hanna is intent on finding a lost cat in the airport--and also on avoiding a conversation with her dad about him possibly remarrying. Sami is struggling with his anxiety and worried that he'll miss...
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In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvation saves a young Japanese officer from an attacking tiger. In an instant, their fates are connected, and from this encounter unfolds a saga that spans half a century. In the aftermath, a young girl named Jade is sold by her family to Miss Silver's courtesan school, an act of desperation that will cement her place in the lowest social status....
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"Pinkalicious can't wait to have a kindergarten buddy. But what if her buddy doesn't like kindergarten? Will Pinkalicious be able to show her how pinkatastic it can be? Young readers in kindergarten now or getting ready for it will relate to Pinkalicious's hopes and be reassured by her friendship success"--
16) Fish and Crab
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"Crab wants to sleep, but Fish is full of "what if" worries, so Crab tells him to list them all"--
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An unbelievably hilarious middle-grade story inspired by true experiences from bestselling author Jordan Sonnenblick. In a typical school year, every kid has one or two things go wrong. But for Jordan, there's A LOT going wrong ALL THE TIME By keeping his cool (some of the time), banging on the drums (a lot), and keeping his sense of humor (all the time), Jordan's going to try to make it through the year . . . and grow up to write a book about it!...
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"Sixth grader Betsy is the one who informs her best friend, Lizard, that thousands of the world's languages are currently threatened by extinction; Betsy's mother is a linguistics professor working frantically to study dying languages before they are lost forever. But it is Lizard who, gripped by the magnitude of this loss, challenges Betsy, "What if, instead of WRITING about dying languages, like your mom, you and I SAVED one instead?" As the girls...
20) The final boss
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Trapped in a video game volume 5
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Jesse and Eric must battle fire-breathing pterodactyls, angry green, giants, and laser-shooting unicorns in order to make it to the final boss and save the world.