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1) Loving Lucy
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English
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Life took her to unexpected places. Love brought her home.
When UNICEF worker, Lucy McCarthy, returns to her hometown of Mundarrah, Australia, for her father's funeral she is confronted with a shocking secret that changes her life.
When old high school boyfriend and successful businessman, Flynn Pedersen, supports her while she sorts it out, their old attraction is rekindled.
But knowing Lucy's commitment to her work with children overseas, Flynn...
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Fox and O’Hare novels volume 1
Fox and O'Hare novels volume 1
Doubleday Large Print Home Library
[Fox and O'Hare series] volume 1x
Fox and O'Hare novels volume 1
Doubleday Large Print Home Library
[Fox and O'Hare series] volume 1x
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English
Description
FBI Special Agent Kate O'Hare is known for her fierce dedication and discipline on the job, chasing down the world's most wanted criminals and putting them behind bars. Her boss thinks she is tenacious and ambitious; her friends think she is tough, stubborn, and maybe even a bit obsessed. And while Kate has made quite a name for herself for the past five years, the only name she's cared about is Nicolas Fox, an international crook she wants in more...
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English
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"A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris. In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister...
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Harold Coyle's Cat and Mouse reveals the chaos of warfare as Islamic terrorists, lead by their most charismatic leader to date, form a powerful coalition in hopes of breaking America's will to continue the war on terror
In the War on Terror, it is often difficult to tell who the enemy is. Sometimes your fiercest opponent isn't an insurgent or a fanatic bent on making a statement in blood, but a chain of command...
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English
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"For readers of Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, a transportive historical novel about finding morality in the throes of war and colonization Released from Nazi forced labor as World War II ends, 20-year-old Sam is quickly drafted and sent to the island of Java to help regain control of the colony. But the Indonesian independence movement is far ahead of the Dutch, and Sam is thrown into a guerilla...
6) Rescued
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Series
Ape quartet volume 3
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English
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When John was ten years old his father brought back a baby orangutan from Indonesia, and Raja quickly becomes John's "brother" and responsibility--so years later, after his parents divorce, and his father has sold Raja to a roadside zoo, John sets out to rescue him and bring him to a sanctuary in Indonesia.
The third entry in the taut, heart-wrenching quartet that made Eliot Schrefer a two-time National Book Award finalist introduces us to an orangutan...
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Aunties volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After an ultra-romantic honeymoon across Europe, Meddy Chan and her husband Nathan have landed in Jakarta to spend Chinese New Year with her entire extended family. Chinese New Year, already the biggest celebration of the Lunar calendar, gets even more festive when a former beau of Second Aunt's shows up at the Chan residence bearing extravagant gifts-he's determined to rekindle his romance with Second Aunt and the gifts are his way of announcing...
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Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 19
Jack Ryan novel volume 19
[Jack Ryan Universe volume 28
Thorndike Press large print core
Jack Ryan novel volume 19
[Jack Ryan Universe volume 28
Thorndike Press large print core
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English
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"Father Pat West, S.J., was a buddy of the young Jack Ryan when they were both undergraduates at Boston College. Father West left a comfortable job in the philosophy department at Georgetown to work with the poor in Indonesia. Now he's been arrested and accused of blasphemy against Islam. President Ryan is desperate to rescue his old friend, but he can't move officially against the Indonesians. Instead he relies on the Campus team to find out who...
11) Thief of glory
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"This WWII drama is both exciting in its revelations and heart-rending in its truth about human nature and forgiveness"--
13) Poacher panic
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Series
Wild rescue volume 1
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
�2012
Language
English
Description
Twins Ben and Zoe are recruited by their mysterious uncle Dr. Stephen Fisher, a famous zoologist, to rescue a Sumatran tiger from poachers.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Surviving the 2002 nightclub bombings in Bali, American adventure guide Jamie is haunted by traumatic memories, meets a range of colorful fellow survivors, and fears risking her heart when she finally reconnects with Gabe, the man who saved her from the blast.
16) The flame tree
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Just before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, an anti-American Muslim group gains power in Java, and Isaac, the twelve-year-old son of American missionary doctors, finds his world turned upside-down.
17) The killing sea
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami in Sumatra, two teenagers, American Sarah and Acehnese Ruslan, meet and continue together their arduous climb inland, where Ruslan hopes to find his father and Sarah seeks a doctor for her brother.
18) Berani
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Publisher
Pajama Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Perspectives of two Indonesian middle-schoolers and a caged orangutan entwine. Wealthy Malia faces the consequences of disobediently circulating an anti-palm-oil petition at her school, resulting in suspensions for herself, her best friend, and her teacher. Ari, fortunate to be plucked from his impoverished village to attend school and compete in chess tournaments, helps the uncle who is hosting him but worries about Ginger Juice, the orangutan his...
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin Ib�erica
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Español
Description
"En un impulso nada propio de ella, Kate Fielding se concedi�o el capricho de disfrutar de una noche de sexo con un desconocido. Pero sus acciones comenzaron a perseguirla cuando descubri�o que su amante apasionado era nada menos que su nuevo jefe, Damon Gillespie. Inmensamente avergonzada, Kate tuvo que volar por negocios a Bali con Damon, a un lujoso complejo de vacaciones. Kate quer�ia demostrar que era una profesional, pero diez noches sensuales...
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Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A World War II novel about a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies"--
"Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies, Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb...