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Join the free-for-all fun at the public library with these book-loving bats! Shape shadows on the walls, frolic in the water fountain, and roam the book-filled halls untilit's time for everyine, youung and old, to settle down into the enchantment of stortime. -- back cover.
2) Library lion
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English
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A lion starts visiting the local library but runs into trouble as he tries to both obey the rules and help his librarian friend.
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"'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive...
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When Alice Wright agrees to marry handsome American Bennett Van Cleve and leave behind her stifling life in England for a new adventure in Kentucky, she's soon disenchanted by her newlywed status and overbearing father-in-law, owner of the local coal mine. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically.The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is...
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Morris Lessmore loves words, stories and books, and after a tornado carries him to another land, dreary and colorless, he finds a single book in color that leads him to an amazing library where, he learns, the books need him as much as he needs them.
10) For the birds
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Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 19
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
c2015
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English
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Coraline Watson brings her yellow-naped Amazon parrot to the library one night for the Birders Club meeting and Liddie takes an instant liking to the beautiful bird. Anne doesn't pay much attention to Coraline's wild stories about spies from a nearby chemical company until the next morning when the parrot, Lorenzo, appears at Liddie's window. Anne tries to return the bird but Coraline's house is dark and empty, the front window is broken and no one...
11) Mum's the word
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Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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When Anne finds an ancient Egyptian clay pot in the attic, which Aunt Edie excavated at an archaeological dig, she decides to put it on display in the library. Mildred Farley takes one look at it, then trips and falls, suffering a badly sprained anke. "It's cursed!" she exclaims, visibly shaken by the artifact's reappearance. Soon all of Blue Hill is in an uproar, recounting various disasters brought on by the relic when Aunt Edie first brought it...
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Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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When a powerful storm blows through Blue Hill, Anne's children are rescued by a drifter named Jack Kendall. Anne doesn't want this stranger near her children, but they immediately grow attached to him, enthralled by stories of his adventures. Meanwhile, Ben and Ryan are determined to help raise money for their classmate Cade who has leukemia. His family needs help paying the medical bills, and the whole town rallies around them. Inspired by Jack's...
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Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival the Guadalupian Library hosts every year! Everyone has a special book they're looking for, but there's so much to see and do first. From cookbook demonstrations and comics workshops to mask making and language classes, this library has something for everyone. Can Little Lobo, Bernabé, Kooky Dooky, Coco Rocho, and La Chida each find the book of their dreams?"--