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"Millie has one goal: to make a movie in tribute to her late father. At the Manhattan Movie Academy, run by Ricky O'Naire, her favorite director, she's determined to make it happen. But before she can finish her project, the academy is shut down. Seven months later, she sees a preview for the new O'Naire movie--and he's stolen her idea. Outraged, she reunites her former film crew to steal the movie and hold it for ransom days before its high-profile...
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"I know what you did." The anonymous note starts an ominous game of cat and mouse. Soon, Emily finds herself trapped in a web of gaslighting and manipulation. Someone is lurking in the shadows, observing her every move, and insidiously replacing her in her own existence. With no one she can trust, Emily turns to a stranger for help, an ex-soldier with his own baggage to carry, but is he who he appears to be? As the danger escalates, Emily fights to...
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Katharine Wright volume 1
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December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright sibling to finish college. But at twenty-nine, she's frustrated...
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2024.
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"On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a criminal mastermind and collector of secrets. Her prestigious tearoom transforms into an illegal bloodhouse by night, catering to the vampires feared by society. But when her establishment is threatened, Arthie is forced to strike an unlikely deal with an alluring adversary to save it—she can’t do the job alone. Calling on some of the city’s most skilled outcasts, Arthie hatches a plan to...
6) Knowing you
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"Budding artist May Parker is captivated by the Japanese exhibits at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and longs to know more about her mother's heritage--which her mother refuses to speak of because of the heartache she left behind in Japan. Wanting to experience more of the exhibits, May works as a Camera Girl--but her curiosity leads her into danger when a suit of samurai armor becomes the target of an elusive art forger. After ten years apart,...
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"1901: Back from their honeymoon in Italy, Emma and Derrick are adapting to married life as they return to their duties at their jointly owned newspaper, the Newport Messenger. The Elms, coal baron Edward Berwind's newly completed Bellevue Avenue estate, is newsworthy for two reasons: A modern mansion for the new century, it is one of the first homes in America to be wired for electricity with no backup power system, generated by coal from Berwind's...
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Dragon girls volume 12
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"Three new girls share an incredible secret-- they can transform into powerful Sea Dragons when they travel to the Magic Forest! They must work together to banish the evil Fire Queen, once and for all. Sofia the Lagoon Dragon must find the missing narwhal leader before it's too late. Otherwise the Magic Kingdom's seas will disappear forever!"--
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"In this high-interest accessible novel for middle-grade readers, a cosplaying thief at an anime expo has stolen a valuable print belonging to the celebrity that shy thirteen-year-old Bree Wong has come to meet. She hopes that she'll get a face-to-face with her idol if she can catch the culprit and recover the stolen print."--
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2023.
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"A gripping Rust Belt thriller that captures the characters of a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, revealing their troubled pasts and the crimes that could cost them their lives. In Locksburg, Pennsylvania, a former coal and steel town whose best days seem long past, five thousand residents have toughed it out, and have reasons for both worry and hope as this neglected place teeters between decay and renewal. For some of them, their biggest troubles...
11) Aces wild
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Benedict and Brazos volume 1
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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
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2023.
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Captain Duke Benedict and Sergeant Hank Brazos were on opposite sides during the Battle of Pea Ridge... but ended up fighting shoulder to shoulder when a common enemy showed his face. Bo Rangle, leader of the guerrilla force known as Rangle's Raiders, took advantage of the slaughter to steal two hundred thousand dollars' worth of Confederate gold. When their trails crossed again after the war, Duke and Hank decided to team up, find Rangle, and reclaim...
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John Ellsworth Books Inc
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2022
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English
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The Jury Did its Job...and Everyone Else's Job, too. What happens when a new jury is made up of jaded members? Some of them have sat on juries where the bailiff or a policeman stuck his head in the door and gave them information that was barred in court. Or maybe the government uses a fake tape recording to convict someone, and the jury decides to get hold of the original tape and see what's changed. Or maybe a judge has agreed to help the government...
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Kino Lorber Inc
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[2019]
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English
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The inimitable 'Man With No Name' teams with two gunslingers to pursue a fortune in stolen gold, but they soon discover their greatest challenge is to stay alive. Includes the original theatrical cut; extended version; and over 100 minutes of special features.
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Fizz volume 3
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Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
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2017.
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Meet Fizz - the daring dog detective!. Fizz's heart is beating fast. Today he begins his first case as an undercover police dog. It's going to be tricky. At the last three show dog championships the winner's tiara has been stolen. Now Fizz must go deep undercover as a contestant at the Pemberley Show Dog Trials. Fizz and police dog Remi have to perform at their peak to try to catch the show dog jewel thief red-handed.
15) A royal tea
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Secrets from grandma's attic volume 13
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Guideposts Books & Inspirational Media
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"To support the widows and orphans of the war-torn Eastern European country of Moravina, the ladies of Canton decide to host a city-wide tea party. Tracy Doyle, along with some help, is able to convince those in town to sponsor tables specifically catered to their businesses. Tracy and her family even decide they should form a table themed around Grandma Pearl! But as the event gets bigger and bigger, things start to snowball out of Tracy's control....
16) Duel threat
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Secrets from grandma's attic volume 12
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Guideposts Books & Inspirational Media
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"It’s spring cleaning season in Canton, and Amy Allen, along with her sister, Tracy, and their cousin, Robin, are organizing a city-wide garage sale. All the proceeds will be donated to one of their grandmother’s favorite charities, the Blessings Children’s Foundation. But as they are searching the attic for items to sell, they uncover what could be their most shocking discovery yet. Inside an old kitchen cabinet, Amy finds a...
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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
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2023.
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An army patrol led by Lieutenant Shadrak Pickett is making its way through the Pioneer Mountains in south-west Montana. Its purpose is to deliver the monthly payroll to Fort Wisdom. Then Jake Rankin, an old colleague of Pickett's, asks for a ride to the next trading post, claiming his horse has died from snakebite. But Rankin's plan is to steal the payroll in such a way that Pickett takes the blame. A cunning deception by the brigand ruins Pickett's...
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Geronimo Stilton Special Edition volume 21
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Scholastic Inc
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[2015]
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English
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The Thea Sisters are in Russia for a figure-skating championship! When their new friend is falsely accused of theft and barred from competing, the five mice resolve to clear her name. Along the way, they discover ancient love letters that could be the key to finding the real culprit! But can they solve the mystery in time?
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Unsolved case files volume no. 003
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Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2022]
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English
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Two thieves posing as Boston Police officers gain entry to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Once inside, they steal thirteen pieces of art, including several rare Rembrandts. Eighty-one minutes later, these men walk off with $500 million worth of art. This heist is the single largest private property theft in the United States--and despite decades of investigation and dozens of false leads, the case remains unsolved to this day.