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1) Mrs. Miracle
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Practical advice from his new housekeeper helps Seth Webster, a widower with six-year-old twins, rebuild his life after the loss of his wife.
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Costas sisters volume 1
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After learning that her twin is missing and assumed dead, a Vermont psychology professor takes a leave of absence and returns to her family home determined to find her.
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The Bobbsey Twins series set the mark for juvenile fiction in the early twentieth century, and was almost single-handedly responsible for the genre's skyrocketing popularity during that era. This early entrant in the series introduces the eternally chipper Bobbsey family and their two sets of fraternal twins. Younger readers will be charmed by these tales of simple childhood pleasures.
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Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 2
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Bick Kidd and his globe-trotting siblings Beck, Storm and Tommy may have completed their first treasure hunt after their father was lost at sea, but their kidnapped mother is still in the hands of nasty pirates. Their search for a rescue plan takes them down the Nile river in Africa, where they'll have to navigate everything from Egyptian pyramids in the desert to wet-and-wild jungles - not to mention life-threatening encounters with wilderness diseases,...
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Award-winning writer Kim Edwards's The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a brilliantly crafted family drama that explores every mother's silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's syndrome. Rationalizing it as...
6) Goal line
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Barber twins volume 5
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When identical twin brothers Ronde and Tiki Barber grow at different rates the summer before their last year at Hidden Valley Junior High, their relationship both on and off the football field changes.
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"Nate Long has always watched over his identical twin brother, Aaron, even when it put him on the wrong side of the law. When Aaron is wounded in a shootout, the brothers are taken to Settler's Fort to recover. As Nate works to make reparations for their past, he marvels at the nursing Aaron receives under the care of a woman with all the reason in the world to resent him.Laura Hannon knows what it is to start over, and she knows Nate's newfound faith...
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Lopsided Christmas cake volume 2
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"Living alone for the first time in her life is lonely for Elma Hochstetler, whose twin sister Thelma recently married. Though they share the running of a general store, more and more of Thelma's time is taken up by her growing family. Elma has dated some, but she wonders if she is just too picky to find love. Through a mishap at the farmers' market, Elma meets Ben Wagler and instantly likes him. But there is a problem. He lives in Grabill--50 miles...
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"1930's Kansas, and the family Neva Shilling never expected to raise: her husband's other family"
1930's Kansas. Neva Shilling's husband travels to neighboring communities and sells items from his wagon. In his absence she runs the Shilling Mercantile, working to keep their business strong as the Depression takes its toll, and caring for their twins. Then a deputy delivers three young children-- Warren and his wife have died, and their last request...
10) Trading places
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Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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When Atlanta Police Detective Aggie Jade is seriously wounded and her partner killed in a raid gone dangerously wrong, her identical twin sister, Lizzie, a high-stakes gambler and karate expert, assumes her identity to search for those responsible, but her charade is threatened by her attraction to sexy investigative reporter Nathan Hawke.
12) Go long!
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Barber twins volume 2
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When Coach Spangler leaves at the start of their second year of junior high school, thirteen-year-old twins Tiki and Ronde wonder if his replacement, history teacher Mr. Wheeler, can coach the Eagles to another winning football season.
13) Spider bite
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Extreme adventures volume 5
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Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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When Sam Fox's twin brothers, Harry and Jordan, are carried off in a runaway hot air balloon, Sam ends up trapped with them; the ride turns into a life-or-death struggle when Jordan is bitten by a Sydney funnel-web spider.
15) Kickoff!
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Tiki and Ronde Barber tryout for the Hidden Valley Eagles football team when they enter junior high.