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Mitford years volume 1
Language
English
Description
It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable. Yet Father Tim, the bachelor rector, has more than he can handle--with church secretary Emma Garrett managing his every move, a lovable but unloved boy named Dooley thrust into his care, and the charm of a new neighbor who effects surprising change in his stick-in-the-mud habits.
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English
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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,...
4) It: a novel
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English
Description
To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine, was just their hometown: familiar, well-ordered, a good place to live. It was the children who saw--and felt--what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, It lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each person's deepest dread. Sometimes It reached up, seizing, tearing, killing ... The adults, knowing better, knew nothing....
Author
Series
Mitford years volume 3
Language
English
Description
Life in a small Southeastern mountain town, centered on its colorful Episcopal minister. He is Timothy Kavanagh, 63, a lifetime bachelor who finally takes the plunge and gets married to his vivacious neighbor, Cynthia. By the author of A Light in the Window.
8) Naruto
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
2003-
Language
English
Description
In the village of Konohagakure, school is literally a battlefield where classmates are ninjas in training competing to become the greatest ninja in the land.
9) Homecoming
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English
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The sons...two brothers embittered by a breach of ethics, honor and trust. The grandchildren...one young couple on the verge of divorce; another, lovingly united agaist the partens who have tarnished thieir lives. As the ill fated meeting hurtles toward a bitter and abrupt conclusion, not even Annette Byrne's indomitable will can heal the rift-until a shattering event alters the landscape forever.
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English
Description
"Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood - but secretly, she pours her dreams and frustrations onto the pages of her notebook like prayers. When she is invited to join her school's slam poetry club, Xiomara doesn't know how she could ever attend without her religious mami finding out. But even so, in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent."--taken from back cover.
Xiomara...
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Series
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English
Description
In this third book about Omri and his magic cupboard, Omri and his friend Patrick must risk grownups' discovering their secret when they find themselves in need of a friend's toy plastic doctors to save wounded people from the dangerous world of the Old West which the cupboard enables them to enter.
Author
Series
Daughters of Mannerling volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
13) Forest of wolves
Author
Series
Seekers (Erin Hunter). Return to the wild volume 4
Seekers return to the wild volume 4
Seekers. Return to the wild volume 4
Seekers return to the wild volume 4
Seekers. Return to the wild volume 4
Language
English
Description
"The four bears have reached the mountains where Toklo spent his cubhood--but they soon discover that the home Toklo has returned to is nothing like the one he remembered"--
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Neo and the rebel leaders estimate that they have 72 hours until Zion falls under siege to the Machine Army. Only a matter of hours separates the last human enclave on Earth from 250,000 Sentinels programmed to destroy humanity. The citizens of Zion, emboldened by Morpheus' conviction that the One will fulfill the prophecy and end the war with the Machines, invest all their hopes and expectations in Neo, who finds himself troubled by disturbing...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"American soldiers, aided by an Austrian colonel who was both an Olympian and a trainer of Lipizzaners, attempt to kidnap horses that had been taken by Nazis "for the glorification of the Third Reich" and smuggle them to safety." --
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Series
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English
Description
"Anne Perry's "vastly entertaining" (The Star-Ledger) holiday novels are "as delicious as mince pie and plum pudding" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). A Christmas Hope is just as delectable--the gripping story of an unforgettable battle between goodness and evil in Victorian London--and a lonely woman's search for meaning in her life. Although she lacks for nothing, Claudine Burroughs dreads the holiday season for forcing her to face how empty her life...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Struggling with her Puerto Rican identity, her grandfather's memory loss and transfer to a nursing home, and her sister's depression, seventh-grader Cassie joins the Mathletes at school, finding comfort in numbers and in her new friendship with Aaron.
Author
Series
Naruto (Manga) volume 13
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the village of Konohagakure, school is literally a battlefield where classmates are ninjas in training competing to become the greatest ninja in the land.
Language
English
Description
In season 5, the characters of Heartland will find they have to return to their roots in order to move forward. Amy will reach a new level of horsemanship. Lou discovers the sacrifice and reward of becoming a working mother while transforming the Heartland Dude Ranch with her husband, Peter. Tim will seek out his long lost son and work on building a relationship with him, while Jack, as always, remains the rock of Heartland, keeping the family together...