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This 1872 sequel to Lewis Carroll's beloved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds the inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Looking-glass land, a topsy-turvy world lurking just behind the mirror over Alice's mantel, is a fantastic realm of live chessmen, madcap kings and queens, strange mythological creatures, a garden of talking flowers, and rude insects. Brooks and hedges divide the lush greenery of looking-glass...
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Alice McKinley. Main series volume 7
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A month before eighth grade begins, Alice realizes she is going to have to face something she's been afraid of forever. Everybody, she knows, is afraid of something: elevators, dogs, planes, spiders ... but her fear is worse. It's going to bring absolute disaster to the rest of her summer, maybe to the rest of her life. The truth is she's afraid of deep water!
It's a hot August, and everyone in Alice's gang goes to Mark Stedmeister's swimming pool...
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Alice McKinley. Prequels volume 2
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Fourth-grader Alice tries unsuccessfully to avoid embarrassing mistakes and to establish better relations with her older brother Lester.
5) Alice alone
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Alice McKinley. Main series volume 13
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Alice's first year in high school gets off to a difficult start when her boyfriend Patrick becomes interested in someone else, but with the help of her father, older brother, and best friends, she gains a better sense of her own self-worth.
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Alice McKinley comes home on the first day of junior high with a list of seven things about seventh grade that stink. Just about the only good thing she can think of is that she's friends with everyone. Maybe that's how to survive seventh grade-make it through the entire year with everyone liking her.
That turns out to be easier said than done, when Alice gets on the wrong side of the school bully, Denise 'Mack Truck' Whitlock. But Alice's problems...
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Alice McKinley. Main series volume 12
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During the summer between eighth and ninth grades, Alice and her friends Pamela and Elizabeth decide to improve themselves through exercise.
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Alice McKinley. Main series volume 9
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Alice is in the eighth grade, and while she wants her life to be exciting and outrageous, she also wants to feel protected and safe.
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In this gritty, mystery series debut, a lone wolf detective must use her wits to nab a serial killer terrorizing Edinburgh professionals.
If it was me, if I was the murderer, Alice thought, where would I go? What would I do? The job he had set himself was unfinished, he must be aware that his luck could not go on forever. It was a simple calculation; at best, a lifetime in prison, at worst he'd be killed by the police while attempting to complete...
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Les années ont passé.
Alice mène une vie paisible en compagnie de sa famille, en sachant que ce sera
bientt le moment o elle devra annoncer la vérité à son fils. Quand Stéphane prend la fuite et que Véra surgit au beau milieu d'un repas, Alice comprend que l'heure est venue.
Faisant le deuil de la vie qu'il croyait connaître, Danaël tente, tant bien que mal, d'être à la hauteur du rle qu'il se voit confier : réunir les clans et instaurer...
12) Achingly Alice
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Alice must choose between Patrick and Sam in this beloved series.
How can someone be in love with two people at the same time? It doesn't make sense to Alice-until Sam, her friend from Camera Club, starts to pay attention to her. Sam is quiet, gentle, and a terrific dancer, and Alice likes being with him. But Alice has been Patrick's girlfriend for almost two years-so why is she interested in another guy?
As Alice stumbles her way through the minefield...
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Alice Payne Rides is the thrilling sequel to Kate Heartfield's Alice Payne Arrives.
After abducting Arthur of Brittany from his own time in 1203, thereby creating the mystery that partly prompted the visit in the first place, Alice and her team discover that they have inadvertently brought the smallpox virus back to 1780 with them.
Searching for a future vaccine, Prudence finds that the various factions in the future time war intend to use the crisis...
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Kate Heartfield's Alice Payne Arrives is the story of a time traveling thief turned reluctant hero in this science fiction adventure.
A disillusioned major, a highwaywoman, and a war raging across time.
It's 1788 and Alice Payne is the notorious highway robber, the Holy Ghost. Aided by her trusty automaton, Laverna, the Holy Ghost is feared by all who own a heavy purse.
It's 1889 and Major Prudence Zuniga is once again attempting to change history-to...
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This special edition of Lewis Carroll's timeless classic - complete and unabridged - is beautifully illustrated by Fran Parreño. Follow Alice's adventures as she disappears down a rabbit-hole and meets a cast of curious characters, including a White Rabbit, a Mad Hatter, and a grinning Cheshire Cat...
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Alice finally got her wish. Wonderland has become her new home, but with her abuser's avatar with the uncanny grin turning the mad residents of a moonstruck world against her, she's clawing for a little rationality amongst the chaos.
As Alice's sister Edith and her childhood friend Earl fight for a way to bring her back, Alice has to contend with whether or not her torment is due to her father, herself, or maybe a curious combination of both…...
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"If you like on the edge of your seat thrillers then please have a look at this one. Stunning doesn't do this justice." When madness and genius, collide the results are deadly... Adrian Stone believes he is a genius. A narcissist, with a psychotic desire to pursue his ambition to become the world's most revered pianist, Stone joined London's Royal College of Music as a child prodigy, believing his path to fame was secure. But when, his parents decided...
18) Blood Symmetry
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"Alice is a vividly realized protagonist whose complex and harrowing history rivals the central crime storyline." -New York Times bestselling author Sophie Hannah
Clare Riordan and her son, Mikey, are abducted from Clapham Common early one morning. Hours later, the boy is found wandering disorientated. Soon after, a container of Clare's blood is left on a doorstep in the heart of London.
Psychologist Alice Quentin is brought in to help the traumatized...
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Alice K. Lambert is the owner of Lambert House, an elegant totally ADA-compliant bed-and-breakfast on Maui. She recently promoted her assistant Kaleo to manage the inn. This allows Alice to travel extensively and to increase her advocacy for victims of domestic violence and people with disabilities.
Before beginning an adventure in Colorado with her young nephew, Stefan, Alice rents a cabin for a week in Estes Park where she attends a mushroom identification...
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The first death looked like a suicide. But someone had tucked a picture of an angel and a handful of white feathers into the banker's pocket before pushing him in front of a train. A killer is stalking The Square Mile-the financial district in London-an avenging angel intent on punishment. But why these victims? What were their sins?
Psychologist Alice Quentin swore she'd never get involved with police work again. Her duty is to the living, not the...