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Chicago Stars volume 8
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Discovered by the former quarterback she was hired to tail, detective Piper Dove pretends to be the athlete's stalker and is subsequently hired as his bodyguard, an arrangement threatened by their growing chemistry.
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Tiny pretty things volume 2
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June, Bette, and Gigi have given their all to dance at Manhattan's most elite ballet school. Now they are competing one final time for a spot at the prestigious American Ballet Company. With the stakes higher than ever, these girls have everything to lose...and no one is playing nice.
June is starting to finally see herself as a prima ballerina. However, getting what she wants might cost her everything--including the only boy she's ever loved. Legacy...
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"It starts with a simple favor--an ordinary kindness mothers do for one another. When her best friend, Emily, asks Stephanie to pick up her son Nicky after school, she happily says yes. Nicky and her son, Miles, are classmates and best friends, and the five-year-olds love being together--just like she and Emily. A widow and stay-at-home mommy blogger living in woodsy suburban Connecticut, Stephanie was lonely until she met Emily, a sophisticated PR...
5) Back
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When Jojo is released from prison after serving time for beating a man into a coma, Ardell, the victim's brother, makes plans to get revenge.
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 18
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In an isolated village in the mountains of Andalusia, a mysterious Frenchwoman begins work on a dangerous memoir. It is the story of a man she once loved in the Beirut of old, and a child taken from her in treason's name. The woman is the keeper of the Kremlin's most closely guarded secret. Long ago, the KGB inserted a mole into the heart of the West - a mole who stands on the doorstep of ultimate power. Only one man can unravel the conspiracy: Gabriel...
7) Guinea dog
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When his mother brings home a guinea pig instead of the dog he has always wanted, fifth-grader Rufus is not happy--until the rodent starts acting exactly like a dog.
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"When five kids are invited to a cemetery at midnight, they think it's just a prank. When they find a gravestone that instructs them to dig up a grave, they think it's just a joke. It's no joke. An evil force is unleashed--a force that takes the shape of their worst fears"--Back cover.
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Set in the 1980s, this item is about a 12 year boy "Jack" and his relationship with his Grandpa. Grandpa's memory is slipping. He often mistakes Jack for his WWII squadron leader. Jack's parents have sent Grandpa to a boring rest home, he wants to escape. Will Jack help him?
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Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 1
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When the mothers of four sixth-grade girls with very different personalities pressure them into forming a book club, they find, as they read and discuss "Little Women, " that they have much more in common than they could have imagined.
11) Enna burning
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Books of Bayern volume 2
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Enna hopes that her new knowledge of how to wield fire will help protect her good friend Isi--the Princess Anidori--and all of Bayern against their enemies, but the need to burn is uncontrollable and puts Enna and her loved ones in grave danger.
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Any of the Warners could have been behind the accident. Every one of them had a problem that threatened to tarnish more than their old-money silver. Having spent the past three decades' worth of summers on Nantucket, the Warners are as much a part of the island as the crust of salt on the ferry. But this year is different: Tripp is no longer the father he was, and it becomes clear that nothing - not the beams that hold the house together, and not...
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When a popular high school athlete commits suicide amid rumors of local satanic worship in a 1990s Pennsylvania community, an unlikely friendship between a lonely misfit and a pop-culture rebel leads both to a feverish downward spiral of high risk and dangerous secrets.
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"Gail and Jon Durbin moved to the Chicago suburbs to set up house as soon as Gail got pregnant. But then she miscarried - once, twice, three times. Determined to expand their family, the Durbins turn to adoption. When several adoptions fall through, Gail's desire for a child overwhelms her. Carli is a pregnant teenager from a blue-collar town nearby, with dreams of going to college and getting out of her mother's home. When she makes the gut-wrenching...
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"Prince Alfred has never left the safety of Buckingham Palace. But there are strange goings on inside the palace walls -- and Alfred's life is about to change forever. In the dead of night something terrible stalks the corridors. When Alfred's beloved mother the queen is dragged off... the boy must summon all his courage to embark on an epic quest to save her... and the entire world"--
17) Bri's Big Crush
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Brianna Edwards has a big crush on the new boy, David Massey. So when Mrs. Massey asks her to babysit David's younger siblings, Bri sees it as her chance to connect with David.
18) Alien Invasion
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"A gamer must rescue his crew and captain from an alien invasion, with a talking robot as his only aid, when he plays this virtual reality video game"--
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When thirteen-year-old Olivia is asked by her new neighbors to babysit their four kids for the weekend, she is a little apprehensive because their house is supposed to be haunted, but she also thinks it may be a way to win back her best friend who has started hanging out with the "in" girls.
20) Labyrinth
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"Two gamers are placed in a virtual-reality video game, where they must solve puzzles and defeat robotic creatures as they work their way through a mechanical labyrinth. This wouldn't be so hard if they could just learn to work together--and they'll need to in order to win the game"--
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