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Sands of Arawiya volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 24
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In a world inspired by ancient Arabia, seventeen-year-old Zafira and the sultan's son Nasir continue their quest to uncover a lost magic artifact and discover that the prize they seek may be even more dangerous than any of their enemies.
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2019.
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"Two-year-old Greta Greene was sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan when a brick crumbled from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious. She is immediately rushed to the hospital. Once More We Saw Stars begins with this event, leading the reader into the unimaginable. But although it begins with the anguish Jayson and his wife Stacy confront in the wake of their daughter's trauma and the hours leading...
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A dedicated nurse, Stella finds comfort at the hospice where she works the late shift, especially since her husband returned from Afghanistan cold, distant, and shattered by painful memories he refuses to share. The hospice at night is another world, where the dying receive closure by creating the letters that Stella helps them write. The pages are filled with love and humor, sometimes regret, and, occasionally, even instructions for a perplexed husband...
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Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
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[2021]
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English
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"In 1927, orphaned eight-year-old Alec Oswin sails from India to an unknown future in England. Meanwhile, in the English fenlands, June Attwell memorizes maps, patterns, and railway timetables, hoping for a future beyond her father's vicarage. Alec and June become friends, and, in time, marry. When the Second World War breaks out, Alec joins the RAF, while the Foreign Office sends June to its covert Y-service outposts on the edge of the war-torn Empire....
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When young sailor Felix Diamond receives a letter from his estranged uncle begging for help, he returns home to Blackrabbit Island for the first time in ten years. There he discovers his uncle missing and his aunt positioning herself as the new head of the notorious Diamond family. With nowhere else to turn, Felix must enlist the help of former crime lord and current Watch Commander, Vince Knight-a man he trusts less than anyone alive. He'll also...
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"When Daniel de La Luna arrives as a scholarship student at an elite East Coast university, he bears the weight of his family's hopes and dreams, and the burden of sharing his late uncle's name. Daniel flounders at first--but then Sam, his roommate, changes everything. As their relationship evolves from brotherly banter to something more intimate, Daniel soon finds himself in love with a man who helps him see himself in a new light. But just as their...
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The final countdown begins in three hours. … Blimey. The last thing Kurt wants is to wear a space helmet, and, no, they didn't plan on saving the world either-Not before their eighteenth birthday anyway. Who'd have thought friending a lonely alien would lead to the Cape Canaveral launch pad.Best friends since they were ten years old, Kurt O'Hara and Beast Harris tackle the typical teenage challenges together: pronouns, AWOL bodies, not to mention...
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Nachdem Ivy ihren Freund Leon beim Fremdknutschen erwischt hat, will sie nur noch eins: keine Kerle mehr in ihrem Leben! Sie packt die Koffer und erfüllt sich endlich ihren Traum, Australien zu bereisen. Schließlich landet sie in dem kleinen Küstenort Emerald Bay, der sie sofort verzaubert. Hier will sie auf einer Farm aushelfen und ihr Leben neu sortieren. Sie hat jedoch nicht damit gerechnet, dass ihre Mitbewohnerin Taylor in Wahrheit ein verdammt...
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Growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Ilse Stadler has the typical dreams and questions of any child- how she fits into the world, what her purpose is, and who the mysterious woman who lives next door is. Her curiosities about the stars above her and the shapes of the constellations are all answered by her father's exciting bedtime stories. Ilse goes into hiding after the Anschluss, when the Nazis invade and take her parents away.
Unbeknownst to...
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"In 1941, Theo Coster was a student at the Amsterdam Jewish Lyceum, one in a class of 28 Jewish children that the Nazis had segregated from the rest of the Dutch population. Among Theo's fellow students was a young Anne Frank, whose diary would later become one of the most important documents of the Holocaust. In this remarkable group portrait, Coster and five of his fellow classmates gather their personal stories and memories of Anne. The accounts...
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Although we may be in our later years, did we live out our best ones? Our former years may have been the best season of our lives or a timespan of broken dreams. Regardless, our past does not influence what is yet to come. God's unforeseen promises are accessible to all who follow Him as did Abraham. When God called Abraham out of an ordinary life to fulfill an extraordinary role as Father of Many Nations, he was seventy-five years of age. We Will...
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There are other worlds with mysteries to solve.Worlds where not all of the suspects are technically alive.That's when Karma kicks in. Stripped of her position, facing an unsure relationship with potential boyfriend Adam, and still foster mom to an emo sixteen year old poltergeist named Pixie, ghost transporter Karma Marx thought she'd seen it all…and then she is sent on a train ride across Europe to save a woman from her abusive spouse. The situation,...
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Pawn Stars volume 6
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English
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Moonwalk with the Pawn Stars when a lunar Bible from Apollo 14 lands in the shop. Will Rick make a good offer on the good word or leave it in orbit? Next, a 1930s Buck Rogers Disintegrator Gun zaps in. Will Corey laser in on a deal?