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21) The hotel
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"The Whitley was Nantucket's most exclusive hotel. It was a sprawling collection of pristine white cottages and an elegant main building on a long stretch of private, white sandy beach. The list of famous celebrity guests that had visited over the years was top secret and a matter of pride to the Whitley family. If you worked in the hospitality industry, landing a job at The Whitley was the ultimate goal. Many of the staff had lived and worked there...
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a Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she...
24) Dark places
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After witnessing the murder of her mother and sisters, seven-year-old Libby Day testifies against her brother Ben, but twenty-five years later she tries to profit from her tragic history and admit that her story might not have been accurate.
25) Titch
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Titch feels left out because he is so much smaller than his brother and sister until he gets a little seed that grows bigger than anything they have.
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Series of unfortunate events volume Book 4
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Accidents, evil plots, and general misfortune abound when, in their continuing search for a home, the Beaudelaire orphans are sent to live and work in a sinister lumber mill.
27) The wide window
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Series of unfortunate events volume 3
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Catastrophes and misfortune continue to plague the Baudelaire orphans after they'resent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine who offers little protection against Count Olaf's treachery.
28) Zen shorts
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When Stillwater the bear moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways.
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When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby proves both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, and Nicholas finds himself forced to make his own way in the world. His adventures gave Dickens the opportunity to portray an extraordinary gallery of rogues and eccentrics: Wackford Squeers, the tyrannical headmaster of Dotheboys...
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Judy Moody and Stink volume No number
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Candlewick Press
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As Hurricane Elmer hits, Judy, Stink, and the entire Moody clan hunker down and ride out the storm, but when the power goes out, Grandma Lou proposes some activities to pass the time in the dark.
32) Aqualicious
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At the beach, Pinkalicious and her brother help a tiny mermaid, a merminnie, to go back home.
34) Whistling season
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"Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition" that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting, ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee along with a stampede of homesteaders drawn by the
...35) Ish
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Candlewick Press
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Ramon loses confidence in his ability to draw, but his sister gives him a new perspective on things.
36) Sweet memories
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Innocent and unsure, Theresa Brubaker has lived much of her 25 years trapped in a body she loathed. Never becoming used to the unwanted attention from the opposite sex, her precious beauty was treasured by everyone but herself- that is, until an extraordinary man opens her heart to the wonderful possibilities of love. Sensitive and caring, Brian Scanlon seeks to unleash the butterfly wrapped in Theresa's cocoon of inhibitions. But trust...
38) Ladybug Girl
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Dial Books for Young Readers
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After her brother tells her she is too little to play with him, Lulu, dressed as Ladybug Girl, makes her own fun.
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Slow Burn volume Book 1
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When Caleb Devereaux's younger sister is kidnapped, he turns to an unlikely source for help. While Ramie can connect to victims and locate them by feeling their pain, her ability comes with a price. Every time she uses it, it costs her a piece of herself. Helping the infuriatingly attractive and impatient Caleb successfully find his sister nearly destroys her. Even though his sexual intensity draws her like a magnet, she needs to get as far away from...
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