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2024.
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"Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist. The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she's given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle...
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"Now more than ever, it's so important for everyone to understand our government: where it came from, how it works, and how we can bring about change. And, after all, in the words of author and government teacher Jeff Foster, "If you don't participate, you can't complain." This book is a comprehensive and entertaining guide that answers questions like: What is the Constitution? What are the branches of the government? What is the Electoral College?...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"What would you do if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thinks so too? What if the truth doesn't matter? As Lucy Chase's Texas hometown begins to tell versions of what happened and who Lucy is to a nationwide, true crime obsessed audience, at the bequest of her grandmother, she returns to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend's murder, even if she is the one that did it"--
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Star friends volume 9
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In this newest installment of the Star Friends series, Mia and her friends Lexi, Violet, and Sita go on a camping trip. But when strange things start happening, the girls suspect that there's some kind of magic at work. Can they figure out what it is? With black-and-white illustrations throughout."--
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate--along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish--pass...
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It was 1972 when North Invaded…
…200 tanks and three divisions advanced across the border
With peace hanging in the balance—the impossible happened…
When a Major in the US Marines chose to make a stand. He summoned the courage from within and rallied the South and through force of will, American Airpower, and a desire to live. He pulled off the impossible and snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.
The Battle of Quang Tri documents the...
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Dericott tale volume 6
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
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English
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England, 1388: All her life, Louisa has dreamed of finding the rumored “Giant’s Treasure,” a collection of ancient, lost riches said to be hidden on a mountaintop in Scotland, guarded by a fierce monster. It’s a story her father used to tell her, and when he dies and she and her younger sister have to go live with their shiftless, greedy uncle, Louisa is determined to find that treasure. It’s the hope that has kept her defying her uncle’s...
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English
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How far would you go to save your best friend from a fate worse than death?
Olivia Townsend will do whatever it takes to save Lilly from just such a fate.
The year is 1804, and Lady Olivia Sophia Townsend has turned 20 years old. She is beautiful, well-educated and considered by some in polite society to be far too eccentric for her own good. When Olivia was younger, she was very open about her gift. She can see and communicate with spirits.
The...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Galvanized by her work in our nation's jails, psychiatrist Christine Montross illuminates the human cost of mass incarceration and mental illness. Dr. Christine Montross has spent her career treating the most severely ill psychiatric patients. Several years ago, she set out to investigate why so many of her patients got caught up in the legal system when discharged from her care--and what happened to them therein. Waiting for an Echo is a riveting,...
11) Chased
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Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Siblings Jett and Karri Farrow are struggling with life in their aunt and uncle's home, but at least they're together-until Jett suddenly disappears. No one will tell Karri what happened, so she takes matters into her own hands: she'll find Jett herself. After hitchhiking as far as Las Vegas, her search has proven fruitless. She needs a job if she's going to continue her quest to find her brother. Unfortunately, the job she takes may just destroy...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Most women, transgender, and non-binary people who menstruate can expect to have hundreds of periods in a lifetime. So why is real information so hard to find? Despite its significance, most education about menstruation focuses either on increasing the chances of pregnancy or preventing it. And while both are important for many people, those who menstruate deserve to know more about their bodies than just what happens in service to reproduction. At...
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Publisher
Robinson
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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An indispensable guide offering insight and support to carers of people with depression. Looking after a person with depression can often leave carers emotionally and physically exhausted. This short, straightforward and easily understandable guide offers valuable advice on how carers can better understand the nature of depression and how it affects both patient and carer have a clearer understanding of the treatment options for the patient, including...
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Haven's Rock volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"In The Boy Who Cried Bear, New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong keeps readers on the edge of their seats while detective Casey Duncan tries to locate the threat before it's too late. . . Haven's Rock is a well-hidden town surrounded by forest. And it's supposed to be, being that it's a refuge for those who need to disappear. Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton already feel at home in their new town, which reminds...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"Brent Cummings, an Iraq war veteran, has come home feeling he survived one war only to find himself in the midst of another one. The country he loves and defended for twenty-eight years seems to be unraveling in front of his eyes. Raised to believe in avision of America that values fairness, honesty, and respect for others, Cummings is increasingly engulfed by the fear and anger sweeping through his beloved country as he tries to hold onto hope about...
16) Campus bones
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Series
Dead remaining volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It's been a year since Special Agent Susan Marlan and Professor Eric Evans worked a taxing missing persons case together on the Olympic Peninsula. Though the couple have since separated, Eric must reluctantly turn to Susan for advice when a student accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend comes to Eric for help proving his innocence. Susan--busy tracking down two missing employees of San Francisco's Gruben Dam--warns Eric to be cautious, as the young...
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Publisher
Audioworks, Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"In 1941, beautiful Irvel Ellis is too focused on her secret to take much notice in the war raging overseas. She's dating Sam but in love with his brother, Hank, and Irvel has no idea how to break the news when the unthinkable happens-Pearl Harbor is attacked. With their lives turned upside down overnight, Sam is drafted, and Hank wants to enlist. But Sam insists Hank stay home, where he and Irvel take up the battle on the home front. While Sam fights...
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Series
Night frights volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover/paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Wolver Hollow is not a normal town. The adults are too busy shuffling off to work at the old coffin factory to notice or care, but the kids know all about monsters, ghosts, and strange lights in the sky. Strange things happen in Wolver Hollow. Creepy things. Madeline Harper does not like lima beans and she's not afraid to make that clear. But when she gets sent to bed for not eating her vegetables, she'll find something far worse than her mother's...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Walking the halls of democracy as a Capitol Police officer, Harry Dunn was a man slowly experiencing an awakening. It sparked after the election of our first Black president. It grew as his belief in the bravery and honor of law enforcement was shaken by Ferguson and countless other cases of police brutality towards Black people. It continued to burn brighter as he watched members of Congress, many of whom he had befriended, lose their way to partisanship,...
20) Cold threat
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Series
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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"Twenty years ago, several people were murdered in Des Moines, and the only evidence left behind was a snowman ornament hanging ominously on a tree in the victims' front lawns. With a suspect behind bars, the killings have come to an end -- or so everyone thought. But now crimes with a similar MO are happening in a small Iowa town, and a local detective believes the killer is back and ready to strike again. With little time left on the clock before...
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