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10581) Bluey: 5-minute stories
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Bind-up edition.
Language
English
Description
"Go swimming with Bluey, spend the day with Bingo, play charades with Muffin, and more! This collection includes 6...stories with Bluey and her family that are prefect for reading in a jiffy."--
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Harper Perennial edition.
Language
English
Description
"Married Love is a masterful collection of short fiction from one of today's most accomplished storytellers. These tales showcase the qualities for which Tessa Hadley has long been praised: her humor, warmth, and psychological acuity; her powerful, precise, and emotionally dense prose; her unflinching examinations of family relationships. Here are stories that range widely across generations and classes, exploring the private and public lives of unforgettable...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"[Presents] a joyful, heartwarming celebration of family in all its forms: multicultural families; LGBTQ+ families; adoptive and foster care families; single-parent and blended families; transnational families; families impacted by incarceration, detention, and deportation; chosen families; military families; and more"--Amazon.
10585) Final word
Author
Series
The Winterton deception volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Thirteen-year-old twins Hope and Gordon enter a spelling bee in a last-ditch effort to save their family from financial ruin, only to find themselves in a cut-throat competition to uncover a fortune and dark secrets about the wealthy relations they have never known."--
10587) The better Brown stories
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Unhappy with the stories that are shaping their lives, the members of the Brown family go to see the writer responsible.
10588) My world
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A little bunny delights in all the familiar things in his daily life.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Henry and Mudge and the sneaky crackers: While trying out the spy glasses, spy hat, and other items in their new spy kit, seven-year-old Henry and his dog Mudge make a new friend and form a spy club.
Henry and Mudge and the big sleepover: Henry and his dog Mudge are invited to a sleepover in Patrick's attic, where they watch monster movies, eat pizza, and enjoy a contest to determine whose dog is the best popcorn catcher.
Henry and Mudge and Annie's...
Author
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
From the critically acclaimed author of Happy All the Time and Home Cooking, a wise and witty tale of a woman struggling to overcome her grief and find her future
When Sam Bax, a charming daredevil of a Boston lawyer, sails his boat into a storm off the coast of Maine, Elizabeth "Olly" Bax, his wife, is widowed at twenty-seven. With no pretense of courage, and a vague dislike for what she feels is the cheap availability of her emotions, Olly grieves...
10591) Invitation to the waltz
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1932]
Language
English
Description
Rosamond Lehmann's enduring classic, told from the point of view of its seventeen-year-old heroine, who has been invited to her first dance Today is Olivia Curtis's seventeenth birthday. In exactly one week, she will attend her first dance. She is thrilled . . . and terrified. Will Tony Heriot ask her to dance? Will he even remember that they once attended the same costume party? What will she wear? Something bright and beautiful-red silk?...
10592) The Turnbulls
Author
Pub. Date
1943.
Language
English
Description
The son of a wealthy English merchant, John Turnbull's destiny appears to be a life of gentlemanly leisure. His path: graduate from his fashionable school and marry his beautiful cousin, Eugenia, whom he loves. Yet, one wild night, a jealous classmate tricks him into making a fateful mistake. Forced to give up his former life, Turnbull sails for America. He soon falls in with the unscrupulous businessman Mr. Wilkins. Together, they steal patents,...
10594) Stella Batts: pardon me
Author
Series
Stella Batts volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Third-grader Stella Batts needs to find a new best friend after her friend, Willa, moves away, but finding a new best friend is not easy"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Matt Sprouts is in big trouble. He didn't mean to hurt his neighbor Jenna with that awesome ninja move, it just happened! Blame it on morning cartoons or Jenna's lack of coordination. Anyways, getting grounded is the worst thing that could happen, right? WRONG. After the ninja incident spirals into a series of downright unfortunate events, it's decided that Matt has contracted 'the Curse,' a hometown myth that has ruined the lives...
10597) Close relations
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The New York Times bestselling author of Compromising Positions returns at her sexy and satiric best, with a novel that blends sex, politics, and family craziness
Marcia Green is a sophisticated, witty, successful New Yorker, a whiz of a political speech writer, a woman who finds a smoke-filled room more intoxicating than a magnum of champagne. Her private life is a little less bubbly. She has a passionate but not very...
10598) Zombies don't eat veggies!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although Mo's parents insist he eat zombie cuisine, Mo craves vegetables and strives to get them to taste recipes made from his hidden garden. Includes recipes.
10599) Underwater
Author
Language
English
Description
Ever since the mass shooting at her California high school, junior Morgan Grant has become increasingly agoraphobic until even the idea of stepping outside her door can bring on a panic attack, a situation not made any easier by the fact that her parents are divorced--but when Evan moves in next door she finds herself attracted to him and begins to find herself longing for the life she has been missing.
10600) Hope ablaze
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Nida faces unexpected fame after her critical poem about a politician goes viral and wins a contest she never entered, which leaves Nida unable to write poetry as she struggles with her family's expectations and questions her own desires.
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