Fred Berman
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Series
Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader and self-proclaimed genius Nate Wright faces his all-time enemy, Gina, when they are paired to work on a research paper together and she also gets a position on his intramural team.
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Series
Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Nate's class notes and locker are a disaster, and when his best friend Francis gets in trouble because of his messiness, Nate decides to clean up.
Author
Series
Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 4
Language
English
Description
Big Nate Wright is president of P.S. 38, the after school cartooning club. When he doodles his observations in his cartoon notebook: "Mighty Jefferson Middle School always wins," Nate decides it's time to go from zeroes to heroes! Will Nate crack under the pressure of the "Ultimate Snowdown"? Or lead P.S. 38 to its biggest victory ever?
Author
Series
Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Nate's a big deal in his scout troop ... until Artur - aka Mr. Perfect - joins up. Now Nate's stuck in second place. And Artur means business. Will Nate take the grand prize? Or wipe out, big time?
Author
Series
Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 8
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
After his fight with Randy Betancourt makes headlines in the school paper, Big Nate has a problem worse than detention on his hands.
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Language
English
Description
Sage Singer becomes friends with an old man who is particularly beloved in her community after they strike up a conversation at the bakery where she works. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. One day he asks Sage for a favor, to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses, but then he tells her he deserves to die. Once he reveals his secret, Sage wonders if he is right. Can someone who has committed a truly heinous act...
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"The beloved, mega bestselling first novel from Audrey Niffenegger, "a soaring celebration of the victory of love over time" (Chicago Tribune). A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who inadvertently travels through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures...
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Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals, and new enemies emerge to challenge...
10) The shadow land
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English
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"From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes an engrossing novel that spans the past and the present--and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria, a beautiful and haunted country. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi--and...
11) A winter dream
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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A holiday tale inspired by the biblical story of Joseph and the coat of many colors follows the modern story of Joe, who after being forced out of the family business by jealous siblings becomes the chief adviser to the CEO of another company and his own family's savior in the face of a troubled economy.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Leaning on her beloved Sheltie after a lifetime of painful losses, Justine Meade struggles with a difficult separation when she returns to her childhood home after a twenty-year absence and encounters an estranged couple torn by the loss of their daughter.
13) Sadie
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Sadie's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated Colorado town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water. When Mattie is found dead, and the police investigation is botched, Sadie is determined to bring her sister's killer to justice. She hits the road following a few meager clues. When West McCray, a radio personality working on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America, hears Sadie's story, he becomes...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Now an animated series from Paramount + & Nickelodeon!
The sixth Big Nate book in the New York Times bestselling series by Lincoln Peirce! Perfect for fans of the hilarious Diary of Wimpy Kid series.
A laugh-out-loud must-read illustrated novel starring the one and only cartooning genius, king of detention, and Cheez Doodle connoisseur, Nate Wright. Nate's not having the best of luck . . . in fact;
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Public speaking coach and bestselling author Gallo has broken down hundreds of TED talks and interviewed the most popular TED (technology, entertainment, design) presenters as well as the top researchers in the fields of psychology, communications, and neuroscience to get their cutting-edge insights and to reveal the nine secrets of all successful TED presentations.
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"A year after the Bayview four were cleared of Simon Kelleher's death, a new mystery has cropped up--a game with dangerous consequences that's targeting students at Bayview again. And if the creator isn't found soon, dangerous could prove deadly"--
18) The unteachables
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English
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Told in alternating voices, the teacher and students in room 117 find their lives changed over the course of a school year.