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Author
Series
Henry Huggins volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Fiery Ramona Quimby and the well-meaning Henry Huggins may clash, but in this delightful and hilariously told novel by Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary, an unlikely compromise wins the day. Henry and his friends are building a no-girls-allowed clubhouse. With a private space of their own away from everyone else and even a top-secret entry password they're all thrilled with their boy fort. But Henry's about to find out that nothing, not...
Author
Series
Penguin drop caps volume T
Language
English
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Description
"In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan's debut novel--now widely regarded as a modern classic--examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between these four women and their American-born daughters."--Publisher's description....
Author
Series
Thursday Murder Club novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case--their favorite kind-leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers.Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot. While Elizabeth wrestles with her conscience (and a gun), Joyce,...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
390 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her role in a family tragedy in the midst of the Great Depression, fifteen-year-old Thea Atwell has been cast out of her Florida home to an equestrian boarding school for Southern debutantes; she must grapple with her responsibility for the events that led her to the school.
Author
Series
Qwikpick papers volume 2
Publisher
ABRAMS, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
While searching for the Rat with the Human Face, friendships fray as club members Dave and Lyle compete for Marilla.
Author
Series
Thursday Murder Club novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim—the Thursday Murder Club—are still riding high off their recent real-life murder case and are looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet at Cooper’s Chase, their posh retirement village.
But they are out of luck.
An unexpected visitor—an old pal of Elizabeth’s (or perhaps more than just a pal?)—arrives, desperate for her help. He has been accused of stealing diamonds worth millions from the wrong...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends on a mission--they're sick of the way women are treated even at their progressive NYC high school, so they decide to start a Women's Rights Club. They post their work online--poems, essays, videos of Chelsea performing her poetry, and Jasmine's response to the racial microaggressions she experiences--and soon they go viral. But with such positive support, the club is also targeted by trolls. When things escalate...
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
145 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Amelia Bedelia and her friends clean up a vacant lot and build a clubhouse--with surprising results! Includes a guide to idioms used in the book and features black-and-white art throughout"--
Author
Series
Thursday Murder Club novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. There's Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Envisioned as a luxurious home-away from-home for Very Important People, The Home Group is a collection of celebrity members clubs dotted across the globe where the rich and famous can party hard and then crash out in its five-star suites, far from the prying eyes of fans and the media. But behind the scenes, tensions are at breaking point. As tempers fray and behaviour worsens, as things get more sinister by the hour and the body count piles up,...
Author
Series
Thursday Murder Club novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"It's rarely a quiet day for the Thursday Murder Club. Shocking news reaches them--an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, where the tricks of the trade are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online fraudsters--as well as heartache close to home--Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim have no idea...
Author
Series
Critter club volume 7
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
110 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Liz is excited that her three best friends are visiting her family's cabin at Marigold Lake, but something seems to go wrong with every activity she planned.
Author
Series
Data Set volume 3
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Little Simon paperback edition.
Physical Desc
125 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Bunsen's newest invention brings extraterrestrials down to Earth, can second-graders Gabriel, Laura, and Caesar, aka the DATA, keep their town from being space invaded?
14) Tumbling blocks
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 299 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Benni Harper, anticipating a holiday visit from her disapproving mother-in-law, has more stress heaped upon her when her boss, the imperious Constance Sinclair, demands she investigate the death of Arva Edmondson, a socialite whose demise has left an opening in the upper-crust "49 Club," a restricted organization in which a member literally must die before another can join.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Over the last few years, prominent people--a retired diplomat, beloved basketball coach, the CEO of an empire--have died in a series of fluke accidents and shocking suicides. There's no apparent connection, no signs of foul play. Behind it all is a powerful group of women, the Sophie Foundation, who meet over wine and cheese to review files of men who behave very, very badly, and then mete out justice. Jessa Hall jumped at the mysterious, exclusive...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 17
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
A discarded chain letter augers a series of bad events for Mary Anne, who is plagued by bad luck and a threatening note demanding a midnight meeting on Old Man Sutcliff's grave.
Author
Series
Critter club volume 16
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Little Simon hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Taking a turn caring for the class pet hamster, Marion is devastated when the hamster goes missing and she receives an anonymous letter in her locker with clues leading to a mysterious scavenger hunt.
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