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"For Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman, executive assistants to the CEOs of newly merged Bexley-Gamin Publishing, it's hate-at-first-sight. So begins a series of daily passive-aggressive maneuvers, including the staring game, the mirror game, and the HR game, each played with the intensity of the Hunger Games. Their mutual antipathy grows when a new executive position opens at Bexley-Gamin, and both their bosses put their names up for the promotion....
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Series
Tiny pretty things volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Three top students at an exclusive Manhattan ballet academy compete for the status of prima ballerina, with each willing to sacrifice, manipulate, and backstab to be the best of the best.
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"Kit Owens harbored only modest ambitions for herself when the mysterious Diane Fleming appeared in her high school chemistry class. But Diane's academic brilliance lit a fire in Kit, and the two developed an unlikely friendship. Until Diane shared a secret that changed everything between them. More than a decade later, Kit thinks she's put Diane behind her forever, and she's begun to fulfill the scientific dreams Diane awakened in her. But the past...
5) Scythe
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Arc of a scythe volume 1
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English
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""In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't"--
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2018.
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English
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Beartown returns with an unforgettable novel about people--about strength and tribal loyalty and what we unwittingly do when trying to show our boys how to be men (Jojo Moyes). Have you ever seen a town fall? Ours did. Have you ever seen a town rise? Ours did that, too. A small community tucked deep in the forest, Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don't expect life to...
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English
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"When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother's bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She brings their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening, leaving her Westchester home to the men and their hired entertainment. What she does not expect is this: bacchanalian drunkenness, her husband sharing a dangerously intimate moment in the guest room, and two women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards...
9) Awkward
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Series
Berrybrook Middle School novels volume 1
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
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210 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
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English
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After shunning Jaime, the school nerd, on her first day at a new middle school, Penelope Torres tries to blend in with her new friends in the art club, until the art club goes to war with the science club, of which Jaime is a member.
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"In this powerful novel about the cost of ambition and success, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback at an age when the world considers her past her prime-from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising. Carolina Soto is undeniably fierce. She is determined to be the best professional tennis player the world has ever seen. And by the time she retires from the game in 1989 at the age of thirty-one, she is just that: the best. She has...
11) I'm on it!
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Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"When Frog and Goat turn a simple game into an all-out competition, things get out of hand...until finally, they're over it"--
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical music world. And when he makes the startling discovery that his great-grandfather's fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, his star begins to rise....
13) Hide: a novel
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Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
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240 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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Fourteen contestants, including Mack, a homeless shelter resident who lost everything, embark on a seven-day competition and the chance to win $50,000 if they can successfully play hide-and-seek in an abandoned amusement park without being found and eliminated.
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 16
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic career, he?s officially retired. But after his mom urges him to give sports one more chance, he reluctantly agrees to sign up for basketball. Tryouts are a mess, and Greg is sure he won?t make the cut. But he unexpectedly lands a spot on the worst team. As Greg and his new teammates start the season, their chances of winning even a single game look...
15) Racer dogs
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Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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Bingo, Stinky, Wags, Trixie, Dodger, Zigzag, Flick, and Racer Jack all have their eyes on the trophy cup.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"When forced to work on a project with your nemesis, it's best to stick to the science. Further research could trigger explosive results. Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project-a literal dream come true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia-Marie would accept without...
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Athlete vs. mathlete series volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Fraternal twins Russ and Owen's domination of the seventh-grade basketball team falters when Mitch and Marcus Matthews, identical twins, arrive and prove their skill on the court and in the classroom.
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