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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a 'blind' old man haunted by memories of the war; and, an undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis Jr, Jr. What they are looking for seems elusive - a truth...
Author
Series
Big Stone Gap novels volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home for Ave Maria Mulligan Machesney and her family for generations. She's been married to her beloved Jack for nearly twenty years, raised one child and buried another, and run a business that binds her community together, all while holding her tight circle of family and friends close. But with her daughter, Etta, having flown the nest to enchanting Italy, Ave...
23) The Viper
Author
Series
Silly thriller with Peggy the Pig volume 1
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; cm.
Language
English
Description
Peggy receives a mysterious call from someone calling himself the Viper warning that he is coming in one year, and becomes increasingly nervous when she gets repeated calls counting down the time until his arrival.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Atheneum Books for Young Readers edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
An expanded version of the work with the same title and author: New York : Harper & Row, 1990. While spending the day in the Robinson household, Wilbur's best friend joins in the search for Grandfather Robinson's missing false teeth and meets one wacky relative after another.
Author
Series
Publisher
E. P. Dutton
Pub. Date
c1978
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
437 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The bestselling coming-of-age classic novel by John Irving-now in a limited 40th anniversary edition with a new introduction by the author. The opening sentence of John Irving's breakout novel, The World According to Garp, signals the start of sexual violence, which becomes increasingly political. "Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater." Jenny is an unmarried nurse; she becomes a single...
Author
Series
Stink Moody volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
1st ed.
Fountas & Pinnell
M
Language
English
Description
When Stink discovers that Pluto has been downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet, he launches a campaign in his classroom to restore its status to that of a full-fledged member of the solar system.
27) The ten-year nap
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amy and her friends, college educated women who pursued satisfying careers before taking time off for marriage and children, are forced at the age of forty to reassess the choices they have made after Amy befriends a charismatic and successful working mother of three who seems to really have it all.
Author
Series
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle volume 2
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
c1949
Physical Desc
126 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seven families are helped out by Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's magic cures when they are faced with thought-you-saiders, tattletalers, bad table manners, interrupters, heedless breakers, never-want-to-go-to-schoolers, and waddle-I-doers.
Author
Series
Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 18
Language
English
Description
Before Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 from Hawaii to Newark, she's knee deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare, she's flying back to New Jersey solo, and someone who sounds like Sasquatch is snoring in row 22. Worse still, her seatmate never returned to the plane after the L.A. layover. Now he's dead, in a garbage can, waiting for curbside pickup. His killer could be anyone. The FBI, the fake FBI, and guns-for-hire...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 33
Language
English
Formats
Description
The wizards of Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University attempt to learn the rules of football and win a game without using magic.
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Fountas & Pinnell
K
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz, with his sister and the Veep's genius granddaughter, are the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. Then photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids. The plan for damage control: stage a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince. Alex soon discovers that beneath Henry's Prince Charming...
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
69 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her kindergarten class has Job Day, Junie B. goes through much confusion and excitement before deciding on the "bestest" job of all.
38) Sammy, the seal
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2017]
Fountas & Pinnell
H
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Anxious to see what life is like outside the zoo, Sammy the seal explores the city, goes to school, and plays with the children but decides that there really is no place like home.
40) Fox on the job
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fox tries to earn the money for a new bicycle in several different jobs.
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