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2024.
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"In Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can commit: the abduction and possible murder of her child. Everyone -- ambitious politicians in an election season, hardened police, ordinary folk -- has an opinion on the case, and most believe she is guilty. But most is not all. Defending Colleen is the lawyer Moxie Castin, and working alongside him is the private investigator Charlie Parker, who senses the tale has another twist,...
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"Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori are coming of age in Uganda in the 1990s. Outstanding students, they believe in being good humans before they are kidnapped and forced into the fanatical Lord's Resistance Army. In a legion of young recruits, no one gets closer than Anthony to powerful messianic warlord Joseph Kony and his darkest secrets. To stay sane as he spirals through chaos, Anthony clings to his childhood lessons about being a good human. Florence's...
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Locard Institute volume 3
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2024.
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"For software pioneer Martin Post, the third richest man in America, his private compound on the Florida coast is a sunny no-man's-land separating his family from the rest of the world. Now, expert forensic analysts Ellie Carr and Rachael Davies of the renowned Locard Institute have been summoned to its dark side. Martin's pregnant daughter, Ashley, had ventured on a day trip in her motorboat into the Gulf, only to wash up dead on a nearby shore....
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Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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The climate is changing more rapidly than scientists predicted even a few years ago, with extreme weather already touching our everyday lives. At the same time, the clean energy revolution is forging ahead faster than nearly anyone anticipated. As Tom Steyer sees it, these two trends together create a moment like the one America faced during World War II: on the one hand, an existential threat calling for collective action; on the other, an opportunity...
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Love in the spotlight volume 2
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"As a Black woman in a field with little diversity, Piper McKinney is determined to make her mark on the horse-racing world. Raised on a Thoroughbred farm in Kentucky, Piper's dream is for her horse to win the prestigious Kentucky Derby. With the help of her best friend and trainer, Tucker Hale, she gains national attention but must grapple with the complications that arise when a journalist delves into her past as a transracial adoptee. In an effort...
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2024.
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"Though the century began with such promise, it is 1910 when Mira Dean's hopes of being a wife and mother are dashed to pieces. Her fiancé dead from tuberculosis, Mira resigns herself to being a spinster schoolteacher--until Gordon Covington shows up. No longer the boy she knew from school, Gordon is now a preacher who is full of surprises. First, he asks Mira to come to Sourwood in Eastern Kentucky to teach at his mission school. Second, he asks...
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Texas Ranger Luke Caldwell volume 4
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Texas Ranger Luke Caldwell and his young partner, Bobby Howell, have destroyed the outlaw gang that was preying on visitors to Lajitas, deep in the Big Bend country of Texas. However, that's not the end of their problems, it's just the beginning. With all of West Texas rife with outlaws of all stripes, they still have their work cut out for them. When they come across a train of freight wagons being attacked by ambushers, they attempt to help fight...
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DK Publishing
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[2024]
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English
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"It's Blaze's first day at school and he feels very nervous. Blaze can't breathe fire and he's worried he'll be the odd dragon out. When his teacher asks everyone to show off their breathing, it seems like Blaze's worst fears are coming true... Will this nervous little dragon learn how to fire away his worries and enjoy school?"--Back cover.
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Harvest House
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[2023]
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English
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"Animals have a special way of connecting with kids. Your whole family will love these true tales of daring dolphins, plucky parrots, cunning canines, and other intrepid animal heroes who left their mark on history in inspiring and unexpected ways" -- Goodreads.
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Puppypaw Island is barking with excitement for the first annual Cutiecorn Carnival and Talent Show! All different kinds of Cutiecorn animals are traveling to Puppypaw Island to celebrate. Everyone is excited to make new friends, but Twinkle can see that not all animals are alike and there might be some trouble coming. Can she use her seeing magic to calm the chaos?--