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Inspector Armand Gamache mysteries volume 17
Three Pines mystery volume 17
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
The Chief Inspector Gamache Novels volume Book 17
Three Pines mystery volume 17
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
The Chief Inspector Gamache Novels volume Book 17
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"You're a coward." Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache. While the residents of the Quebec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together, the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request. He's asked to provide security for what promises to be a non-event. A visiting Professor...
2) Olive, again
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English
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"Olive Kitteridge has returned, as indomitable as ever, this time as a person getting older, navigating her next decade as she comes to terms with the changes--sometimes welcome, sometimes not--in her own life. Here is Olive, strangely content in her second marriage, still in an evolving relationship with her son and his family, encountering a cast of memorable characters in the seaside town of Crosby, Maine. Whether it's a young girl coming to terms...
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Harbinder Kaur novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"From the author of the beloved Ruth Galloway series, a modern gothic mystery for fans of Magpie Murders and The Lake House"--
4) Scat
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English
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Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
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English
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A hilarious new middle grade novel from beloved and bestselling author Gordan Korman about what happens when the worst class of kids in school is paired with the worst teacher-perfect for fans of Ms. Bixby's Last Day. The Unteachables are a notorious class of misfits, delinquents, and academic train wrecks. Like Aldo, with anger management issues; Parker, who can't read; Kiana, who doesn't even belong in the class-or any class; and Elaine (rhymes...
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English
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"New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini celebrates Christmas, past and present, with a wondrous novel inspired by the classic poem "Christmas Bells," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I heard the bells on Christmas Day/ Their old familiar carols play/ And wild and sweet/ The words repeat/Of peace on earth, good-will to men! In 1860, the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow family celebrated Christmas at Craigie House, their home in Cambridge,...
7) Six years
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English
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After the love of his life marries another man, who subsequently dies, college professor Jake Fisher attends the funeral, only to discover that the deceased's widow is not in fact his former love, and that his life may have been based upon a carefully constructed fiction.
8) Yoga girl
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Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"By the Instagram personality with nearly 1 million followers, an inspiring illustrated book about her chaotic journey from self-destructive teenager to a harmonic existence filled with yoga and meditation in Aruba"--
"By the yoga instructor who inspires more than one million followers on Instagram every day. Part self-help and part memoir, Yoga Girl is an inspirational, full-color look at the adventure that took writer and yoga teacher Rachel Brathen...
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal . . . a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody-knows-everybody complications of living in a small community.”—The Washington Post
The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World...
The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World...
10) The professor
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Richard, a buttoned-down college lecturer, who after learning he has six months to live, transforms into a rebellious party animal. To the shock of his wife and school chancellor, and the delight of his students, Richard leads a hilarious crusade against authority and hypocrisy in this dark comedy.
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Miss Dimple Kilpatrick mysteries volume 5
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English
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"October, 1944. It has been a challenging season for Elderberry's favorite first grade teacher, Miss Dimple Kilpatrick. A beloved former student was recently killed in the war, her brother has become distant, and her friend Odessa, the cook at Pheobe's rooming house, has taken a leave of absence to care for a relative. Still, when Dimple's librarian friend, Virginia, finds a young woman, Dora, on the library porch looking for a place to spend the...
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Rosie novels (Graeme Simsion) volume 1
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English
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Don Tillman, a professor of genetics, sets up a project designed to find him the perfect wife, starting with a questionnaire that has to be adjusted a little as he goes along. Then he meets Rosie, who is everything he's not looking for in a wife, but she ends up his friend as he helps her try and find her biological father.
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My weirder-est school volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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In this second book in the My Weirder-est School series, A.J. and his friends are getting a substitute. Miss Porter isn?t your average teacher, though. She?s a Personal Digital Assistant that literally knows everything. She can tell a million hundred weird jokes and get pizza delivered by drone in seconds! But what happens when Miss Porter?s system is no longer set to fun? Will anyone be able to shut her down before she takes over Ella Mentry?
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My weirder-est school volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Publisher Annotation: In this third book in the My Weirder-est School series, A.J. and his friends learn about good oral hygiene. Grab your toothbrushes! It?s National Dessert Day, and Ella Mentry School has asked local dentist Dr. Floss to educate A.J. and his friends on the dental dangers of sweets. But Dr. Floss has other plans. She wants the kids to eat as much sugar as possible so that they?ll need a dentist! Will someone get a cavity?
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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April Fools' Day just happens to be one of Judy Moody?s favorite days of the year. And this year she?s got one thing on her mind, the perfect prank she?s going to play on Mr. Todd, thanks to an awesome present from her brother, Stink. Gotcha, Mr. Todd! But in all the excitement over spaghetti trees, April fish, and fools' errands, Judy worries that something else will be forgotten by Mr. Todd and Class 3T altogether, April 1 also happens to be Judy?s...
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English
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Author Lana Button perfectly captures the fears and uncertainties of a kindergartner dealing with her first substitute teacher. She also models a way to cope, as Kitty steps up to help the substitute --- a ?ginormously tall? giraffe named Mr. Omar --- and discovers that sometimes change can be good. Button's playful and lively cadenced rhyming text, together with Christine Battuz's friendly illustrations of a full cast of animal characters at school,...
18) Professor T
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Jasper Tempest is a Professor of Criminology at Cambridge University. He is obsessed with cleanliness, structure and order, but his genius for solving crimes means he is constantly having to get his hands dirty, helping the police to crack their most difficult cases.
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English
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"Having lived under her parents' thumb for 25 years, Beth Prudhomme is finally taking charge of her own life. She moves from Chicago to Portland to live near her favorite aunt, finding employment as a music teacher at a local high school and a fast friend in Nichole Nyquist (who readers will recognize from A Girl's Guide to Moving On). Everything is coming together, though her love life leaves something to be desired. Until Nichole introduces Beth...
20) Kizzy Ann Stamps
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Kizzy Ann is going to begin her first year at an integrated school and she has fear because of the color of her skin and a scar but her dog Shag is at her side.
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