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Travel back to the earliest days of Pernese history in this first-ever Dragonriders of Pern short-story collection!
Join the original survey team as they explore Pern and decide to recommend it for colonization. Share the terror of the evacuation from the Southern Continent as a flotilla of ships, aided by intelligent, talking dolphins, braves the dreadful currents of the Pernest ocean. Learn how the famous Ruatha Hold was founded, and thrill...
Join the original survey team as they explore Pern and decide to recommend it for colonization. Share the terror of the evacuation from the Southern Continent as a flotilla of ships, aided by intelligent, talking dolphins, braves the dreadful currents of the Pernest ocean. Learn how the famous Ruatha Hold was founded, and thrill...
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Books of Ember volume 2
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English
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After emerging from the underground city of Ember, Lina and Doon are followed by the city's other inhabitants. Several days of wandering bring the Emberites to a town whose resources are limited, but nevertheless, they are welcomed, fed, and given shelter. Resentment quickly begins to grow and anonymous acts of vandalism push them toward violence, leading Lina and Doon to find a way to avoid war.
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Adventurers Guild volume 2
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English
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"In the second book of The Adventurers Guild, Zed and Brock must save the elven city"--
4) Penguins
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English
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Describes the habitat, physical characteristics, and behavior of different kinds of penguins.
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"A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars. Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else's shoes? Nisha Cantor and Sam Kemp are two very different women. Nisha, 45, lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband inexplicably cuts her off entirely. She doesn't even...
7) Montana
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Her grandfather wants her to come home, and Molly thinks she just might. His ranch will be a good place for her sons to grow up, a place to escape big-city influences. Then she learns--from a stranger named Sam Dakota--that her grandfather is ill. Possibly dying. Molly packs up the kids without a second thought and makes the long drive to Sweetgrass, Montana.
Once she arrives, she immediately has questions about Sam Dakota. Why is he...
8) Omar rising
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Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Seventh-grader Omar must contend with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding schoo in Pakistan.
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Children of Eden volume 1
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Keywords Press/Atria
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Rowan, an illegal second child, has grown up in her family's compound for sixteen years. She escapes one night in order to see the outside world, but it ends in tragedy and she becomes a renegade on the run.
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Too Small Tola volume 2
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Too Small Tola is back—and as determined as ever—in a second trio of winning stories about a diminutive heroine with a big-big heart.
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Summerfield Vilage volume Book 1
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Curl Up Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Maggie Stewart is a retired lawyer, working to preserve the heritage of her little English cottage in Summerfield village. Her children have grown and she's content to ride horses in the countryside and enjoy her retirement. Except she needs money for her renovations and she's lonely. When she joins her old environmental team to go up against an oil company, Maggie finds herself working in opposition to a man she once loved from afar, many years ago....
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Moonfall volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The second book in the New York Times bestselling Moonfall series from thriller-master James Rollins, The Cradle of Ice is a page-turning tale of action, adventure, betrayal, ambition, and the struggle for survival in a harsh world that hangs by a thread. To stop the coming apocalypse, a fellowship was formed. A soldier, a thief, a lost prince, and a young girl bonded by fate and looming disaster. Each step along this path has changed the party,...
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Fart quest volume 2
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: The second book in the laugh-out-loud fart-themed adventure series by acclaimed author Aaron Reynolds Fart quest series, 304pp.
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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The Alien Ambassador is the second novel in the Crusader series. Ken Aedan, who has washed out of the United Space University, has been asked to complete an abandoned experimental space ship with the help of a ragged crew. They are given the mission of picking up Jia Hamilton, nick-named "Goldeneyes," who is a cross between an alien race and humans. Ken struggles to use her unique talents to prevent a civil war from beginning on the planet of Endiku...
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Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Building the most magical place on earth was no fairy tale. Learn the story behind the creation of Walt Disney World. In 1964, when Walt Disney and his brother Roy decided to build a second theme park in the Florida swamplands, they kept it super hush-hush. Why? Well, if word got out that they planned to buy up lots of land, the price would have skyrocketed. So the Disneys cleverly covered up their trail, avoiding the Orlando Airport and even using...
17) Giant pandas
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Holiday House
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English
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An introduction to the physical characteristics, behavior, life cycle, and habitat of these endangered animals.
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English
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"When her husband dies suddenly, Clara Vesper is stunned. For years she's designed the sapphire jewelry that made his company a fortune, but has little money of her own and, she soon discovers, no inheritance. Fearing for her children's welfare, Clara takes them to her aunt and uncle's ranch in Montana, the only place she has ever been happy"--From the publisher's web site.
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Phoenix loves to play with dolls and marvel at pretty fabrics. Most of all, he loves to dance-ballet, Pow Wow dancing, or just swirling and twirling around his house. Sometimes Phoenix gets picked on and he struggles with feeling different, but his mom and brother are proud of him. With their help, Phoenix learns about Two Spirit/Niizh Manidoowag people in Anishinaabe culture and just how special he is. Based on the childhood experiences of her son,...
20) Hand over hand
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Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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When Nina asks her grandfather to take her fishing with him on his banca boat, his answer is always the same, "A boat is not the place for a girl." She knows that if her Lolo will show her how to jig the lines, to set the hook, and to pull in a fish, she can prove that girls can fish.
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