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"In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. It's also where two girls are going to shake things up. This is the last summer of thirteen-year-old Corky Corcoran's childhood, and her family hires a Haitian housekeeper who brings her daughter, America, along with her. Corky is quick to befriend America and eager to share her favorite new "grown-up" novel, To Kill a Mockingbird....
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Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband's venture capital firm, and in doing so, is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the blank slate of a beautiful midtown penthouse, in the city...
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Simon Spotlight
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Rex the warthog teaches his best friend, Oslo the oxpecker, to swim in this first book in the sweet and funny Level 1 Ready-to-Read series about the unlikely duo. Rex the warthog and Oslo the oxpecker bird are friends who do everything together. But when Rex wants to go swimming, Oslo objects! The water looks cold and wet. There might be sharks. Will Rex be able to help Oslo overcome his fears and join in the fun?
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Candlewick Press
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First edition in Spanish.
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Del aclamado autor e ilustrador de Gustavo, The Shy Ghost llega una encantadora y espeluznante celebración de la diferencia que seguramente resonará en padres e hijos por igual. Vlad es un vampiro con la desgracia de tener unas mejillas sonrosadas que, ¡jadea!, le hacen parecer abismalmente vivo. Pero siendo el vampiro fabuloso que es (y esperando evitar el rechazo), esconde su tez sonrosada detrás de elaborados trajes de vampiro en negro tradicional....
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"When Annie Brown, a fun-loving woman, suddenly dies, her husband, best friend, and her children all struggle to find ways to go on after the loss of the woman who was the center of their lives, and who made life happy, fun, and secure. Her husband is overwhelmed with four children to raise, and turns to his teenage daughter for help, and to an old girlfriend for solace. Annie's best friend struggles again with opioid addiction, having depended on...
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Diary of a Roblox Pro volume 05
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Scholastic Inc
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"Citizens of Blockville have been going missing, and there are rumors that a new threat looms over Ari's town. Ari's best friend Zeke thinks it's zombies. But those don't exist right?" -Provided by Publisher
7) The fury
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"Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her idyllic private Greek island. I tell you this because you may think you know this story. You probably read about it at the time--it caused a real stir in the tabloids, if you remember. It had all the necessary ingredients for a press sensation: a celebrity; a private...
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