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Pub. Date
2022.
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"A novel in which three Nigerian women, friends since their university days, are reunited in Lagos for the first time in thirty years at the lavish wedding of one of their daughters"--
Funmi, Enitan, and Zainab first meet at university in Nigeria and become friends for life despite their differences. Funmi is beautiful, brash, and determined; Enitan is homely and eager, seeking escape from her single mother's smothering and needy love; Zainab is...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
A woman has no choice left but to enjoy the adventure of lifeand its surprisesin a funny and emotionally moving comedy of errors about the gifts of growing older. Olivia Strauss is turning thirty-nine. No major milestone. She still considers herself young. At least young enough to assume she has decades (emphasis on the plural) to check the unchecked boxes of her lifes to-do list. Ballerina? Too late. But not too late for poet. Or for reigniting the...
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Dorothy (Dee) Gale is searching for a place to belong. After her mother's death, Dee and her sister Toni settled with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in Kansas, and Dee attended the University of Kansas. But after falling in love with and subsequently being humiliated by an adjunct faculty member and novelist, Dee is unable to face him-and the rest of the school-and applies to the writing program at Trinity College Dublin. At Trinity, Dee finds solace in...
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"Old secrets come to light when four friends gather on Nantucket for a life-changing reunion in this heartwarming novel of love and self-discovery by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer. When four strangers rent bargain-basement rooms in an old hotel near the beach, they embark on the summer of their lives. First there's Ariel Spencer, who has big dreams of becoming a writer and is looking for inspiration in Nantucket's high society. Her...
6) Hom
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Publisher
Andersen Press, Limited
Pub. Date
©2022
Description
Hom is the last of his kind. I don't know what kind of creature he is, and nobody knows he exists, apart from me. When a boy washes up on a desert island after a shipwreck, he is sure he's all alone in the world. But he soon discovers there's someone else living there: Hom, a peace-loving creature who has lost his family, too. Alone on the island together, they learn from each other and become the best of friends. So when a rescue ship appears on...
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Series
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Welcome to the School of Monsters: the funniest, silliest and most accessible series for first readers! Start by reading only the last word on every line and work your way up to reading the whole story. With tumbling rhymes and an infectious sense of humor, School of Monsters is guaranteed to spark a love of reading! When Bat-Boy Tim comes out to play, why do others run away?
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Peanut the stuffed penguin does everything with Pearl--napping and playing but also getting drooled on and dragged around. One day, Peanut has had enough. What happens when a stuffed animal ventures out on its own?"--
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Series
Reading gems Phonics volume 3
Publisher
Quarto Library, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Nid's pod is bent! Can the bugs fix it before lunch?
15) Together
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Series
Publisher
Acorn, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In three stories, friends Unicorn and Yeti spend time with each other, watching clouds in the sky, playing copycat, and having a tea party.
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Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Every time Robbie gets excited his words come out all wrong, and when he is selected to write and tell a special Christmas story at the school assembly, he needs plenty of help from his friends.
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"Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time. Stranger yet is what's inside the crate. He's a seven-foot-tall self-described "bad weather friend" named Spike...
19) Sharky McShark
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Sharky is the meanest, most fearsome creature in the deep until an accidental encounter with a tiny crab shows her a better way in this tale reminiscent of "The Lion and the Mouse."
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Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Mr. Fish and Willa Whale are on their way to a birthday party, but Willa is worried about fitting in so Mr. Fish shows her how to overcome her social anxiety by tackling the worries one at a time.
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