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If you've ever fallen in love, struggled with love, or faltered in love, Cupid on Trial will speak to your heart and change the way you feel about yourself and someone you love. You will laugh, cry, scratch your head, even tremble as you eavesdrop in the bedrooms, kitchens, dance clubs, and coffee shops of Lovejoy, a fictional city where real couples are struggling with love in turbulence, relationships pushed to the brink, and situations they never...
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Detective Miller novels volume 1
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English
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"Maverick sleuth Declan Miller is back at work following the murder of his wife (and amateur ballroom dancing partner), Alex. Working with new partner and heavy metal enthusiast DS Sara Xiu, he is tasked with investigating the double killing of gangland family scion Adrian Cutler and IT consultant Barry Shepherd at the Sands Hotel. Initial evidence suggests a hired gun and a botched job. The search for the hitman begins and Miller begins to reconnect...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Zita, cast aside by her father and raised as a kitchen maid, learns when she is nearly twelve that she is a princess and that her twelve sisters love her, and so when she discovers they are victims of an evil enchantment, she desperately tries to save them. Inspired by the Grimm fairy tale, "The twelve dancing princesses."
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2021.
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English
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The Nobel Peace Summit Award-winning actress, activist, and humanitarian chronicles her efforts to recover and rebuild after a massive stroke, discussing how her health challenges were also shaped by industry standards, childhood traumas, and family bonds.
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"Quiara Alegria Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced in her grandmother's tight South Philly kitchen, "frizzy hair cut short, bangs teased into stiff clouds, sweat glistening in the summer fog, pamper-butt babies weaving between legs." Quiara was awed by her aunts and uncles and cousins, but haunted by the secrets of the family and the unspoken stories of the barrio -- even as she tried to find her own voice in the sea...
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"A poignant and unexpectedly inspirational account of women's suffering and resilience in Stalin's forced labor camps, diligently transcribed in the kitchens and living rooms of nine survivors. The pain inflicted by the gulags has cast a long and dark shadow over Soviet-era history. Zgustov©Ł's collection of interviews with former female prisoners not only chronicles the hardships of the camps, but also serves as testament to the power of beauty...
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When Olivia Rawlings¿́¿pastry chef extraordinaire for an exclusive Boston dinner club¿́¿sets not just her flamb©♭ed dessert but the entire building alight, she escapes to the most comforting place she can think of¿́¿the idyllic town of Guthrie, Vermont, home of Bag Balm, the country¿́¿s longest-running contra dance, and her best friend Hannah. But the getaway turns into something more lasting when Margaret Hurley, the cantankerous,...
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"A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation. In the spring of 1978, at age twenty-two, Mark Abley put aside his studies at Oxford and set off with a friend on a three-month trek across the celebrated Hippie Trail -- a sprawling route between Europe and South Asia, peppered with Western bohemians and vagabonds. It was a time when the Shah of Iran...
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In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls a lost era-the vibrant New York City of her youth, where her social circle included Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and other members of the Black intelligentsia. In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies, Jessica B. Harris debated, celebrated, and danced her way from the jazz clubs of the Manhattan's West Side to the restaurants of the Village, living out her buoyant...
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2024.
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English
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"Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and an unyielding determination to make a difference. When she's not working with children in the crowded tenements in Hell's Kitchen, Frances throws herself into the social scene in Greenwich Village, befriending an eclectic group of politicians, artists, and activists, including the millionaire socialite...
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[2018]
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English
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"America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably linked to her parents' homeland and Honduran culture. Speaking Spanish at home, having Saturday-morning-salsa-dance-parties in the kitchen, and eating tamales alongside apple pie at Christmas never seemed at odds with her American identity. Still, she yearned to see that identity reflected in the larger American narrative. Now, ..America invites thirty-one of her...
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Daredevil volume 13
Publisher
Marvel Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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How do you solve a problem like Mary? That is Typhoid Mary, the lethally seductive assassin unleashed by the Kingpin in his campaign to break Matt Murdock. She is a love-maker and a man-hater with multiple personalities, including one to target Matt, and another with her sights on Daredevil! Under attack from both sides, the champion of Hell's Kitchen may be powerless to resist. Then, DD dances with demons when Inferno rages in Manhattan, and his...