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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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How to say no without being an a**hole, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck. Are you burnt out from taking on more than you can handle or accepting less than you deserve? Tired of giving in instead of sticking up for yourself? Sick of saying yes all the time? You're gonna love F*CK NO! No is an acceptable answer, and it's time to start using it. Whether you're a People-Pleaser, Overachiever, Pushover,...
62) Say I Love You 3
Publisher
Kodansha
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
It's hard for the onceloner Mei to believe that she's been going out with Yamato for six whole months! He's taught her a lot about how sweet love can be, but now she's about to learn a new lesson: Love can be war! When a serious rival arises for Yamato's affections (and a roundhouse kick isn't an option), how will Mei handle it? Let the battle begin!
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English
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It's Christmas time at the Weber Haus mountainside inn, where the official greeter, watcher, and matchmaker of the hotel's resident humans is an adorably mischievous bundle of feline fluff named Snowball. Snowball takes her job very seriously -even if it means being a little more naughty than nice -and she's ready to celebrate her third holiday season by making the purrrrfect match. Most cats have nine lives, but Snowball is one of the very few with...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The Cuban Table is a comprehensive, contemporary overview of Cuban food, recipes and culture as recounted by serious home cooks and professional chefs, restaurateurs and food writers. Cuban-American food writer Ana Sofia Pelaez and award-winning photographer Ellen Silverman traveled through Cuba, Miami and New York to document and learn about traditional Cuban cooking from a wide range of authentic sources. Cuban home cooks are fiercely protective...
65) The odyssey
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
"The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. In this fresh, authoritative version--the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman--this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse...
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English
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"In The Book of Delights, one of today's most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record of the small joys we often overlook in our busy lives. Among Gay's funny, poetic, philosophical delights: a friend's unabashed use of air quotes, cradling a tomato seedling aboard an airplane, the silent nod of acknowledgment...
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 23
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Emma is playing ball with her brothers on an unusually warm winter afternoon. But an errant toss from her brother Matt hits her right on the nose! Luckily, it's nothing more serious than a little swelling, but it's enough to make her lose an important modeling job at The Special Day salon. Mona hires "mean girl" Olivia Allen to fill in. Olivia is thrilled, not only for the job, but also for a chance to spread some nasty rumors about Emma. Worst of...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in a wild scientific experiment and discover themselves in the process, from the award-winning writer of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty Jane is a serious scientist on the cutting-edge team of a bold project looking to "de-extinct" the wooly mammoth. She's privileged to have been sent to Siberia to hunt for ancient DNA, but there's a catch: Jane's...
71) Post York
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Set in New York City after the melting of the polar ice caps, an independent loner along with his cat and only friend, navigates the flooded city as he tries to live another day.
Each morning he sails in search of food, crossing paths with others from this makeshift community--from outsiders like himself to the depraved and ruthless elite--all struggling to maintain a sense of normalcy in a city drowned in its past. But everything changes when he...
73) Pandora's boy
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
"First century Rome is not the quiet, orderly city that it pretends to be and in this environment, a very clever private informer can thrive. Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, is a chip off the old block. She's taken over her father's old profession, and, like him, she occasionally lets her love of a good puzzle get in the way of her common sense. Such is the case when one such puzzle is brought to her by the very hostile ex-wife of Albia's...
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sophie Dailey is NOT looking forward to starting middle school. For one thing, she doesn't look like the other kids. Instead of trendy tank tops, she wears high-tech shirts that block UV rays. (Sun protection is serious business!) And she definitely doesn't sound like the other kids either. (She can't say "sweet" or "stan" without making a weird face.) Needless to say, this is probably why her best friend, Ella, ditched her for Queen Bee Morgan....
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Series
Publisher
Berkeley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Whenever things get too serious, baker Lolly Crocker knows it's time to break it off with a guy. Without fail, her gut would tell her that the man she was dating was not Mr. Right. The one exception is Shaun Montana, her high school sweetheart. With Shaun, life felt complete; but her mother convinced her she was too young to be tied down, and Lolly broke up with him the night before she left for college. While Lolly keeps every relationship light,...
76) Egg drop dead
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Series
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"It was supposed to be a fancy, intimate dinner party by the pool. Instead, Lana Lee's first-ever catering event turns into full-course madness when a domestic worker is found dead. Is the party's host Donna Feng, the sweet-and-sour owner of the Asia Village shopping plaza where Ho-Lee is situated, somehow to blame? That's when Lana -- whose plate is already plenty full with running the restaurant, pleasing her often-disapproving mother, and fretting...
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Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Bring the joy of Italian living to your kitchen with 100 family-friendly Italian and Italian American recipes from social media star and beloved author of Laura in the Kitchen. In Laura Vitale's first cookbook she shared recipes from her popular YouTube cooking channel. Now, in At My Italian Table, she turns her focus to Italy, where she was born and lived until she was a young woman, and where her Nonna's cooking made a lasting imprint. Home sick...
78) Cookie love: more than 60 recipes and techniques for turning the ordinary into the extraordinary
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Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Mindy Segal is an up-and-coming chef and baker who's serious about cookies and bars. In her first cookbook, Segal turns classic recipes into more elevated, fun interpretations of everyone's favorite sweet treat. From Brown Butter with Hickory Smoked Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies and Creme de Violet Snickerdoodles, to Citrus, Brown Butter, and Graham Cracker Shortbread with Framboise Preserves and Hibiscus Sugar Rugelach, Segal's recipes are inspired...
79) The pretty dish: more than 150 everyday recipes & 50 beauty DIYs to nourish your body inside & out
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From prolific blogger Jessica Merchant comes a playful cookbook dishing advice on the best recipes and natural beauty remedies, including party ideas and playlists to jam out to while you cook. This is filled with 150 brand-new recipes, along with themed menus, DIY beauty projects, party ideas, and killer playlists. The mouthwatering recipes are all quick and easy, are family - and weeknight - friendly and, most importantly, are made with the unique...
Author
Series
[Montana sweet western romance volume 2
Publisher
Piping Plover Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Dan loves the city life and living in Chicago ... and is not happy to be stuck for several months in Beauville, MT recuperating with a badly broken leg. His spirits lift when he meets newly single Traci, who is also crazy about Christmas ... while Dan would be happy to skip the holiday entirely. Traci just ended a serious relationship with the former high school football star, when he grew uncomfortably controlling ... and she is not ready for a new...