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Leon loves chocolate bars, Saturday morning cartoons, and his beautiful, golden-haired baby brother. When Jake is born, Leon pokes his head in the crib and says, "I'm your brother. Big brother. My. Name. Is. Leon. I am eight and three quarters. I am a boy." Jake will play with no one but Leon, and Leon is determined to save him from any pain and earn that sparkling baby laugh every chance he can.
But Leon isn't in control of this world where adults...
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"Will appeal to readers of Elena Ferrante and Margaret Atwood . . . the unusual setting offers an interesting twist on the portrait of an artist as a young woman." -Bookpage
In 1960s Iceland, Hekla dreams of being a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman.
After packing...
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Aminata Diallo (“an amazing literary creation,” Literary Review of Canada) is the beguiling heroine of Lawrence Hill’s SOMEONE KNOWS MY NAME. In it, Hill exquisitely imagines the tale of an eighteenth-century woman’s life, spanning six decades and three continents. The fascinating story that Hill tells is a work of the soul and the imagination. Aminata is a character who will stir listeners, from her kidnapping...
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"What happens when you swap the nine-to-five for two wheels and a journey of a lifetime? Terrified of the prospect of a life spent behind a desk, without challenge or excitement, Leon takes off to cross America on an overloaded bicycle packed with everything but common sense. Over five months and 6000 miles, he cycled from New York to Seattle and then on to the Mexican border, facing tornados, swollen river crossings, wild roaming buffalo and one...
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Souls trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Leon: My reputation among magicians is unblemished. Killer, they call me; killing is what I'm best at. One wrong move and you're dead. Except her. The one I was supposed to take, the one I should have killed. The cult that once controlled me wants her, but I'm not about to lose my new toy to them. Rae: I've always believed in the supernatural. Hunting for ghosts is my passion, but summoning a demon was never part of the plan. Monsters are roaming...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Grace Hanadarko is a hard-living Oklahoma City detective whose life is careening out of control. Grace is given a second chance in the unlikely form of a gruff, tobacco-chewing angel named Earl. But turning her life around won't be easy. As dark secrets are revealed, Grace must come to grips with her explosive past and she's going to need her last-chance-angel more than ever.
11) All the women in my family sing: women write the world--essays on equality, justice, and freedom
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Nothing But the Truth, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Catapult
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"What is desire? And what are its rules? In this daring collection, award-winning and emerging female writers share their innermost longings, in turn dismantling both personal and political constructs of what desire is or can be. In the opening essay, Larissa Pham unearths the ache beneath all her wants: time. Rena Priest's desire for a pair of five-hundred-dollar cowboy boots spurs a reckoning with her childhood on the rez and the fraught history...
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Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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A generally light-hearted Western tale of would-be retiree Jack Beauregard, the fastest gun alive. Jack's plans of leaving gunfighting for a quiet life in Europe are put on hold when a man named Nobody tells Jack that there's a 150 hired hitmen on Jack's trail.
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Columbia
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p2012
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English
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iCarly is a Nicklelodeon show that focuses on a girl named Carly Shay who creates her own web show called iCarly with her best friends Sam and Freddie. iCarly season to commence on Australian TV in January.Music video to come for 'Coming Home'. There are a number of mini skits which are being filmed to roll out online in conjunction with the series.In 2011 iCarly won 'Favourite TV show' and 'Favourite TV Sidekick' at the 2011 Kid's Choice Awards as...