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St. Martin's Press
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[2022]
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English
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"A gripping history of China's deteriorating relationship with Hong Kong, and its implications for the rest of the world. For 150 years as a British colony, Hong Kong was a beacon of prosperity where people, money, and technology flowed freely, and residents enjoyed many civil liberties. In preparation for handing the territory over to China in 1997, Deng Xiaoping promised that it would remain highly autonomous for fifty years. An international treaty...
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021].
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English
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"From nose to tail and everything in between¿́¿ this is your definitive visual guide to understanding your four-legged friend! When your dog looks at you with those big, expressive puppy-dog eyes, do you ever wonder what's going on in their fur-covered heads? This dog book for adults will help you gain invaluable canine insight through quirky illustrations and infographics. The unique dog encyclopedia explores and explains the world of dogs: the...
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"It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. Delighted by a surprise invitation, Miriam Macy sails off to a luxurious private island off the coast of Mexico, with six strangers--an ex-cop, a chef, a financial advisor, a nurse, a lawyer, a young widow. Surrounded by miles of open water in the gloriously green Sea of Cortez, Miriam is shocked to discover that she and the rest of her companions have been brought to the remote island under false pretenses--and...
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AS YOU SOW, SO SHALL YOU REAP.
The Sisters of the Abbey of the Sacred Heart receive a generous but strange bequest. Named specifically, six nuns must spend two weeks at a rustic, off-the-grid lodge in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon. Should any one of them at any time during the two weeks leave the property they will forfeit the 200-acre gift.
Sounds easy enough.
The question isn't, can they hold out; it is, will any of them survive.
THE...
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With humor and opinions aplenty, a woman embarks on an unconventional quest to see if she is meant to be a nun.
Just as Jane Christmas decides to enter a convent in mid-life to find out whether she is "nun material," her long-term partner Colin, suddenly springs a marriage proposal on her. Determined not to let her monastic dreams be sidelined, Christmas puts her engagement on hold and embarks on an extraordinary year-long adventure to four convents-one...
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"She's a talented pastry chef--with a secret recipe for solving crimes... Kate McGuire's life was sweet in Manhattan before she lost her restaurant job and fiance both. But sometimes that's just the way the cookie crumbles, and soon she finds herself starting from scratch in the island town of Coral Cay, Florida. It has everything she's looking for: sunny beaches, friendly locals, and a Help Wanted sign in the bakery shop window. Once she convinces...
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When she said she'd rather die than be a bridesmaid, she didn't mean it literally… Reluctant bridesmaid Quincy McKay hopes this island wedding breezes by in a hurry. But when the couple announces a murder mystery game, the amateur sleuth is willing to take her time to earn the prize money. She thinks the cash is as good as hers until one evening's sinister turn makes it impossible to tell the difference between entertainment and cold-blooded murder…With...
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And Then There Were TwoThree friends, one journey. It should have been a quiet weekend. Until one of the girls vanishes. The problem is, it's Lilly and she's the queen of mystery solving. But there's more to her disappearance than they first think. She isn't the first girl to disappear and the last one was never found. Worse than that, it seems that was 10 years ago. Can her friends find her, or will their mini-break end in disaster? And if they fail,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Sasspants, PI(G), the world's fluffiest detective, is back on the case-or she will be, if her sidekick Hamisher can convince her there's really a mystery afoot. Hamisher has made up so many stories, Sasspants doesn't believe him. But one by one, the mice in Mr. Venezi's pet shop are going missing, and all the spooky clues point to...a ghost! Once our shaggy Sherlocks start digging for answers, they will stop at nothing to ferret out the truth!
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#1 I had dreamed of this moment for six years, and it was absolutely the worst timing ever. I had decided to become a nun. I know, I know: Not the most romantic proposal. The timing was so awkward that it was hard to know whether to laugh or cry. I was in a state of ecstatic disbelief, and I blubbered like a schoolgirl. We got married a few days later at St. Mary's Church...
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The key arrived in a coffin-shaped box with no return address; the body came later. When Luci receives an old key and a ticket to the past, she gets more than she bargained for by way of a corpse, a mysterious family connection, and a nursing home patient with early-stage dementia. As the detective helps her piece together each cryptic clue from tools to gold to peculiar photos, Luci realizes trouble comes to those who dig too deep when death, danger...
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H2O Just Add Water volume 21
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English
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Charlotte follows Lewis to Max Hamilton. Max tells all to Charlotte when he discovers she's the granddaughter of his one true love. Charlotte and Lewis almost break up until she goes to the moonpool, becoming a mermaid herself!
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Sasspants, the world's fluffiest detective, is back on the case?or she will be, if her sidekick Hamisher can convince her there's really a mystery afoot. Spooky clues are pointing to...a ghost!
79) The night island
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"The disappearance of a mysterious informant leads two people desperate for answers to an island of deadly deception in the second novel of the Lost Night Files trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz. Talia March, Pallas Llewellyn, and Amelia Rivers, bonded by a night they all have no memory of, are dedicated to uncovering the mystery of what really happened to them months ago-an experience that brought out innate psychic abilities...
80) Zombie Abbey
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1920, England and the three teenage Clarke sisters thought what they'd wear to dinner was their biggest problem .. Lady Kate, the entitled eldest. Lady Grace, lost in the middle and wishing she were braver. Lady Lizzy, so endlessly sunny, it's easy to underestimate her. Then there's Will Harvey, the proud, , to-die-for--and possibly die with!--stable boy; Daniel Murray, the resourceful second footman with a secret; Raymond Allen, the unfortunate-looking...