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"For Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman, executive assistants to the CEOs of newly merged Bexley-Gamin Publishing, it's hate-at-first-sight. So begins a series of daily passive-aggressive maneuvers, including the staring game, the mirror game, and the HR game, each played with the intensity of the Hunger Games. Their mutual antipathy grows when a new executive position opens at Bexley-Gamin, and both their bosses put their names up for the promotion....
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Tiny pretty things volume 1
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Three top students at an exclusive Manhattan ballet academy compete for the status of prima ballerina, with each willing to sacrifice, manipulate, and backstab to be the best of the best.
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Beartown returns with an unforgettable novel about people--about strength and tribal loyalty and what we unwittingly do when trying to show our boys how to be men (Jojo Moyes). Have you ever seen a town fall? Ours did. Have you ever seen a town rise? Ours did that, too. A small community tucked deep in the forest, Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don't expect life to...
5) Awkward
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Berrybrook Middle School novels volume 1
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2015.
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First Yen Press edition.
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After shunning Jaime, the school nerd, on her first day at a new middle school, Penelope Torres tries to blend in with her new friends in the art club, until the art club goes to war with the science club, of which Jaime is a member.
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"When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother's bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She brings their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening, leaving her Westchester home to the men and their hired entertainment. What she does not expect is this: bacchanalian drunkenness, her husband sharing a dangerously intimate moment in the guest room, and two women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards...
10) Number one Sam
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[2014]
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First edition.
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"A competitive race-car driving dog learns that some things are more important than being number one"--
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Studying competitive arenas from the workplace, the stock market, sport, politics, the military and schools and usingthe latest findings in genetics, neuroscience and behavioural psychology, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman unveil the astounding, often counter-intuitive truths about how we compete and the crucial ingredients that sometimes stand between winning and losing.
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[2004], c1999
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Shonen Jump Graphic Novel ed.
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Naruto, Sasuka, and Sakura have passed the final test to become junior ninja. They find themselves, with their teacher, bodyguarding a cranky old man from the Land of the Waves. But Tazuna the bridgebuilder is in more danger than anyone realizes and the young ninjas soon find themselves facing elite ninja assassins.
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Athlete vs. mathlete series volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
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720L
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Fraternal twins Russ and Owen's domination of the seventh-grade basketball team falters when Mitch and Marcus Matthews, identical twins, arrive and prove their skill on the court and in the classroom.
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Comeback kids volume 4
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Pedro, an avid basketball player, decides to run for class president, challenging a teammate who is also one of the most popular boys in school.
16) Dino-Boarding
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Meat-eating and vegetarian dinosaurs compete in surfing, skateboarding, and snowboarding events.
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Athlete vs. mathlete series volume 1
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When their two worlds collide in seventh grade, fraternal twins and opposites Owen and Russell find themselves in direct competition at school, on the court, and at home.
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Idealistic good girl Madelyn Grayson believes in doing
what's right. Even as a high-powered executive in the mad
world of advertising, she doesn't cut corners, making her
ad campaigns sizzle without having to burn anyone along
the way. Rival exec Zack Douglas never wastes an
opportunity to land the next big deal--especially when it
benefits him. A bad boy with a reputation to match, he has
no...
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Lunch Lady volume 7
Pub. Date
2012
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1st ed.
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For having skipped the school field trip, Dee, Hector, and Terrence must join the mathletes team but as they are poised to beat the undefeated champions, secret crime fighter Lunch Lady discovers something strange about the opposing team.
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"In this powerful novel about the cost of ambition and success, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback at an age when the world considers her past her prime-from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising. Carolina Soto is undeniably fierce. She is determined to be the best professional tennis player the world has ever seen. And by the time she retires from the game in 1989 at the age of thirty-one, she is just that: the best. She has...
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