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Prudence Burns has designs for the thirty-acre farm she inherits and leaves her New York life to come and care for the dilapidated buildings and her one, half-sheared sheep, but the threat of bank foreclosure could ruin all of her plans and Prudence finds help in her banjo-playing foreman, Earl, her recluse neighbor, Seth, and eleven-year-old Sara Spratt, who is looking for a home for her prize-winning chickens.
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"This is the story of Sunny Park, a seventh-grade student at Ranchito Mesa Middle who loves the K-pop band Supreme Beat, hanging out with her cool grandma, dancing when no one is watching, snacking on shrimp chips, and being there for Bailey, her best friend since third grade. When Bailey decides that she and Sunny should audition for the school dance team in a ploy to parent-trap Bailey's divorced mom and dad, Sunny agrees even though the thought...
3) Rosie Dunne
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Rosie and Alex seemed destined to spend their lives together until a series of unfortunate events separates them leading Alex to Boston to pursue a medical career and a new love while Rosie is forced to stay in Dublin.
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Thursday Murder Club novels volume 4
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2023.
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"It's rarely a quiet day for the Thursday Murder Club. Shocking news reaches them--an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, where the tricks of the trade are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online fraudsters--as well as heartache close to home--Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim have no idea...
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"The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she's an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs. Honestly, it's a pretty...
8) Scoop
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Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the "Daily Beast," has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner party tip from Mrs. Algernon Stitch, Lord Copper feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia.
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2023.
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"Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano...
10) Amberville
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Mollisan Town quartet volume 1
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Eric Bear, who feels lucky to have a home, career beautiful wife named Emma Rabbit after a life of drugs, gambling, and stuffed-animal thugs, is confronted by his old boss, crime lord Nicholas Dove, who wants Eric to remove him from the Death List and threatens to tear apart his wife if he does not comply.
11) Rattled
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Housewife Heather Peters is thrilled when she moves with her husband and son to an upscale neighborhood, but her idea of household bliss is soon shattered when she clashes with an animal rights group, a dishonest real estate mogul, and an endangered rattlesnake.
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My weird school daze volume 5
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When peanut butter and jelly sandwiches start disappearing from the vomitorium, the security guard of Ella Mentry School, Officer Spence, starts behaving strangely and arresting everybody he sees.
15) Happy place
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"A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now-for reasons they're still not discussing-they don't. They broke up...
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The legendary Deep Thoughts and New Yorker humorist Jack Handey is back with his very first novel-a hilarious, absurd, far-flung adventure tale.
The Stench of Honolulu.
Are you a fan of books in which famous tourist destinations are repurposed as unlivable hellholes for no particular reason? Read on!
Jack Handey's exotic tale is full of laugh-out-loud twists and unforgettable characters whose names escape me right now. A reliably unreliable narrator...
18) Boomer1
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"Bluegrass musician, former journalist and editor, and now PhD in English, Mark Brumfeld has arrived at his thirties with significant debt and no steady prospects. His girlfriend Cassie--a punk bassist in an all-female band, who fled her Midwestern childhood for a new identity--finds work at a "new media" company. When Cassie refuses his marriage proposal, Mark leaves New York and returns to the basement of his childhood home in the Baltimore suburbs....
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2023.
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"From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: his debut novel. The story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic book that inspired it. PART ONE of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for 23 years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing...
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