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As night falls, a tiny, furry creature with enormous eyes emerges from a hole beneath a scrubby desert bush. Always alert to a sudden attack by one of its many predators, the little kangaroo rat searches for food. Packed with information perfectly suited to the abilities and interests of its young audience, this colorful, fact-filled volume gives readers a chance not only to learn, but also to develop their powers of observation and critical thinking....
42) Meerkat's Burrow
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It's early morning in an African desert. Suddenly, from a small hole in the sandy ground, a little meerkat appears. Then another and another pops out. Soon a whole family, or mob, of meerkats leaves its underground home. As the adult meerkats look for breakfast, some tiny pups play close to the burrow under the watchful eye of an adult. In Meerkat's Burrow, kids will explore the underground and above-ground world of a meerkat family through clear...
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Sometimes happy endings are just the beginning of an even harder road. Although her aunt and sister believe she should get help to deal with her past demons, Patience believes the only thing she needs is Zeke. When he comes back into her world, her life couldn't be more perfect. Except old demons pick the worst time to surface, and once again their happiness is threatened. Help was never a necessity, but Patience finds out that love isn't always all...
44) Playing Patience
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Life's been hard for Zeke. Being a punching bag for his alcoholic father has turned him into stone. Not even the dodgy trailer park he lives in can scare him. Fighting is his release and sex, drugs, and his guitar bring him peace, but deep down Zeke isn't quite as hard as he makes himself out to be. When he meets Patience, she finds all his broken pieces and puts him back together. She's a ray of light in his shadowed life and the last thing he wants...
45) Wombat's burrow
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"In this book, young readers will learn about the diet, life cycle, behavior and habitat of wombats. Special emphasis is placed on the wombat's burrow habitat"--
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Lindsey Nolan has it all: inventions paying large dividends, a dream job in the scientific village of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and a stable of eager playmates. But when, Lindsey wakes up in rehab with no memory of how she got there, her world is turned upside down. Her roommate, an HIV-positive teenage prostitute named Maggie, is the most volatile patient on the ward. The facility is, plagued by disturbing thefts. And, another theft unfolds when...
47) The Bends
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Maggie May has only weeks until graduation when Edward Gripp, a wealthy benefactor and the architect of Maggie's art college, goes missing from a campus Halloween party. Bill Bleach, the gawkish young detective assigned to the case, discovers a mysterious labyrinth within the walls of the art college where it appears Gripp spied on the activities of the faculty and students. When Gripp's mutilated body is found and a gorgeous art professor is also...
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When hundreds of huge holes mysteriously appeared overnight in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, geologist Jack Oswald picked Angele Menendez, his climatologist wife, to determine if the record temperatures due to climate change was the cause. But the holes were not natural. They were unnatural portals for an invading army of demons. Together with Aileen O'Shannon, a 1,400-year-old sorceress demon-hunter, the three survivors of the research...
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When hundreds of huge holes mysteriously appear overnight in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, they threaten financial and environmental catastrophe should any more open up under the Trans-Alaska Pipeline or any of the many oil wells and smaller pipelines that feed it. An oil company sends a scientific team to investigate. But when the geologist, his climatologist wife, two of their graduate students, a local newspaper reporter, an oil...
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Jackson Hole volume 1
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A sizzling fan-favorite from USA TODAY bestselling author Victoria Dahl, previouslypublished in 2012.
Grace Barrett never expected to find herself living with her aunt in Jackson Hole,Wyoming. She figures she'll spend a little time in the sticks to figure out her life, andthen move somewhere exciting to live out her dreams. But she wasn't counting on meetingCole Rawlins.
Cole is a rugged Wyoming cowboy born and bred. Yet he can't help but be drawn...
51) So Tough to Tame
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Jackson Hole volume 3
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A sexy fan-favorite from USA TODAY bestselling author Victoria Dahl, previouslypublished in 2013.
Tough to tame, but not too tough to love… Charlie Allington is supposed to be on thefast track to the top-a small-town girl who was making it big in her career. Instead,she's reeling from a scandal that's pretty much burned all her bridges. Now, out ofoptions, she needs a place to lick her wounds and figure out her future. True, working ata ski resort...
52) The thirst
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Detective Harry Hole volume 11
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[2017]
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In Police--the last novel featuring Jo Nesbo's hard-bitten, maverick Oslo detective--a killer wreaking revenge on the police had Harry Hole fighting for the safety of the people closest to him. Now, in The Thirst, the story continues as Harry is inextricably drawn back into the Oslo police force. A serial murderer has begun targeting Tinder daters--a murderer whose MO reignites Harry's hunt for an enemy from his past.
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Detective Harry Hole volume 11
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2017
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#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this electrifying thriller, Inspector Harry Hole hunts down a serial murderer who targets his victims—on Tinder. • Part of the New York Times bestselling series.
The murder victim, a self-declared Tinder addict. The one solid clue—fragments of rust and paint in her wounds—leaves the investigating team baffled.
Two days later, there’s...
The murder victim, a self-declared Tinder addict. The one solid clue—fragments of rust and paint in her wounds—leaves the investigating team baffled.
Two days later, there’s...
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Jackson Hole volume 2
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A steamy fan-favorite from USA TODAY bestselling author Victoria Dahl, previouslypublished in 2013.
Merry Kade has always been the good girl, the one who patiently waits for the guy tonotice her. Well, no more. Merry has just scored her dream job, and it's time for her lifeto change. As the new curator of a museum in Wyoming, she'll supervise a lot ofrestoration work. Luckily she's found the perfect contractor for the job: Shane Harcourt.
Shane...
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Merry Kade acababa de conseguir el trabajo de sus sueños y había llegado el momento de que su vida cambiara. Era la nueva comisaria de un museo de Wyoming e iba a encargarse de supervisar muchos trabajos de restauración. Por suerte, había encontrado al constructor perfecto para las obras.
Shane Harcourt no podía creer que alguien quisiera convertir un pueblo fantasma en un museo. Además, lo que menos deseaba en el mundo era que el rancho de...
56) Knife
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Harry Hole volume 12
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Brilliant, audaciously rogue police officer, Harry Hole from The Snowman and The Thirst, is back and in the throes of a new, unanticipated rage -- once again hunting the murderer who has haunted his entire career. Harry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel -- the only woman he's ever loved -- has ended it with him, permanently. He's been given a chance for a new start with the Oslo Police but it's in the cold case office, when what he really wants is...
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Detective Harry Hole volume 12
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2019
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Unabridged
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Brilliant, audaciously rogue police officer Harry Hole is back and in the throes of a new, unanticipated rage in this installment of the New York Times bestselling series—once again hunting the murderer who has haunted his entire career.
“I can’t think of anyone who makes my skin crawl like Nesbo.”—The New York Times Book Review
Harry Hole is not in a good...
“I can’t think of anyone who makes my skin crawl like Nesbo.”—The New York Times Book Review
Harry Hole is not in a good...
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Rediscover traditional tales and fall in love with new ones with Bendon's Classic Children's Storybooks! Amazing adventures and beloved characters fill 30 colorful pages with timeless artwork that little readers will love. In a jungle far away, little monkeys run and play. Can you count them all? Collect all of our stories to complete your library!
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Tristan Strong volume 1
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Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month he's going to spend on his grandparents' farm. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up and steals Eddie's notebook. Tristan chases after it, and a tug-of-war ensues between them underneath a...
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The beautiful young photojournalist, Aileen O'Shannon, is not who she seems. For centuries, she has been a demon hunter, a sorceress, who has tracked and killed small bands of demons that occasionally crossed into our world. But, that changed when she joined Dr. Jack Oswald's expedition to study one of hundreds of huge holes that mysteriously appeared overnight in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle.
Instead of small sporadic incursions,...
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