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No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. They grow vegetables, they tend chickens, they make chocolate. And they sing. Ironically, for a community that has taken a vow of silence, the monks have become world famous for their glorious voices, raised in ancient chants whose effect on both singer and listener is...
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The aliens must come together because their power is in numbers.
The third installment in the action-packed Lorien Legacies series that launched with "I Am Number Four" and "The Power of Six", finds the stakes higher than ever as John, Number Six, and Number Seven desperately try to find the rest of the Lorien Nine before it's too late.
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[2013]
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Unabridged.
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In "The boy who cried wolf", a boy tending sheep on a lonely mountainside thinks it a fine joke to cry "wolf" and watch the people come running--and then one day a wolf is really there, but no one answers his call.
"Chicken Little" is the classic story of a chicken and her bird-brained friends who think the sky is falling.
"Rapunzel" is the unique retelling of the classic story of the girl with the long golden hair.
In "The three billy goats gruff",...
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[2013]
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Unabridged.
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Duck on a bike : A duck decides to ride a bike and soon influences all the other animals on the farm to ride bikes too.
Knuffle Bunny too : This is the story of how Trixie loses her beloved bunny and gains him back, along with something new: her very first best friend.
The caterpillar and the polliwog : Impressed by the caterpillar's boast that she will turn into a butterfly when she grows up, a polliwog determines to watch the caterpillar carefully,...
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2013.
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Unabridged.
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Johnny Appleseed: John Chapman, known by almost all, as Johnny Appleseed, is the man who sprinkled apple seeds, planted trees and told stories to children across the Midwest.
Martin's big words: Using his quotes, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. comes to life in this biography about beliefs and dreams and following one's heart. It will inspire and affect all.
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In San Francisco Bay there was a United States Navy base called Port Chicago. During World War II, it was a busy port where young sailors loaded bombs and ammunition into ships bound for American troops in the Pacific. Like the entire Navy, Port Chicago was strictly segregated. All the officers giving orders were white; all the men loading bombs were black. On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked Port Chicago, killing 320 servicemen and injuring...
28) The Boundless
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Aboard "The Boundless," the greatest train ever built, on its maiden voyage across Canada, teenaged Will enlists the aid of a traveling circus to save the train from villains.
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Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.
32) Rain Reign
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Rose Howard has OCD, Asperger's, and is obsessed with homonyms. She even purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein), which, according to Rose?s rules of homonyms, is very special. When a storm hits Rain goes missing. Rose?s father accidentally let Rain out. Now Rose has to find her dog, even if it means leaving the safety of her routines and safe places to search for her missing dog. Rose finds the dog as well as Rain?s original...
34) Rise and fall
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"Deep in the desert there sits a beautiful oasis, ruled by a monarch unlike any other in Erdas. His name is Cabaro, the Great Lion, and he reigns over a kingdom of animals, jealously guarding his golden talisman. No human has ever set foot on the Great Beast's territory. The journey to his oasis is impossible. As a team, Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have achieved the impossible before. But now that team is broken--the friends scattered by a devastating...
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[2015]
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520L
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"The magic tree house has taken Jack and Annie back in time to England in 1944. England is fighting for its life in World War II. Before long, Jack and Annie find themselves parachuting into Normandy, France, behind enemy lines. The date is June 5. Will the brave brother and sister team be able to make a difference during one of the darkest times in history?"--
36) I was here
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In an attempt to understand why her best friend committed suicide, eighteen-year-old Cody Reynolds retraces her dead friend's footsteps and makes some startling discoveries.
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When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds himself in possession of an ancient amulet filled with magic once reserved for the Gods, and becomes the center of a conspiracy to overthrow the emperor and destroy Rome.
38) Mission Titanic
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The Outcast recreates the conditions for the Titanic disaster and gives Dan and Amy Cahill just days to stop the shipwreck from taking place.
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As spring arrives on Gardam Street, there are surprises in store for each Penderwick, from neighbor Nick Geiger's expected return from the war to Batty's new dog-walking business, but her plans to use her profits to surprise her family on her eleventh birthday go astray.
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