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2) Clock dance
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English
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Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden disappearance. In 1977, she is a college coed considering a marriage proposal. In 1997, she is a young widow trying to piece her life back together. And in 2017, she yearns to be a grandmother, yet the prospect is dimming. So, when Willa receives a phone call from a stranger, telling her that her son's ex-girlfriend has...
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English
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Once he was a well-liked, well-paid young partner in a thriving Mississippi law firm. Then Patrick Lanigan stole ninety million dollars from his own firm-and ran for his life. For four years, he evaded men who were rich and powerful, and who would stop at nothing to find him. Then, inevitably, on the edge of the Brazilian jungle, they finally tracked him down. Now Patrick is coming home. And in the Mississippi city where it all began, an extraordinary...
4) I stink!
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English
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A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini.
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English
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The war against Voldemort is not going well; even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet, looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet . . . As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate -- and lose a few eyebrows in the process. The Weasley twins expand their business....
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English
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Nature and science writer Bill Bryson examines some of mysteries of science, and attempts to understand not only what scientists know, but how they know it. Covers the creation of the universe, the size of the Earth, the origins of life, and other topics.
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Joey Pigza books volume 1
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English
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From the Publisher: "They say I'm wired bad, or wired sad, but there's no doubt about it-I'm wired." Joey Pigza's got heart, he's got a mom who loves him, and he's got "dud meds," which is what he calls the Ritalin pills that are supposed to even out his wild mood swings. Sometimes Joey makes bad choices. He learns the hard way that he shouldn't stick his finger in the pencil sharpener, or swallow his house key, or run with scissors. Joey ends...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Language
Español
Description
Presents a beginning language learning program designed to teach the Spanish-speaking listener English in progressive steps.
El programa linguístico de Pimsleur es un sistema integrado que le proporciona a usted inmersión en el idioma, lo anima a escuchar, a entender y a hacer uso del idioma, todo al mismo tiempo.
11) Aces high
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English
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"After the alien virus struck humanity in the wake of World War II, a handful of the survivors found they possessed superhuman powers. The Wild Cards shared-world volumes tell their story. Here in book two, we trace these heroes and villains through the tumultuous 1980s, in stories from SF and fantasy giants such as George R. R. Martin, Roger Zelazny, Pat Cadigan, Lewis Shiner, Walter Jon Williams, and others"--
12) Irish
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Presents a beginning language learning program designed to teach the listener Irish in progressive steps, without the use of reading materials.
13) Humans, bow down
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English
Description
The Great War is over. The Robots have won. The humans who survived have two choices--they can submit and serve the vicious rulers they created or be banished to the Reserve, a desolate, unforgiving landscape where it's a crime to be human. And the robots aren't content--following the orders of their soulless leader, they're planning to conquer humanity's last refuge. With nothing left to lose, Six, a feisty, determined young woman whose family was...
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My weird school volume 5
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English
Description
A.J. and the other second graders do everything except play sports when they go to "fizz ed" class with their new teacher, Miss Small.
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English
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Read by Lana Quintal
Approx. 2.5 hours
2 cassettes
Available now for the first time on audio—four Junie B. Jones stories in one collection brings four times the laughs!
Includes:
Junie B. Jones is (almost) a Flower Girl
Junie B. is tired of everyone treating her like a baby. Too bad she wasn't picked to be flower girl at her aunt Flo's wedding. Then she could really show everyone how grown-up she is. But surely she can...
Approx. 2.5 hours
2 cassettes
Available now for the first time on audio—four Junie B. Jones stories in one collection brings four times the laughs!
Includes:
Junie B. Jones is (almost) a Flower Girl
Junie B. is tired of everyone treating her like a baby. Too bad she wasn't picked to be flower girl at her aunt Flo's wedding. Then she could really show everyone how grown-up she is. But surely she can...
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Ramona Quimby volume 5
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English
Description
Ramona at 7 1/2 sometimes feels disrespected because she is the youngest in the family.
17) Harriet the spy
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Series
Harriet the spy volume 1
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English
Description
Eleven-year-old Harriet keeps notes on her classmates and neighbors in a secret notebook, but when some of the students read the notebook, they seek revenge.
18) Runaway Ralph
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Series
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English
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Ralph runs away looking for freedom but winds up a prisoner at a summer camp.
19) RIBSY
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Henry Huggins volume 6
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English
Description
Separated from his owner, Henry Huggins, in a shopping center parking lot, an ordinary city dog begins a string of bewildering adventures.
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The perfect score volume 1
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English
Description
No one likes or wants to take the statewide assessment tests. Not the students in Mrs. Woods's sixth-grade class. Not even Mrs. Woods. It's not as if the kids don't already have things to worry about. . . . Under pressure to be the top gymnast her mother expects her to be, RANDI starts to wonder what her destiny truly holds. Football-crazy GAVIN has always struggled with reading and feels as dumb as his high school-dropout father. TREVOR acts tough...
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