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1) Funny Story
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"A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry, Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to...
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"Every day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed and barely competent boss, they empty the day's truck of merchandise, stock the shelves, and scatter before the store opens and customers arrive. Their lives follow a familiar if grueling routine, but their real problem is that Town Square doesn't schedule them for enough hours--most...
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Big Audrey, who has cat-like whiskers, and her telephathic friend Molly set out on a journey to find out why flying saucers are landing behind the old stone barn in Poughkeepsie, New York, and, more importantly, to determine whether another cat-whiskered girl really exists.
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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Their name? The objectors. Their job? To break off weddings as hired. Their dilemma? They might just be in love with each other. When Sophie Steinbeck finds out just before her wedding that her fiancé has cheated yet again, she desperately wants to call it off. But because her future father-in-law is her dad's cutthroat boss, she doesn't want to be the one to do it. Her savior comes in the form of a professional objector, whose purpose is to show...
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English
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"A novel about a woman who one day comes home to find her attic is magic and producing an endless supply of interchangeable husbands."--
"When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There's only one problem--she's not married. She's never seen this man before in her life. But according to her friends, her much-improved decor, and the photos on her phone, they've been together...
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Aunties (Jesse Q Sutanto) volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"After an ultra-romantic honeymoon across Europe, Meddy Chan and her husband Nathan have landed in Jakarta to spend Chinese New Year with her entire extended family. Chinese New Year, already the biggest celebration of the Lunar calendar, gets even more festive when a former beau of Second Aunt's shows up at the Chan residence bearing extravagant gifts-he's determined to rekindle his romance with Second Aunt and the gifts are his way of announcing...
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Treehouse books volume 13
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Andy and Terry live in a 169-story treehouse...It now has a kangaroo-riding range, a Whatever-Weather-You-Want dome, and a hall of fun-house mirrors--the perfect place to hide from the truancy officer who is trying to catch them and Jill and make them go to school! Unfortunately, the hall of fun-house mirrors is also the place where their evil troublemaking twins, Anti-Andy, Terrible-Terry, and Junkyard-Jill, live in a doppelganger mirror, and they...
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Holy Mackerel Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"A wildly imaginative book containing three short stories, The Fabled Oceans tracks the adventures of marine creatures as they dive into uncharted waters, where nothing is quite what it seems, and powerful currents shape all our destinies."--
16) Pink Flamingoed
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Aylesford Place volume 1
Publisher
Steve Demaree
Pub. Date
©2008
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343 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"An author inherits his grandparent['s] home and plans to move in, hibernate for the winter, and write his next bestseller. But five minutes after he arrives, some of his neighbors ring his doorbell and his life is never the same game. It is much better. The book is full of humor and quirky characters who have bonded and spend much time together, celebrating anything they can think of to celebrate, which causes readers to comment that this is the...
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Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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English
Description
"Attention, reader: You're going to LOVE this book! No, really, you are. It's got everything you could ever want: comedy, drama, action, heart. Plus--are you ready? It's got homework! Ahh yeah! And a trip to the best place ever, the dentist! Ahhhh yeahhh! Additionally--brace yourself--it's got raisins! Nature's candy. AHH YEAHHH! This book is so great, you won't be able to stop reading it. I DARE you not to have fun" --
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
viii, 287 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man's attempt to capitalize on his mother's murky legacy--a story steeped in Miami's marvelous and sinister magic. Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael Reyes--you can call him Izzy--might not be the Scarface type, but why should that keep him from trying? Growing up in Miami has shaped him into someone who dreams of being the King of the 305, with the money, power, and...
19) Lucky duck
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
Description
Susan the duck keeps feeling unlucky, so when a wolf shows up with gifts she has won it seems like her luck is turning around, but soon she realizes the wolf's intentions may not be as helpful as she imagined.
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