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In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illegal love potions to support her family.
Love potions is a dangerous business. Brewing has painful, debilitating side effects, and getting caught means death or a prison sentence. But what Venus is most afraid of is the dark, sentient magic within her.
Then an enemy's iron bullet kills her mother, Venus's life implodes.
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As the youngest daughter of a country music legend, Raegan Farrow longs to establish an identity away from the spotlight and publish her small-town romances under a pen name. But after her dream is dashed when she won't exploit her mother's fame to further her own career, she hears a rumor from a reliable source regarding a tell-all being written about the Farrow family. Making matters worse, the unknown author has gone to great lengths to remain...
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This is Episode 3. A long-lost love. A forbidden friendship. To preserve them both, the young prince will give up everything. Growing up in the Kingdom of Paragon, the city prince, Palimay struggles to be reunited with his long-lost love. Allied with a Wrythe named Sett, he seeks her embrace, only to find himself caught up in an act of betrayal. With his father dead and the new King targeting him, can Palimay find his love once more?
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He needed a baby to close a business deal,But Sheikh Karim is about to get way more than he bargained for…Karim Al-Ahsan has a problem; he's caught in a lie, having told an old-fashioned business partner that he's a family man, with a wife and baby of his own. Now with little option other than to find and hire a mother and son to portray his family, Karim searches for the perfect candidates to prove that he's a man of integrity…Hallie Jameson...
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The latest novel in the award-winning Bangalore Detectives Club series finds amateur sleuth Kaveri Murthy involved in a dangerous plot that endangers the life of the visiting Prince of Wales.
This latest novel in the Bangalore Detectives Club mystery series takes the reader deep into the historical era surrounding the visit by Edward, Prince of Wales, to Bangalore in 1921. When the prince begins a tour of a number of Indian cities, he encounters...
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Zoey loves poutine with its French fries, gravy, and squeaky squeaky cheese curds. It's her favourite dish to make with her father. And it's their annual tradition to make it for their shared July 1 birthday. Zoey is excited. Tomorrow is her fifth birthday! It's also a holiday in Canada. This year, family members--grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins--from across Canada are coming to celebrate Zoey's birthday. But as a surprise to Zoey, everyone is...
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From their big eyes to their long necks, baby giraffes are so cute! Discover more about these adorable animals with your own adorable little one. Filled with fun sound words and sweet photos, (human) babies will reach for “Hello Baby Giraffe!” again and again. From their big eyes to their long necks, baby giraffes are so cute! Discover more about these adorable animals with your own adorable little one. Filled with fun sound words and sweet photos,...
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It's the most romantic time of the year… for murder. Traveling bakers, Ruby and Bee, are having a fun, albeit frosty, time in the small town of Bourbon, Kentucky. Every day, they park their truck beside the frozen pond and serve the friendly locals delicious treats. With Valentine's Day on the horizon, Ruby and Bee are sure it's going to be the best holiday ever. Until they arrive at their usual spot and find a corpse floating beneath the ice! A...
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In this partially illustrated early chapter book, two friends bring a friendly dragon statue to life and must find a way to help her get home. The dragon is alive!
When eleven-year-old Hailey and her friend Kyle make a wish on a Chinese lion statue, they accidentally bring a dragon to life.
Scared at first, the kids soon realize that Zhu the dragon means them no harm, and they show the dragon around their city. It's all fun and games until Animal...
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After moving to a beautiful gated community, a grieving woman grows suspicious of her friendly neighbors and discovers their charming suburban paradise hides disturbing secrets and sinister intentions.
Can Abby expose the truth and shut down the sinister experiments before it's too late? Or will she find herself strapped to a table in the lab as the next unwilling test subject?
11) Swallows Swirl
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"Down the hill I run, rain-booted and sweater-free. And all around me, swallows swirl." One child's year is punctuated by the life cycle of the swallows roosting in the eaves of the shed. She watches as they build nests and teach their young to snap up bugs, zipping through the air in loop-the-loops. Winter comes and she imagines their journey south, towards warmer, longer days. And when the swallows return? She greets them open armed as friends....
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Curious, cute, and seriously quirky, cats are a conundrum wrapped in fur. Do you want to learn more about your feline friends?
Often a confusing mixture of affectionate and aloof, spending much of the day snoozing yet being right there where a can of food is opened, cats are the definition of unknowable-or are they? Some things you may not have known about your cat:
• Cats have a reputation as discerning eaters but they actually have very few...
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To really bond with our much-loved dogs, we need to understand what they're trying to tell us
From the position of their ears to the wag of their tails, dogs are skilled communicators and they're eager to let us know how they feel. While we mostly rely on words to express ourselves, dogs mainly talk to us, and each other, through a series of facial expressions, body language, and doggie behavior.
This beautifully illustrated book of canine communication...
14) Norma
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Widowhood and weirdos, online and off, NORMA is so dark it smarts.
It's a terrible freedom to linger unaccounted for.
Norma is waking up and cracking up. Decades of marriage, housekeeping, and family responsibility: buried with her husband Hank. Now, she's free, gorging on an online riot of canceled soap operas, message boards, and grocery store focus groups. Transcribing chatter for fifty cents a minute. It's all of humanity-grim, funny, and desperate-wafting...
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When you go into nature, just look around you. You'll learn to move slowly and let go, to be flexible and soft while staying strong, and to revel in your uniqueness while working with those around you. This gentle introduction to mindfulness and meditation encourages children to take cues from the creatures and sights around them, giving readers tools to manage worry and big feelings. Adorable, kid-friendly illustrations make the lessons widely accessible...
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Road trips can be a lot of fun, especially when there are intriguing places to visit and new things to learn. Through a variety of poetic forms, readers are taken on an armchair cross-country journey across the continental United States to visit 14 historic tree sites, some famous and others less well-known. From the Emancipation Oak in Hampton, Virginia, to the Methuselah tree in Shulman Grove, California, readers will discover trees that have traveled...
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Part of the nonfiction Orca Footprints series for middle-grade readers, this book examines the importance of seeds to all living things, the threats they face and why we have to preserve and conserve seeds for the future. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Small but mighty
Learn about the importance of seeds and how saving and conserving them for the future is key to sustaining healthy life on the planet.
Seeds are essential to all life...
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Everywhere you go, all around the world people are eating ice cream! And while some folks spoon up sundaes and some savor Syrian bouza--one thing is always true: ice cream is joy! Travel the globe and discover a mouthwatering selection of cold, creamy treats. Which one is your favorite?! Ice Cream Everywhere includes a map, an author's note--and three scoops of fun! Everywhere you go, all around the world people are eating ice cream! And while some...
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Amaya was born on a winter night-and every experience and memory helps to build her identity. She is a little bit of Mama, whose family is far away in India, and a little bit of Papa, whose mother immigrated from China for a new life. She is a little bit of the salty ocean and a little bit of the rolling storm. A little bit of the stars in the sky, and a little bit of so many other things. When Amaya's new sibling arrives, she knows just what to say...
20) Sam and Lucy
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Lucy is Sam's best hen. She takes good care of the baby chicks and makes sure all the chickens in the flock have a place to roost. Everyone loves Lucy. Especially Sam. Lucy and Sam do the chores together, go fishing--and Lucy always waits for Sam's bus after school. When Lucy starts to limp, the vet lets Sam know that Lucy is getting old and the best thing to do is give her lots of extra love. Which is just what Sam does. This tender story tells readers...
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