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1) Home safe
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Beloved author Elizabeth Berg tells the story of the recently widowed Helen Ames and of her twenty-seven-year-old daughter Tessa. Helen is shocked to discover that her mild-mannered and loyal husband had been leading a double life. The Ames's had saved money for a happy retirement, planned in minute detail, but that money has disappeared in several big withdrawals spent by Helen's husband before he died.
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"Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story in Milk Blood Heat delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning. These intimate portraits of people and relationships scour and soothe and blast a light on the nature of family, faith, forgiveness, consumption, and what we may, or may not, owe one another. A thirteen-year-old meditates on...
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Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life -- having nothing but his own wits to help him along.
6) Lost & found
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"After the death of her husband, Rocky flees to Peak's Island, a tiny speck off the coast of Maine, a million miles away from everything she's lost. Taking a job as an Animal Warden, Rocky meets Lloyd, a large Labrador retriever, who enters her world with a primitive arrow sticking out of his shoulder. And so begins a remarkable friendship between a wounded woman and an injured, lovable beast. Can the magic of Peak's Island and its quirky residents...
12) Little diva
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"Curtain up! Light the lights! Nena wants to be a Diva--with a capital D--just like her mommy, who's a star on Broadway. She wants to sing and act and dance, but knows it will take lots of work--and lots of fun--for all her wishes to come true. Tony Award-winning actress LaChanze and Caldecott Honoree Brian Pinkney present a showstopping story about a day in the life of a little diva with BIG Broadway dreams."--
14) Hot secret
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"When the body of her hotshot young film director is found in actress Veronica Weston's trailer, she deperately needs an alibi--and Molly DeWitt is it. Molly's PR job is to keep everyone happy, but solving the case is a challenge she can't resist ... just like homicide detective Michael O'Hara. She and Michael must strip the masks from a cast of potential killers, each of whom has a motive, to keep Veronica from behind bars."--Container.
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Dans la grande Afrique, M'Dongo, le léopard, se croit le roi des malins. Il invente une ruse chaque fois qu'il a faim... Aprés les familles d'instruments et les genres musicaux, la collection s'ouvre aux musiques du monde. Laissez-vous envoûter par le son de la kora, du balafon, du khollé, des djembés, du tama, et par les voix incomparables des fréres Toure.
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"Kto powiedzał, że stary poczciwy holownik może sprawdzić tylko na ziemi? Nawet jeśli ktoś tak twierdzi, to Złomek na pewno go nie posłucha. Dlatego tym razem przyjaciel Zygzaka wyrusza po przygodę aż pod same chmury, a wszystko przez jedną lekcię latania. Myślicie, że to bujdy ... ?"--Container.
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