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1) Spare
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"It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling--and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full...
2) Spare change
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Boston private investigator Sunny Randall teams up with her father to solve a thirty-year-old case involving a serial killer who has come out of hiding three decades after claiming his last victim.
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"Crashing with a friend and her husband is more intimate--and dangerous--than anyone could imagine in this provocative new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club pick We Were Never Here. When the pandemic first hits, thirty-one-year-old Kelly tries to make the best of quarantine but it soon becomes clear there are some lemons you just can't make into lemonade. She loses her job and her boyfriend in one fell swoop,...
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Glass spare volume 1
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After discovering that she has the ability to turn people into gemstones, Wilhemina, the fourth daughter of the wealthiest nation's king, seeks redemption putting herself in the path of a cursed prince who has his own ideas about Wil's power.
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"A mesmerizing debut novel set in northern Texas about two sisters who discover an unsettling secret about their father, the head pastor of an evangelical megachurch, that upends their lives and community-a story of family, identity, and the delicate line between faith and deception. Luke Nolan has led the Hope congregation for more than a decade, while his wife and daughters have patiently upheld what it means to live righteously. Made famous by...
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Survivors (Shana Galen) volume 3
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Rafe Beaumont, 5th son of the Earl of Haddington, is naturally seductive. Women flock to him, and he knows just how to get them to swoon. These skills were well utilized during the wars, when he seduced wives and mistresses of Napolean's confidants to glean secrets and battle plans. Now he's hot on the trail of Napoleon's most elusive assassin. Rafe must find him through his daughter, but she seems immune to flattery and entirely unseducible. Colette...
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Nell Crane has never held a boy's hand. In a city devastated by an epidemic, where survivors are all missing parts--an arm, a leg, an eye--Nell has always been an outsider. Her father is the famed scientist who created the biomechanical limbs that everyone now uses. But she's the only one with her machinery on the inside: her heart. Since the childhood operation, she has ticked. Like a clock, like a bomb. And as her community rebuilds, everyone is...
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A stumpy tail, mismatched paws, a long, drooly snout and the biggest dog heart that ever beat. In a celebration of what makes a pet unique, a little girl imagines how an odd assortment of parts combined to make the perfect dog.
With spare, inviting text from Alison Hughes and charmingly offbeat illustrations by award-winning illustrator Ashley Spires, this gorgeous picture book is sure to be an instant classic.
With spare, inviting text from Alison Hughes and charmingly offbeat illustrations by award-winning illustrator Ashley Spires, this gorgeous picture book is sure to be an instant classic.
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Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest . . . and a major motion picture. In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where they attended an underfunded public high school. No one had ever suggested to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo...
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Her adolescent crush is back in Whisper, North Carolina, but something nefarious has also moved into town . . .
FBI agent Sean Malone's homecoming is interrupted by a blast from the past. The little tomboy who'd followed him and his brothers around is now grown up and drop-dead gorgeous. And he finds himself fantasizing about her in ways he'd never done before.
Grace Whitman thinks where she'd spent her childhood summers is the perfect place to...
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Are you a people pleaser struggling with assertiveness? Would you like to learn to set healthy boundaries, build strong relationships, and stop striving for people's expectations? If you've been looking for a book that will free you from external validations, then keep reading; you've found the perfect book!
Studies show that over 50% of people identify as people pleasers. This means they go out of their way to avoid conflict by...
13) Spare Me
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Ryan Hutton has spent his entire life being the shy, nerdy, rule-following nice guy on Summersweet Island. He's the high school bowling coach and algebra teacher, who's always predictable, and he's always been fine with that. At least until a sexy nutjob gives him the best kiss of his life in his favorite pizza place. Suddenly, he doesn't like being the quiet, obedient nice guy anymore.
When Danica Brewster first set foot on this beautiful island...
14) Spare Parts
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On a dark frozen planet where no planet should be, in a doomed city with a sky of stone, the last denizens of Earth's long-lost twin will pay any price to survive, even if the laser scalpels cost them their love and hate and humanity.
15) Spare Change
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Small-town gossip never much bothered Olivia Westerly. As a single career woman, she's weathered her share. It's easy to ignore the raised eyebrows over her late-in-life marriage to Charlie Doyle. But after he drops dead on their honeymoon, the whispers are salt on her raw grief. Especially when an orphaned, eleven-year-old-boy shows up on her doorstep, looking for the grandfather he never met. Behind Ethan Allen Doyle's wary blue eyes lie heavily...
16) Spare Parts
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The Kryl invaded in the dead of night.
The Nevers family had to flee. Yuzosix, once their home, must be left behind.
Along the way, young Elya Nevers develops a strange habit...he begins to collect bot parts. Something about it soothes him.
But this strange obsession soon catapults Elya into an inescapable conflict, one that will shape the man he becomes.
And plant the seed of his destiny.
17) Spare the Rod
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Spare the Rod traces the history of discipline in schools and its ever-increasing integration with prison and policing, ultimately arguing for an approach to discipline that aligns with the moral community that schools could and should be.
In Spare the Rod, historian Campbell F. Scribner and philosopher Bryan R. Warnick investigate the history and philosophy of America's punishment and discipline practices in schools. To delve into this controversial...
18) The Spare Room
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Emily Chang is a seasoned executive who has worked with some of the world's most renowned companies like Procter & Gamble, Apple, and Starbucks. Over the last twenty-one years, her job has brought her and her family to eight different homes across the U.S and China. And everywhere she's lived, Emily has found herself at the unique intersection of her Offer and Offense. Life has served up young people who have been abused, neglected, or marginalized,...
20) No Time to Spare
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From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts-always adroit, often acerbic-on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. Ursula K. Le Guin has taken readers to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she's in the last great frontier of life, old age, and exploring new literary territory: the blog, a forum where her voice-sharp, witty, as compassionate as it is critical-shines....
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