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1) 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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"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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Have you ever dreamed of owning your own business? Being an entrepreneur is not just for adults! This book is full of ideas for turning anything you enjoy doing in your spare time into a lifestyle business. Readers will explore key business concepts including researching the market, pricing for profit, creating a brand, and target marketing.
6) Spare parts: the true story of four undocumented teenagers, one ugly robot, and an impossible dream
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"The young readers' edition of the bestselling adult book of the same name"--
In 2004, four undocumented Mexican teenagers arrived at the national underwater robotics championship at the University of California, Santa Barbara. No one had ever told Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they would amount to much -- until two inspiring high school science teachers convinced the boys to enter the competition. Up against some of the best collegiate...
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Survivors 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...
9) Spare parts
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While searching for a replacement heart at the Spare Parts Mart, a lonely robot finds a friend.
10) A spare life
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In 1984, twelve-year-old Zlata and Srebra are twin girls growing up in communist Skopje, Yugoslavia. They are like that of young girls anywhere, despite one vast difference --the twins are conjoined at their heads. As young adults, their lives are thrown into crisis when an incident threatens to destroy their sisterly bond. They fly to London, determined to be surgically separated, but will this dangerous procedure free them, or only more tightly...
11) The spare man
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"Hugo, Locus, and Nebula-Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense approach to life in space with her talent for creating glittering high-society in this stylish SF mystery, The Spare Man. Tesla Crane, one of the richest women in the world, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between Earth and Mars. She's traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered and her husband is named...
12) Spare Dog Parts
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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.
13) Spares
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Talking fridges, human clone farms, flying shopping malls - we must be in the Michael Marshall Smith zone. A world all too close to our own... Spares - human clones, the ultimate health insurance. An eye for an eye - but some people are doing all the taking. Spares - the story of Jack Randall: burnt-out, dropped out, and way overdrawn at the luck bank. But as caretaker on a Spares Farm, he still has a choice, and it might make a difference...if he...
14) Spare
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How do you survive when your only purpose is to give your live to others . . . bit by bit? In the derelict house next door to a building site, Dawn lives with a young woman who says to call her Mum.Dawn loves the hole in the roof, where she can always see blue. She loves her book of birds and she loves Mrs Goring, the old lady who lives on the ground floor.But when Dawn's medicine runs out and Mrs Goring disappears, Dawn begins see the world as it...
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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...
16) Spare Parts
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A pandemic ruled society. The answer was a vaccine. The problem was that the vaccine made women infertile. Those who refused the vaccine were on the outer; they were hunted by the government and their children removed, taken to facilities where they would become spare parts for the new generations of cloned children. Harper had known her role as a spare part since she was two. There was no questioning her role in life. It was her job as a natural...
17) Spare Change
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"We are born in a burning world blind".
Spare Change is a collection of poems that reflects on general conflicts about identity, individuality, boundaries, politics and compassion. Divided into four sections, it exhibits the relationship between creativity and anxiety. Written in a personal voice but still dealing with questions that concerns everyone. These are the voices we hear when no one is around.
18) Spare Parts
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There is treasure deep beneath the ruins of Vaiheriti, if you live long enough to find it. Stragglers flee the war-torn city with personal security beacons. But while the refugees kill time between food trains, Ahnui takes her repurposed Bot back into the city, hiding from the Rinshanko drone dogs in her search for food, unaware of the discoveries that await her. Spare Parts is a ten-twenty minute quick read – bite-sized space opera for those on...
19) Spare Parts
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In Spare Parts, Claudia Martin, an avionics engineer at Duffet Commercial Airplane Co. (DCAC), finds a serious software anomaly which could threaten the integrity of the Flight Management Computer system -- and that could bring down a jet. Her boss, an ex-lover, chooses to overlook her warning in order to meet the accelerated airplane development schedule. But Claudia's own values will not allow her to agree to let it go. Claudia finds her professional...
20) Spare Parts
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An unwanted and unexpected descent into the depths of a most vile traffic.
Carl "Kalle" Nebuloni lost his parents and a sister in a tragic road accident. In Lisbon, where he lives, he divides his time between caring for his niece, sole survivor of the crash. But had this really been an accident?
The discovery of new and disturbing evidence forces Kalle to confront the possibility that the death of almost his entire family may not have been the result...
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