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2) Office girl
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Odile is a lovely twenty-three-year-old art-school dropout, a minor vandal, and a hopeless dreamer. Jack is a twenty-five-year-old shirker who's most happy capturing the endless noises of the city on his out-of-date tape recorder. Together they decide to start their own art movement in defiance of a contemporary culture made dull by both the tedious and the obvious. Set in February 1999, just before the end of one world and the beginning of another,...
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Spunky eleven-year-old Wadjda lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with her parents. She desperately wants a bicycle so that she can race her friend Abdullah, even though it is considered improper for girls to ride bikes. Wadjda earns money for her dream bike by selling homemade bracelets and mixtapes of banned music to her classmates. But after she's caught, she's forced to turn over a new leaf (sort of), or risk expulsion from school. Still, Wadjda keeps...
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The Great Bicycle Race Mystery: The Aldens participate in a three-day bicycle ride and soon find that someone seems to be intent on keeping others from completing the event.
The Mystery of the Wild Ponies: While visiting the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the Aldens see a mysterious wild horse that may be a ghost.
The Mystery in the Computer Game: The Aldens, while testing the latest version of their favorite computer game, are surprised to find...
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"Who was Annie Londonderry? She captured the popular imagination with her daring 'round the world trip on two wheels. It was, declared The New York World in October of 1895, "the most extraordinary journey ever undertaken by a woman." But beyond the headlines, Londonderry was really Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, a young, Jewish mother of three small children, who climbed onto a 42-pound Columbia bicycle and pedaled away into history. Reportedly set in motion...
10) Stationary Bike
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New on audio from Stephen King. Climb aboard Stationary Bike -- a streamlined fever dream of a tale, in which an ordinary household object assumes otherworldly powers and a familiar journey takes a terrifying twist. When commercial artist Richard Sifkitz finally gets around to having that physical he'd been putting off for years, and his cholesterol comes back dangerously high, he does what so many thirty-something, junk food-eating couch potatoes...
11) Strays
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When fourteen-year-old Quentin's bike breaks down in the strange town of Ravens Pass, he and his friend Reese find themselves surrounded by feral cats--is this an attack or something else?
12) Henry on wheels
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"Henry can't wait to take his first solo bike ride. When Mom says he may go only around his block, Henry discovers that there are lots of fascinating things to see close to home--from a hot dog truck to cement mixers"--Dust jacket.
13) Karen's new bike
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Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 62
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Karen is learning all about bike safety in school. She is even going to enter a bike-a-thon. But Karen's bike is too small for her. So with Daddy's help, Karen buys a new bike. Then Karen's new bike is stolen. Can Karen catch the thief and get her bike back?
17) Wheels
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Carlos is jealous of his friend Billy's new bicycle and desperately wants a new one of his own for his upcoming birthday.
18) Off road
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Best friends Tanika and Wyatt face great danger when disaster strikes during a day-long mountain biking trip on unfamiliar trails.
19) Mike's new bike
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This easy reader contains only 57 different words, repeated often to help the young reader develop word recognition and interest in reading.