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Comics Squad volume 1
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"A collection of comics about every kid's favorite school subject: lunch!"--
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Richard Novak is a modern-day Everyman, a middle-aged divorcé trading stocks out of his home, who lives is emotional isolation. A medical emergency and the discovery of an expanding sinkhole outside his house conspire to hurl him back into the world and new relationships. The promised land of Los Angeles is also very much a character in this novel about compassion, transformation, and taking chances.
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"An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations.... It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins Tom Robbins's gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine--while the illusions that obscure...
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Time warp trio series volume 12
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Saying "Thursday" over and over near a certain magic book transports Joe, Sam, and Fred to the Viking era.
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Published in 1875, this generous collection of sixty-three sketches and short stories includes the classic "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," as well as other standouts like "To Raise Poultry," "How the Author Was Sold in Newark," and "My Bloody Massacre."
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Amelia Bedelia series volume 6
I can read book volume Level 2
Greenwillow read-alone books
Snuggle and read story book
I can read book volume Level 2
Greenwillow read-alone books
Snuggle and read story book
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Literal-minded Amelia Bedelia does household chores and gets dinner ready.
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This unique collection of Twain’s essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author’s vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” and “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” as well as some delightful excerpts from The Diaries of Adam and Eve, this compilation also includes darker works written in the author’s twilight years....
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A series of unfortunate events volume 12
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The Baudelaire orphans disguise themselves as employees of the Hotel Denoument and find themselves pursued by the evil Count Olaf and others. Lemony Snicket returns with the last book before the last book of his New York Times bestselling Series of Unfortunate Events. Lemony Snicket returns with the last book before the last book of his New York Times bestselling Series of Unfortunate Events.
34) Bunny vs. Monkey
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Bunny vs. Monkey volume 1
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"Monkey-opia is going to be brilliant!" When Monkey is sent into space by a team of scientists, he expects smooth sailing. But not all goes according to plan, and Monkey's spaceship crash-lands in a nearby forest. Convinced he has discovered a new planet the power-mad Monkey claims the peaceful Woods as his own Monkey-opia! He declares that all other animals must be banished, and he uses bizarre inventions, such as the Cluck-Cluck Zeppelin and Metal...
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This anthology covers the entire span of Twain's inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years. Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, " to the bitter vision of humankind in "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, " to the delightful hilarity of "Is He Living or Is He Dead?"
36) Bizarre romance
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Internationally bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger, and graphic artist Eddie Campbell, of such seminal works as From Hell by Alan Moore, collaborate on a wonderfully bizarre collection that celebrates and satirizes love of all kinds. With 16 different stories told through illustrated prose or comic panels, the couple explores the idiosyncratic nature of relationships in a variety of genres from fractured fairy tales...
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"Taking its title from a group of stories that begin the book, Bream Gives Me Hiccups moves from contemporary L.A. to the dorm rooms of an American college to ancient Pompeii, throwing the reader into a universe of social misfits, reimagined scenes from history, and ridiculous overreactions. In one piece, a tense email exchange between a young man and his girlfriend is taken over by his sister, who is obsessed with the Bosnian genocide (The situation...
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Meg Langslow was actually looking forward to renovating the old Victorian mansion she and her boyfriend Michael bought. But she wasn't thrilled by the lifetime of junk accumulated by the house's eccentric previous owner, Edwina Sprocket. The easiest solution: hold the end-all and be-all of gigantic yard sales. But when the event attracts the late Miss Sprocket's money-hungry heirs, the over-enthusiastic supporters of some endangered barn owls,...
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Debutante dropout mysteries volume 4
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Renegade rich girl Andy Kendricks isn't the belle of any Dallas ball—and that's just the way the debutante dropout likes it! She's got a good life and a great man: her defense attorney boyfriend, Brian Malone. Brian's such a straight arrow that he had to be dragged kicking and screaming to a close friend's bachelor party at a sleazy local "gentleman's club."
So why is the groom-to-be saying that Brian left the bacchanal arm-in-arm with
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Pig trilogy volume 1
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What the pig did - in Joseph Caldwell's charmingly romantic tale of an American in contemporary Ireland - is create a ruckus, a rumpus, a disturbance... utter pandemonium. Possibly the most obstreperous character in literature since Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's Ulysses, Mr. Caldwell's pig distracts everyone from his or her chosen mission. Aaron McCloud has come to Ireland from New York City to walk the beach and pity himself for the cold indifference...