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1) Shark teeth
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Seventh-grader Sharkita "Kita" embarks on a tumultuous journey to keep her family together while handling the consequences of her mother's alcoholism.
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Benjamin January mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A cursed statue... A haunted house... A seemingly supernatural death... The unexpected arrival of a friend from his past plunges musician, sleuth and free man of color Benjamin January into an old, unsolved case in this historical mystery set in New Orleans. December 1840. Surgeon turned piano-player Benjamin January is looking forward to a peaceful holiday with his family. But the arrival of an old friend brings unexpected news - and unexpected...
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"Dionna Reed is in Royal, Texas, to help plan her starlet bestie's wedding. But when the bride and groom bail, all the planning falls to Dionna...and the too-hot, too-sexy best man who's convinced Texas can outdo Hollywood for this wedding event of the year. Well, bring it on, cowboy. Tripp Noble has one week to convince city-slicker Dionna that Royal is the perfect place for his cousin's wedding--all the while keeping his hands off the gorgeous maid...
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Amir Trudeau only goes to his half brother Marcel’s birthday party because of Chloe Danvers. Chloe is rich, and hot, and fits right into the perfect life Marcel inherited when their father left Amir’s mother to start a new family with Marcel’s mom. But Chloe is hot enough for Amir to forget that for one night. Does she want to hook up? Or is she trying to meddle in the estranged brothers’ messy family drama? Amir can’t tell. He doesn’t...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
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English
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In 1904, twelve-year-old Orphelia follows her dream by running away from home to join an all-black minstrel show headed for the Saint Louis World's Fair, and learns about her family's troubled past in the process.
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All her life, Lena McPherson, 45, has been using her supernatural powers to help people in Mulberry, Georgia, yet never has she been able to use them for herself, say to find love. One day that changes when a man who is visible only to her enters her life. But a spirit's love is impermanent, one of the disadvantages of falling in love with a ghost.
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Following his remarkable fiction debut, Rope Burns, author F. X. Toole's Pound for Pound is a big, brawny novel of honor, perseverance, family, and forgiveness, set in towns where violence is the norm and success stories take on an almost mythic importance. It is the story of Dan Cooley, an aging, legendary Los Angeles trainer, who takes on Chicky Garza, a troubled young fighter hungry for glory in the notoriously corrupt San Antonio boxing circuit....
9) God's gym
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In God's Gym, the celebrated author John Edgar Wideman offers stories that pulse with emotional electricity. The ten pieces here explore strength, both physical and spiritual. The collection opens with a man paying tribute to the quiet fortitude of his mother, a woman who "should wear a T-shirt: God's Gym." In the stories that follow, Wideman delivers powerful riffs on family and fate, basketball and belief. His mesmerizing prose features guest appearances...
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Inspired by true events, The Vain Conversation reflects on the 1946 lynching of two black couples in Georgia from the perspectives of three characters—Bertrand Johnson, one of the victims, Noland Jacks, a presumed perpetrator, and Lonnie Henson, a witness to the murders as a ten-year-old boy. Lonnie's inexplicable feelings of culpability drive him in a search for meaning that takes him around the world, and ultimately back to Georgia, where he must...
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"I'd seen the Senator speak a few times before my life got caught up, however distantly, with his, but the first time I can remember paying real attention was when he delivered the speech announcing his run for the Presidency. When David first hears the Senator from Illinois speak, he feels deep ambivalence. Intrigued by the Senator's idealistic rhetoric, David also wonders how he'll balance the fervent belief and inevitable compromises it will take...
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"Filled with lively characters-a fresh and impressive debut!" - Cydney Rax, author of If Your Wife Only Knew
"Simone Kelly is a welcome new voice to the fiction genre. She has crafted a modern-day hero who breaks the mold of the traditional archetype and a heroine that is sure to be his match. An entertaining read." - Donna Hill, Best Selling author of My Love at Last and What Mother Never Told Me.
"Simone's literary voice is fresh and will thrill...
16) Between friends
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English
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Torn between the worlds of her black father and white mother, divorced journalist Dallas Oliver's close friendship with redheaded Valerie Holland is threatened when both women fall in love with an ex-Navy SEAL, the secrets from Dallas's past emerge, and the truth about Valerie's daughter comes to light.
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Series
Dragons in a bag volume 5
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English
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Amidst the search for a peaceful resolution, Jax and his friends find themselves facing an imminent war as the witches gear up for battle against the formidable Scourge, threatening to drain all magic from both realms.
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English
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When financial challenges compel the world's most elite modeling agency to supply models for a celebrity gala, owners Bentley and Alexandra are forced to send Bentley's protégé, a young man who falls in love with a married A-list actor who is publicly hiding the truth about his sexuality.
19) Plum fantastic
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Series
Sugar plum ballerinas volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Although Alexandrea does not want to be a ballerina, her mother enrolls her in ballet school and she is chosen for the starring role in the school recital even though she is an awful dancer and suffers from stage fright.
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