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English
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Poems of Nature and Life is a book filled with poems that are well written with compassion for the love of the outdoors and people, places, and times that have become so forgotten long ago. The words and thoughts from every poem excite your very senses and invite you, the reader, to cling to every word as your own as if you had written them yourself. The book contains a genre of poems fulfilled of nature and captures many moments of life as it was...
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Series
Twilight saga volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Collects the novel in which Bella, moving in with her father, meets a boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not human, and a full-length reimagining of the original story.
4) Fly trap
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Series
Fly by night volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Adventurous orphan Mosca Mye, her savage goose, Saracen, and their sometimes-loyal companion, Eponymous Clent, become embroiled in the intrigues of Toll, a town that changes entirely as day turns to night.
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English
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"When bodyguard Ryder Southerland sees his best friend's sister Katie at a L.A. Christmas party, he mistakes the slinky blonde for a celebrity stalker and tackles her...The next morning, Katie is gone, and Ryder tells himself its for the best. It isn't. Now, one Christmas later, Ryders falling for the woman he's been missing in the town he hasn't missed at all. Katie Cheek has outgrown the romantic fantasies she had about Ryder when she was fifteen....
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Continues the story of Joel, now nearly twelve and living with his father in a small town in 1957 Sweden, as he is run over by a bus and survives without a scratch, then sets out to do a good deed in gratitude for this miracle.
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Series
Alexander Cleave trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
An actor in the twilight of his career reflects on a poignant first love affair at the age of fifteen with his best friend's mother and inexplicably lands a role opposite a famous but fragile actress who helps him come to an astonishing realization.
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Language
English
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"New York Times White House correspondent Mark Landler goes behind the speeches and press conferences, to the Situation Room debates and picnic-table lunches, where Obama and Clinton honed their two competing worldviews: his, cautious, inward-looking, suffused with a sense of limits; hers, muscular, optimistic, unabashedly old-fashioned. Alter Egos is about two ambitious political archrivals from very different backgrounds who became partners for...
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Publisher
Tokoyopop
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The aliens on Uranus find Stinky and Stan's rocket and note, and they decide to head to Earth to retrieve the famous farting brothers and bring them back to their planet. But when the boys realize that the aliens are up to no good, the craft a getaway plan to return home
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández's mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man's face on the magazine's cover with the words "I Tortured People." His complicity in the worst crimes of the regime and his commitment to...
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Series
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English
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A chance meeting on the Isle of Palms, one of Charleston's most stunning barrier islands, brings former sweethearts Adam Stanley and Eve Landers together again. Their respective spouses, Eliza and Carl, fight sparks of jealousy flaring from their imagined rekindling of old flames. As Adam and Eve get caught up on their lives, their partners strike up a deep friendship -- and flirt with an unexpected attraction -- of their own. Year after year, Adam,...
12) Tenet
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Armed with only one word and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real-time.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Enter another dimension of modern reimagining of the classic TV series. Hosted by Academy Award® and Emmy® Award winner Jordan Peele and featuring an all-star cast, this complete anthology series box set will take you on a mind-bending voyage filled with endless possibilities. Experience all 20 episodes of contemporary, socially conscious storytelling and journey behind the scenes with exclusive special features, including featurettes, deleted scenes,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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"The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King at his finest, using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave in 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,' which reads like a Twilight Zone episode infused with an...
15) The evening hero
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English
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"Dr. Yungman Kwak is in the twilight of his life. Every day for the last fifty years, he has brushed his teeth, slipped on his shoes, and headed to Horse Breath's General Hospital, where, as an obstetrician, he treats the women and babies of the small rural Minnesota town he chose to call home. This was the life he longed for - the American dream. He immigrated from Korea after the Korean War, forced to leave his family, ancestors, village, and all...
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Series
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English
Description
After eluding a kidnapper in London, an unperturbed Amelia Peabody accompanies her unconventional family to Cairo once more-only to be ensnared almost immediately in a web of stolen treasures and bloodthirsty cults. Villainy is running rampant in Egypt this 1907 archaeological season, but the members of the intrepid Peabody-Emerson clan have already proven themselves to be formidable adversaries. However, when a mint-condition papyrus of the Book...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Get ready for frightful fun! Twilight Sparkle and her friends meet a mysterious zebra in the Everfree Forest. Princess Luna enlists the help of the ponies to track down a magical force that turns dreams into nightmares. Fluttershy decides to overcome her fears and participate in Nightmare Night. Spike must share Twilight's attention with an owl and compete in dangerous dragon games. They can face any spooky adventure so long as they have the magic...
20) Born a crime
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Language
English
Description
The host of "The Daily Show With Trevor Noah" traces his wild coming of age during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed, offering insight into the farcical aspects of the political and social systems of today's world.