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1) Funny story
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"A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry, Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to...
2) Buckhead
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Inscribe Digital
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2022
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English
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Toba’s idyllic view of Buckhead has been shaken after he witnesses strange experiments, kidnappings, and more of the mysterious men in black suits.Following a lead, Josue and Toba discover the unexpected connections between the Elseverse game’s purpose, origins, and someone close to Toba.There’s more to Elseverse and Stone Industries than Toba originally thought—much more, and the town is in danger.Toba is no match for the goons and the intelligence,...
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2024
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En Rebelión en la Granja, George Orwell parodió el modelo del socialismo soviético. Los personajes son animales de una granja que se rebelan contra sus dueños, los hombres, aunque luego crean una estructura social peor que la de sus antiguos dueños; Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky y otras figuras de la escena política son representados por dichos animales. Con un lenguaje fácil y accesible, lleno de humor, el libro fue un éxito de ventas en la época...
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2024
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La historia de Romeo y Julieta tiene antecedentes en la mitología y literatura griegas y en algunas leyendas medievales. Durante los siglos XV y XVI fue objeto de múltiples versiones, pero fue Shakespeare quien le infundió una pasión y un dramatismo inéditos hasta entonces y que han contribuido a mantener la leyenda en la memoria colectiva. En Verona, dos jóvenes enamorados, de dos familias enemigas, son víctimas de una situación de odio y...
5) Zyla & Kai
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A fresh love story about the will they, won't they—and why can't they—of first love.
While on a school trip to the Poconos Mountains (in the middle of a storm) high school seniors, Zyla Matthews and Kai Johnson, run away together leaving their friends and family confused. As far as everyone knows, Zyla and Kai have been broken up for months. And honestly? Their break up hadn't surprised anyone. Zyla and Kai...
While on a school trip to the Poconos Mountains (in the middle of a storm) high school seniors, Zyla Matthews and Kai Johnson, run away together leaving their friends and family confused. As far as everyone knows, Zyla and Kai have been broken up for months. And honestly? Their break up hadn't surprised anyone. Zyla and Kai...
6) Split Tooth
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2024
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Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award
Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English
Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose Fiction
Longlisted for the 2019 Sunburst Award
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer...
Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award
Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English
Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose Fiction
Longlisted for the 2019 Sunburst Award
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer...
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2024
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WINNER: Canada Reads 2020
WINNER: Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction
WINNER: Amazon First Novel Award
WINNER: Kobo Emerging Author Prize
Finalist: Scotiabank Giller Prize
Finalist: Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Prize
Finalist: BC & Yukon Book Prize
Shortlist: Indigenous Voices Awards
National Bestseller; A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year; A CBC Best Book of the Year;
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Pub. Date
2023
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“Breathlessly atmospheric…A gorgeous, hopeful book.” —Rachel Lynn Solomon, author of Today Tonight Tomorrow
The Hating Game meets I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter in this Pura Belpré Award–winning novel that’s an irresistible romance starring a Mexican American teen who discovers love and profound truths about the universe when she spends her summer...
The Hating Game meets I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter in this Pura Belpré Award–winning novel that’s an irresistible romance starring a Mexican American teen who discovers love and profound truths about the universe when she spends her summer...
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2024.
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"What would you do if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thinks so too? What if the truth doesn't matter? As Lucy Chase's Texas hometown begins to tell versions of what happened and who Lucy is to a nationwide, true crime obsessed audience, at the bequest of her grandmother, she returns to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend's murder, even if she is the one that did it"--
10) Oscar Wilde
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The correspondence of Oscar Wilde volume four.
This fourth collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes the letters Wilde wrote while living in Berneval, in the months after his release from prison, and in Naples, where he shared a villa with his former lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. In a long letter to the editor of the Daily Chronicle, Wilde describes the cruelties of prison life. At this time Wilde was writing The Ballad of Reading Gaol,...
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DÉCOMPTE DE 999 À 0 VENT ARCTIQUE
Endormez-vous paisiblement au son d'une voix profonde et apaisante qui compte à rebours de 999 à 0. Cette douce décompte est accompagnée par le bruit d'un vent arctique glacial et mordant.
Le décompte vous permet de vous détendre, et en suivant les chiffres prononcés de manière rythmique, vous laissez partir les pensées superflues qui vous empêchent de vous relaxer et de vous endormir. Les chiffres...
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Viking
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2024.
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"The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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'Considering the fresh attention being paid to teaching a skeptical approach to information evaluation, this series opener couldn't be better timed. A brief but savvy guide to responsible research methods adds further luster to this crowd pleaser.' 'ALA Booklist (starred review)Two Truths and a Lie is the first book in a fascinating new series that presents some of the most crazy-but-true stories about the living world as well as a handful of stories...
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The life blood to every organization is its projects, and the burden of success or failure hangs on the shoulders of the project manager. In every project, the buck stops with the PM, who must be more than a jack of all trades, but a master of it all. The AMA Handbook of Project Management is the must-have resource for any project management professional or student. Covering everything from individual projects to programs and strategic alignment,...
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Lightning Source Inc
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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Echo travels back to 1885, where her family's plight is apparent. Burnt out of their home, they make their way to Rooster Town, a shanty community on the edge of Winnipeg. In this final volume, Echo is reminded of her people's strength and resilience, forged through the pain of the past, as she faces a triumphant future.
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This is Episode 3. A long-lost love. A forbidden friendship. To preserve them both, the young prince will give up everything. Growing up in the Kingdom of Paragon, the city prince, Palimay struggles to be reunited with his long-lost love. Allied with a Wrythe named Sett, he seeks her embrace, only to find himself caught up in an act of betrayal. With his father dead and the new King targeting him, can Palimay find his love once more?
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He needed a baby to close a business deal,But Sheikh Karim is about to get way more than he bargained for…Karim Al-Ahsan has a problem; he's caught in a lie, having told an old-fashioned business partner that he's a family man, with a wife and baby of his own. Now with little option other than to find and hire a mother and son to portray his family, Karim searches for the perfect candidates to prove that he's a man of integrity…Hallie Jameson...
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"Clayton Stumper might be in his twenties, but he dresses like your grandpa and fusses like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists and now finds himself among the last survivors of a fading institution. When the esteemed crossword compiler and main maternal presence in Clayton's life, Pippa Allsbrook, passes away, she bestows her final puzzle on him: a promise...
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2024.
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"Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and an unyielding determination to make a difference. When she's not working with children in the crowded tenements in Hell's Kitchen, Frances throws herself into the social scene in Greenwich Village, befriending an eclectic group of politicians, artists, and activists, including the millionaire socialite...
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