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"A large-hearted and optimistic novel, Extraordinary Adventures is the latest from the New York Times bestselling Daniel Wallace. Edsel Bronfman works as a junior executive shipping clerk for an importer of Korean flatware. He lives in a seedy neighborhood and spends his free time with his spirited mother. Things happen to other people, and Bronfman knows it. Until, that is, he gets a call from operator 61217 telling him that he's won a free weekend...
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"From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a delightful compendium of very short fiction and comics that celebrate the joy and absurdity of the human experience. It is often said that the best things in life come in smallpackages--anyone in search of proof need look no further than the stories in this collection: brief, utterly engaging tales that offer lasting surprise and delight. From the original Greek financial...
5) A dirty job
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Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay-until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death.
It's a dirty job. But, hey! Somebody's gotta...
6) Flat Stanley
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IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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"Based on the original Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown"--T.p. verso.
An abridged picture book version of the story in which a bulletin board falls on Stanley while he is sleeping, and he finds that being flat has its advantages.
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Detective Varg novel volume 1
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"The detectives who work in Malmo Police's Department of Sensitive Crimes take their job very seriously. The lead detective, Ulf Varg, prioritizes his cases above even his dog's mental health. Then there are detectives Anna Bengsdotter, who keeps her relationship with Varg professional even as she realizes she's developing feelings for him . . . or at least for his car, and Carl Holgersson, first to arrive in the morning and last to leave, who would...
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Kung Pow Chicken volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Gordon Blue and his brother Benny, unlikely superheroes, must save Fowladelphia from Granny Goosebumps, who has filled the city with cookies that cause an innocent chicken's feathers to fall off.
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 10
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IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
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"Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world. With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive? Or is going "old school" just too hard for a kid like Greg?" --
11) Cats in the city
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Stick Cat volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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While admiring the view of the city from his friend Edith's apartment, Stick Cat notices that Hazel, the bagel maker, is in danger across the alley, and he devises a plan to rescue her.
12) I lost my tooth!
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Unlimited squirrels volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Friends search for Zoom Squirrel's missing baby tooth. Includes "acorn-y jokes" and "cool facts."
13) Razzmatazz
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New York Times Bestseller
"Smart and funny and all sorts of raunchy in the best way." — San Francisco Chronicle
Repeat New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns to the mean streets of San Francisco in this outrageous follow-up to his madcap novel Noir.
San Francisco, 1947. Bartender Sammy "Two Toes" Tiffin and the rest of the Cookie's Coffee Irregulars—a
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Dear dumb diary year two volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
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Jamie's struggles continue with school issues, grades, and getting along with others.
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Stick Dog volume 9
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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After discovering a family of humans planning to feast on tacos, Stick Dog plots to snatch the food to feed his hungry friends.
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Classroom 13 volume 2
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IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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"Ms. Linda and her students of Classroom 13 each get one wish granted from a dangerous Djinn, which brings chaos and hilarious moments to their lives"--
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IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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In this humorous version of the traditional tale, Jack's magic beanstalk produces so many beans that soon everyone in the village is sick of eating them, and mad at Jack, and when he climbs the beanstalk he finds that Mr. Giant is equally fed up with beans--but fortunately Mrs. Giant suggests a solution to their diet problem.
19) Bunny vs. Monkey
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IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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When mean, selfish Monkey is sent into space, his spaceship crash-lands in Bunny's peaceful forest home, and Monkey, believing he is on a new planet, tries to claim it for his own.
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