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Desert of Danger (Bionicle Reader)
By Greg Farshtey. 2009
Ape and Essence
By Aldous Huxley. 1948
A savagely satiric successor to Brave New World, this is Huxley's horrific view of the world in the 22nd century,…
after the Third World War, when a civilization dedicated to 'perfection' attempts to suppress all man's rebellious desires.To Algeria, With Love
By Suzanne Ruta. 2011
Louise, an American innocent, takes up a scholarship in the south of France in winter 1961 and promptly falls for…
Wally, a gregarious Algerian worker in flight from brutal colonial war. He teaches her about life and love in a chilly furnished room, against a background of French pop music that makes it all seem easy. But families and history reassert their claim and the inevitable separation leaves lasting wounds. Forty years later, finally 'old enough to understand how young I was back then' Louise enlists the help of another Algerian exile in an attempt to make amends. To Algeria with Love is a lucid, witty novel about the personal and the political, about love and home and about the cruel and merciful law of unintended consequences.The Golden Serpent
By Walter Dean Myers. 1980
Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters
By Patricia C. Mckissack, Fredrick L. Mckissack. 1994
Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave…
quarters just before the Civil War.Winner of the Coretta Scott King MedalShetland in the Shed (Animal Ark #20)
By Ben M. Baglio. 1997
Mandy is delighted to help her parents care for Polly, a friend's daughter, and the girl's beautiful Shetland pony at…
Animal Ark. She is surprised, however, to find that Polly has a deep-rooted fear of horses.The Haunting of Hillside School (Cabin Creek Mysteries)
By Kristiana Gregory. 2008
It's a new school year in Cabin Creek and the cousins have a new mystery. When Claire and David look…
out the art room window and see a girl's pale face, they suspect it's a ghost.Tabby in the Tub (Animal Ark #29)
By Ben M. Baglio. 1999
Don't Forget Lara (Making Out, Book #25)
By Katherine Applegate. 1998
At College, Aisha has room mate troubles, Jake has no room, Zoey loves everything about California, Claire is realizing how…
good it was to have friends on the island, and Ben's sight is getting worse and worse. Back on the island, Lucas and Nina are missing their friends, especially Zoey. And, don't forget Lara. As if anyone could! She's lied, schemed, and manipulated herself into everyone's lives. But now she's turning her own life around, and it feels great. There's only one problem--the terrifying dreams of fire that haunt her sleep. Their lives have changed drastically since Zoey fooled around in the first book of the Making Out series and bigger changes are ahead in the last three books that follow Don't Forget Lara. Read the full story in this 28 book series about these teenagers who flirt, get hurt, fall in and fall out of love, including: #1 Zoey Fools Around, #2 Jake Finds Out, #3 Nina Won't Tell, #4 Ben's In Love, #5 Claire Gets Caught, #6 What Zoey Saw, #7 Lucas Gets Hurt, #8 Aisha Goes Wild, #9 Zoey Plays Games, #10 Nina Shapes Up, #11 Ben Takes A Chance, #12 Claire Can't Lose, #13 Don't tell Zoey, #14 Aaron Lets Go, #15 Who Loves Kate?, #16 Lara Gets Even, #17 Two Timing Aisha, #19 Kate Finds Love, #20 Never Trust Lara, #21 Trouble With Aaron, #22 Always Loving Zoey, #23 Lara Gets Lucky, #24 Now Zoey's Alone, #26 Zoey's Broken Heart, #27 Falling for Claire, and last, #28 Zoey Comes Home.Foolish Lessons in Life and Love
By Penny Rudge. 2011
When big-boned, eager-to-please, accident-prone Taras Krohe ambles into a stiff English public school on a puzzling scholarship with his funny…
foreign name, an eccentric and over-protective Bukovinian mother, and no father at all, disappointment beckons. A decade later, Taras and his mother are still living off their benefactress Mrs Bartlett in a cramped South London flat, while Taras's promising job has warped into a Kafkaesque nightmare, and his truculent Russian girlfriend has decamped with a ponytailed aesthete. When the mysterious Mrs Bartlett dies, an old schoolfriend with a grudge emerges and eviction looms. Now even the terminally easygoing Taras must show his mother he's a man, and uncover the secret behind his family's plummet into disaster. But she has other ideas for her little pourchi: she's determined to wrestle him away from the dangerous influences his search reveals. And it's by no means certain who will come out on top . . .Aliens Stole My Body
By Bruce Coville. 1998
It Happened in Paris: Number 1 in series
By Molly Hopkins. 2011
Evie Dexter is in pursuit of a career as a European tour guide. Heart set on success and buoyed on…
by booze, she begins 'enhancing' her CV and soon lands a job with Insignia Tours, guiding their Paris breaks.Bursting with professionalism, Evie quickly checks her copy of Vogue Paris to remind herself where France actually is. Task accomplished, she's determined to become a cultured and respected chaperone. And she would be, if only the French wine wasn't so delicious and Rob, her sexy coach driver, so deliciously distracting . . .Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring Series #2)
By Rachel Vail. 1998
Twelve-year-old CJ, an accomplished ballet student, struggles with her conflicting desires to continue her ballet study and please her mother…
or to quit ballet and finally be like all the other kids in school.Kiss and Tell
By Fiona Walker. 2011
With tight breeches and loose morals, the horse trials circuit is a hell for leather chase across the magnificent parkland…
of England's finest country estates. Flirtation is compulsory sport; love is a professional hazard. Silver-tongued charmer Rory Midwinter is quite at home in this hedge-jumping, bed-hopping world of competitive weekend house parties. Having been born into the saddle, and with a rock star owner as patron, he has no intention of settling down. Only his long-term groom Faith has other ideas. Tash and Hugo Beauchamp are the undisputed golden couple of British three-day-eventing, but their mettle is put to the test by the arrival of The Devil on Horseback, brooding Kiwi rider, Lough Strachan. Lough holds the key to Hugo's darkest secret, and he intends to use it to access his greatest rival's beautiful wife.Deadly Dram: A Whisky Business Mystery (Whisky Business #3)
By Melinda Mullet. 2018
Distillery owner Abigail Logan discovers that high spirits are no match for a cold-blooded killer as the Whisky Business Mystery…
series puts a fatal twist on stiff competition. It’s been a year since globe-trotting photojournalist Abi Logan inherited Abbey Glen, a whisky distillery in the heart of the Scottish countryside. To her surprise, the village of Balfour already feels like home, and her new business partner, Grant MacEwan, continues to be too charming to resist. But Abi has a history of relationship disasters, so she struggles to avoid an ill-fated romance with Grant. Steering clear is hard enough on a day-to-day basis, but when the two head off to a whisky industry competition together, Abi panics. Five-star resort, four glorious days of nonstop whisky tasting, and a fatally attractive Scotsman—what could possibly go wrong? The night before the award presentations, with foreign and domestic whisky makers at one anothers’ throats, two judges are found dead under mysterious circumstances. What started with three dream-come-true nominations for Abby Glen’s whisky soon turns into a nightmare for Abi. With a killer on the loose, she must call on her investigative skills to stop another murder—before she gets taken out of the running herself. Melinda Mullet’s delightful Whisky Business mysteries can be read together or separately. Enjoy responsibly: SINGLE MALT MURDER | DEATH DISTILLED | DEADLY DRAMRaid on Vulcanus (Bionicle Adventures #11)
By Greg Farshtey. 2009
It Happened In Venice: Number 2 in series
By Molly Hopkins. 2012
He cheated, but only once!Evie Dexter has promised to forgive and forget her fiancé Rob - and her efforts to…
absolve his sins are paying off: in the past ten days she's only called him a two-timing love rat eleven times. Thank goodness her flourishing career as a tour guide takes her to fashionable Dublin, in-vogue Marrakech and cool Amsterdam. So when Evie's offered a luxury visit to the sensual city of Venice she jumps at the chance. With its gondolas, wine and sultry Italian men, four days in the city of light and love is just what she needs. Who knows what could happen?Wings of Gold: Aces - Book #1
By T. E. Cruise. 1988
Style
By Joseph Connolly. 2016
Terence is sick of people making a fuss of Alexander. His looks. His money. His fame. Who wouldn't resent so…
successful a son? Even if he is only ten years old. Joseph Connolly's brilliant new comedy of manners weaves together a domestic tableaux of characters - those with old-fashioned manners, tabloid manners, and no manners at all - in a satire on oedipal envy, neighbourly rivalry and the shameless stupidity of our fame-fuelled society.The Love Letter
By Fiona Walker. 2012
Can fate be signed, sealed and delivered?When Allegra North parted from first love Francis after a decade together, she poured…
all her regret into a letter. He didn't reply. A year later, her job brings her back to the beautiful Devon coast where romance first blossomed and she hopes that they can start a new chapter.As summer storms circle, the exes juggle rebellious parents, vengeful family members and a very reluctant celebrity author who holds the key to everybody's future . . . The Love Letter is a wonderfully warm comedy of mistaken identities, new loves and old flames.