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Skippyjon Jones in Mummy Trouble by Judy Schachner
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsEl Skippito is back! His doggy pals want to visit the Under Mundo-the underworld-where mummitos rest in peas. But they need El Skippito's brains and courage to answer the riddle of the Finx and enter the mummy's tomb. Our hero is up to the task, and he's in for another whirlwind adventure...Categorized as:
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![Just Me in the Tub by Gina Mayer, Mercer Mayer]()
Just Me in the Tub by Gina Mayer, Mercer Mayer
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTaking a bath is a big job. Mercer Mayer's famous Little Critter works hard to do it right in this funny picture book. Little Critter has a mountain of tub toys to remember, stuffed animals to line up so they can watch, bubble bath to pour, a floor to flood, and so much more. What will Little Critter find at the end of his huge effort? A dry and cozy finale... -
![The Courtneys: When the Lion Feeds, The Sound of Thunder & A Sparrow Falls by Wilbur Smith]()
The Courtneys: When the Lion Feeds, The Sound of Thunder & A Sparrow Falls by Wilbur Smith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis trilogy of novels traces the fortunes of twin brothers Sean and Garrick Courtney from the end of the 19th century to the early decades of the 20th and their different struggles to find their place in the land of South Africa at a time of war and of violent struggles within their own family...Categorized as:
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![Toying With Fate by Emilia Hartley]()
Toying With Fate by Emilia Hartley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAll Ana wants is an explanation.She thought Brandon was her forever love right up until he didn’t show up for their wedding. He left without a word. No apology. No justification. The year since has been grueling, and Ana wants to move on. But she can’t do that while she’s holding onto Brandon’s engagement ring—and his memory... -
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![Lovers and Madmen by Nichole Van]()
Lovers and Madmen by Nichole Van
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFlorence, Italy. Summer, 1982. Judith Campbell prides herself on her level head. She’s a scientist with a ten-year plan, a well-managed bank account, and clear understanding of what she wants out of life. Currently, that means a summer of fun touring Europe with her friends. She intends to see some amazing scenery, flirt with a cute guy or two, and return home ready to settle down for good...Categorized as:
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![Nothing Like the Movies by Lynn Painter]()
Nothing Like the Movies by Lynn Painter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDual POV, dual pinning, college summer break. Wes Bennet is the mastermind. Sometimes life goes off the rails and is nothing like the movies... -
![More Parts by Tedd Arnold]()
More Parts by Tedd Arnold
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThrough zany, brightly colored illustrations and rhyming verse, Arnold explores common figures of speech that amaze and frighten a young boy. "I'll bet that broke your heart," "give him a hand," "Hold your tongue," and "jumps out of his skin" are only a few of the sayings that worry the protagonist... -
![Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett]()
Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. The Starlings live in Everton, an ordinary enough New Hampshire town... -
![Throwback by Maurene Goo]()
Throwback by Maurene Goo
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBack to the Future meets The Joy Luck Club in this YA contemporary romance about a Korean American girl sent back to the ’90s to (reluctantly) help her teenage mom win Homecoming Queen.Being a first-generation Asian American immigrant is hard. You know what’s harder? Being the daughter of one...Categorized as:
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![The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy]()
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsBe terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me, stray from home. So better by far for me if you were stone. from "Medusa"Stunningly original and haunting, the voices of Mrs... -
![Sredni Vashtar and Other Stories by Saki]()
Sredni Vashtar and Other Stories by Saki
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBorn in Burma in 1870, Scottish writer H.H. Munro (his pseudonym is from FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) satirized the social conventions, cruelty and foolishness of the Edwardian era with a highly readable blend of flippant humor and outrageous inventiveness, often overlaid with a mood of horror... -
![The Lamb Who Came for Dinner by Steve Smallman]()
The Lamb Who Came for Dinner by Steve Smallman
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWolf is really hungry for his favorite meal--lamb stew! To his great luck, a cold, shivering lamb knocks on his door looking for shelter from the winter storm outside. So begins a funny tale of friendship with a wonderful twist at the end... -
![imPerfect Magic by C.N. Rowan]()
imPerfect Magic by C.N. Rowan
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter hundreds of years of dying, you'd think I would've perfected it by now... One moment I'm a heretical priest in the twelfth century, hunted, hated...The next, I'm waking up in the nearest corpse. Stuck in a cycle of instant reincarnation, popping back up like a tarnished penny.Fast forward eight hundred years, and you might think I’ve learned a thing or two. Nope...Categorized as:
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![Cent millions d'années et un jour by Jean-Baptiste Andrea]()
Cent millions d'années et un jour by Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings‘On the mountain, the only monsters are the ones you take with you.’Summer 1954. Stan has been hunting for fossils since the age of six. Now, having made a career out of studying the remains of tiny lifeforms, he hears a story he cannot forget: the skeleton of a huge creature, a veritable dragon, lies deep in an Alpine glacier. And he is determined to find it...Categorized as:
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![Kokoschka's Doll by Afonso Cruz]()
Kokoschka's Doll by Afonso Cruz
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAt the age of forty-two, Bonifaz Vogel begins to hear a voice.But it doesn't belong to the mice or the woodworm, as he first imagines. Nor is it the voice of God, as he comes to believe. It belongs to young Isaac Dresner, who takes refuge in the cellar of Vogel's bird shop on the run from the soldier who shot his best friend... -
![The Discworld Mapp: Being the Onlie True and Mostlie Accurate Mappe of the Fantastyk and Magical Dyscworlde by Terry Pratchett]()
The Discworld Mapp: Being the Onlie True and Mostlie Accurate Mappe of the Fantastyk and Magical Dyscworlde by Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThey said it couldn't be done. Well, it has been done, proving them wrong once again. After years of research, cunningly contrived in as many minutes, the Discworld has its map... -
![The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman by Louis de Bernières]()
The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman by Louis de Bernières
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe epic finale of the Latin American trilogy following The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts and Senor Vivo and the Coca LordWhile the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerrillas, unfrocked priests and reformed - though by no means inactive - whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfilment... -
![The Most Wonderful Time of the Year: A Christmas Short-Story Collection by Jodi Taylor]()
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year: A Christmas Short-Story Collection by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the always eventful worlds of Jodi Taylor, it's never Christmas without illegal expeditions, riotous misbehaviour and stories you just can't put down . . .This festive collection takes readers from Frogmorton Farm to Time Police HQ via the Institute of Historical Research at St Mary's in five (and a bit) short stories. A Bumper Bundle of Christmas tales all in print for the very first time...Categorized as:
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![Secretly, Secretly; But Unable to Hide It by Yi Zhu]()
Secretly, Secretly; But Unable to Hide It by Yi Zhu
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe time she is thirteen years old, Sang Zhi secretly has a crush on a man. That man looks cold and sluggish, he can be described as someone that is careless and casual. He frequently comes to her house.One afternoon, he stays at her Ge Ge’s (Older brother, 桑延) room to play a game... -
![Duck for President by Doreen Cronin]()
Duck for President by Doreen Cronin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMy fellow Americans: It is our pleasure, our honor, our duty as citizens to present to you Duck for President. Here is a duck who began in a humble pond. Who worked his way to farmer. To governor. And now, perhaps, to the highest office in the land. Some say, if he walks like a duck and talks like a duck, he is a duck...Categorized as:
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![Daydreams of Angels by Heather O'Neill]()
Daydreams of Angels by Heather O'Neill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsInventive, outlandish, and tender fairy tales from a bestselling authorThe fantastic has always been at the edges of Heather O'Neill's work. In her bestselling novels Lullabies for Little Criminals and The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, she transformed the shabbiest streets of Montreal with her beautiful, freewheeling metaphors...Categorized as:
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![Pencil of Doom! by Andy Griffiths]()
Pencil of Doom! by Andy Griffiths
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of THE DAY MY BUTT WENT PSYCHO, a hilarious school-based series -- this time focusing on a very magical, insidious pencil.Henry McThrottle thought Northwest Southeast Central School was wacky. But then he comes across the Pencil of Doom ... and things get REALLY out of control... -
![Dinner Time by Jan Pieńkowski]()
Dinner Time by Jan Pieńkowski
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJan Pienkowski is known for his bold, bright illustrations and clever mechanics. The animals are brought to life in this classic pop-up that is fun for kids of every age... -
![Happily Evan After by Michelle Irwin, Fleur Smith]()
Happily Evan After by Michelle Irwin, Fleur Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEvan is a reluctant cupid.Facing an unknown term of servitude to repay his debt to the world, it is his responsibility to guide couples together. Despite initial hesitancy, he has learned to handle every case with care and he now basks in the afterglow of new-found love and relishes in the energy it provides him. But his end goal is still the promise of paradise in return for his penance... -
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![Instruction Manual for Swallowing by Adam Marek]()
Instruction Manual for Swallowing by Adam Marek
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA new North American edition of an acclaimed short story collection, Instruction Manual for Swallowing explores what happens when ordinary people collide with bizarre, fantastical situations... -
![The Polar Bear's Fake Mate by Sophie Stern]()
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![A Story Spun in Scarlet by Renee Dugan]()
A Story Spun in Scarlet by Renee Dugan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLET ME TELL YOU A STORY…AUDRA JASHOWIN is a storyteller without a purpose.When all the tales in the land of Mithra-Sha lost their endings, Audra fled from her family’s rejection and the only home she ever knew. Now, with a sense of veiled danger haunting her heels and her life as devoid of direction as her stories, she arrives at long last in a city of fresh starts and second chances... -
![Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell]()
Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell's extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination...Categorized as:
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![Pigsty by Mark Teague]()
Pigsty by Mark Teague
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLet Scholastic Bookshelf be your guide through the whole range of your child's experiences-laugh with them, learn with them, read with them! Eight classic, best-selling titles are available now!Category: Humor"Wendell went upstairs. Much to his surprise, a large pig was sitting on his bed."Wendell Flutz's room isn't a mess. It's a total pigsty. But Wendell's mother can't get him to clean it up... -
![The Blue Lantern: Stories by Victor Pelevin, Виктор Пелевин]()
The Blue Lantern: Stories by Victor Pelevin, Виктор Пелевин
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn a recent New York Times Magazine feature article, Victor Pelevin was cited as "almost alone among his generation of Russian novelists in speaking with a voice authentically his own, and in trying to write about Russian life in its current idiom...Categorized as:
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![We Others: New and Selected Stories by Steven Millhauser, Olivier Culmann]()
We Others: New and Selected Stories by Steven Millhauser, Olivier Culmann
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Every reader knows of writers who are like secrets one wants to keep, and whose books one wants to tell the world about. Millhauser is mine.”—David Rollow, Boston Sunday GlobeFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author: the essential stories across three decades that showcase his indomitable imagination... -
![Froggy Plays Soccer by Jonathan London]()
Froggy Plays Soccer by Jonathan London
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFroggy knows his soccer team can beat the Wild Things, if only he can remember his dad's advice. But with Froggy around, something's bound to go hilariously awry. Full color... -
![Dangerous Pleasures by Bertrice Small]()
Dangerous Pleasures by Bertrice Small
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"New York Times" bestselling author Bertrice Small explores the deepest recesses of the imagination where one womanas sexual fantasies lie in wait. Widowed with five children, stay at home mom Annie Miller has been just getting byaand growing restless because of it... -
![The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor]()
The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs Rafi Zabor's PEN-Faulkner Award-winning novel opens, the Bear shuffles and jigs with a chain through his nose, rolling in the gutter, letting his partner wrestle him to the ground for the crowd's enjoyment. But as soon becomes clear, this is no ordinary dancing bear. "I mean, dance is all right, even street dance... -
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![To Read or Not to Read by Vincent Hobbes]()
To Read or Not to Read by Vincent Hobbes
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'To Read or Not to Read' is a short story by Vincent Hobbes. It was first published in 'The Endlands' (Jan. 2011) Gunter von Strauss owns a small bookstore. He carries something for everyone’s taste. He also carefully inspects each book, making sure they are safe to read. Who knew that choosing the wrong book could carry such a consequence... -
![Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage]()
Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSimon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. Here comes everybody: Snoobie and Carla, Lippincott, Wittmann, Yoshioka, Bambuck, Dr Amsterdam, Preminger... -
![The Return of the Plant That Ate Dirty Socks by Nancy McArthur]()
The Return of the Plant That Ate Dirty Socks by Nancy McArthur
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBrothers Michael and Norman and their parents are off on a fun-filled Florida family vacation in an RV. They have to take along their weird sock-eating plants, Stanley and Fluffy, because they act up and can't be left at home alone. At a campground they meet a plant scientist and her kids, who start nosing around to find out more about Stanley and Fluffy, while the plants cause more funny uproars... -
![The Godmother's Web by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough]()
The Godmother's Web by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is the journey of Sun-haired maiden Cindy Ellis. A path she thought would simply lead her to Tuba City to train a horse for a friend. But the old woman she has met along the way has asked for a ride on the blue horse. A ride that takes them to a world torn apart by poverty and sorrow. A world the old woman - the Godmother - watches over...Categorized as:
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![Ember from the Sun by Mark Canter]()
Ember from the Sun by Mark Canter
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the blue ice of an arctic cave, a scientist has made an extraordinary discovery: a woman's body, frozen for 25,000 years in a near-perfect state, with pliant tissues, vessels filled with blood--and an embryo waiting to be born....They called her Ember, the child of their heart, born to surrogate parents who refused to yield her after birth...Categorized as:
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![Princess Mirror-Belle by Julia Donaldson]()
Princess Mirror-Belle by Julia Donaldson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA collection of six funny and exciting Princess Mirror-Belle adventures from the much-loved author of The Gruffalo—perfect for newly independent readers Ellen gets a big shock when her double appears out of the bathroom mirror. But Mirror-Belle is a double with a difference! She is a princess, and a very mischievous one at that... -
![Robot Riot! by Andy Griffiths]()
Robot Riot! by Andy Griffiths
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe fourth wacky book in Andy Griffith's new Schooling Around! series.Robots are running amok in Northwest Southeast Central school! It all started as a harmless science experiment meant to prove whether or not the new girl in school was in fact a robot...Categorized as:
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![Immortal At Sea by Gene Doucette]()
Immortal At Sea by Gene Doucette
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Immortal Chronicles is an ongoing series of short stories written by Adam, the immortal narrator of IMMORTAL, HELLENIC IMMORTAL, and the upcoming IMMORTAL AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD...Categorized as:
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![Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee]()
Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn immortal Knight of the Round Table faces his greatest challenge yet—saving the politically polarized, rapidly warming world from itself—in this slyly funny contemporary take on Arthurian legend.Legends don’t always live up to reality... -
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Damien by the_rebellionxx
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDamien Stryker, notorious for his cold hard personality is someone you don't want to get too close to.Unfortunately for Serena Mclane, she doesn't have much of a choice.Always at the mercy of her family's name and legacy, Serena has to do as her father says.So when her father practically forces her into an arranged marriage with the one and only Damien Stryker;The truth comes out... -
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![The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers]()
The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSummer 1989, deep in the English countryside — during a time of mass unemployment, class war, and rebellion . . . . Over the course of a burning hot summer, two very different men — Calvert, an ex-soldier traumatized by his experience in the Falklands War, and his affable freind Redbone — set out nightly in a decrepit camper van to undertake an extraordinary project...Categorized as:
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![The Vampire Gideon's Suicide Hotline and Halfway House for Orphaned Girls by Andrew Katz]()
The Vampire Gideon's Suicide Hotline and Halfway House for Orphaned Girls by Andrew Katz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the house on the hill, there lives a vampire. But not of the sexy, mysterious, or sparkling kind. The vampire Gideon prefers to drink nearly expired blood from the local morgue while watching over the humans around him—humans he calls “children,” because when you’re as old as he is, everyone else does seem like a child... -
![The Wandering Season by Aimie K. Runyan]()
The Wandering Season by Aimie K. Runyan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUnraveling the tangled roots of her family takes her places she never expected.Veronica Stratton, a specialty food broker with a business riding close to the margins, visits her parents in idyllic Estes Park for Christmas. With the holiday comes a DNA test from her younger sister and an engagement ring from her longtime boyfriend. The test confirms her secret she's adopted...Categorized as:
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![14/7. El descubrimiento by Pamela Stupia]()
14/7. El descubrimiento by Pamela Stupia
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCielo, Mara, Guillermina y Bianca son nuevas en la escuela; como si fuese fácil iniciar el secundario, ellas además tienen que hacerlo en un nuevo colegio y una nueva ciudad.Las cuatro chicas se harán amigas y se enfrentarán al desafío de ser aceptadas... -
![The House on Persimmon Road by Jackie Weger]()
The House on Persimmon Road by Jackie Weger
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNeed Help? Hire a Ghost. She Cooks. Lottie Roberts has been sitting on her bones since the Civil War, waiting for her ticket to heaven until...Justine Hale moves into Lottie's two-hundred-year-old house with three generations of emotional baggage--her mother, her ex mother-in-law and two pesky children... -
![The New Yorker Stories by Ann Beattie]()
The New Yorker Stories by Ann Beattie
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen Ann Beattie began publishing short stories in The New Yorker in the mid-seventies, she emerged with a voice so original, and so uncannily precise and prescient in its assessment of her characters’ drift and narcissism, that she was instantly celebrated as a voice of her generation. Her name became an adjective: Beattiesque...Categorized as:
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