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Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, Flight Behavior tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm, oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband's antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by surrendering to an obsessive...
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Jack West Jr. novels volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006
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647 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2013]
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434 pages ; 24 cm
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After discovering the body of a man buried deep in the Arctic ice, Dr. Kate Philo and her team bring him back to life in their Boston lab, igniting a media firestorm that forces them to decide how far they are willing to go to protect their experiment.
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012
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278 p. ; 22 cm.
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After overcoming a number of obstacles, especially in the subject of geography, Olivia is on her way to Hollywood to appear on Jeopardy! and, she hopes, to reunite with her father who left the family two years ago.
5) The sign
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In this gripping thriller, a scientific expedition in Antarctica stops for a live news feed. As the CNN journalist Gracie Logan begins her report, a massive, shimmering sphere of light suddenly appears in the sky, enveloping the ship in luminous white light before disappearing as mysteriously as it arrived--the entire event witnessed by an incredulous world audience. Meanwhile, a monk in Egypt experiences visions that seemed connected, and back in...
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"A book for all ages about noticing the wonder and beauty in the world both near and far"--
A young boy follows his imagination from the pyramids of Egypt to the moon, and back again. Along the way he learns that there are always stories to discover, to dream about, and to share.
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Macmillan
Pub. Date
2021.
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xi, 392 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Making it to the Supreme Labyrinth, the most lethal and dangerous place he's ever encountered, Jack West, Jr. must attempt the impossible against multiple rivals, against time, and against the collapse of the universe itself.
8) Piranesi
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
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270 pages ; 22 cm.
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"La casa de Piranesi no es un edificio cualquiera: sus habitaciones son monumentales, con paredes llenas de miles de estatuas, y sus pasillos, interminables. Dentro del dlo de corredores hay un oco aprisionado en el que las olas retumban y las mareas inundan los aposentos. Pero Piranesi no tiene miedo: comprende las embestidas del mar igual que el patrel laberinto, mientras explora los ltes de su mundo y avanza, con la ayuda de un hombre llamado El...
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In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths...
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Curiosity House volume 1
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
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362 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"Orphans Philippa, Sam, Thomas, and Max must find out who stole a valuable artifact in order to save to save their home, Dumfrey's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders"--
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