Tavia Gilbert
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Part coming of age, part political intrigue, and Founding Stones questions what it mean to be a citizen of the world. Trouble simmers in a small Pacific Northwest town when generations of secrets collide. Hannah, the daughter of the largest berry farmer in the county, searches for her voice after her twin sister dies of cancer. She jumps into the controversy around immigrant workers at the farm, and naively causes further problems. Her boyfriend,...
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Piper Green and the fairy tree volume 1
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"Piper's older brother leaves Peek-A-Book Island and Piper refuses to take off his old earmuffs, no matter what. Things are going from bad to worse--until she discovers The Fairy Tree"--
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Calvin is a cow. He's a very good cow. But he's not perfect.
You see, sometimes Calvin is impatient. And he needs to learn that waiting is important.
Can you relate?
Do you know a young child that needs to work on becoming more patient?
"How To Help An Impatient Cow" is a fun audio picture book for young children that helps them learn how to become a little more patient. Perfect for children ages 3-8, this amazing audio book brought to life by award...
44) Sigmund Freud
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This book explores the world of Sigmund Freud, who, making it into the author's highly popular series due to his creation of a brand-new branch of medicine called psychoanalysis, introduced the world to such controversial theories as Oedipal complexes, the id, and the ego.
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A funny cozy mystery series full of bold women, a quirky and lovable town, and one seriously hopeless romance.
The First Book of Season Two of the Hope Walker Mysteries!
While Hope Walker is recovering from the events of Christmas Eve... a funny thing happens. A strange photograph appears. And a curious investigative reporter like Hope Walker smells a story. This time, the story leads her and her best friend Katie to Nebraska.
Appleton Falls, Nebraska.
Will...
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A funny cozy mystery series full of bold women, a quirky and lovable town, and one seriously hopeless romance. It's been one helluva morning... And Hope hasn't even found the body. At least not yet. After a twelve year absence, investigative reporter Hope Walker is back home. In Hopeless, Idaho. And it's not going well. It seems the town and its citizens haven't changed much. Still weird. Still nosy. And a few of them? Downright hateful. And now Hope...
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Mattie, Ariel, and Nicki are fast friends facing the pitfalls of life at thirteen. Mattie's kitschy pig collection and agoraphobic mother might completely derail her social life. Ariel's attempts to follow in Rachel Ray's culinary footsteps have landed her in hot water. And Nicki is carrying a secret that threatens to cut her off from her best friends. After discovering a mysterious book of spells and performing a ritual, the girls leave their troubles...
48) Young Man, The
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This dazzling and breathtaking account of Annie Ernaux's passionate love affair with a man thirty years her junior won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. This is Annie Ernaux's account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some thirty years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and, at the same time, leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time-together with a sense that she is living...
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2014
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Now back in print, a candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt.The daughter of one of New York's most influential families, niece of Theodore Roosevelt, and wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt witnessed some of the most remarkable decades in modern history, as America transitioned from the...
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In this second in the early chapter book series about Piper Green, her day starts with a run of good luck. Then her friend Jacob tells her too much good luck can mean bad luck is on its way. Sure enough, when she gets to school, Bad Luck is waiting for her. Can the Fairy Tree help break Piper's unlucky streak?
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The quests are real, the rewards are real, and the dangers are unimaginable
Beatrice Stallard is your run-of-the-mill post-college 20-something trying to make her way in New York City.
That is, until she discovers the Quest Board one night and everything changes.
The rules of the Board are simple:
Complete a Quest, get a token.
The harder the Quest, the more tokens you earn.
Get enough tokens, and you level up.
Except the Quests aren't in a...
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In this fourth chapter-book adventure, Piper Green's class is taking a pretend” school trip to China— on a pretend” airplane. When Piper pretends she's flown before and gets chosen to be a flight attendant, she once again turns to the Fairy Tree to help her out.
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A nutritional whodunit that takes listeners from Greenland to Africa to Israel, The Queen of Fats gives a fascinating account of how we have become deficient in a nutrient that is essential for good health: the fatty acids know as omega-3s. Writing with intelligence and passion, Susan Allport tells the story of these vital fats, which are abundant in greens and fish, among other foods. She describes how scientists came to understand the role of omega-3s...
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A funny cozy mystery series full of bold women, a quirky and lovable town, and one seriously hopeless romance.
The Second Book of Season Two of the Hope Walker Mysteries!
It's the middle of February in Hopeless, fresh snow is on Main Street, and Valentines is just around the corner.
And three things are bothering investigative reporter Hope Walker
The most annoying woman in history has just become mayor.
Hope still doesn't have a date for Valentines.
And...
57) Thirsty
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On what should be a romantic trip to California wine country, Babe realizes there's something off with her new lust-at-first-sight-lover, Jack-something she can't get past, even with all his inherited wealth. So she decides to take matters into her own hands and toss him to the curb to enjoy the rest of her vacation.
What she doesn't expect is to run into her old high school nemesis Tina, whose life is at rock bottom. Babe's frozen heart is warmed...
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Lampie is expected to keep the lighthouse her father tends supplied with matches. But one careless mistake on the night of a massive storm leads to disaster for a ship . . . and also for Lampie. With a touch of THE SECRET GARDEN and a dash of THE LITTLE MERMAID, yet entirely original, this text has the makings of a modern classic. In what feels like a perfect match of performer and story, Audie Award winner Tavia Gilbert brings the book to life with...
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In this first installment of the award-winning Kobee Manatee Children's Educational series by Robert Scott Thayer, the listener is immersed in a lovely story about unconditional friendship. An adorable manatee (Kobee Manatee) with his two new pals (Tess the Seahorse) and (Pablo the Hermit Crab), navigate a 1,200-mile adventure from Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Florida. This adventure tale takes place in early autumn when lowering water temperatures...