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21) Special delivery
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English
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"A little girl goes on a long journey to deliver an elephant to her great aunt"--
22) Atlas Obscura
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
Description
Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders—the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that's so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils literally vault over rows of squirming infants. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe...
25) The ebb tide
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English
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When a well-to-do family asks Sallie Riehl to be their daughter's nanny for the summer at their Cape May, New Jersey, vacation home, she jumps at the chance to broaden her horizons beyond the Lancaster County Amish community where she grew up. Curious by nature, Sallie loves reading and learning, and she fears that her chances of making a good match with an Amish farmer will be hampered because of it. Though she loves taking care of nine-year-old...
27) The lonely Beast
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English
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After becoming lonely, a rare Beast sets out on a journey to find others like himself.
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Series
Conspiracy of us trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Avery West learns her family is part of a powerful and dangerous secret society, and that her own life is in danger, she must follow a trail of clues across Europe.
Author
Series
Rifter books (Ginn Hale) volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"When John Toffler opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find only a house key, instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though John struggles to find a way home for himself and the two friends he's inadvertantly brought into this deadly world, he can not know that he is bound by blood to a different fate. He and Kyle share a destiny. Together they will wake the destroyer...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning author of Dust comes a vibrant, stunningly global novel about a young woman struggling to find her place--a poignant exploration of fate, mortality, love, and loss. On the small island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives a girl named Ayaana. She is solitary and stubborn--she and her mother, Munira, are outcasts from the insular local society--and her kitten is her main companion. When a wizened sailor named Muhidin, also...
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Series
Nameless republic novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After escaping Bassa and crossing the Soke moats, Danso and Lilong must travel far north to return home the ibor sought after by newly crowned Bassai Emperor Eshemi. With the new empire's reach now extending over the continent, a bounty on their heads, and news of their cargo now widespread, the journey proves to be even more treacherous. But the promise of reward fuels them both: for Danso, the news of an island of Ajabo survivors in the Nameless...
34) Every color
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
"A girl teaches a polar bear to see the colors in his environment as they take a trip around the world"--
Author
Series
Dodsworth volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Despite a dart-throwing episode at a local pub and a case of mistaken identity, Dodsworth and his mischievous duck companion receive a royal invitation to stay at Buckingham Palace during their trip to London.
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English
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"The bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels Under Heaven and River of Stars, Guy Gavriel Kay is back with a new novel, Children of Earth and Sky, set in a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe. Against this tumultuous backdrop the lives of men and women unfold on the borderlands--where empires and faiths collide. From the small coastal town of Senjan, notorious for its pirates, a young woman sets out to find vengeance...
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