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From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer--
Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for week-long visits, or when he heads home to...
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In a publishing career that spanned less than a decade, Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a stage from which to address issues of gender politics and class-consciousness rarely expressed in her day. The Collection included 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Mansfield Park', 'Emma', 'Northanger Abbey', 'Persuasion', and 'Lady Susan' - represent all of Austen's mature work as a novelist, and provide the reader...
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"A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant debut about family, forgiveness and a love of reading. Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy's bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. But on Miranda's twelfth birthday, Billy has a mysterious falling-out with her mother and suddenly disappears from Miranda's life. She doesn't hear about...
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"In the spirit of The Bartender's Tale, a lively and poignant coming-of-age story about a boy and his great-uncle on a cross-country odyssey. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she...
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American girls collection. Kit, 1934 volume 6
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 6
The American girls collection volume Book 6
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 6
The American girls collection volume Book 6
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Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a dif
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Little Wolf Adventures volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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Little Wolf has been behaving too courteously, so his parents send him to his uncle's Big Bad Wolf school to learn to be a proper wolf.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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The letters that ten-year-old Christoph and his uncle exchange show how Christoph's feelings for Mr. Beethoven, the eccentric boarder that shares his house, change from anger and embarrassment to compassion and admiration.
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Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 3
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010
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IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Kitty's owners are taking a week off and leaving Kitty and Puppy at home with Uncle Murray. It isn't long before Uncle Murray is driven to near madness by shenanigans of epic proportions.
11) Pig Pig returns
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Pig Pig books volume 6
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IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Pig Pig is concerned about travelling across the country with his aunt and uncle, but is even more worried when he returns.
14) The pursuit
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Sherring Cross series volume 3
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey's wonderfully delightful sequel to Say You Love Me.
What was to be a grand adventure for Melissa MacGregor-an escape from the wilds of her Scottish home into the whirl of the London social scene-seems to pale before the promise in the passionate gaze of Lincoln Ross Burnett. Though they exchange but a few words before parting after a chance encounter on her grandfather's lands, Melissa instantly...
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Lady Anne Stone believes she's found her long lost uncle. Unwilling to meet him on her own, Daniel Adams accompanies her to her uncle's ranch. But both Dan and Anne are convinced that the man introduced as her uncle is an imposter and decide to continue the search for the new Earl of Stoneford. And the swindler is now on their trail, hoping to steal Uncle David's inheritance. Dan tries to protect Anne and also his heart. He's good at keeping her safe,...
18) Arch-conspirator
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Tor
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2023.
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English
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From dystopian visionary and bestselling phenomenon Veronica Roth comes a razor-sharp reimagining of Antigone. In Arch-Conspirator, Roth reaches back to the root of legend and delivers a world of tomorrow both timeless and unexpected. A gut punch of a story. Roth takes everything fragile about love, everything powerful about certain doom, and blooms with it. You'll be holding your breath until the very last word.-Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling...
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Gold seer trilogy volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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After her harrowing journey west to California, Lee Westfall has finally found a new home, one rich in gold, thanks to her magical power, a power that seems to be changing every day. But this home is rich in other ways, too: with friends who are searching for a place to be themselves, just as she is, and with love. Jefferson, her longtime best friend, hasn't stopped trying to win her heart. And Lee is more and more tempted to say yes. But her uncle...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"About a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends"--
Growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls- a seedy but magical, slightly haunted place-Jake Baker spends most of his time with his uncle Calvin, a kind but eccentric enthusiast of occult artifacts and conspiracy theories. The summer Jake turns twelve, he befriends a pair of siblings new to town, and so Calvin initiates them all into the...
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