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A dazzling collection of stories, The Prophet of Zongo Street takes readers to a world that seamlessly blends African folklore and myths with modernity. Set primarily on Zongo Street, a fictitious community in West Africa, the stories -- which are reminiscent of the works of Ben Okri and Amos Tutuola -- introduce us to wonderfully quirky characters and the most uproarious, poignant, and rawest moments of life. There's Kumi, the enigmatic title character...
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In the final adventure in the King's Blades series, one of the Blades is asked to go undercover to hunt down a possible threat to the crown of Chivial.
Niall's father raised him to be a man of his word, and Niall has tried to live that way throughout his life, even during his training to become a Blade.
But things have changed. King Ambrose has died. His daughter, Malinda, is now queen and behaving suspiciously. When she makes Niall Prime of...
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Exiled on Earth, Funny Boy must save his new planet from an evil haircut. Never spit spitballs at your brother. That's the lesson Funny Boy learned on his last day on the planet Crouton, when his parents strapped him to a rocket and shot him to Earth as punishment for misbehaving. But just like Superman, this exiled Croutonian gained powers when he landed on the new world. He's not super strong, super fast, or super stylish, but his super sense of...
185) Finding New Haven
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It's all about survival, just eliminate the brain. Harley Monroe grew up in a broken home and managed to protect her sister, Chiyo, from madness by always including her when hanging out with friends. Lucy Montoya is looking for a way out of her dead-end job and is about to learn how permanent her position is. Li Xiu Ying thinks it's just another day at her Uncle's restaurant when she is faced to relive horrors her family thought they left behind...
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Join the mischievous monkey, the man with the yellow hat, and their friends in eight madcap capers that are guaranteed to make storytime fun.
A new treasury of Curious George adventures! Eight exciting stories about Curious George in a jam-packed collection. Sales of the individual books exceed 1.8 million copies! Enjoy these popular titles:
Curious George and the Firefighters
Curious George at the Aquarium
Curious George's Dinosaur Discovery
Curious...
187) The Bride of Newgate
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Golden Age mystery author John Dickson Carr displays his mastery of the historical mystery in this thrilling tale of courtship and punishment in Regency-era England. To inherit her family fortune, beautiful Miss Caroline Ross must marry before her twenty-fifth birthday. But she has found only two breeds of husband: violent drunks and irresponsible dandies. To evade wedded agony, she chooses a spouse not long for this world - a convicted murderer with...
188) Protector Wolf
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Book 6 of the Black Mesa Wolves series by USA TODAY bestselling author J.K. Harper!"I LOVED how this story plays out. Two broken lost souls find each other and have a beautiful family together."As a new Guardian for the Black Mesa Wolf Pack, Jace Canagan has one shot left at creating a good life for himself. Years ago, his childhood was abruptly shattered by unspeakable violence. He let bitterness and anger chase away all those who tried to save him...
189) Up the Line
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It's 2059, and former law clerk Jud Elliott finds himself at loose ends-until a chance meeting with a Time Courier gives him the inspiration to become one himself. The job-as a time-traveling guide-gives him the opportunity to indulge his love of Byzantine history, in between shuttling tourists to such monumental events as the crucifixion and the assassination of JFK.
But there are strict rules to follow as a Time Courier, put in place to guard...
190) Bookworm
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Aren't you ready for a story with a happy ending? Benjamin Kalinowski was famous in St. Isidore as the community's most well-read man. Every Tuesday and Thursday he would march to and from the library with loads of books that had been read, and too read. One day Adam King, a young boy who loved books as much as Benjamin Kalinowski learned the truth. After Adam shares his mission with you, please read a bonus short story, The Undertaker's Son, From...
191) Fat Girl
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All Claire wants is a thin body and her dream man.Is that too much to ask?With her divorce pending and a new job on the horizon, Claire Sterling is tired of being the Fat Girl. With the help of her gay best friend, a body image coach, a new fitness regime, and lots of wine and snark, she sets out to find her Happily Ever After just in time for her fortieth birthday.Will she get the body and the man of her dreams, or is she forever destined to be the...
192) Heliopolis
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Man Booker Prize Nominee: A Latin American rags-to-riches story.
Born in a São Paulo shantytown, Ludo has followed a remarkable trajectory from one side of the city's impermeable social divide to the other. Rescued and raised by a plutocrat, Ludo is now entrenched in the gated, guarded community of the super-rich.
At twenty-seven, Ludo works for a vacuous "communications company" that markets unwanted, unaffordable products aimed at the very underclass...
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It's a holiday celebration of stories!
Celebrations help us to mark moments in time that are meaningful, some for religious reasons, others cultural and historical. New York Times bestselling author Jody Lynn Nye has written about holidays from many points of view, in this world, in another; in the past, present and future. What holidays-and holiday stories-have in common is that people choose to come together for these festive events to discover...
194) The wrong dead guy
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Master thief Coop and his DOPS teammates trigger unexpected chaos when they steal a not-quite-dead and very lovesick Egyptian mummy that wields terrifying magic.
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A collection of humorous short stories from the award-winning author of The Plover and Mink River.
Welcome to the peculiar, headlong world of Brian Doyle's fiction, where the odd is happening all the time, reported upon by characters of every sort and stripe. Swirling voices and skeins of story, laughter and rage, ferocious attention to detail and sweeping nuttiness, tears and chortling-these stories will remind readers of the late giant David Foster...
196) Camp Yowie
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In this graphic novel, Theo, Sophie, and Brendan are not exactly excited to be at Camp Yowie during summer vacation. But soon they meet a mysterious ranger who reminds them of a certain big-footed creature similar to the legendary Sasquatch. Will they be able to help the "ranger" protect the forest? This fast-paced, 32-page graphic novel about a fun adventure at summer camp will capture the attention of the most reluctant readers!
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A rural British family gets new neighbors-and new troubles- in this comic classic by the author of The Darling Buds of May.
Gore Court is a run-down country house that junk dealer Pop Larkin intends to convert into a bungalow for his daughter and son-in-law. But, Mr. and Mrs. Jerebohm, a wealthy couple from London, arrive desperate to buy the place. Spotting the naivete of the social-climbing pair, Pop manages to get them to agree to pay a ridiculous...
198) Quozl
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Rabbitlike aliens from outer space colonize Earth during humankind's Second World War in a delightfully funny and thought-provoking science fiction adventure. The Quozl just need somewhere to call home. A gentle race of extraterrestrial rabbits, they have a propensity for reproduction that has left their home planet, Quozlene, dangerously overpopulated, and in their search for greener and less-crowded pastures, they have discovered the perfect place...
199) Surviving the Zoxans
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Pirate was a great explorer but he had a weakness, falling in love with the Ao-jun leader's partner who would stop at nothing to recover her love.Sgniwef had her love stolen before, she had fought a war for him then, and she was quite prepared to do it again, even if that meant coming out of hiding.The conflict escalated when the Zoxans, from whom they were hiding, decided to take sides.Can the crew of the Mastery of the Stars escape with their lives...
200) The Sentient Space
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When was the last time you looked to the night sky and wondered what might be looming in the far reaches of the universe? These are the tales of the planets, aliens, and creatures-of what we call sentient life-among the stars. Some are not for the faint of heart while others are full of passion. Some linger on the horror of the unknown while others offer hope life as we know it has just begun. Discover and experience first-hand as these tales answer...
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