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"Two hotel receptionists--and archrivals--find a collection of old wedding rings and compete to return them to their owners, discovering their own love story along the way. It's the busiest season of the year, and Forest Manor Hotel is quite literally falling apart. So when Izzy and Lucas are given the same shift on the hotel's front desk, they have no choice but to put their differences aside and see it through. The hotel won't stay afloat beyond...
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Harlem trilogy (Colson Whitehead) volume 1
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English
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Readalikes for 'The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store' by James McBride
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""Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a...
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Magical crafts fairies volume 4
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
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IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Josie the jewelry fairy needs Rachel and Kirsty's help to find her missing beaded ribbon in order to help keep Rainspell Island's Arts and Crafts Week on schedule.
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Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
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©2014.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When Alfie McQuinn, the notorious jewel thief, is killed on a job, his last words to his son, March, are to "find jewels". This instruction leads the boy to Jules, the twin sister he never knew he had and the perfect partner to carry on the family business.
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Barbie sisters mystery club volume 1
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
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IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Barbie's friend Raquelle takes off her jewelry to go swimming, she returns to find it missing and Barbie and her friends try to discover who stole the valuables.
7) Ice angel
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Pegasus Crime
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2021.
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English
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The murder of an American prospector in a Canadian diamond field lures Alex Turner, an investigator for the Treasury Department's diamond division, and his girlfriend, Russian diamond thief Slav Lily, into a web of global political intrigue.
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Small town dreams volume 2
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Sourcebooks Casablanca
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[2022]
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English
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Finn Kelly guides hikes across the rugged wilderness he calls home. When jewelry designer Bethany Grant moves into town and proceeds to involve herself in every aspect of his life, he finds himself thinking he could use a friend. Bethany is drawn to dark, brooding Finn. She's an optimist and a fixer, but maybe Finn doesn't want to be fixed, and Bethany has her own grief to lay to rest. The question is how to come to terms with the darkness in...
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Riley Wolfe novels volume 1
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English
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"From the author of the wildly successful Dexter series comes a new, mesmerizing bad guy we can root for: Riley Wolfe. He's a master thief, expert at disguise, and not averse to violence when it's needed. It's no accident, though, that Riley targets the wealthiest 0.1 percent and is willing to kill them when they're in his way: he despises the degenerate and immoral rich and loves stealing their undeserved and unearned valuables. In this series launch,...
10) Dirty thirty
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2023.
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English
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"Stephanie Plum, Trenton's hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freelance assignment that seems simple enough. Local jeweler Martin Rabner wants her to locate his former security guard, Andy Manley (a.k.a. Nutsy), who he is convinced stole a fortune in diamonds out of his safe. Stephanie is also looking for another troubled man, Duncan Dugan, a fugitive from justice arrested for robbing the same jewelry store on the same...
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Castle in the sky volume 2
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Viz Communications
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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"Pirates greedy for treasure and secret agents hungry for power are both chasing Sheeta, a young girl who wears a mysterious blue stone around her neck. The stone's power makes Sheeta defy gravity and float down into the life of Pazu, a tough young orphan boy inventor. Soon Pazu and Sheeta are caught up together --way up, into the clouds, where somewhere awaits Laputa, a floating city built by a lost race of people. Ancient secrets link Sheeta's stone...
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Castle in the sky volume 4
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Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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"Just behind Pazu and Sheeta are soldiers from the aerial dreadnought Goliath -- who have captured Dola and her pirate crew, and are now looting the gold and jewels of the Castle in the Sky for themselves! But the man who guided them there, Muska, has his eyes on power, not money -- and he alone knows how to activate the Castle's ancient superweapons that could make him master of the world! Can Pazu and Sheeta stop his sinister plan?"--P. [4] of cover....
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