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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Move over, Mr. Darcy, there's a new man in town . . . . It is a truth universally acknowledged that an arrogant bachelor insistent on a wife who meets the strictest of requirements-deserves his comeuppance. The Honorable Mr. Jeremy Malcolm is searching for a wife, but not just any wife. He's determined to elude the fortune hunters and find a near-perfect woman, one who will meet the qualifications of his well-crafted list. But after years of searching,...
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Humans have been making lists for even longer than they've been writing letters. They are the shorthand for what really matters to us: our hopes and aspirations; likes and dislikes; rules for living and loving; records of our memories and reminders of the things we want to do before we die. Just as he did with Letters of Note, Shaun Usher has trawled the world's archives to produce a rich visual anthology that stretches from ancient times to present...
Author
Series
Caterina (Erin Eitter Kono) volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Caterina is a little brown bird with a love of lists, but even with great ideas and careful planning, things go wrong on the day she throws her very first party for friends.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Resolving to avoid high school clichés, friends Dave and Julia maintain a list of everything they vow to never do, but he has already broken a rule by secretly pining for her, a situation complicated when Julia suddenly decides to break every rule.
Author
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This compelling, mind-blowing book of lists on every imaginable subject that an inquisitive child wants to understand is un-put-down-able! Filled with details on topics from the most shudder-inducing bugs and the 37 most popular breeds of dog to 10 cures for hiccups and how to say 'Happy New Year' in 20 different languages, this will be a must-have book in every child's collection!.The pages are beautifully illustrated with the colorful and intricate...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Accidentally leaving a list of people she wants to forgive in an Uber, Frankie Morgan, attending anger management therapy, thinks nothing of it until the first three people on the list die, causing her to fear for her life because the next name on the list is hers.
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes a yacht, a bold bucket list, and a kiss with a handsome stranger are all a person needs to dive into the deep end of life. For the last year, yacht stewardess Jo Walker has attempted to complete a bucket list of 30 things she wants to accomplish by her birthday. Jo has almost everything she's ever wanted, including a condo on the beach (though she's the youngest resident by thirty years), and an exciting job (below deck) that lets her travel...
11) 13 and 3/4
Author
Series
Friendship list volume 4
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Ari and Kaylan aren't sure how they're going to survive their first summer apart. No pool. No sleepovers. No emergency late night chats on the porch. So as Ari returns to Camp Silver and Kaylan heads off to comedy camp, they come up with a new list of 13 and 3/4 ways to keep their friendship strong as they tackle everything from bias to batik and moping to matchmaking"--
Author
Publisher
Trapeze, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The humble list has the power to change your life. In its immediacy, its simplicity and its concise, contained form, the list enables us to organise, to save time and to approach facts with clarity. Yet why do we end up with interminable To Do Lists that are never completed? After decades living in Japan, Dominique Loreau has become a master in the art of de-cluttering and simplifying. Now, in L'art de la Liste - a huge bestseller in her native France...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Eight Perfect Murders comes the heart-pounding story of nine strangers who receive a cryptic list with their names on it-and then begin to die in highly unusual circumstances"--
Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. Nothing else, just a list of names on a single sheet of paper. None of the nine people know or have ever met the others on the list. They dismiss it as junk mail,...
15) New Year's kiss
Author
Publisher
Underlined
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Shy, straight-laced Tess meets Christopher while spending Christmas break at her grandmother's Vermont lodge, and he agrees to help her complete her bucket list before New Year's Eve.
17) The bucket list
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common, except they both have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to make a Bucket List of all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die. In the process of completing the list, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find the joy in life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the beloved author of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend comes a wonderful new novel about a struggling man, written entirely in lists. Daniel Mayrock's life is at a crossroads. He knows the following to be true: 1. He loves his wife Jill ... more than anything. 2. He only regrets quitting his job and opening a bookshop a little (maybe more than a little) 3. Jill is ready to have a baby. 4. The bookshop isn't doing well. Financial crisis is imminent....
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Discover words to surprise, delight, and enamor. Learn terms for the sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees, for dancing awkwardly but with relish, and for the look shared by two people who each wish the other would speak first.
Mak loves words, and her brief compilation of words will surprise, delight, and enamor. Do you practice Tsundoku? It is a Japanese noun for the letting books pile up unread after your buy them. Or perhaps you Balter....
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