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"Julia Worthing is a mechanic, working in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. It’s 1984, and Britain (now called Airstrip One) has long been absorbed into the larger trans-Atlantic nation of Oceania. Oceania has been at war for as long as anyone can remember, and is ruled by an ultra-totalitarian Party, whose leader is a quasi-mythical figure called Big Brother. In short, everything about this world is as it is in Orwell’s 1984. ...
2) Don't let go
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Series
Hope novels (Jaci Burton) volume 6
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Brady Conners is hardly the settling type, but when tragedy strikes in his family, he has no choice but to return home to Hope, Oklahoma. Setting up shop to work on custom motorcycles and pass the time, Brady has no intention of letting anyone get close--until he meets Megan. Pastry shop owner Megan Lee is drawn to quiet, brooding Brady. Their connection is undeniable, and it quickly develops from physical attraction into something much stronger....
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Body shop bad boys volume 2
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English
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Mechanic Foley Sanders finds himself irresistibly attracted to his next-door neighbor Cynthia Nichols, much to Cyn's annoyance.
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2020.
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English
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"A gritty, voice-driven thriller about a former getaway driver who thought he had escaped the criminal life who is pulled back in by race, poverty, and his own former life of crime. Beauregard "Bug" Montage is a man with many different titles: husband, father, friend, honest car mechanic. But before he gave it up, Bug used to be known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best Wheel Man on the East Coast. After a series...
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Body shop bad boys volume 3
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English
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After her last relationship bombed, Ivy Stephens is doing her best to put her life back together. She's enjoying her job, her apartment-and the cute little puppy she's seen hanging around. When she goes looking for him, she finds the stray in the arms of a big, burly, devastatingly handsome man.
6) Frost burned
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Mercy Thompson series volume 7
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Mercy Thompson's life has undergone a seismic change. Becoming the mate of Adam Hauptman--the charismatic Alpha of the local werewolf pack--has made her a stepmother to his daughter Jesse, a relationship that brings moments of blissful normalcy to Mercy's life. But on the edges of humanity, what passes for a minor mishap on an ordinary day can turn into so much more. After an accident in bumper-to-bumper traffic, Mercy and Jesse can't reach Adam or...
7) Test drive
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Body shop bad boys volume 1
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English
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The first in Harte's Body Shop Bad Boys series features a romance between heartbreaker Johnny Devlin, a mechanic son of a strip-club owner, and Lara Valley, a waitress in the local watering hole who is working to pay her way through nursing school. After several rejections, she agrees to go out with him after he saves her from her sister's groping ex, and discovers there's a lot more to him than she first thought. They enjoy each other and have glorious...
8) River marked
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Car mechanic and shapeshifter Mercy Thompson has never known any others of her kind. Until now. As Mercy comes to terms with this new information, an evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River--and if Mercy and her mate, the Alpha werewolf Adam, are to have any hope of surviving, they will need all the resources the shifters can offer.
11) Silver borne
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When mechanic and shapeshifter Mercy Thompson attempts to return a powerful Fae book she'd previously borrowed in an act of desperation, she finds the bookstore locked up and closed down. It seems the book contains secret knowledge--and the Fae will do just about anything to keep it out of the wrong hands. And if that doesn't take enough of Mercy's attention, her friend Samuel is struggling with his wolf side--leaving Mercy to cover for him, lest...
12) Cress
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Series
Lunar chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 22
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English
Description
Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and prevent her army from invading Earth. Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl trapped on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company and who has never been allowed to cut her hair.
13) Iron kissed
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Meet car mechanic and coyote shapeshifter Mercy Thompson, star of Patricia Briggs's #1 New York Times bestselling series. Being a lowly "walker" in a world of vampires, werewolves, and fae once kept her safe. But Mercy's bark-and bite-are not so harmless any more...
Though Mercy Thompson can shift her shape into that of a coyote, her loyalty never wavers. So when her former boss and mentor, Zee, asks for her help, she's there
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Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Creatures sprint, slither, and soar in this STEM-driven dive into the extraordinary, everyday ways animals move! A squid jets through the ocean like a rocket. A cheetah races after a zig-zagging gazelle. A fishing spider walks on water with its eight hairy legs. All animals must move. Whether on the hunt for something to eat, on the run from being eaten, or in search of a mate or a safe place to live, their lives depend on marvelous motion. In this...
15) Smoke bitten
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Shapeshifting mechanic Mercy Thompson will face a threat unlike any other. . . . I am Mercedes Athena Thompson Hauptman. My only "superpowers" are that I turn into a thirty-five-pound coyote and I can fix Volkswagens. But I have friends in odd places and a pack of werewolves at my back. It looks like I'm going to need them. Centuries ago, the fae dwelt in Underhill-until she locked her doors against them. They left behind their great castles and...
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PowerKids Press, The Rosen Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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Español
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"If the family car breaks down, most kids know that the car will end up with a mechanic. Many times, the car comes back as good as new. What did the mechanic do? It might seem like magic, but it's really skill and education. This book explains how mechanics can detect problems with our vehicles using modern technology and know-how and how they may solve the problems with hard work and skill. Photographs of mechanics on the job will allow a variety...
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Firehawks volume 3
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English
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Master mechanic Denise Conroy-- with a reputation for being as steel-clad as the aircraft she keeps aloft-- shuns useless flyboys who don't know one end of a wrench from the other. Firehawk pilot Vern Taylor--known for unstoppable charm and a complete lack of mechanical skills-- proves his talent for out-of-the-box thinking with every flight. He's a survivor and a natural-born hell-aviation firefighter. When Denise and Vern crash together in the Central...
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