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1) The humans
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
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Description
Regarding humans unfavorably upon arriving on Earth, a reluctant extraterrestrial assumes the identity of a Cambridge mathematician before realizing that there's more to the human race than he suspected.
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"Claire Cook has a perfect life. Married to the scion of a political dynasty, with a Manhattan townhouse and a staff of ten, her surroundings are elegant, her days flawlessly choreographed, and her future auspicious. But behind closed doors, nothing is quite as it seems. That perfect husband has a temper that burns as bright as his promising political career, and he's not above using his staff to track Claire's every move, making sure she's living...
4) Tootsie
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael Dorsey is an out-of-work actor who makes himself up as a woman to get a job. When his girlfriend, Sandy, fails an audition for a soap opera, Michael dresses up as "Dorothy Michaels" and lands the part. All goes well until "Dorothy" falls in love with beautiful co-star, Julie, and Julie's father, Les, falls for "Dorothy."
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Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 12
Description
It's early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square -- a place of many memories -- she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. Because the man's wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Description
Blocked on social media and concerned for his son's life, Chuck impersonates a waitress online and starts checking in with Franklin. But things begin to spiral when Franklin falls for this imaginary girl and wants nothing more than to meet her in person, as Chuck has inadvertently catfished his own son.
8) Bladestay
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"When a violent, decades-long feud between two powerful men comes to a head in the small settlement of Bladestay, Colorado, cunning resident Theo Creed must use her wits to stay alive. Disguising herself as a young boy, seventeen-year-old Theo bluffs herway into the inner circle of August Gaines, the magnetic leader of the ruthless gang that has descended on her town. But the deeper Theo gets into the con, the more she starts to question her loyalties....
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Series
FunJungle volume 6
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
336 pages.
Description
The local police prove unhelpful when a 500-pound dinosaur skull vanishes from a secret excavation on Sage's family's ranch, so Teddy and his friends conduct their own investigation.
10) Unseemly science
Author
Series
Fall of the gas-lit empire volume 2
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
In the divided land of England, Elizabeth Barnabus has been living a double life - as both herself and as her brother, the private detective. Witnessing the hanging of Alice Carter, the false duchess, Elizabeth resolves to throw the Bullet Catcher's Handbook into the fire, and forget her past. If only it were that easy! There is a new charitable organisation in town, run by some highly respectable women. But something doesn't feel right to Elizabeth....
11) Some like it hot
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c1959
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 122 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In order to escape retaliation after they witness a gangland murder, two unemployed musicians disguise themselves as women and join an all-girl band headed to Miami. En route, one falls for the band's lovelorn singer, who thinks she loves an aged playboy. Their cover is blown by his love interest and by a mob boss, who refuses to fall for their hoax.
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Series
Sands of Arawiya volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
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Description
In a world inspired by ancient Arabia, seventeen-year-old huntress Zafira must disguise herself as a man to seek a lost artifact that could return magic to her cursed world.
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 6
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 24 cm.
Author
Description
In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school and rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age.
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"Seventeen-year-old Gemma's favorite kind of beach is an empty one. Social interactions are too much for her to handle. She always says the wrong thing--if she manages to say anything at all. She can't even bring herself to speak to her longtime crush, Beau Booker, without losing sleep over her own awkwardness. During a solo outing to her favorite beach, Gemma realizes--to her horror--that the popular kids from school have shown up to throw a party....
Author
Series
Sands of Arawiya volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
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Description
In a world inspired by ancient Arabia, seventeen-year-old Zafira and the sultan's son Nasir continue their quest to uncover a lost magic artifact and discover that the prize they seek may be even more dangerous than any of their enemies.
17) Red river range
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 56 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Three Mesquiteers was the umbrella title for a series of 51 B-westerns released between 1936 and 1943. In Red River Range, the fourth of eight John Wayne Mesquiteers films, The Cattlemen's Association has called in the three amigos, Stony Brooke, Tucson Smith, and Lullaby Joslin, to find a gang of cattle rustlers. Their friend Tex Riley poses as Stony so the real Stony can go undercover as an outlaw to infiltrate the gang.
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Told in alternating voices, twelve-year-olds JB Barnes and Sidney Miller meet aboard a scientific research ship after JB is tasked to invite a renowned scientist named Sidney Miller and mistakenly invites a girl with the same name who will do anything toget out of going to summer camp.
19) Cosmic
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Super-sized, eleven-year-old Liam makes a giant leap for boy-kind by competing with a group of adults for the chance to go into space.
20) The false prince
Author
Series
Ascendance novels volume 1
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Description
In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.
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