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The Borrowers volume 1
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The Borrowers-the Clock family: Homily, Pod, and their fourteen-year-old daughter, Arrietty, to be precise-are tiny people who live underneath the kitchen floor of an old English country manor. All their minuscule home furnishings, from postage stamp paintings to champagne cork chairs, are "borrowed" from the "human beans" who tromp around loudly above them. All is well until Pod is spotted upstairs by a human boy! Can the Clocks stay nested safely...
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The Borrowers volume 3
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Uprooted once again, the little people journey down a drain, live briefly in a teakettle, and are swept away in a flood.
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Two fan-favorite stories of powerful men wrapped around their babies' little fingers The Billionaire's Borrowed Baby by Janice Maynard Luc Cavallo runs a multimillion-dollar business and handles crises without blinking. Until the woman he once loved, Hattie Parker, appears in his office, looking as beautiful as she did a decade ago. Holding someone else's baby and asking Luc for protection. Sure, he'll play Daddy to her adopted child. Then he'll finally...
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Long, long ago, in the kingdom of Perth there was a mage. That mages name was Bango Bonesong. He grew powerful, so much so that he attempted to cheat death. Some say he succeeded. But 7 years ago, he returned to light. Just letting you know, this isn't the "darkened mage comes back and tries to kill everyone and the hero has to stop him" story. To tell this story properly, you have to understand that there are borrowed artifacts. To make a borrowed...
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The Borrowers volume 2
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"The Borrowers Afield is beautifully written and engrossing, even suspenseful . . . like the best of children's books, this is really a book for all ages." -Tor.com
Driven out of their cozy house by the rat catcher, the Borrowers find themselves homeless. Worse, they are lost and alone in a frightening new world: the outdoors.
Nearly everything outside-cows, moths, field mice, cold weather-is a life-threatening danger for the tiny Borrowers....
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The Borrowers volume 6
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Pod, Homily, and Arrietty escape from the Platters' attic and set off to an old rectory to begin life anew.
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He needed a baby to close a business deal,But Sheikh Karim is about to get way more than he bargained for…Karim Al-Ahsan has a problem; he's caught in a lie, having told an old-fashioned business partner that he's a family man, with a wife and baby of his own. Now with little option other than to find and hire a mother and son to portray his family, Karim searches for the perfect candidates to prove that he's a man of integrity…Hallie Jameson...
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After the murder of her ex-husband is solved, visiting nurse Melanie Bass is confident she will never again cross paths with Detective Sunny Cody. She is shocked when the detective suddenly shows up on her doorstep to ask Melanie for a favor. What starts out as an assignment Detective Cody assures her will be quick and simple, instead soon puts Melanie, her dog Bruno, and Detective Cody herself in serious jeopardy. Melanie quickly becomes increasingly...
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**WINNER of the Single title category of the Holt Medallion Contest 2017**She's the jilted bridezilla. He's the commitment-phobe best man. Can they work together for the sake of their businesses? Or should they avoid each other for the sake of their sanity?Chloe Cassidy has fallen out of love with love. Which, for a wedding planner, is a highly inconvenient turn of events. When her longtime sweetheart jilts her at the altar for a honeymoon Chloe's...
11) Borrowing Time
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She's a pilot who prefers the air. He's a dog trainer who prefers the open road. Ruby Freedman is not a workaholic-no matter what anyone else says. As the only charter plane pilot in her small town, it isn't like she has a choice but to fly at all hours of the day. So when her best friend's vagabond brother, Clark, visits town for a dog competition, she doesn't give him a second's thought. One- Ruby doesn't have time for men, let alone ones with Peter...
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Borrowing and Returning uses the National Standards in K-12 Personal Finance Education by the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy. The book provides the earliest of readers a background in loans. Simple sentence structure and word usage help readers develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a glossary and index. |Glossary of key words|Index|Table of contents|The My Guide to Money series uses the National Standards in K-12...
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A community is still in shock by headlines of a missing child last seen at a local park. When a short time later in a nearby town another child disappears from a public place, the police do everything possible to try to find a correlation.
An active, working mother, who is partnered by an equally busy executive husband, and an innocent little girl were once a happy family of three. The couple, suddenly launched into every parent's worst nightmare,...
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Forsaking all others...
Gage Trembath is getting married. He is the only one who knows it, but the statement is true nonetheless. The woman he had once loved has been married elsewhere for a time, and he can put off his own marriage no longer. The woman he has chosen to marry, without love, is sensible, quiet, musical, and amenable, which should enable him to have a good marriage and a content life. That is all he wants now, and Honora Berkeley makes...
15) Borrowed Time
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A collection of seven time-bending sci-fi stories by the author of the New York Times-bestselling Lost Fleet series-with new author's notes for each story.
In "Betty Knox and Dictionary Jones in The Mystery of the Missing Teenage Anachronisms," a pair of time travelers get stuck in 1964-and in the bodies of their fifteen-year-old selves. It's a terrible time to have other time travelers looking to kill you. SFRevu called this story "one of the...
16) Borrowed Boy
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What would you do if you found out your whole life was a lie? That's what happens to Zavier Beckham. One moment, he's a happy teen with a loving family and a nerdy best friend named Cole. The next, there's an FBI agent telling Zavier he was kidnapped as a baby and sold to an adoption agency-that the parents he's always known aren't his parents. Not even his name is his own. Now Zavier may be forced to deal with a move from his home in Memphis to Chicago,...
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Finding Love Beyond the Broken Pieces - A Clean Second Chance Sapphic Romance "Something Borrowed" unfolds the touching story of Avery Lannister, a transgender woman grappling with the aftermath of her partner's sudden departure. With her daughter Emma as her beacon of hope, Avery relocates to Summershore, a small Californian town, seeking a fresh start. Amidst her struggle to find a job and establish a new life, she stumbles upon Love & Joy, a local...
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Aiden Blake Edwards came to the city to get away from an embarrassing past. He tore himself away from his messed up family to start a whole new life, but starting a new life and being a new person doesn't come easily and he picked up a few debts along the way, debts that total six-hundred-thousand dollars.
Jasper Van Schermerhorne has a situation that involves marriage and billions of dollars. Technically, he needs to get married so he can access...
19) Borrowing Death
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Suffragette and journalist Charlotte Brody is bracing herself for her first winter in the frontier town of Cordova in the Alaska Territory. But the chilling murder of a local store owner is what really makes her blood run cold. . .
After three months in Cordova, Charlotte is getting accustomed to frontier life. She is filing articles for the local paper--including a provocative editorial against Prohibition--and enjoying a reunion with her brother...
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In the beautiful mountain town of Nugget, California, staying out of the limelight is easy, but staying out of love is a bit more challenging…
Back in Los Angeles, Sloane McBride was a great police detective, but after she uncovered corruption on her own squad, the job became nearly impossible. In the bucolic hills of Nugget, she can start to imagine a life after all that, where she keeps her head down, does her work, and doesn't bother anyone....
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