Joel Froomkin
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Iggy is delighted when Ada Twist's Aunt Bernice inherits a mansion featuring his favorite architectural periods, but unless the Questioneers can find its missing antiques, the house may be lost forever. Includes information about Art Deco and Art Nouveau,facts about unusual cats, a recipe for ice cream, and a biographical note on Ida B. Wells.
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London, 1588. Someone's turning Catholics into widows...
... and masking the crimes under cover of Armada fever. Francis Bacon is charged with identifying the murderer by the Andromache Society, a widows' guild led by his formidable aunt. Thomas Clarady and Lady Alice Trumpington help investigate while struggling to keep themselves out of hot water. Bacon must free his friends from the Tower, track an exotic poison, and untangle several crimes to...
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Francis Bacon is charged with investigating the murder of a fellow barrister at Gray's Inn. He recruits his unwanted protégé Thomas Clarady to do the tiresome legwork. The son of a privateer, Clarady will do anything to climb the Elizabethan social ladder. Bacon's powerful uncle Lord Burghley suspects Catholic conspirators of the crime, but other motives quickly emerge. Rival barristers contend for the murdered man's legal honors and wealthy clients....
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A professor of English literature writes the autobiography of his fantasy alter ego, wanton movie star Gloria Grahame, while his own sexual desires go frustrated.
Denton Moulton, a shy, effeminate male professor, lives inside his head, where he is really a long-dead movie star: the glamorous Gloria Grahame, from the golden age of Hollywood. Professor Moulton is desperate to reveal Gloria's shocking secret before he dies. Does he have the right to...
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Poems by the beloved creator of Winnie-the-Pooh that invoke the wonder of childhood This second collection of poems from A. A. Milne includes works such as Furry Bear, Sneezles, and Buttercup Days as well as an appearance by the beloved children's character Winnie-the-Pooh. With gentle humor and whimsical lines, Now We Are Six is perfect for anyone, whether you're six or sixty-six.
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A sexy con artist. A playboy prince. A job gone terribly wrong. Let the games begin...Runaway Zelda Wilder will do whatever it takes to secure a better life for her and her sister Ava. Crown Prince Rowan Westringham Tate will do whatever it takes to preserve his small country. "Playboy Prince" MacCallum Lockwood Tate will do whatever it takes to steal Zelda's heart...When Zee is blackmailed into humiliating the brooding future king, she never expects...
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Senior Nick Moody is the second string quarterback on Roosevelt High School's championship football team. He's crushed on Mia for years, but she doesn't know he exists. It's time to come off the bench and into the game. Nick refuses to graduate without getting the girl or the glory.
Mia Ashlock is the remarkably kind cheer captain. She's a yes girl, and her penchant for people pleasing always leads to bad relationships. After being humiliated in...
9) Ozland
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With Everland and Umberland both annihilated, the survivors have taken refuge in a small village tucked within the shadows of the Bloodred Queen's castle. Doc has found an actual cure for the Horologia virus, while Gwen, Pete, and Alyssa begin plotting the assassination of the queen with the help of Gail, an excellent huntress. But killing the queen won't be enough. The world has been destroyed and its needs a ruler to set things right again. A ruler...
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In this zany twist on the legend of King Midas and his golden touch, a boy acquires a magical gift that turns everything his lips touch into chocolate!
Can you ever have too much of your favorite food? John Midas is about to find out...The Chocolate Touch has remained a favorite for millions of kids, teachers, and parents for several generations. It's an enjoyable story that pulls in even reluctant readers.
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If your ex arrives in your hometown eighteen months after you walked out on him while you were eight months pregnant, follow this short list of rules before you give him a second chance.
Rule #1 – Don't stand in the way of your brothers who want to rough him up.
Rule #2 – Don't meet him for coffee and agree to allow him to meet your daughter.
Rule #3 – Don't drool when your daughter falls asleep on his chest for the first time. It's just...
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Terrifying beasts. Deadly serpents. This vlogger wants to save them all....
Mason Dixon is a verified internet celebrity. Yet his vlog is just a ruse to spread disinformation so he can secretly relocate endangered cryptids. But when Mason and his camera operator Emma find themselves on a dragon-like gowrow's bad side, calling cut won't save them....
Barely subduing the volatile creature, Mason and Emma are stunned when the lair contains gowrow eggs....
13) Body Shot
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She has every right to feel venomous resentment...
Convicted of a murder she didn't commit, sniper Henri Anderson suffers two years of hard time before she's given a choice - accept an unknown assignment offered by a seedy foreign dignitary or head for home. The decision took all of two seconds. At least that's what she thinks, until a mysterious Scottish man shows up and offers a deal sweet enough to tempt a saint.
But has the rugged, blue-eyed...
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A sanctuary under attack. An enemy closing in. Mason Dixon is all that stands between the cryptids and extinction.
The Orchard has been a safe haven for cryptids...until now. The organization known as DEMON is on a mission to round up every last creature for terrible experiments. As the cameras roll, Mason and his team must turn to one of their most dangerous rivals - Momo, the Missouri Monster - in a last-ditch attempt at a rescue.
Little do they...
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Hunting side hill hoofers. Running from ghost dinosaurs. Mason Dixon is back!
Getting chased into an abandoned town by a jimplicute wasn't part of Internet celebrity, Mason Dixon's, plan. Now staying hidden is key if he doesn't want to be dinner.
But he can't hide for long. Mason and his partner, Emma, promised a sasquatch a Halloween movie date, and they do not like being stood up. To the sasquatch's great regret, popcorn and coming attractions...
16) Eek, You Reek!
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Eek, you reek, You make a funk. Where you have been Things stink, stank, stunk. You've left a path, A swath of smell, And-yuk! You did it very well. Children of all ages will be delighted by the malodorous melodies of poems calling out the different pungent attributes of a full cast of foul-smelling creatures.
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Don't miss this prequel novel based on the hit NETFLIX series Fate: The Winx Saga! Discover Stella, Sky, Riven, and Terra's backstories at Alfea - and meet incoming students Aisha, Musa, and Bloom for the first time. It's an all-new story not seen on the show.
Think of Alfea as your new home…
It's spring, and Headmistress Dowling is organizing an orientation day for the students coming to Alfea next year. Stella volunteers to head the committee...