Blue Ribbon Blues: A Tooter Tale

Blue Ribbon Blues: A Tooter Tale

Jerry Spinelli

Literature & Fiction

Ever since her family moved to Aunt Sally's farm, Tooter's known that farm life is definitely not for her. There's no pizzeria  for miles, her nearest neighbor is a dumb boy, and even her own pet chicken hates her! So Tooter decides to show everyone what she's made of by winning the blue ribbon at the County Fair's goat show. Now all she has to do is keep her little brother--and his paint brush--away from her prize goat!
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Night of Many Dreams

Night of Many Dreams

Gail Tsukiyama

Literature & Fiction / Historical Fiction

As World War II threatens their comfortable life in Hong Kong, young Joan and Emma Lew escape with their family to spend the war years in Macao. When they return home, Emma develops a deep interest in travel and sets her sights on an artistic life in San Francisco, while Joan turns to movies and thoughts of romance to escape the pressures of her real life. As the girls become women, each follows a path different from what her family expects. But through periods of great happiness and sorrow, the sisters learn that their complicated ties to each other--and to the other members of their close-knit family--are a source of strength as they pursue their separate dreams.
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As Ever, Gordy

As Ever, Gordy

Mary Downing Hahn

Children's Books / Young Adult / Historical Fiction, Horror

Life wasn't fair. As soon as you thought you were safe, someone pulled the rug out from under you. And there you were, back on the train, going to the very place you thought you'd left for good. Gordy couldn't be less happy about moving back to his old hometown of College Hill, Maryland, where everybody knows his family's troubled history. In North Carolina, Gordy's life was finally on the right track. Back in College Hill, Gordy and his sister, June, must move into a cramped apartment with their brother stu and his new family. The principal at Gordy's school has it in for him, his pals encourage him to cause trouble, and his old rival, Elizabeth, can't see that he's changed. The whole world seems to be against Gordy. Is Gordy destined to slip back into his old trouble-making ways for good?
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Contrarian Investment Strategies

Contrarian Investment Strategies

David Dreman

David Dreman

In this major revision of his investment classic, one of the premier investment managers introduces vitally important new findings in psychology that show why most investment strategies are fatally flawed and his contrarian strategies are the best way to beat the market.The need to switch to a new approach for investing has never been more urgent. The Crash of 2007 revealed in dramatic fashion that there are glaring flaws in the theory that underlies all of the prevailing investment strategies--efficient market theory. This theory, and all of the most popular investing strategies, fail to account for major, systematic errors in human judgment that the powerful new research in psychology David Dreman introduces has revealed, such as emotional over-reactions and a host of mental shortcuts in judgment that lead to wild over and under-valuations of stocks, bonds, and commodities and to bubbles and crashes. It also leads to horribly flawed assessments of risk.Dreman shows exactly...
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Godzilla

Godzilla

Stephen Molstad

Stephen Molstad

IS IT THUNDER—OR FOOTSTEPS? Ships are disappearing—the ocean boils and churns—seismograph measurements are jumping off the scale. A mysterious wave of destruction is making its way, step by step, from a remote Pacific atoll to the tiny concrete island known as Manhattan! As the towering terror methodically dismantles the Big Apple, skyscraper by skyscraper, nuclear scientist Nick Tatopolous is called in to do what the combined forces of the U.S. Army and Air Force can’t—Stop GODZILLA! The authorized GODZILLA novelization!All the thrills of the NEW spectacular film from the creators of the smash hit Independence Day.
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Once and Forever

Once and Forever

Constance O'Day-Flannery

Constance O'Day-Flannery

Maggie Whitaker looks out the small window on her red-eye flight to London, asking herself a simple question. What is she doing here? Running away is the answer. Running away from unemployment, a mortgage, an artist ex-husband demanding alimony. But, Maggie is also running towards something...A romance that lies hundreds of years in the past.Nicholas Layton is the third son of the Earl of Traherne, introduced at the court and summoned by the house of Amebury to Greville Manor. On his way there, Nicholas is thrown from his horse and meets this enchanting, perplexing Margaret who claims to come from the future. Surely she must be confused, especially considering how entangled she already is in the political machinations of Elizabeth's royal court. But, the truth unfolds in a single, perfect kiss...In ONCE AND FOREVER, Constance O'Day-Flannery, the original "Queen of Time Travel Romance," shows that nothing—not insidious plots, not royal decree, not even a distance of...
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The Present

The Present

Johanna Lindsey

Romance / Historical Fiction / Fantasy

As the entire Malory family gathers at Haverston to celebrate the season, a mysterious present arrives anonymously. The gift is an old journal -- a tender and tempestuous account of the love affair between the second Marquis, Christopher Malory, and a dark gypsy beauty named Anastasia, who seeks a love match with a non-gypsy in order to save herself from a prearranged marriage to a brute. Though the dashing English lord Anastasia sets her sight upon burns for the exquisite, exotic miss, Christopher could never consent to wed such a lowborn lady. But miracles have been known to happen in this season of peace and giving and love, as two extraordinary people seperated by cicumstance of birth begin a passionate dance of will and wiles. And in the miraculous blossoming of a glorious romance at a long ago Christmastime, there are wise and well-learned lessons that will enrich the hearts of the Malory descendants -- and, indeed, of everyone who has ever dreamed.
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A Vampire's Submission

A Vampire's Submission

L. E. Wilson

Nonfiction / Young Adult / Science Fiction & Fantasy

This book was previously published with a different cover and the title "Blood Submission".Her blood saves his life.Her embrace slays his soul.Dante Gabor has survived many things since becoming a vampire, but jumping from a plane and crash landing in the desert without a parachute was pushing it, even for him. To survive the relentless sun, he buries his broken body in its own sandy grave. But healing is painfully slow, and he's forced to rise and hunt for larger prey. Half mad with thirst, he's brought to his knees by the seductive taste of a lone female whose sweet blood heals his body, but leaves him craving still more.MINE.Laney Moss loves the Mojave desert that surrounds her home and hikes the upper trails often, prepared for anything she might run across. But nothing prepared her for the monster that comes with the setting sun to stalk her. In the moments before he attacks, one word crashes through her terrified...
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Black dawn

Black dawn

Lisa J. Smith

Lisa J. Smith

SUMMARY: Love was never so scary... The Night World is all around us - a secret society of vampires, werewolves, witches and creatures of darkness. They're beautiful - and deadly - and it's so easy to fall in love... Maggie Neely's biggest worry is leading her soccer team to victory - until her brother, Miles, goes missing. Maggie must find him. Her search leads Maggie to the vampire, Delos, to whom she is strangely attracted. But while Delos lives, Miles could be lost forever. Can Maggie bring herself to destroy him? Or will Delos get to Maggie first?
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Mistress Wilding

Mistress Wilding

Rafael Sabatini

Literature & Fiction

To save her craven brother's hide, Ruth promised Wilding she'd marry him. She never guessed she'd fall in love with him . . . Though that she should have known. He was a good man, a fine man, and brave, too. Never in her life could she have imagined that she'd set events in motion that made crowned heads rest uneasily, nor that she'd imperriled all their lives. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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