Cindy Kay
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2024
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When a notorious thief is out for priceless treasure (gems! cats! general decorum!)—who're you gonna call? An elite team of crime-fighting underdogs, that's who! The Misfits are on the case in this hilarious illustrated series from Newbery Honoree Lisa Yee and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat!
“For any kid who’s felt like a misfit, this crackling adventure packs a wallop!”...
“For any kid who’s felt like a misfit, this crackling adventure packs a wallop!”...
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Novels of Jaran volume 4
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English
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In this electrifying finale to Kate Elliott's Novels of the Jaran, the fight against the alien Chapalii empire comes to an exhilarating end. Charles Soerensen is the human who dared to take on the powerful Chapalii empire. When his plot for a revolt failed, instead of being punished he received a high-ranking title and authority over a whole system of planets-but this did nothing to change his revolutionary inclinations. In this final book, the story...
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Joining the acclaimed ranks of Pachinko and A Woman is No Man, a riveting and genre-bending debut of love and survival, set in the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea.
Life near the North Korean border is a zero-sum game, an ongoing battle in which you either win or you lose. This dangerous, shadowed netherworld is home to an unforgettable woman known only as the "trickster."
Inspired by the story of Lee's great aunt, one of the...
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Novels of Jaran volume 2
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English
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Following the events of An Earthly Crown, the jaran conquest of Rhui intensifies as rebel hearts simmer with conflicting loyalties Across Rhui, the jaran have been taking over towns and bending all non-jaran to the law of their rule. With Ilya Bakhtiian in charge, the nomadic fighters are now preparing an assault on the royal city of Karkand. But within the campaign, another struggle looms. Ilya's wife, Tess, is not from Rhui, but from Earth, and...
6) Peking
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This epic novel of a wide-eyed missionary and a rebellious woman thrust into China's Communist revolution is "an excellent read, panoramic in scope" (Financial Times).
In 1931, young English-born missionary Jakob Kellner brings all the crusading passion of his untried Christian faith to a China racked by famine and bloody civil war. He burns to save the world's largest nation from Communism.
But when he is swept along on the cold, unforgiving Long...
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The beloved bestselling author of The Color of Air, Women of the Silk, and The Samurai's Garden returns with this magnificent historical novel based on the life of the luminous, groundbreaking actress Anna May Wong-the first and only Asian American woman to gain movie stardom in the early days of Hollywood.
At the dawn of a new century, America is falling in love with silent movies, including young Wong Liu Tsong. The daughter of Chinese immigrants...
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A guide to four simple and easy-to-adopt daily practices based on the Japanese lifestyle: nourish, move, rest, and socialize.
CREATE A LONG, MEANINGFUL, AND JOYFUL LIFE THE JAPANESE WAY
All you need is one revolutionarily simple concept: Wa
Wa means harmony, a central tenet at the heart of the Japanese belief that to live well is to live in balance. In this book, wellness expert Kaki Okumura shares the practices and psychology behind Wa and the...
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This easy-to-use fengshui 101 provides invaluable advice for choosing or building a home and bringing positive, healthy energy to your existing home, office, or garden. Enhance the energy of your home, workplace, or garden using the principles of the Taoist art of fengshui. This primer will teach you to bring harmonizing, beneficial energy into any space. Taoist arts master Eva Wong introduces listeners to the powerful traditional system of fengshui....
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The second-century Greek physician Galen-the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates-is a central figure in Western medicine. A talented doctor, surgeon, writer, philosopher, teacher, pharmacologist, and inventor, Galen attended the court of Marcus Aurelius, living through outbreaks of plague that devastated the Roman Empire. He also served as a physician for professional gladiators. In writings that provided the foundation of Western medicine...
11) Calling of Light
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Sirscha has returned to Evewyn, only to discover that everyone believes she killed the queen and that she's the new king's Shadow. These rumors have made people fear her, but it's not the rumors that concern her-it's finding out what the Soulless is going to do next so she can finally destroy him. Everyone might believe she's a monster, but Sirscha knows who the real evil is, and she refuses to let him destroy their world. Full of the danger, intrigue,...
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Mermaid tales volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When her class at Trident Academy visits a pod of whales, Kiki Coral must overcome her fears with the help of her friends.
13) Slippage
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Twenty-one works from one of the most brilliant, innovative, and eloquent writers on earth, including the award-nominated novella Mefisto in Onyx. Harlan Ellison celebrates four decades of writing and publishes his seventieth book, this critically acclaimed, wildly imaginative, and outrageously creative collection. The Edgar Award-nominated novella Mefisto in Onyx is the centerpiece, surrounded by screenplays, an introduction by the author, interspersed...
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Freelance writer Sora Reid believes in inertia. She's the odd one out in a family of go-getters, including her Japanese American mom, who hints about losing weight, and her almost-married sister, who needs Sora to get a date for the wedding, otherwise she'll be dancing with her Scottish great-uncle Bob. For
Sora, the phrase "minimal input, minimal expectations" is a way of life.
The one thing that disrupts her inertia: an intense dislike for Valentine's...
15) Kiss Me Tenderly
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Sebastian Black. The broody bad boy. The rockstar God with the most haunting voice I've ever heard. And, starting now, my next-door neighbor.
I never thought I'd bump into my teenage crush on campus, but when it happens, any childish illusions I had about him are erased with a few harsh words. I don't expect to run into him again, but I'm wrong.
He's at Blairwood to stay, and not just that, he wants me.
Sebastian claims he lost his muse,...