Michelle Lee
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Bert Jovin is an amateur motocross racer. Learn what it takes to be successful in this high-intensity sport and practice using rational numbers on the ride. Packed with factual information and high-interest content, this adrenaline-boosting book uses real-world examples of problem solving to build students' math and reading skills. Let's Explore Math sidebars feature math questions that challenge students to develop their math skills. A problem-solving...
2) The Clinic
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What do a cardiologist and a dominatrix have in common?
They're both intelligent and powerful women. They both rely on experience and intuition to uncover root causes. And they both aim to heal (or heel, as the case may be).
At least, that's how it works in The Clinic.
The Clinic follows Faith Wells, M.D.'s climb from a struggled childhood to a Top Doc in the Philadelphia region. Now she's giving back by opening a free clinic that specializes...
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What do cocaine and baby formula have in common? They're both white, powdery substances. They both require careful production and packaging. And, they both can be transported in diaper bags to their consumers. At least, that's how it works in The Playground.
The Playground follows Anna Reed, a loving wife, textbook mother of three, and local business owner in a quaint Philadelphia suburb. Anna finds herself diving over a moral line that ultimately...
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Bert Jovin is an amateur motocross racer. Learn what it takes to be successful in this high-intensity sport and practice using rational numbers on the ride. Packed with factual information and high-interest content, this adrenaline-boosting book uses real-world examples of problem solving to build students' math and reading skills. Let's Explore Math sidebars feature math questions that challenge students to develop their math skills. A problem-solving...
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Alice Jones's mother died in a boating accident. Well, that's what everyone says. Alice doesn't believe them-her mother's body was never recovered off the coast of Aviles Island, and Alice has always thought she might still be out there somewhere. Then Alice discovers that the residents of Aviles know how to communicate with loved ones who have died. If Alice can go there and try to contact her mother, she might have all the answers she needs. For...
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With the hieral menace Ripple now safe and the school in a reconstruction phase, Inglis-former hero-king and current talk of the town-is summoned by the king himself to the palace, where she's offered a promotion to captain of the Royal Guard!
This leap up the ranks is as unconventional as it would be desirable to almost anyone else, but Inglis turns it down as a matter of course, preferring to someday fight on the front lines. This means turning...
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Some days are easy! The sky is sunny, and it feels like the whole world is your oyster. Everything goes according to plan, and we know what to expect. Other days are tough! There might be raindrops or skinned knees. Things don't go our way and we feel overwhelmed. But that is the up-and-down rollercoaster ride we call life. And everyone experiences it. The most important thing to remember is "No matter your day, tomorrow's brand new!" Lyrical text...
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The all-new official guide to the Body-for-LIFE Challenge, a 12-week journey of personal transformation that has changed the lives of millions. People discover in just 12 weeks-by working out less than 4 hours a week and eating small, balanced meals-that they have the power to change their bodies, their minds, their lives. Body-for-LIFE may begin with 12 weeks, but it lasts a lifetime. Champions Body-for-LIFE is based on the original proven principles...
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Why are so many people unhappy at work, if they choose the work they do? After teaching as a professor at the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Ivey Business School in Canada, Bryan Hong shares his observations based on hundreds of conversations with his students before and after graduation.
Although many don't realize it, unhappiness at work is a consequence of the way...
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Prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-Jin's debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary gaze of a tradition-bound mother faced with her daughter's queer relationship.When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move into her apartment, all she wants for her is a stable and quiet existence like her own. Ideally, a steady income and, most importantly, a good husband with...
11) The red palace
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Feiwel and Friends
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2022.
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While investigating a series of grisly murders, eighteen-year-old palace nurse Hyeon navigates royal and political intrigue and becomes entangled with a young police inspector. Includes author's note.
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While the Harry Potter series may follow the journey of the Boy Who Lived, if you want to know the whole story, keep your eyes fixed on Severus Snape. This greasy-haired, grumpy genius, one of J. K. Rowling's most enduring gifts to English literature, is the archetypal ill-tempered teacher: demanding, acerbic, and impossible to ignore. Over the span of seven novels, Snape's remarkable role in the series can be hard to parse: Where do his true allegiances...
13) Upcountry
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Claire Pedersen and her husband are relocating from NYC to the Catskills-they have found a terrific deal on a property in foreclosure. The house has been in April Ives's family for three generations, but the single mother of three children from two different fathers needs the money. Claire and April are instantly antagonistic, but the sale proceeds, and renovations begin. Soon after, Claire's husband develops an erotic fascination with Anna, a young...
14) The Box: A Novel
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In a dark and crooked lane in an unnamed city where it never ceases to snow, a small white box falls from a coat pocket. It is made of paper strips woven tightly together; there is no apparent way to open it without destroying it. What compels a passing witness, a self-described anthrophobe not inclined to engage with other people, to pick up the box and chase after the stranger who dropped it?
The Box follows an impenetrable rectangle as it changes...
15) Check Point
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When a sleeper cell terrorist plot is discovered in a small town, a team of unlikely heroes must rise up to fight the enemy and protect their country.