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Friend or Fiend? with the Pain and the Great One

What's the difference between a friend and a fiend?Jake is so embarrassed by a reading circle blunder, he vows never to speak in class again. Abigail believes she can no longer trust one of her best friends. Their teenage cousins have turned into fiends. And on the perfect snow day, who jumps on Jake and washes his face in snow? And who rescues him?From the Hardcover edition.
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Grace on the Court

Grace Parker needs to figure out how to handle the 3Bs: boys, boy bands and ball sports.Things were simple for netball nerd Grace Parker at primary school. She was captain of her school team – and with best friends Stella and Mia won the grand final. Back then, her biggest problem was persuading her parents to buy her tickets to see Friday at Five, the world's hottest boy band. But high school's a whole new story. Grace's greatest rival on the court, Amber Burns, just made the same netball team as her. Her twin brother, Gus, is devastated he didn't make the A-grade AFL side. Her older brother, Tyler, is ignoring her. And as if that wasn't enough for a 13-year-old girl to handle, dreamy aspiring rockstar Sebastian King is suddenly paying her a lot of attention ...Maddy Proud is a professional netballer currently playing for the NSW Swifts. Previously she played for the Adelaide Thunderbirds, who signed her at 16, making her the youngest player ever...
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Outbreak: The Zombie Chronicles

Product DescriptionIt was the start of another ordinary day at the office for Max, he was emailing a friend when one of his other early morning co-workers called for his help, someone was having a heart attack. Rushing to the aid of his fallen co-worker Max knew one thing, it wasn't a heart attack. Heart attack victims didn't bleed and didn't start chewing on anyone they could catch either. Once the victims died they came back to life with only one goal; to consume the living. Now Max was stuck in a rapidly deteriorating situation thirty miles from home, where his wife and two kids were sleeping away the warm mid summer morning. He had to get back to his family and get them to a safe place, if he could find one. Forming a group made up of his coworkers Steve and Tom and a police officer called 'Stewart' they make their way into the city to save the ones they love. The newly returned, however, were not all mindless shamblers and some of them had a plan... This is a revised edition (2.2) uploaded on March 26th, 2011 and incorporates many spelling and grammar fixes send in from fans. Thanks for the feedback!
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Dr Velascos' Unexpected Baby

EDITORIAL REVIEW: World-class surgeon Gabriel Velascos had never planned on returning home, but his orphaned baby niece needed him. Looking after tiny Ana Maria may prove to be this top-notch surgeon's greatest challenge yet! Dr. Arabella Burke came to Peru to establish a much-needed medical center. However, her instant attraction to Gabriel is a distraction she doesn't want or need! But the sight of the powerful surgeon cradling this tiny baby slowly melts her resolve. Here in this fiery Latin landscape, might she have finally found the family of her dreams...?
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The original of Laura

When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But Nabokov’s wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband’s last work, and when she died, the fate of the manuscript fell to her son. Dmitri Nabokov, now seventy-five--the Russian novelist’s only surviving heir, and translator of many of his books--has wrestled for three decades with the decision of whether to honor his father’s wish or preserve for posterity the last piece of writing of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His decision finally to allow publication of the fragmented narrative--dark yet playful, preoccupied with mortality--affords us one last experience of Nabokov’s magnificent creativity, the quintessence of his unparalleled body of work.
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Honorable Doctor, Improper Arrangement

Dr. Simon Redfern has risked his heart--and his reputation--over a woman once before. So when he meets Kate Meredith, who is helping a ragged child, he's shocked to find himself longing to make the warm-hearted young widow his wife.Despite family disapproval, Kate volunteers to work at Simon's children's home, and her growing feelings for him throw her into confusion. For, longing to have children of her own, she has accepted a viscount's proposal. But Simon is the only man she can now contemplate as their father.
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The Kind of Friends We Used to Be

Kate and Marylin are best friends forever.... Well, except for last year when they weren't friends anymore.... And except for this year when they both want to be friends again, but just don't know how. But the thing is, even as they are trying to fix their broken friendship, they are becoming more and more unalike. And that's becoming harder and harder to deal with. Well, it would be a lot easier if Kate would just take some of Marylin's fashion advice. Ballet flats would look so much better than those big black combat boots. Feminine. But Kate doesn't want to be feminine. She wants to learn guitar and write her own songs; she wants to be the exact opposite of the middle-school cheerleaders. And maybe if Marylin would just stick up for herself and not get bullied by Mazie (the Meanest Cheerleader Ever) into judging anyone who's the least bit different, Marylin and Kate could be real friends again. Funny, realistic, and incredibly insightful, Edgar Award-winning novelist Frances O'Roark Dowell explores the shifting terrain of middle-school friendship in the companion book to the well-loved The Secret Language of Girls.
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A Man of His Word

AN HONORABLE MAN Reece Henderson knew that the two most sacred things in life--the truth and a man's marriage vows--were also the hardest to stick to. So he'd sworn to uphold the former and avoid the latter. Then beautiful Sydney Scott's return tested his promise. Ten years ago, Sydney had left in disgrace. Now she was back, determined to do the job she'd been hired to do and move on. But she hadn't counted on Reece Henderson. He got her thinking that maybe, with the right man by her side, she could go home again .... MEN OF THE BAR H: Though most of the Henderson brothers have roamed, all of them know... there's no place like home!
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