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Our Principal's Wacky Wishes!

A unique principal named Mr. Bundy runs PS 88 in this silly, fun-to-read Aladdin QUIX chapter book that's perfect for emerging readers!Acclaimed author Stephanie Calmenson turns fairy tales on their ears with silly adventures featuring Principal Bundy. In this Mr. Bundy (mis)adventure, Mr. Bundy makes a wish that goes terribly awry! Will he be able to un-wish his wacky wish?
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Doppelgangbanger

Dopplegangbanger, rendered as the A- and B-sides of an album of poems, re-imagines and remixes American politics of the 90s, the Obama era, and today via a hip-hop blerd's investigation of a hi/lo culture of American crime.
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Quarterback Leap

My teacher is hot AF, and unlike anyone else I’ve met, she cares. She’s sent me to detention more times than I’d like to count, but it only makes me want her more. Yeah, she’s my teacher. Yeah, there’s an age gap. Yeah, she thinks I’m nothing but a bully. She’s right on two of three. And that bully thing? Well, I might just have to bully her into being mine. But I’ll make sure she never regrets it.
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Hurdy Gurdy

I pledge on the jeopardy of my immortal soul. I saw it all, with my young eyes. From start to end.And may Lucifer, and his infernal demons, fry my liver for break-fast if a word of this sorry history turns out to be a lie.It is the year of our Lord 1349 and it is the season of the Plague. Novice friar Brother Diggory, now sixteen, has lived in the Monastery of the Order of St Odo at Whye since his eighth birthday. But his life is about to change. The sickness is creeping ever closer and the monks must attend to the victims. When Brother Diggory is nominated to tend to those afflicted, he realises he is about to meet the Plague, and that it is more powerful than him. What he doesn't realise is that encountering an illness and understanding it are two quite different things.An uproarious and uplifting novel about sickness and health, the fashions of 14th Century medicine, and how perhaps we're never quite as cutting-edge as we might...
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The Lonely Wife

A powerful story about a woman's struggle to claim what is rightfully hers, from the Sunday Times bestselling author Val Wood.1850: Beatrix Fawcett is just eighteen when her father tells her she is to marry a stranger. Hesitantly, but with little choice, she agrees to the match - in the hope of a good husband in Charles, and a happy new life together in rural Yorkshire.As Beatrix sets about making their house a home, she falls in love with it and the surrounding countryside. But she does not fall in love with her husband... Charles has chosen her simply to meet the requirements of his inheritance and has little interest in his young wife.Soon, the only spark in Beatrix's lonely life is her beloved children. But when Charles threatens to take them away from her, Beatrix must find strength in desperate times. Can she fight against her circumstances and keep what is rightfully hers?
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Happy Ever After

When you've spent your life trying to be perfect, how easy is it to let go?Marion Markshop is the undisputed queen of Penmenna and has the perfect life – ask anyone. Doting husband? Hmm, maybe not... Well-behaved, angelic children? Definitely not. A network of close, supportive friends? Not so much, it turns out.Marion sets out to change her autocratic ways by starting up a wedding planning enterprise in the village. But between her husband's suspicious absences, her PTA frenemies and her own perfectionist tendencies, organising the dream wedding for her friend isn't going smoothly and she's running out of time to pull it off...In this final book in the Cornish Village School series, the village comes together one last time to make sure everyone gets their happy ever after.A second-chance romance perfect for fans of Tilly Tennant and Cathy Bramley.
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Last Girls

Demetra Brodsky's Last Girls is a twisting, suspenseful YA thriller about sisterhood, survival, and family secrets set in the world of doomsday preppingNo one knows how the world will end.On a secret compound in the Washington wilderness, Honey Juniper and her sisters are training to hunt, homestead, and protect their own. Prepare for every situation.But when danger strikes from within, putting her sisters at risk, training becomes real life, and only one thing is certain: Nowhere is safe.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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