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The Practice House
Laura McNeal - Little A
Format: Hardcover
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Nineteen-year-old Aldine McKenna is stuck at home with her sister and aunt in a Scottish village in 1929 when two Mormon missionaries ring the doorbell. Aldine's sister converts and moves to America to marry, and Aldine follows, hoping to find the life she's meant to lead and the person... |
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Far Far Away
Tom McNeal - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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A National Book Award FinalistAn Edgar Award FinalistA California Book Award Gold Medal WinnerA dark, contemporary fairy tale in the tradition of Neil Gaiman. Jeremy Johnson Johnson hears voices. Or, specifically, one voice: the ghost of Jacob Grimm, one half of The Brothers Grimm. Jacob... |
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Adrian: Silver Screen to Custom Label
Christian Esquevin
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This book highlights and showcases many of Adrian great costume and fashion designs from the 1920s through the 1950s. Not only are his timeless glamour gowns, period costumes, and amazing show-girl costumes shown from the movies, but also his impeccable suits and beautiful gowns from his private... |
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The California Club
Belinda Jones
Format: Paperback
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When Lara Richards jets off to glamorous California, the last thing she?s expecting is to find her old friend Helen transformed from a clipboard-clasping frump into a shimmering surf goddess. The secret of her blissful new life? The mysterious California Club. So the offer of gues |
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The Decoding of Lana Morris
Laura McNeal - Knopf Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
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Sixteen-year-old Lana Morris wishes her life were different, that she were somewhere else, someone else. Her foster mother wants her gone, she's stuck taking care of the other kids in the house, she longs to become closer to her foster father, and the only cool people around refuse... |
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The Kissing Sailor: The Mystery Behind the Photo That Ended World War II
Lawrence Verria - Naval Institute Press
Format: Hardcover
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On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of Japan's surrender to the United States. Two weeks later LIFE magazine published that image. It became one of the most famous WWII photographs in history (and... |
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Tom Clancy Presents: Act of Valor
Dick Couch - Berkley; Original edition
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The Navy SEALs have been fighting terrorists around the world for more than a decade. And for all that time, the Bandito Platoon from SEAL Team Seven has been on continuous combat rotation. Now they have drawn a shipboard assignment off Central America ― an easy day. But for a Navy... |
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Deep Water
KATHERINE NICHOLS - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover
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Real stories. Real teens. Real crimes. A group of teens traffic drugs between Mexico and California in this start to the brand-new Simon True series.It's 1971 in Coronado, a small southern California beach town. For seventeen-year-old Eddie Otero, a skilled waterman and avid surfer, life... |
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Journaling For Joy: Writing Your Way to Personal Growth and Freedom
Joyce Chapman - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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Journaling for Joy enables you to take a close look at who you are and what you want. In an original approach to journaling, Joyce Chapman guides you to write from your heart and soul with the aim of arriving at joy - the joy that comes from knowing yourself as an intimate friend and living... |
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CHOICES: The True Story of One family's Daring Escape to Freedom
Judy Egett Laufer - Little Egg Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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Very current story in today's world! Russian invades a small country--this time it is Hungary 1956. A family must make some hard choices if they are to survive. It is a story about courage, bravery love and friendships. Kindness and compassion are not lost even in the most difficult... |
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The Incident on the Bridge
Laura McNeal - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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From National Book Award nominee Laura McNeal comes a riveting, tautly-told novel that is at once hopeful and harrowing. Perfect for fans of We Were Liars and Bone Gap. When Thisbe Locke is last seen standing on the edge of the Coronado Bridge, it looks like there is only... |
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Oswald Boelcke: Germany's First Fighter Ace and Father of Air Combat
Rg Head - Grub Street
Format: Print book
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Oswald Boelcke was Germany's first ace in World War One with a total of forty victories. His character, inspirational leadership, organizational genius, development of air-to-air tactics and impact on aerial doctrine are all reasons why Boelcke remains an important figure in the history... |
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Tom Clancy's Op-center : scorched earth
George Galdorisi - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Print book
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In this gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Out of the Ashes, an Islamic extremist is on a quest for vengeance after his only son is killed and it's up to Op-Center to stophis lethal plot. General Bob Underwood -- a special presidential envoy for the Global... |
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Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton: Six Characteristics of High-Performance Teams
Taylor Baldwin Kiland - Naval Institute Press
Format: Print book
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Why were the American POWs imprisoned at the "Hanoi Hilton" so resilient in captivity and so successful in their subsequent careers? This book presents six principles practiced within the POW organizational culture that can be used to develop high-performance teams everywhere.... |
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Coronado
Leslie Hubbard Crawford
Format: Paperback
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During the 1880s, a great land boom was sweeping California. Two visionary entrepreneurs, Elisha Babcock and H. L. Story, imagined Coronado as a resort and brought their dream to reality by luring the wealthy and famous to their exclusive red-roofed hotel on the beach. John D. Spr |
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