LLC Findaway World
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"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland....
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Llama Llama volume 1
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At bedtime, a little llama worries after his mother puts him to bed and goes downstairs.
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New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Ideas, behavior, messages, and products, he argues, often spread like outbreaks of infectious disease. These are social epidemics, and the moment when they take off, when they reach their critical mass, is the Tipping Point. Gladwell develops these and other concepts (such as the "stickiness" of ideas or the effect of population...
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David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His...
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David Pelzer trilogy volume 2
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As a young boy the author was physically, emotionally, and psychologically abused by his mother. The book picks up his story as young Pelzer struggles with his ability to fit in and adapt to the new environment around him as he is put into foster care. He also recounts the kindness of his foster parents and other people around him, as well as his inability to brush his mother aside.
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Pig the pug volume 6
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Pig isn't just the world's greediest pug, he's the dirtiest, too. It's time he had a bath!
10) Raven's gate
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When Matt Freeman gets into trouble with the police, he's sent to be fostered in Yorkshire. It's not long before he senses there's something wrong with his guardian, and the entire village. Then Matt learns about the Old Ones and begins to understand just how he is different. But no one will believe him, and no one can help.
12) Crisis
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Shocked and humiliated by a medical malpractice lawsuit, physician Craig Bowman receives help from his estranged brother-in-law, medical examiner Jack Stapleton, who discovers trouble after exhuming the body of Craig's alleged victim.
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 10
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Young bride Elizabeth Bergstrom Nelson sets off with her husband, Henry, from her family home of Elm Creek Manor in Pennsylvania to start a new life in the unfamiliar terrain of southern California. Expecting to assume ownership of Triumph Ranch, the couple instead learns that their deed is a fake, and that they must work for the rightful proprietors to earn their keep. Resourceful Elizabeth trades her trousseau&;including the fine quilts stitched...
14) The pinballs
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Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and each other.
15) Homecoming
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Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity. It's still true. That's the first thing James Tillerman says to his sister Dicey every morning. It's still true that their mother has abandoned the four Tillerman children somewhere in the middle of Connecticut. It's still true they have to find their way, somehow, to Great-aunt Cilla's house in Bridgeport, which may be their only hope of staying together as a family....
16) Moving day
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"When nine-year-old Allie Finkle's parents announce that the family is moving, Allie's sure her life is over. She has to move to a scary new house, change schools, and leave her precious geode collection behind. With a room she's half scared to go into, the burden of being "the new girl," and her old friends a half hour away, how will Allie ever learn to fit in?"--P. [4] cover.
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The six horrible Herdman children create mayhem during Halloween. Annotation. The Herdmans plus Halloween have always spelled disaster. Every year these six kids -- the worst in the history of Woodrow Wilson School, and possibly even the world -- wreak havoc on the whole town. They steal candy, spray-paint kids, and take anything that's not nailed down. Now the mayor has had it. He's decided to cancel Halloween. There won't be any Herdmans to contend...
18) Ark angel
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"After a chance encounter with the son of multi-billionaire Nikolei Drevin, Alex Rider finds himself in the middle of an international crime hunt. The connection - Ark Angel, a revolutionary space hotel with catastrophic potential."--Back cover.