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(0)Corey Allen
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"Smug, geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of war in an effort to control the burgeoning population of young males; working-class men dream of burying the elites; and professors propound theories offering students only the bleakest future. Adjustment Day arrives, fearlessly making real the logical conclusion of every separatist, alternative, and conspiracy theory"-- Provided by publisher.
2) Friday black
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"An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny...The wildly talented Adjei-Brenyah has made these edgy tales immensely charming, via his resolute, heartful, immensely likeable narrators, capable of seeing the world as blessed and cursed at once." -- George Saunders "This book is dark and captivating and essential...A call to arms and a condemnation. Adjei-Brenyah offers powerful prose as parable. The writing in this outstanding collection...
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Clinton Library - Middle School 7th Grade SR24
Pepperell - YA Clean Reads
Townsend Children's Award Winning Books
WILBRAHAM Basketball
Pepperell - YA Clean Reads
Townsend Children's Award Winning Books
WILBRAHAM Basketball
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"A bolt of lightning on my kicks ... The court is sizzling. My sweat is drizzling. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," raps basketball phenom Josh Bell. Thanks to his dad, he and his twin brother, Jordan, are kings on the court, with crossovers that make even the toughest ballers cry. But Josh has more than hoops in his blood. He's got a river of rhymes flowing through him - a sick flow that helps him find his rhythm when everything's...
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After a long run of misfortune, betrayal, and broken hearts, the Livingston family and their soul food empire are thriving. Toussaint is the Food Network darling, Malcolm's BBQ Soul Smoker is the toast of QVC, and Bianca's brainchild, TOSTS -- Taste of Soul Tapas Style -- is a sensation on L.A.'s Sunset Strip. Only Jefferson hasn't made his mark -- and he partly blames Toussaint. When he receives an unexpected promotion, Jefferson is ready to show...
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EllRay Jakes series volume 6
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Third-grader EllRay, a "shrimpy, goof-up kid," discovers magic all around him when he and his schoolmates participate in the Oak Glen Primary School talent show and work together on a wedding shower gift for their teacher.
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EllRay Jakes series volume 9
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Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes, the shortest kid in class and still chosen last at recess, hones his basketball skills with Mr. Havens and earns the respect of his third-grade classmates.
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By day, the Duncans are an upstanding family who run a thriving car dealership in Queens. By night, they live a dangerous secret life. L.C. Duncan, patriarch of the family, is at the age when he's starting to think about retirement in sunny Florida. But the recession is taking a bite out of the business and, worrying more, he has to decide which of his children should take over. When his workaholic son Orlando gets the nod, Orlando's siblings--including...
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Warner Home Video
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Jim stark is the new kid in town. He hopes to find the love he doesn't get from his middle class family. Though he finds some of this in his relation with Judy, and a form of it in both Plato's adulation and Ray's concern for him, Jim must still prove himself to his peers.
11) Crown
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Recorded Books
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[2018]
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Celebrates the magnificent feeling that comes from walking out of a barber shop with newly-cut hair.
13) Avalanche
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Kino Lorber Incorporation
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[2014]
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A winter wonderland becomes a nightmare of chaos and destruction, when an avalanche smashes into a ski resort. Now a holiday vacation will become a struggle for survival. David Shelby, the owner of a ski resort who rebuffs warning that his resort is built on dangerous ground, visiting him for the ski lodge's opening are his mother, his estranged ex-wife caroline and hundred of guest and media members.
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2009
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School is back in session and the stakes are high for an ambitious and dedicated student body, determined to make a difference at their prestigious Ivy League law school. Professor Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr. presides over second-year student James T. Hart and a class of driven, intelligent and morally aware students who always seem to rise through the pressures of life and law in the pursuit of truth and justice. The series originally aired on CBS...
