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2015.
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English
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"In the spirit of The Bartender's Tale, a lively and poignant coming-of-age story about a boy and his great-uncle on a cross-country odyssey. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she...
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Mitch Peabody was learning pretty fast that the life of a private detective was nothing like the movies. He'd envisioned a world of tough-talking detectives and smart-mouthed, stunning dames. Instead he saw case after case of cheating husbands, suspicious wives and unsuspecting mistresses, until she walked through the door. Right down to her stilettos, Mae Sullivan was a knockout with a lethal body, and a lethal family to go with it. There was something...
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"1987. The only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus is her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June's world is turned upside down. But Finn's death brings a surprise acquaintance into...
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Having spent a formative summer in Ansel-by-the-Sea, Maine, as an adolescent, Annie Bliss returns to the sleepy harbor town after more than a decade and finds herself face to face with more than just a mystery. Her great-uncle Bob, now in a medically induced coma, has left her a series of clues that tell a deeper story of three generations in her family history and their connection to the strange ruins on the island. But if Annie hopes to find any...
7) The pursuit
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Sherring Cross series volume 3
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English
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey's wonderfully delightful sequel to Say You Love Me.
What was to be a grand adventure for Melissa MacGregor—an escape from the wilds of her Scottish home into the whirl of the London social scene—seems to pale before the promise in the passionate gaze of Lincoln Ross Burnett. Though they exchange but a few words before parting after a chance encounter on her grandfather's lands,
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Poisons of Caux volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Eleven-year-old Ivy Manx sets out with her new friend, a young "taster, " to find her missing uncle, an outlawed healer, in the dangerous kingdom of Caux where magic, herbs, and poisons rule.
10) The dead student
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English
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Timothy Warner, a PhD student who goes by the nickname "Moth, " wakes up on his ninety-ninth day of sobriety with an intense craving for drink. He asks his uncle Ed, a former alcoholic and now successful psychiatrist, to meet him at an AA meeting later that day. When Ed doesn't show up, Moth bikes to his office and discovers a grisly scene -- his uncle lying in a pool of blood, shot through the temple. The police pronounce the death a suicide, but...
11) Ahoy, Uncle Roy!
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Golden Books
Pub. Date
2001.
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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Although it makes his parents a little uneasy, Walter's favorite person is his Uncle Roy, a pirate.
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Tambourine Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
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First edition.
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29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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After many Saturday outings at the expense of Great Uncle Max, Amanda takes him for a surprise treat to what she calls the palace of stars.
13) Zero's slider
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1994]
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First edition.
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63 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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While trying to ask Uncle Pete to coach for the Peach Street Mudders, Zero discovers that he can throw a slider when there's a big bandage on his injured thumb.
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Laura Geringer Book
Pub. Date
[1998]
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First edition.
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29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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As a young girl waits for her six uncles to arrive for Thanksgiving, she asks her mother to describe life with these brothers on past Thanksgivings.
17) About that man
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Trinity Harbor volume 1
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English
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Daisy Spencer's name is on everybody's lips...
How could the sensible daughter of Trinity Harbor's self-proclaimed patriarch have taken in the boy caught hot-wiring her car? Whether the boy is a modern-day Huck Finn or not, Trinity Harbor is in an uproar. But for Daisy, guiding the orphaned ten-year-old is easy, an escape from her own tragic past. She can ignore the town's nay-saying. The only real obstacle is...that man.
That...
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Poisons of Caux volume 3
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English
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With an army of scarecrows, a legion of birds, and her friends and uncle by her side, it is up to Ivy Manx to wage war against the evil Vidal Verjouce and the Tasters Guild, defeat her own father, and restore order to the plant world.
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