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81) Body of evidence
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Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner and sleuth Dr. Kay Scarpetta must employ all the investigative technology at her disposal in a hunt for the brutal murderer of a writer who had been involved in a bizarre relationship.
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Gabriel Allon volume 4
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Hero Gabriel Allon is a restorer of paintings and frescoes and also a reluctant member of Israeli intelligence. Action and suspense abound in this serious fiction with a serious purpose.
Sent to Vienna to authenticate a painting, art restorer and occasional spy Gabriel Allon sets out to uncover the truth about a photograph of an unnamed man who had brutalized his mother during the final days of World War II.
84) To bathe a boa
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[1986]
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At bathtime a youngster has to struggle to get his recalcitrant pet boa into the tub.
85) Skeleton man
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Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn Mystery volume 18
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 17
Jim Chee/Joe Leaphorn Mystery volume 17
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 17
Jim Chee/Joe Leaphorn Mystery volume 17
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[2004]
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Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to help investigate what seems to be a trading post robbery. A simple-minded kid nailed for the crime is the cousin of an old colleague of Sergeant Jim Chee. He needs help and Chee, and his fiancee Bernie Manuelito, decide to provide it. Proving the kid's innocence requires finding the remains of one of 172 people whose bodies were scattered among the cliffs of the Grand...
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Earth's children volume 4
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Ayla and Jondalar journey across Ice Age Europe, impressing the primitive tribes--she with her ability to communicate with animals, and he with his mastery of the tools of war.
87) Reilly's luck
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When Val Darrant's friend and mentor Will Reilly is gunned down outside a fancy Colorado hotel, Val will need all his gambler's luck to find revenge.
88) Lyddie
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Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
89) Three women
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"Desire as we've never seen it before: a riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of reporting. It thrills us and torments us. It controls our thoughts, destroys our lives, and it's all we live for. Yet we almost never speak of it. And as a buried force in our lives, desire remains largely unexplored--until now. Over the past eight years, journalist Lisa Taddeo has driven across the country six...
90) Jessica
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Ruthie does everything with her imaginary friend Jessica; and then on her first day at kindergarten, she meets a real new friend with the same name.
91) Words of stone
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Busy trying to deal with his many fears and his troubled feelings for his dead mother, ten-year-old Blaze has his life changed when he meets the boisterous and irresistible Joselle.
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When ten-year-old Dinah and her two siblings are trapped by a terrible storm, cousin Gage keeps up their spirits with an unlikely fantasy. A tale of a newly hatched, orphaned skibberee, or tooth fairy, called What-the-Dickens, who hopes to find a home among the skibberee tribe, if only he can stay out of trouble. Dinah is skeptical at first, but stories told by candlelight on stormy nights have a way of becoming real, and Dinah begins to believe.
94) Summer sisters
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In the summer of 1977, Victoria Leonard's world changed forever -- when Caitlin Somers chose her as a friend. Dazzling, reckless Caitlin welcomed Vix into the heart of her sprawling, eccentric family, opening doors to a world of unimaginable privilege, sweeping her away to vacations on Martha's Vineyard, a magical, wind-blown island where two friends became summer sisters..... Now, years later, Vix is working in New York City. Caitlin is getting...
95) The welcoming
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Charity Ford knew Roman DeWinter was different. His gaze smoldered with angry passion, arousing a dangerous fascination. His mere presence made her most forbidden desires come alive. Still, Charity knew so little about him, and it put her on edge. Was this stranger a threat to her happiness ... or the man she'd been waiting a lifetime for?
FBI agent Roman DeWinter came to the seaside inn with only the clothes on his back and a loaded .38 revolver....
96) My alien parents
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"He was staring at me as if he had never seen me before. Mom and Dad began whispering to each other. I excused myself and ran up the stairs to my room. My brain cells were whirring with all sorts of crazy thoughts. I didn't know what was going on. But I knew one thing for sure. Those two people downstairs were NOT my parents."
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In this groundbreaking book, Taraborrelli draws complex and sympathetic portraits of the women so influential in the actress' life, including her mother, her foster mother, and her legal guardian. He also reveals, for the first time, the shocking scope of Marilyn's own mental illness, the identity of Marilyn's father and the half-brother she never knew, and new information about her relationship with the Kennedys-Bobby, Jack, and Pat Kennedy Lawford....
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Kids of the Polk Street School volume 13
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Dell Publishing Co., Inc
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[1987]
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English