Maddie's Millionaire Dreams


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Maddie dreams she is having breakfast by the pool, a tropical breeze ruffling the palm trees as her limo warms up in the garage--until her baby sister's screams wake her up, and she goes downstairs to find her brothers fighting over dry toast. Maddie wants to make her dreams real, and she's missing only one thing: money. When her friend Nicholas suggests a get-rich-quick scheme involving the lottery tickets at his parents' store, Maddie thinks they have a license to print money. But the more tickets they get, the farther behind they fall until they find themselves in real trouble. Maddie's Millionaire Dreams is the story of a group of kids who learn the value of money--the hard way.




Morgan Makes a Deal


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A paper route is a lot more work than Morgan imagined, and when Aldeen tags along, there is double the work and triple the trouble.




Fred's Halloween Adventure


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Fred can't wait for the Halloween parade to start--until he learns he'll be riding inside a huge pumpkin.




The Crime


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Mr. Dimples, I don’t want you to be a gentleman… On the first night of my vacation, I threw my “no more men” out the window without even thinking about it. Fellow New Yorker Jack Stevens doesn’t do relationships. Since I’m fresh out of a six-year bad relationship, it’s perfect. I need to figure out who I am. But Jack wants more. And I don’t just want him. I need him. We soon discover we share more in common than friends. Turns out, our pasts connect us to the same horrific crime. And it quickly comes back to try and take our safety, freedom, and each other away. The Crime is the third novel of the All In Billionaire series. This sizzling novel features a billionaire, love-at-first sight romance and a guaranteed HEA. It can be read as a stand-alone or after the first two books in the series.




Christian and Layla


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Fourteen-year-old Christian Turner starts his new life in the small town of Almanbury. Unhappy with his father's decision to move there from South Coast, Christian's spirits reach a new low. Just when he feels like his life is going up in smoke, he meets Layla Thomas, a bubbly schoolmate, who turns out to be the love of his life. They sweep each other off their feet. It's the type of love that we all want to find; one that will scare us a little. From that day, they are Christian and Layla, Layla and Christian. Inseparable, together forever... until, after years of a perfect relationship, Layla disappears from Christian's life without a goodbye. Devastated, Christian refuses to accept that she left and struggles to move on, wanting to understand why, and hoping she will come home. Beautiful, romantic, funny and sad, this is a story of two people who are destined to be together. But will they?




The Disordered Cosmos


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From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and a call for a more liberatory practice of science. Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology A Finalist for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A Smithsonian Magazine Best Science Book of 2021 A Symmetry Magazine Top 10 Physics Book of 2021 An Entropy Magazine Best Nonfiction Book of 2020-2021 A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 A Booklist Top 10 Sci-Tech Book of the Year In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter—along with a perspective informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek. One of the leading physicists of her generation, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is also one of fewer than one hundred Black American women to earn a PhD from a department of physics. Her vision of the cosmos is vibrant, buoyantly nontraditional, and grounded in Black and queer feminist lineages. Dr. Prescod-Weinstein urges us to recognize how science, like most fields, is rife with racism, misogyny, and other forms of oppression. She lays out a bold new approach to science and society, beginning with the belief that we all have a fundamental right to know and love the night sky. The Disordered Cosmos dreams into existence a world that allows everyone to experience and understand the wonders of the universe.




Children's Book Review Index


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Television Specials


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This is a complete revision of the author's 1993 McFarland book Television Specials that not only updates entries contained within that edition, but adds numerous programs not previously covered, including beauty pageants, parades, awards programs, Broadway and opera adaptations, musicals produced especially for television, holiday specials (e.g., Christmas and New Year's Eve), the early 1936-1947 experimental specials, honors specials. In short, this is a reference work to 5,336 programs--the most complete source for television specials ever published.




Butterman


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- While waiting for Gina, James looked out across the open expanse and up towards a mountain that looked out of place. Then, in a moment of inspiration, a vision of what could be, hit James like a bolt of lightning. VOILA! James’s thought. The “perfect plan” and his next score! Only this was going to be the best of all. As Gina approached, she noticed his intense stare at the mountain. She asked him, “Lover, why so intense?” “Nothing really, just enjoying the view without razor wire,” came his reply




Richard Bean: Plays Five


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The new collection from multi-award-winning playwright Richard Bean. Contains the plays, Great Britain, The Nap, Pub Quiz is Life, Pitcairn and Kiss Me. Foreword by Sir Nicholas Hytner.




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