Andrés Pabon
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Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short.
2) Race day
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Young readers are invited along on an automobile race, where they can see what it is like to race, take pit stops, and zoom around other cars.
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"What happened to Amanda Holmes? Twenty years ago, she was found bludgeoned in a rowboat at the MacAllister family's Camp Macaw. No one was ever charged with the crime. Now, after their parents' sudden deaths, the MacAllister siblings return to camp to read the will and decide what to do with the prime real estate the camp occupies. Ryan needs to sell. Margaux hasn't made up her mind. Mary believes in leaving well enough alone. Kate and Liddie--the...
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Six years after he was lost at sea, James emerges from a dissociative fugue state to find he's a widower with two sons. His fiancée, believing him dead, has married and has a family. James is raising his sons with the help of his sister-in-law, Natalya Hayes as he tries to unravel the mystery of his fractured identity. Meanwhile his brother Phil, in prison for money laundering, is scheduled to be released, and is determined to silence James, who...
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Henry, Jessie, Violet, y Benny Alden acaban de darse cuenta que tienen una Tía Jane que no le ha hablado a su abuelo en años. Los niños están pasando el verano en el oeste en un rancho de Tia Jane. En camino las niñas ven a un "hombre misterioso." ¿Podra él reveler un des cubremiento asombroso del rancho que hara todo cambiar?
8) I'm new here
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Walk in the shoes of three elementary-school-aged immigrants as they learn how to balance becoming American with being Guatemalan, Korean, and Somalian as well!
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"Retirement planning was simple and predictable forty years ago. All you needed was your company pension, personal savings, and Social Security. Those days are long gone. Most public pensions are underfunded, and private companies can't get rid of them fast enough. Social Security's own trustees predict it will run out of money in less than twenty years. And most people haven't saved even a fraction of what they should. Retiring comfortably today...
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As a young veterinarian and decathlon athlete, Dr. Ian Gawler had his right leg amputated as a result of bone cancer in 1975. The cancer returned later that year. Against almost impossible odds, he recovered and in 1981 went on to found one of the world's first lifestyle-based cancer self-help and support programs. Originally published in 1984, You Can Conquer Cancer is a revolutionary book that has sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide and...