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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Every day we make choices--about food and other purchases, financial investments, our children's health and education, even the causes we champion or the planet itself. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. Using dozens of eye-opening examples and drawing on decades of behavioral science research, Nudge shows how sensible "choice architecture" can help us to overcome the biases that lead to bad decisions and nudge us toward the best decisions for...
2) Velocity
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice...
Author
Series
Amish Charm Bakery volume 6
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After she is courted by newcomer Caleb Yutzy and he reveals that he very much wants children, Rachael Schlabach tells him that that is the one thing she cannot give him, but Caleb assures her that, with a little faith, they may discover a love to last a lifetime.
"In 1915 Ohio, anyone entering the Amish Charm Bakery is greeted by the sweet warmth and delicious fragrance of cinnamon and vanilla wafting from freshly baked cookies and pies. And newcomers...
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Series
Language
English
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Rich Manning had known Jamie Warren forever. And he loved her -strictly as a friend. But all that changed the day Jamie asked him to be the father of her as-yet-unconceived child! Rich agreed on one condition: they marry. Suddenly, Rich was discovering a side of Jamie he'd never seen before, and was swept away by a passion sweeter than anything he'd ever known ... a passion that stunned his senses. But could he prove to the headstrong Mrs. Manning...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Being trapped in a strange town in a freak blizzard is scary enough, but Julie Marlowe went into labor in someone's driveway! Lucky for her, a handsome stranger came to her rescue. Several hours later, Julie was the proud mother of an infant son…and in danger of falling for the sexy vet who delivered her baby! Lukas Garrett didn't know how much he wanted to be a father—or a husband!—until he helped bring Julie's little boy into the world....
8) Split second
Author
Series
Pivot point novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Addie struggles to retrieve her lost memories and makes a startling discovery that challenges everything she's ever known about herself, her family, and her world"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"The Coincidence Makers tells the story of Guy, Emily & Eric, whose job is creating coincidences and initiating various events in other people's lives. The three graduated from a "coincidence creation course" that took place 2 years prior to the events in the book, in which they learned techniques for creating what look like random events which will cause people to change their own lives. Fate is nothing more than a well-executed mission. Coincidence...
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Alguna vez te has sentido abrumado? ¿Sientes que estás al mismo tiempo trabajando más y no estás siendo aprovechado? ¿Estás continuamente ocupado, pero no eres productivo? ¿Sientes como si tu tiempo estuviera constantemente secuestrado por la agenda de otras personas? Si respondiste sí a cualquiera de estas preguntas, la solución es Esencialismo. El Esencialismo es más que una estrategia para administrar tu tiempo o una técnica de...
Author
Series
Vanessa Michael Munroe novels volume 3
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped by a human trafficking ring that demands that she help transport a high-profile starlet or risk the murder of her best friend, maverick information specialist Vanessa Michael Munroe is plunged into a harrowing underground world under the brutal control of a shadowy overlord.
12) Hallelujah
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013] ©2013, ©1929
Language
English
Description
Infused with spirituals, folk songs, blues, and jazz, Hallelujah follows the fortunes of Zeke, a poor cotton farmer. Love, loss, passion, redemption, make this cinematic milestone the first all-black feature from a major studio.
Author
Series
Barefoot William volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Though his family owns the charming beachside town of Barefoot William, Aidan Cates is as down-to-earth as the locals. He's also practical to a fault and doesn't believe some psychic on the boardwalk can predict the future. Jillie Mac is as free as the ocean breeze, so when the hot stranger and his date mistake her for a fortune teller, she's ready to have some fun. But one devastating secret told, one mistaken identity revealed, and numerous long...
15) The prestige
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Two young passionate magicians, Robert Angier, a charismatic showman, and Alfred Borden, a gifted illusionist, are friends and partners until one fateful night when their biggest trick goes terribly wrong. Now the bitterest of enemies, they will stop at nothing to learn each other's secrets. As their rivalry escalates into total obsession full of deceit and sabotage, they risk everything to become the greatest magician of all time. But nothing...
16) Huckleberry Hill
Author
Series
Matchmakers of Huckleberry Hill volume 1
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
With their thirteen children grown, Anna and Felty Helmuth are ready for their next adventure. That means trying their hands at matchmaking -- because what could be more fun than igniting love when it's right -- and undoing mismatches when they're wrong. Now Huckleberry Hill just might turn out to be the most romantic spot in Wisconsin ... Moses knew his grandparents couldn't resist trying to find him a wife. But he never expected it would be the...
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 3
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black-market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, Stone Age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years ... and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its head.
Author
Series
Original heartbreakers volume 1
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Just released from prison, Jase Hollister has one goal: stay out of trouble. Strawberry Valley, Oklahoma, sounds like the perfect place for him and his two brothers-by-circumstance to settle down and live a nice, simple life. But model citizen isn't exactly this rugged bachelor's default setting -- especially when it comes to a certain hot-blooded Southern beauty ... Brook Lynn Dillon has always been responsible. Not that it's done her much good....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Willow is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, her parents are devastated—she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. In this provocative story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, “Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance” (Stephen King). Every expectant parent will tell you that they don’t want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O’Keefe would have asked for a healthy...
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