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1) Mona
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"A young Latin American author, newly successful, escapes her downward spiral of drugs and erotic detours in California only to find a fresh hell at an ultra-hip literary conference in Sweden"--
2) The Mona Lisa vanishes: a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity
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"On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c'est partie! The Mona Lisa, she's gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? Travel back to an extraordinary period...
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Academy Award® winner Julia Roberts heads an all-star cast featuring Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Marcia Gay Harden in MONA LISA SMILE, an uplifting and poignant drama about one woman's desire to enrich the lives of her students. In 1953, a time when women's roles were rigidly defined, novice art history professor Katherine Watson (Roberts) begins teaching at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, which despite its academic...
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"The life cycle of the monarch butterfly begins when it is a tiny egg clinging to a leaf. In time, it goes through a transformation called metamorphosis to become a butterfly, and in the fall, it can migrate almost 100 miles each day. In this book, follow the story of one monarch butterfly and elarn about what it eats, how it grows, and more."--Dust jacket flap.
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Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 15
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English
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Geronimo Stilton and his sister Thea search for a secret map hidden beneath a famous painting and soon uncover some amazing clues.
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Valjeanne Jeffers
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2014
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English
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A Steamfunk Horror Novel.
A serial killer is snuffing out the lives of affluent people of color in Monterrey, North America. Hard-boiled, homicide detectives Curtis Dubois and Harold Lowe are assigned to the case. But when they realize that the killer may not be human, Mona Livelong, a young paranormal detective, is brought in to help solve the case. As Mona races to unravel the clues to save Monterrey, she finds herself caught up in a terrifying
...11) Mona At Sea
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Mona is a Millennial perfectionist who fails upwards in the midst of the 2008 economic crisis. Despite her potential, and her top-of-her-class college degree, Mona finds herself unemployed, living with her parents, and adrift in life and love. Mona's the sort who says exactly the right thing at absolutely the wrong moments, seeing the world through a cynic's eyes. In the financial and social malaise of the early 2000s, Mona walks a knife's edge as...
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Time Castaways volume 1
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Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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English
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When Matt, Ruby, and Corey Hudson discover their subway train is actually a time-traveling eighteenth-century frigate captained by a mysterious pirate, they are thrown into a series of adventures that offer cryptic clues about their past and their future.
13) The Monarchs
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Ravens (Kass Morgan) volume 2
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English
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In this thrilling conclusion to New York Times best-selling authors Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige's The Ravens duology, loyalty, love, and friendships are tested as sorority sisters Scarlett and Vivi must face the forces of hell itself when a rival sorority threatens to wreak havoc on campus. The ultra-exclusive Kappa Rho Nu--the Ravens--are determined to restore balance to the world. After destroying an ancient talisman and barely saving their sorority...
15) The Monastery
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Set in the 16th century when Elizabeth I ruled England, and her cousin, Mary, ruled Scotland, The Monastery depicts the religious tension and restlessness that existed along Scotland's border. While Elizabeth ruled with her Anglican beliefs, Mary was a Catholic, and with much of their culture intermixing, this sowed unrest. While this feud between the Catholic church and the Anglican heretical church rages on, two families, the Glendenning's and the...
16) Mona's Journey
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Mona is a stuffed spider monkey who was made in China and shipped to Costa Rica, packed in a cardboard box along with other stuffed toys. Some of the other stuffed toys in the shipping box talked about a wonderful place to live called San Diego, California, and Mona eventually landed there in the carry-on luggage of Cindy.
In San Diego, Mona gets adopted by Mike and Cindy. Together, the family travels across the United States of America and experiences...
17) Monarch rising
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In a dystopian future seventeen-year-old Josephine Monarch has grown up in the Ashes, the poverty stricken borderlands of New Georgia, but today is the Lineup and if she is chosen she gets a chance to leave that behind--even though it will mean leaving all her loved ones behind, and embracing an uncertain future.
Today is the day Jo Monarch has been wishing on the moon about her entire life. It's the day of the Line Up, when she could be selected...
18) La Mona Maya
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Maya Monkey is unhappy with her long tail until she realizes how truly special it is! Beginning readers will develop a love of reading as they learn that our differences are what make us special. This engaging fiction picture book features grade-appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures and supports early childhood literacy. Ideal for storytime at home or in the classroom, this Spanish book includes vibrant illustrations that support the easy-to-read...
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The biography reveals the thrilling life story of a Canadian actress who went from dancing on Broadway to daring acts of survival in WWII.
Even as a young girl, Mona Louise Parsons stood out for her elegance and theatrical flair. But despite the many roles she's played on the stage, the epic story of her real life always stole the show. After growing up in Nova Scotia, she was a chorus girl in 1920s New York City, a Depression-era nurse, a member...
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Mona is a spider monkey, born (or made) in China and was shipped to Costa Rica. She jumped into Cindy's carry-on luggage in the Costa Rica airport just so she could move to San Diego, California. There, the weather was always nice - so she heard from the other stuffed animals in the gift shop.
One night, Mona looked out her bedroom window and saw a light in the distant trees. Mona needed to see what the light was, but she was not allowed to go to...
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