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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 9
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Merlin is weighed down by sorrows, Jack and Annie travel back to feudal Japan to learn one of the four secrets of happiness.
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Language
English
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"The Bayou is a unique place to live and it provides a grit and passion to any who hail from it, including Cain Lemaire, an ex-Secret Service agent from New Orleans. Cain had the dream job he had always wanted, protecting the President, until a single night resulted in a scandal that lost him his post. Needing a new direction for his life and with help from his sister who works in Japan, Cain takes a job in Tokyo as head of security detail for a very...
Author
Series
Keeper of Night volume 1
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Ren Scarborough has been collecting souls in the London streets for centuries...When her failure to control her Shinigami abilities drives Ren out of London, she flees to Japan to seek the acceptance she's never gotten from her fellow Reapers. Accompanied by her younger brother, the only being on earth to care for her, Ren enters the Japanese underworld to serve the Goddess of Death, only to learn that here, too, she must prove herself worthy"--
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English
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"From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance-and the unexpected ally that will change everything-in post-World War II Japan. Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with...
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Series
Stepping on roses volume 2
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Sumi Kitamura's finanacial probelms become dire, wealthy Soichiro Ashida enters her life with a bizarre proposition: he'll provide her with the money she so desperatly needs is she agrees to marry him. But is it worth giving up everything for this sham of a marriage? Sumi becomes torn when Soichiro's childhood friend Nozumu expresses romantic interest in her. While she is drawn to Nozumu, she is committed to Soichiro as his wife. As Sumi fights...