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Double the stickers, double the fun! Based on the award-winning animated series Bluey, as seen on Disney+Let's take this to the max! This sticker and activity book bind-up, including Bluey and Friends: A Sticker and Activity Book, and Meet Bluey! Sticker and Activity Book, has all the puzzles, games, and mazes that Bluey fans will want to play over and over again!

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Follow Penelope the pug in the second book of this delightful series set in Regency-era London!

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A four-book box set? Wackadoo! For fans of the wildly successful animated series Bluey, as seen on Disney+Let’s bush bash! Go to the creek, walk along the beach, and have a fun camping trip with Bluey and Bingo! This four-book box set is perfect for having adventures at the great outdoors.This box set includes the 8x8 storybooks Camping, The Pool, The Creek, and The Beach.

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Pencilmate draws the line in this new chapter book. Based on the hit YouTube series Pencilmation!It's time to strike back against The Pencil in the sky! Pencilmate gathers all of his friends, Pencilmiss, Granny, and Mini Big Guy to help him find The Pencil's greatest weakness. After several sketchy moments that The Pencil draws around them, they eventually fall off the page and into a strange, new world. Our world. Who will win? Pencilmate or The Pencil? You're going to have to read and find out!

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A compelling and growing body of research has shown music and arts therapies to be effective tools for addressing a widening array of conditions, from providing pain relief, to enhancing speech recovery after stroke or traumatic brain injury through singing, to improving mobility of individuals with Parkinson''s disease using rhythm. In Music and Mind Renee Fleming draws upon her own experience as an advocate to showcase the breadth of this booming field, inviting leading experts to share their discoveries. In addition to describing therapeutic benefits, the book explores evolution, brain function, childhood development, and technology as applied to arts and health. Much of this area of study is relatively new, made possible by recent advances in brain imaging, supported by the National Institutes of Health, major hospitals, and universities. This work is sparking an explosion of public interest in the arts and health sector. Fleming comes to the project having presented on this materi

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Oxford student Jillian Leigh works day and night to keep up with her studies-so to leave at the beginning of the term is next to impossible. But after her uncle Toby, a renowned ghost hunter, is killed in a fall off a cliff, she must drive to the seaside village of Rothewell to pack up his belongings. Almost immediately, unsettling incidents-a book left in a cold stove, a gate swinging open on its own-escalate into terrifying events that convince Jillian an angry spirit is trying to enter the house. Is it Walking John, the two-hundred-year-old ghost who haunts Blood Moon Bay? And who beside the ghost is roaming the local woods at night? If Toby uncovered something sinister, was his death no accident? The arrival of handsome Scotland Yard inspector Drew Merriken, a former RAF pilot with mysteries of his own, leaves Jillian with more questions than answers-and with the added complication of a powerful, mutual attraction. Even as she suspects someone will do anything to hide the truth, sh

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It''s been a year since Simi Chopra''s motley crew pulled off a high-wire diamond necklace heist with the help of sexy rogue Jack Danger. After living it up on the reward money, they''re back where they started, struggling to pay their bills. So when a Chicago Mafia boss demands they return the jewels - plus interest, or else - they need to get the team back together...and fast. Unfortunately, Simi soon discovers that the necklace is in the hands of Jack''s nemesis, a highly-skilled and supremely vengeful master thief who is not above a little blackmail to get even. (Did Jack really have to piss her off?) Now, the crew is forced into her working her con in order to get the necklace back. As if Simi needed any more complications while trying to rob a billionaire''s mansion, she and Jack are on the rocks, someone else is after her score, and a gorgeous detective is hot on her tail. Simi better be careful or she''ll end up in the less fun kind of handcuffs.

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Daphne Brink doesn''t follow baseball, but watching ''America''s Snoozefest'' certainly beats sitting at home in the days after she signs her divorce papers. After one too many ballpark beers, she heckles Carolina Battery player Chris Kepler, who quickly proves there mightactuallybe a little crying in baseball. Horrified, Daphne reaches out to Chris on social media to apologize... but forgets to identify herself as his heckler in her message. Chris doesn''t usually respond to random fans on social media, but he''s grieving and fragile after an emotionally turbulent few months. When a DM from ''Duckie'' catches his eye, he impulsively messages back. Duckie is sweet, funny, and seems to understand him in a way no one else does. Daphne isn''t sure how much longer she can keep lying to Chris, especially as she starts working with the team in real life andtheir feelings for each other deepen. When he finds out the truth, will it be three strikes, she''s out?

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Hallie Barrett''s life has imploded after she''s dumped by her hotshot ex, who also happens to be her coworker and the star of the online series she was producing. Without a new show to present for the company competition, she''ll be out of a job. But inspiration can come from the strangest places like the most handsome guy she''s ever seen passionately discussing Bigfoot on a late-night docuseries. Hayden Hargrove made a name for himself as a cryptid expert on his hit podcast, and is intrigued by the plucky, blue-haired producer who offers him the opportunity to lead his own web show. When the production team sees that Hayden''s solo on-screen presence is bad enough to make a ghost blanch, Hallie jumps on camera too, hitting him (and his cryptids) with a healthy dose of skepticism - and enough chemistry to electrify their show to the top of the competition. As Hayden and Hallie investigate the unknown, they unearth feelings for each other that shake their beliefs to the core. In their

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Everyone hopes for a letter - to attend the Estuary, the Glades, the Meadows. These are the special places where only the best and brightest go to burn even brighter. When Eleanor is accepted at the Meadows, it means escape from her hardscrabble life by the sea, in a country ravaged by climate disaster. But despite its luminous facilities, endless fields, and pretty things, the Meadows keeps dark secrets: its purpose is to reform students, to condition them against their attractions, to show them that one way of life is the only way to survive. And maybe Eleanor would believe them, except then she meets Rose. Four years later, Eleanor and her friends seem free of the Meadows, changed but not as they’d hoped. Eleanor is an adjudicator, her job to ensure her former classmates don’t stray from the lives they’ve been trained to live. But Eleanor can’t escape her past . . . or thoughts of the girl she once loved. As secrets unfurl, Eleanor must wage a dangerous battle for her own identity and the truth of what happened to the girl she lost, knowing, if she’s not careful, Rose’s fate could be her own. A raw and timely masterwork of speculative fiction, The Meadows will sink its roots into you. This is a novel for our times and for always - not to be missed.

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Tricia Miles is ready to close the book on all her amateur sluething - she''s tired of finding dead bodies and being accused of murder. But even the best laid plans often go awry. Stoneham is all abuzz when Lauren Barker, a famous children''s book author, arrives for an event at the local library. Lauren is a Stoneham native, and her new book strikes some members of the town as controversial. But when Lauren is found dead from a bullet to the head after an altercation at the event, the plot twist throws Tricia right back into the middle of things. Who could possibly have wanted Lauren dead? Was it Dan Reed, who had to be thrown out of the signing for spouting conspiracy theories and causing a disturbance? Or could it be David Price, the recently hired children''s librarian and Tricia''s new boyfriend, who planned the whole thing in the first place? Or could it be someone who had an old score to settle with Lauren? With the suspect count climbing higher and more information about Lauren

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When''s the best time to tell your ex that you want them back? Probably not in the middle of a Category 3 hurricane. But when Broadway actor Tom Wilczewski is about to dive into the floodwaters to rescue his co-lead, he calls the ex-wife he hasn''t seen in ten years to swear he still loves her and ask for a chance to make things right. Two months later, Rose Kelly is tired of seeing pictures of her ex-husband Tom rescuing Hollywood darling Boyd Kellagher. Not that she''s jealous. Of course not. She''s far too busy taking care of her elderly aunt and worrying about the storm damage to the family B&B on Martha''s Vineyard to miss the love of her life. But after belatedly hearing Tom''s voicemail, Rosie asks him to follow through on his promises for once by helping her fix the inn. Thinking this is the perfect way to win her back, Tom agrees. When they get there, things are...less than ideal. Rosie expected the inn to be in better shape. She expected it to have more beds. And she expected

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When a heat wave hits Chilson, Michigan, Minnie, Eddie, and their bookmobile head to the beach to catch some rays and some customers. Unfortunately, library business is put on hold when Minnie''s restaurant-owning best friend, Kristen, calls. The soup she served to patrons last night was deliberately poisoned and made some customers sick - and she needs Minnie''s help to sniff out the saboteur. Minnie and Eddie are hot on the tail of the suspect when an employee from a neighboring restaurant is found dead. Could the poisoning and the murder be related? It will take a feline to catch a felon.

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Cassidy Foster is heartbroken, stuck in life, and getting a little too obsessed with plants. Then when a well-connected friend becomes sick of Cassidy''s moping and gets her a gig with famous Hollywood couple, Marisol and Nate Sterling, Cassidy jumps at the chance to move to sunny L.A. The Sterlings are warm and welcoming. A perfect couple. All Cassidy has to do is be available a few hours a week for errands. In return, she has access to luxury. Designer clothes. A sparkling pool. Great pay. When Nate takes interest in her, asking her to read scripts he''s written, Cassidy thinks this could be the key to kickstarting her writing dreams. As their business relationship grows, so does their attraction. Nate is sexy, talented, and Cassidy can''t believe her luck. Clearly, Marisol doesn''t know what she has. Maybe that''s why the two are always fighting when they think Cassidy isn''t around. But Cassidy learns she was hired for a different purpose. The Sterlings aren''t the perfect couple.

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