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Description not available.Includes over 50 brain teasers such as riddles, logic problems, and visual puzzles that are designed to teach children how to think. AUTHOR: Sean Parkes, Vicky Shiotsu
PUBLISHER: Lowell House Juvenile
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Mrs. Pollifax & the Hong Kong Buddha by Barbara Rosenblat, Dorothy Gilman
Like the proverbial first potato chip [this book] gives you an irresistible craving for the first six Mrs. Pollifax books. Newport News DAILY PRESSAlthough recently married, Mrs. Pollifax is packed and ready to go to China, where a young agent, Sheng Ti, holds the answers to goings on at the sinister Feng Imports--a one-time agency front. Only Mrs. Pollifax has earned Sheng's trust, and only she can possibly stop what turns out to be a frightening and ominous plot involving drugs, smuggled diamonds, a famous cat burglar turned Interpol agent, a mysterious psychic, and, of course, murder.....possibly her own! AUTHOR: Barbara Rosenblat, Dorothy Gilman
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Spooky Tail of Prewitt Peacock by Bill Peet
The story of Prewitt, a peacock with an unusual tail. Will Prewitt's tail feathers get him in trouble with the other peacocks? Illustrated with colored pencil drawings. AUTHOR: Bill Peet
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Storm Catchers by Tim Bowler
Description not available.Filled with guilt over his younger sister's kidnapping, teenaged Fin tries to rescue her and in the process learns about a dark family secret. AUTHOR: Tim Bowler
PUBLISHER: McElderry, Margaret K. Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Diamond Cat by Juanita McMahon, Marian Babson
Bettina Bilby is approaching middle age and still living at home with her mother. Her boring existence is enlivened by her job as a catsitter for various neighbors on holiday. Rescuing four cats from a terrible storm one weekend she happens upon a dead carrier pigeon, who died while transporting several large diamonds. Bettina and her mother soon find themselves the targets of a variety of sinister sorts. AUTHOR: Juanita McMahon, Marian Babson
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, Margot Dionne
In her 10th novel, Margaret Atwood creates an elderly woman named Iris Griffen, who looks back on her life life of privilege and wealth in Ontario, Canada. Alongside Iris's story, we read a bizarrely futuristic novel about obsession, written by her sister Laura, who seems to have committed suicide in 1945. The two stories are enhanced by newspaper accounts about these two women and their families over half a century, and by a stunningly unexpected ending. AUTHOR: Margaret Atwood, Margot Dionne
PUBLISHER: Random House Large Print
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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