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|  | The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin
A young girl excitedly helps her mother plant a garden. However, as their garden begins to flourish, the girl wonders why she and her mother planted Chinese vegetables instead of flowers like everyone else. When harvest time rolls around, the girl is impressed with the delicious soup her mother makes from all those ugly vegetables . The illustrations are gouache on watercolor paper. AUTHOR: Grace Lin
PUBLISHER: Charlesbridge Publishing, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Par Four by Elizabeth Gunn
Rescuing Babe from the chair she's been duct-taped to is easy . . . but the trail of robbery and murder Jake discovers once she's released may make him change his mind about being promoted to Chief of Detectives. AUTHOR: Elizabeth Gunn
PUBLISHER: Walker & Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | A Whale of a Time by Rh Disney Staff
Description not available.When Ariel and Flounder discover a lost baby whale, they act as underwater baby-sitters and take good care of the whale until they find his grateful parents. Original. AUTHOR: Rh Disney Staff
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Ada by Vladimir Nabokov
This memoir of a lifetime of incest is written from the point of view of a doctor named Van Demonovitch Veen, with commentary by his sister/lover Ada and edited by Ronald Oranger (an anagram of the book's title). Its two main characters were admittedly loathed by their creator. Nabokov called it his most cosmopolitan and poetic novel. It is definitely his longest and most complex, incorporating nothing less than the entire history of European literature and art, puns and jokes in five languages, and a good deal of erudite lepidoptery. It is structured so that each of the five parts is exactly half the length of the preceding one: a device that reflects the novel's meditations on the nature of time. Besides being the name of one of the main characters and a pun on the English word ardor, the word Ada means oh yes or of hell in Russian. AUTHOR: Vladimir Nabokov
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Prarie Occurrence by Jamie Harrison
Sheriff Jules Clement investigates a rash of bizarre, and perhaps related, crimes--involving rape, murder, and a mysterious 60-year-old skeleton--in the isolated community of Blue Deer, Montana. AUTHOR: Jamie Harrison
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Ever Clever Elisa by Debby Tilley
Description not available.The year Elisa Michaels enters the first grade is filled with exciting times at school and special celebrations at home as she tries to assert her new-found independence. Reprint. AUTHOR: Debby Tilley
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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