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1) Spare
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"It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling--and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full...
2) Spare change
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Boston private investigator Sunny Randall teams up with her father to solve a thirty-year-old case involving a serial killer who has come out of hiding three decades after claiming his last victim.
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"Crashing with a friend and her husband is more intimate--and dangerous--than anyone could imagine in this provocative new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club pick We Were Never Here. When the pandemic first hits, thirty-one-year-old Kelly tries to make the best of quarantine but it soon becomes clear there are some lemons you just can't make into lemonade. She loses her job and her boyfriend in one fell swoop,...
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Glass spare volume 1
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After discovering that she has the ability to turn people into gemstones, Wilhemina, the fourth daughter of the wealthiest nation's king, seeks redemption putting herself in the path of a cursed prince who has his own ideas about Wil's power.
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"A mesmerizing debut novel set in northern Texas about two sisters who discover an unsettling secret about their father, the head pastor of an evangelical megachurch, that upends their lives and community-a story of family, identity, and the delicate line between faith and deception. Luke Nolan has led the Hope congregation for more than a decade, while his wife and daughters have patiently upheld what it means to live righteously. Made famous by...
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Have you ever dreamed of owning your own business? Being an entrepreneur is not just for adults! This book is full of ideas for turning anything you enjoy doing in your spare time into a lifestyle business. Readers will explore key business concepts including researching the market, pricing for profit, creating a brand, and target marketing.
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"Hugo, Locus, and Nebula-Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense approach to life in space with her talent for creating glittering high-society in this stylish SF mystery, The Spare Man. Tesla Crane, one of the richest women in the world, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between Earth and Mars. She's traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered and her husband is named...
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Survivors (Shana Galen) volume 3
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Rafe Beaumont, 5th son of the Earl of Haddington, is naturally seductive. Women flock to him, and he knows just how to get them to swoon. These skills were well utilized during the wars, when he seduced wives and mistresses of Napolean's confidants to glean secrets and battle plans. Now he's hot on the trail of Napoleon's most elusive assassin. Rafe must find him through his daughter, but she seems immune to flattery and entirely unseducible. Colette...
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Nell Crane has never held a boy's hand. In a city devastated by an epidemic, where survivors are all missing parts--an arm, a leg, an eye--Nell has always been an outsider. Her father is the famed scientist who created the biomechanical limbs that everyone now uses. But she's the only one with her machinery on the inside: her heart. Since the childhood operation, she has ticked. Like a clock, like a bomb. And as her community rebuilds, everyone is...
11) Spare parts
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While searching for a replacement heart at the Spare Parts Mart, a lonely robot finds a friend.
12) Spare room
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Lisa, a troubled young woman with a past, finds a beautiful room to rent in a house in North London. After moving in, she finds a suicide note hidden in her room. Her landlords insist the note's author doesn't exist, and that Lisa is their first tenant. Lisa begins to doubt herself. Compelled to uncover the secrets of the man who lived in the room before her, Lisa grows alarmed by increasingly disturbing incidents. As she claws her way towards...
13) A spare life
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In 1984, twelve-year-old Zlata and Srebra are twin girls growing up in communist Skopje, Yugoslavia. They are like that of young girls anywhere, despite one vast difference --the twins are conjoined at their heads. As young adults, their lives are thrown into crisis when an incident threatens to destroy their sisterly bond. They fly to London, determined to be surgically separated, but will this dangerous procedure free them, or only more tightly...
14) Spares
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Talking fridges, human clone farms, flying shopping malls - we must be in the Michael Marshall Smith zone. A world all too close to our own... Spares - human clones, the ultimate health insurance. An eye for an eye - but some people are doing all the taking. Spares - the story of Jack Randall: burnt-out, dropped out, and way overdrawn at the luck bank. But as caretaker on a Spares Farm, he still has a choice, and it might make a difference...if he...
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Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest . . . and a major motion picture. In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where they attended an underfunded public high school. No one had ever suggested to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo...
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"We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world but it's a lot older than you think. As ancient as the pyramids, its history is even more surprising. Cultural historian Paul Craddock takes us on a journey - from sixteenth-century skin grafting to contemporary stem cell transplants - uncovering stories of experiments and operations performed by unexpected people in unexpected places. Bringing together philosophy, science...
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Offering tips on finding your own gardening style, choosing climate-appropriate plants, creating low-maintenance landscaping and hardscaping, and weeding efficiently and effectively, Freeman understands that there's no room for scolding, but there is a real need for encouragement and good humor.
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