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In the words of Alexander McCall Smith: 'You feel the rocking of the train, you hear the sound of its wheels on the rails; you are in the world rather than suspended somewhere above it. And sometimes there are conversations to be had, which is what the overarching story in this collection is all about. It is a simple device: people brought together entertain one another with tales of what happened to them on trains. It takes place on a journey I frequently...
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Scout Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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viii, 295 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Nick Hornby meets Chuck Palahniuk in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt epistolary novel from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski. Life has other plans for a group of strangers who want to end it all on a cross-country road trip, but then bond in ways they never could have imagined"--
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"A random connection sends two strangers on a daylong adventure where they make a promise one keeps and the other breaks, with life-changing effects, in this breathtaking new novel from the New York Times and #1 Globe and Mail bestselling author of Every Summer After. Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent just twenty-four hours in her early twenties with the aggravatingly attractive, idealistic...
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Wayfarers volume 4
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English
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When a freak technological failure halts traffic to and from the planet Gora, three strangers are thrown together unexpectedly, with seemingly nothing to do but wait. Pei is a cargo runner at a personal crossroads, torn between her duty to her people, and her duty to herself. Roveg is an exiled artist, with a deeply urgent, and longed for, family appointment to keep. Speaker has never been far from her twin but now must endure the unendurable: separation....
12) Your name
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Mitsuha and Taki are two total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he's never been to. What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together?
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Carny Sullivan grew up in the zany world of a traveling carnival. Quaint and peaceful Serenity, Texas, has given her a home, a life, and a child. Logan Brisco is the smoothest, slickest, handsomest man Serenity, Texas has ever seen. But Carny Sullivan knows a con artist when she sees one—and she's seen plenty, starting with her father. As far as Carny Sullivan can tell, she's the only one in town who has his number. Because from his Italian...
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2018.
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English
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Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can't even admit to themselves. Amid all the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just how challenging the next ten days are going to be. Frances Welty, the formerly bestselling romantic novelist, arrives...
16) Strange
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Wattpad by Montena
Pub. Date
2022.
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462 pages ; 21 cm
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Español
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The arrival of a wild and mysterious stranger with different-colored eyes and a very distressing attitude makes Mack Cavalier (yes, a girl) ask some questions: How did he get here? Why doesn't he want any help from the police? Why can't he say more than three words? Is he dangerous? Or is he a victim? What would you do if, after you and your best friend decide to help him, very strange things start to happen?
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English
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This volume collects 30 classic tales by H.G. Wells, including many of his early science fiction and fantasy stories. Included are:
INTRODUCTION, by Karl Wurf
THE STRANGE ORCHID
ÆPYORNIS ISLAND
THE PLATTNER STORY
THE ARGONAUTS OF THE AIR
THE STORY OF THE LATE MR. ELVESHAM
THE STOLEN BACILLUS
THE RED ROOM
A MOTH
IN THE ABYSS
UNDER THE KNIFE
THE RECONCILIATION
A SLIP UNDER
18) Stranger danger!: the reluctantly written, but absolutely necessary, book for today's boys and girls
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Journey Stone Creations
Pub. Date
c2005
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 sound disc (4 3/4 in.)
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English
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In rhyming text, explains to young readers that they should never go in a car, talk with, or accept gifts from strangers.
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Mossy is a very bossy mosquito. Mossy thinks he lives in the country at a beautiful pond. Actually, it is a backyard pool in town. He loves playing with his best friends but often finds himself not considering their feelings. Mossy's friends have to learn to do the right thing even when Mossy does not.
Mossy has a difficult time taking advice from others. This causes him to make a terrible decision that puts himself and his best friends in danger.
Bossy...
20) Stranger Dangers
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English
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It is the day of Halloween and Harey, the hare-brained rabbit, and his friends go playing and looking for ghosts in a disused factory building with dangerous results. They are approached several times during the day by a strange man and woman. That night, they dress up and go out knocking on people's doors, when Harey is finally kidnapped by the two strangers, but rescued in the end. 32 pages, full colour, no stickers.
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