Paul Panting
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Framingham 2024 Reading Bingo Suggestions
Medfield - Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Medfield Cozy Reads for Adults - Contemporary
Medfield - Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Medfield Cozy Reads for Adults - Contemporary
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"Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in Wembley, in West London after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries. Aleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It's a list...
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Private Detective Agency novels volume 3
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"Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic games in London. Its agents are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world, and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect over 10,000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries. The opening ceremony is still hours away when Private investigator and single father of twins, Nigel Steele,...
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The Jolley-Rogers (Jonny Duddle) volume 2
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While the Jolley-Rogers are enjoying a day at the beach, little sister Nugget toddles into a cave. When she doesn't come out again, Mum goes in to find her. And, when Mum doesn't return, Dad follows. Jim Lad is suspicious and sends Bones the dog to Dull-on-Sea to find Matilda before he too ventures in to the cave. Jim Lad soon discovers a magical haul of treasure inside the cave has bewitched his family. Will the cave's spooky inhabitant, a sinister...
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"When Grace Bernard discovers her absentee millionaire father has rejected her dying mother's pleas for help, she vows revenge, and sets about to kill every member of his family. Readers have a front row seat as Grace picks off the family one by one - and the result is as gruesome as it is entertaining in this wickedly dark romp about class, family, love - and murder. But then Grace is imprisoned for a murder she didn't commit"--
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The Jolley-Rogers (Jonny Duddle) volume 1
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"Every full moon, a mysterious ship is seen off the coast of Dull-on-Sea and its pirates loot the town's treasure. Can Matilda and Jim Lad retrieve the stolen booty and vanquish the scurvy crew, or will they end up stuck on board the ghostly galleon forever?"--Page [4] of cover.
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Come join the Odd Dog on a festive journey to find the perfect present, and perhaps save Christmas along the way... a brand-new, PAW-some story from Rob Biddulph - the genius behind the #DrawWithRob phenomenon and It's Christmas, and this Odd Dog is running out of time to find the perfect present for her pal... But when she meets a new friend who needs helps, she realizes that gifts might not be the most important thing about Christmas after all....
7) Copout
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Most people tend to turn away, perhaps understandably, from the key existential issue of the day: climate change or, some would say more accurately, climate collapse. Nick Breeze tells the engaging, very human story of successive COP conferences over the past decade: it is a tale of imperfection, failure even, but not yet defeat.
So far, the UN process has achieved almost the exact opposite of what it first set out to achieve at the Rio Earth Summit...
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A burning summer's day explodes into violence when a murderous gang targets the exclusive island of Terror's Reach, home to business tycoon Valentin Nasenko and his family. The residents are facing annihilation, and only one man stands a chance of saving them: former CID Officer Joe Clayton, now working as a bodyguard to Nasenko's wife. When night falls he must draw upon all his experience to keep them alive.
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Meet Tiger – an ordinary, tubby tabby cat. But Tiger has a secret! Just one lick of a toxic sock and he transforms into… SUPERCAT! Now, with his astonishing powers and his best friend James, can Supercat save the world, and all the chips, from the dastardly Count Backwards…?When the chips are down, there's only one cat to call!
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Jolley-Rogers volume 3
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When Matilda discovers a treasure map inside an old bottle, she shows it to the Jolley-Rogers and they all set sail to find the mysterious island. Only to end up in the belly of the dastardly Pirate Cruncher! Can Matilda and the rest of the Jolley-Rogers rescue themselves before it is too late? Or will they end up trapped there forever? Expect adventure, laughs and perhaps an almighty sneeze.
11) Gangsta granny
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Ben is bored beyond belief after he is made to stay at his grandma's house. She's the boringest grandma ever: all she wants to do is to play Scrabble, and eat cabbage soup. But there are two things Ben doesn't know about his grandma. 1) She was once an international jewel thief. 2) All her life, she has been plotting to steal the Crown Jewels, and now she needs Ben's help.
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One morning the residents of Dull-on-Sea wake up to find their town is overrun-with rats! Big rats, small rats, fierce rats, hungry rats...it's an infestation! Just when everyone is at their wits' end, a nautical stranger who plays the pipe turns up and offers to get rid of the rodent problem for a fee. But once the rats are gone, the greedy mayor of Dull-on-Sea refuses to pay-so the Pirate Piper plays an enchanted tune and leads the children away....
15) Brilliant Bestsellers by Baddiel (3-book Audio Collection): The Parent Agency, AniMalcolm, Head Kid
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Three brilliantly funny stories from the bestselling author David Baddiel.
THE PARENT AGENCY
The Parent Agency is an epic wish-fulfilment adventure for every child – and for the child in everyone.
ANIMALCOLM
A laugh-out-loud adventure for every child who ever wondered what it might be like to be a bit of an animal…
HEAD KID
Head Kid tells the story of Ryan Ward, the maestro of practical jokes. The new head teacher, Mr Carter, arrives. A man...
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Though it is for the sparkling epic, Aeneid, that the Roman poet Virgil is best known, it was these two poems, The Eclogues and Georgics, which first established his reputation. Cast in the tradition of pastoral poetry, The Eclogues were written between 41 BCE and 37 BCE when Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, to give him his full name) was in his thirties. The Eclogues (the word means 'Selections' in Greek) contain 10 poems, a combination of dialogues...
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His dark materials volume Prequel
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In a time before Lyra Silvertongue was born, the tough American balloonist Lee Scoresby and the great armoured bear Iorek Byrnison meet when Lee and his hare daemon Hester crash-land their trading balloon onto a port in the far Arctic North and find themselves right in the middle of a political powder keg.