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"A floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs, Neil Narayan is authentic, funny, and smart. He just doesn't share the same drive as everyone around him. His perfect older sister is headed to Duke. His parents' expectations for him are just as high. He tries to want this version of success, but mostly, Neil just wants his neighbor across the cul-de-sac, Anita Dayal. But Anita has a secret: she and her mother Anjali...
63) Gold
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[Blu-ray only].
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English
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Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on an amazing journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Getting the gold was hard but keeping it is even more difficult, sparking an adventure through the most powerful boardrooms of Wall Street.
65) Terrific
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Nothing seems to go right for Eugene, even when he wins a free trip to Bermuda, but while he is stranded on a tiny, deserted island after being shipwrecked, a broken-winged parrot tells him how to build a boat so that they can both be rescued.
66) Fiona's luck
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[2007]
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English
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A clever woman named Fiona must pass the leprechaun king's tests when she tries to get back all the luck he has locked away from humans.
67) Lucky me
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2023.
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English
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"Bruno's friend Sanjay has his own room and a pet iguana. Bruno's brother, Mateo, who is visually impaired, has a dog named Rocco who helps him get around...and is a fantastic storyteller. Bruno doesn't have a pet, and he has to share his room with Mateo,but he still feels like the luckiest of all to have such a great brother and amazing friend"--Provided by publisher.
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A retired accountant becomes the town's fortune-teller in this witty and charming debut
Norbert Zelenka has always lived life on the sidelines. It's why at seventy-three years old he's broke and alone except for the company of a Chihuahua. But when "Carlotta's Club"-three strong-willed seniors with plenty of time on their hands-decide to make Norbert their latest project, he reluctantly agrees to their scheme: establishing himself as the town's fortune-teller....
71) Windfall
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Alice loves Teddy, her best friend, but has never told him. On his eighteenth birthday she buys him a lottery ticket on a lark. To their astonishment he wins $140 million, and in an instant, everything changes. As a kid, Alice's parents died just over a year apart from each other. And Teddy's father abandoned his family not long after that, leaving them to grapple with his gambling debts. Through it all, Teddy and Alice have leaned on each other....
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[2014]
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For Basha Argeneau, anything is better than facing her estranged family. Even hiding out in sweltering southern California. But when a sexy immortal in black shows up determined to bring her back to the clan, she'll do anything to keep far, far away from the past she can't outrun. Marc Notte isn't here to play games-especially not with someone as crazy as the infamous blonde. Asked by Lucian Argeneau to bring her back for questioning, Marcus is determined...
73) Metzger's dog
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When Leroy "Chinese" Gordon breaks into a professor's lab at the University of Los Angeles, he's after some pharmaceutical cocaine, worth plenty of money. Instead, he finds the papers the professor has compiled for the CIA, which include a blueprint for throwing a large city into chaos. But how is the CIA to be persuaded to pay a suitable ransom, unless of course someone actually uses the plan to throw a large city into chaos-Los Angeles, for instance?...
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2018.
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English
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"Lilah isn't sure what hurt worse: the day Ethan left her to focus on his hockey career or the day he came back eight years later. He might think they can pick up just where they left off, but she's no longer that same girl and never wants to be again. Ethan wants his glory days back. And that includes having Lilah by his side. With her, he was magic. They were magic. All he has to do is make her see that. Just when Lilah might finally be ready to...
75) Fortune: a novel
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Pub. Date
2021
Edition
First North American edition.
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English
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Beginning on the very day Napoleon leads his triumphant Grande Armee into Berlin through the Brandenburg Gate, Fortune traces the fates of a handful of souls whose lives briefly touch on that momentous day and then diverge across the globe. Spanning more than a century, the novel moves from the Napoleonic Wars to South America, and from the early penal settlement of Van Diemen's Land to the cannons of the First World War, mapping the reverberations...
76) The leaf reader
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[2017]
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English
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Outsider Marnie begins reading tea leaves for fun, but when basketball star Matt asks for a reading related to his friend who disappeared, Marnie's readings begin to seem real--and potentially dangerous.
77) Lucky strike
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Nathaniel Harlow lives with his grandfather in a trailer park in Franklin County, Florida, and he has always been unlucky--but when he is struck by lightning on his eleventh birthday and survives, it seems like his luck starts to change.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 17
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English
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Ever since Mary Anne threw away the chain letter she got in the mail, bad things have been happening to everybody in the Baby-sitters Club.
79) Bad luck Lola
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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When Lola cracks a mirror, she is not worried at first, but when one unlucky thing after another happens, Lola slowly becomes convinced she is cursed.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Always turning to her Wheel of Fortunes, a cardboard circle covered with wisdom she's collected from fortune cookies, for answers and a dose of luck, 12-year-old Maya must find the courage to write her own fortune to answer her deep-down questions.
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