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Collecting things dropped or left behind by others and writing stories about them as a tribute to the fiancée who died the day he lost one of her keepsakes, a man bequeaths his estate to his unsuspecting assistant, who bonds with new neighbors while attempting to reunite the objects with their owners.
Andrew Peardew collects things dropped or left behind by others and writing stories about them. He does this as a tribute to the fiancée who died...
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Thursday Murder Club mystery volume 4
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English
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"Shocking news reaches them--an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, where the tricks of the trade are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online fraudsters--as well as heartache close to home--Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim have no idea whom to trust. With the body count rising, the clock ticking...
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New Directions paperbook volume NDP 1519
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English
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"Each disparate object described in this book--a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific--shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. Recalling the works of W. G. Sebald, Bruce Chatwin, and Rebecca Solnit, An Inventory of Losses is a beautiful evocation of twelve specific treasures that have been lost to the world forever, and that, taken...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Fireside trade pbk. ed.
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xiii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Presents entries from the website, FoundMagazine.com, discussing such discarded items as favorite shopping lists, drawings, diaries, toys, homework papers, and photographs as submitted by a range of famous and everyday contributors.
10) Finding things
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Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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An invitation to find joy in the simple things that are all around, if you know how to notice them.
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Nancy Drew diaries volume 20
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English
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While attending a fancy party hosted by Duchess Strickland, a wealthy philanthropist who owns a priceless art collection, teenaged Nancy Drew finds a new mystery to investigate when the goddess statue disappears.
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Help Jack and Meg solve the case of the lost cat! This story uses an engaging mystery story to encourage confidence in early readers. This book uses a combination of sight words and short-vowel words in repetition to build recognition. Original illustrations help guide readers through the text.
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Chicken Squad volume 2
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English
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When a weird blue chicken comes to Chicken Squad headquarters for help, siblings Dirt, Sugar, and Sweetie help find her missing house.
19) Lost and found
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Ezekiel Blast has a superpower, or a micropower, if you will. He can find lost things. The problem is most people think he steals them. When the police ask for help, though, he may have a chance to redeem himself.
What good is finding lost bicycles and hair scrunchies, if when you return them to their owners they think you must have stolen them in the first place? Ezekial Blast's friend Beth thinks there must be some way to use his "micropower" for...
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