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A classic book that gave birth to the self-help industry, How to Win Friends and Influence People is a phenomenal bestseller, having sold over 15 million copies worldwide and still going strong. It has been translated into 31 languages and is on Time magazine's list of 100 most influential books of all time. Dale Carnegie offers practical and proven advice on how to deal with people and understand them in order to get along well with them to make...
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"Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take....
6) Youngbloods
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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"Frey has spent her life in a family of deceivers, a stand-in for her sister, manipulated at her father's command. Free from them at last, she is finding her own voice -- and using it to question everything her family stood for. Tally was once the most famous rebel in the world. But for over a decade, she's kept to the shadows, allowing her myth to grow even as she receded. Now she sees that the revolution she led has not created a stable world. Freedom,...
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Shadow chronicles volume 2
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Mute fledgling witch Morgana is married for her safety to a kind farmer in the mountains of Wales before she is targeted by townspeople who are being manipulated by a dark force that compels Morgana to harness her powers.
8) Mira, Mirror
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Long after the disappearance of Snow White's stepmother, the witch trapped in her mirror manipulates a desperate peasant and a merchant's daughter to seek the magic she needs to gain her freedom, but the girls show her a power far greater.
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"Discover infamous con artists and stories of scammers. From mystifying deceptions to shocking frauds, Scams and cons : a true crime collection features gritty, investigative fact-finding, salacious stories, and actual testimonies surrounding some of the world's most famous criminal grifters ... Plus, a bonus trivia chapter contains a variety of fascinating tidbits on other remarkable swindlers in history. "--Page 4 of cover.
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The Demonata volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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The Disciples are being manipulated by beings older than time, and only Kernel Fleck knows that something is wrong.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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After a quiet, happy year in a small town, Queen Olympia regains her memory and initiates new plots and manipulations, as the residents of Zandelphia and Beaurivage, now ruled by Christian, Marigold, and Swithbert, feel the effects of her bad energy.
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Four kids with the power to speak to creatures, shake the earth, manipulate water, and control the wind, are on a mission to save the earth from the evil Calamity Corporation--and readers must make a choice in three scenarios that change the course of the adventure.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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"Targeted by a hitman and under threat of his past being exposed by the media, Alex reluctantly turns to MI6. But their help doesn't come cheap: they need Alex to spy on the activities at a GM crop plant. There he spots Desmond McCain, a high profile charity organiser, who realises that Alex is on to him and the real plans for the money he's raising. Kidnapped and whisked off to Africa, Alex learns the full horror of McCain's plot: to create an epic...
14) Queen's Hope
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Star Wars The Padmé Trilogy volume 3
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Padmé is adjusting to being a wartime senator during the Clone Wars. Her secret husband, Anakin Skwyalker, is off fighting the war, and excels at being a wartime Jedi. In contrast, when Padmé gets the opportunity to see the casualties on the war-torn front lines, she is horrified. The stakes have never been higher for the galaxy, or for the newly-married couple. Meanwhile, with Padmé on a secret mission, her handmaiden Sabé steps into the role...
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Rebel Seoul volume 2
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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Living safe and anonymous after the Battle of Neo Seoul, telepath Ama does not expect to be approached by a resistance group to help expose a government experiment similar to the one she successfully fled. Once she accepts, however, her assignments get more dangerous until she finds herself manipulating the mind of the boy she once loved and was betrayed by, so she can unseat him as commander of the Alliance.
16) The Block
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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"In the second book of The Loop trilogy, Luka is trapped in a fate worse than death. But now that he knows the truth about what he and his fellow inmates are being used for, it's more important than ever that he not only escapes, but that he builds an army. Luka is a prisoner once again. But this time it's a fate worse than death. In the Block, he must toggle between enduring an Energy Harvest for twelve hours of the day and surviving complete immobilization....
17) Bluescreen
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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"Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. That connection is a djinni--a smart device implanted right in a person's head. In a world where virtually everyone is online twenty-four hours a day, this connection is like oxygen--and a world like that presents plenty of opportunities for someone who knows how to manipulate it. Marisa Carneseca is one of those people. She might spend her days in Mirador, but...
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Understanding how to drape and manipulate fabric is a key ingredient in learning how to draft your own garment patterns. In this thorough class, you'll learn foundational draping techniques from Project Runway All Star and Mood Fabrics' Creative Director of Education, Benjamin Mach. Not only will you learn the fundamentals of preparing a dress form, measuring and marking the body, and draping the fabric on the dress form, but you'll then learn how...
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Pick up the basics of the redstone components and their uses, discover how to make working circuits, and create incredibly complex builds using your new skills. With insider info and tips from the experts at Mojang, this is the definitive guide to redstone in Minecraft.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
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"November is trapped. At the mysterious Academy Absconditi, a school that's completely off the grid, there's no electricity, no internet, and a brutal eye-for-an-eye punishment system. Classes include everything from knife-throwing and poisons to the art of deception. And the other students? All children of the world's most elite strategists, in training to become assassins, spies, and master manipulators. November Adley doesn't know why she's been...
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