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121) Soap: [Season 1]
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
In Dunn River, Connecticut, two sisters and their dysfunctional families, the Tates and Campbells, are typically embroiled in melodramatic, but ridiculous situations, including amnesia, alien abduction, demonic possession, murder, and kidnapping.
Series
Northern exposure volume 4
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Reunites the endearing, quirky citizens of Cicely Alaska for the best season yet. Has Joel, Maggie, Chris and the rest of the town's residents in their most hilarious and heartwarming situations yet - from the arrival of a rock star to a totem pole war to the annual Mosquito Festival.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the world's first airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, establishing the Wright Brothers as world-renowned pioneers of flight. Known to far fewer people was their whip-smart and well-educated sister Katharine, a suffragette and early feminist. After Wilbur passed away, Katharine lived with and took care of her increasingly reclusive brother Orville, who often turned to his more confident and...
Author
Series
Doctor Proctor's fart powder volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
New friends Nilly and Lisa help eccentric professor Doctor Proctor to develop his latest invention, a powder that makes one fart, making them very popular at school, but someone is planning to steal the industrial-strength formula for evil purposes.
125) Because
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young boy who lives with his grandmother is terribly embarrassed by her behavior at first, but comes to realize that she is not just having fun, she has a reason for each strange action.
126) Stretch
Pub. Date
2014
Description
The director of Smokin' Aces brings you into the world of Kevin Stretch, a Hollywood limo driver with a dark past. When Stretch is in need of quick cash to pay back his debts to a notorious gangster, he takes a job with a billionaire client in hopes of a big payday. His client's eccentricities soon escalate into a wild night of adventure, sex, and danger which begins to make the fate of returning to the mob empty-handed seem reasonable.
127) Three's a krowd
Author
Series
Meet the Kreeps volume 5
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Author
Series
Tour volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A luxury stay in an Irish castle, a handsome, experienced tour guide, and a secret that has never been revealed. Life as manager of the magnificent resort of Castle Dysert on Ireland's wild Atlantic coast is never dull, and Conor O'Shea's life to date has taught him to be prepared for the unexpected. Even he however, is not ready for the gang from Bubbles O'Leary's bar in New York. A motley crew, from spinster sisters of a certain age, to exhausted...
129) Separate tables
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Explores the separate and interwoven dreams of a number of eccentric and lonely people in a rather gloomy, small hotel in the seaside town of Bournemouth, England. In one evening, four unhappy misfits will bare their innermost secrets and change each other's lives forever.
Author
Series
Olga (Elise Gravel) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Discovering a smelly creature in her garbage can that she names after herself, Olga befriends and studies the eccentric Olgamus using the scientific method, the practices of Jane Goodall, and other scientific concepts.
131) The tainted cup
Author
Series
Shadow of the leviathan volume 1
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder in fantasy reimagining of the classic crime novel"--
In Daretana's most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead--killed, to all appearances, when a tree spontaneously erupted from his body. Even in this canton at the borders of the Empire, where contagions abound and the blood of the Leviathans works strange magical changes, it's a death...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Dr. Avril Crump, a chubby, balding, and lonely research scientist at Leviticus Laboratories, befriends three strange clones that were created during a failed laboratory experiment, but when she discovers a plot to destroy them, she embarks on a dangerous mission to save the only friends she has ever known.
134) Doc Martin: Series 7
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
In these all-new episodes, the doctor continues his practice in the picturesque seaside town of Portwenn, while raising his son with wife Louisa.
136) Dinner for schmucks
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Tim is a guy on the verge of having it all. The only thing standing between him and total career success is finding the perfect guest to bring to his boss' annual Dinner for Extraordinary People, an event where the winner of the evening brings the most eccentric character as his guest. Enter Barry, a guy with a passion for dressing mice up in tiny outfits to recreate great works of art. When the duo shows up to dine, the lunacy kicks into high gear....
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Hitomi, the inexperienced young woman who works the register at Mr. Nakano's thrift shop, has fallen for her coworker, the oddly reserved Takeo. Unsure of how to attract his attention, she seeks advice from her employer's sister Masayo, whose sentimental entanglements make her a somewhat unconventional guide. But thanks in part to Masayo, Hitomi will come to realize that love, desire, and intimacy require acceptance not only of idiosyncrasies but...
138) The new step-mummy
Author
Series
Meet the Kreeps volume 2
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Polly Winkler's life will never go back to normal after her father marries Veronica Kreep (who thinks roasted snake makes an excellent hot dinner), making her weird neighbors, the Kreeps, part of her family.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
The lost boys: "When a newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlikely heroes gear up to rescue him..."--Container.
Lost boys : the tribe: "...surfing vampires hit the waves, rule the night...and seek fresh blood - targeting the cute new arrival in town..."--Container.
Lost boys : the thirst: "...a mysterious fiend's designer drug turns partiers at an all-night rave into his personal army of never-say-die bloodsuckers....
140) Uncorked
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Frustrated by Ross, her unsuccessful boyfriend and his newest moneymaking scheme, wealthy Kendall goes to his country estate, during a holiday. His scheme is to sell off all the valuable wine in the family's collection and buy a mineral mine that has been closed for 30 years. But while there, his eccentric uncle enlists Kendall in a wild plan to throw Ross off track in order to help him find his true calling.
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