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A young girl named Benita is so engrossed in the book she is reading that she isn't frightened by Cuco, the monster who enters her window. Cuco calls on other Peruvian monsters to help him, but Benita hushes them in order to keep reading. The monsters want to know what reading a book means, and Benita begins to read stories to them. Includes information on creatures from Peruvian folktales, and on the country of Peru.
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In the small town of Los Lobos, California, three women join a local indie bookstore's summer book club-devoted entirely to romance novels-and become life-long friends as they navigate the messiness of motherhood, second chances and becoming the person you've always wanted to be.
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"Briar Creek Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular library conference in Chicago to hear book restoration specialist Brooklyn Wainwright give a keynote address. After the lecture, Lindsey looks under her seat and finds a tote bag containing a first edition of Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooklyn determines the novel is one of a kind and quite valuable, so Lindsey and...
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"Zoom! Zoom! All cars want to race! Who will win first place?"--