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Mondays; 5 p.m. at Roy and Helen Hall Library (HALL)
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2010.
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English
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No one has enough time. Almost everyone agrees that achieving a better work/life balance is worth striving for. Yet hardly anyone actually does anything about it. Why? Because it all seems too hard. How do you find more time for getting the things that really matter when you have to pay the mortgage, battle peak hour and earn enough money to support yourself and your family? How to Balance Your Life will help you identify the obstacles that stand...
22) Hard times
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'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else' Dickens's novel honouring the value of the human heart in an age of materialism centres on Coketown, where Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success, feeds his pupils and his family with facts, banning fancy and wonder from young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa becomes trapped...
23) The Iliad
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English
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Presents Homer's classical account of the war between the Greeks and the Trojans from Agamemnon's visit by the priest Chryses to the burial of Hektor.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 18
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[2004]
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English
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All Kinsey Millhone must do is keep Reba Lafferty out of trouble after she is released from prison for embezzlement. Her father, Nord Lafferty, is paying Kinsey a lot of money to see that Reba follows all the rules of her parole: no drugs, no booze, no gambling. It seems simple and easy enough, but nothing in life is simple or easy.
27) How the rhinoceros got his skin, and, How the camel got his hump, and How the leopard got his spots
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2007.
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English
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Dark Tower volume 5
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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"Roland and his ka-tet are bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World, the almost timeless landscape that seems to stretch from the wreckage of civility that defined Roland's youth to the crimson chaos that seems the future's only promise"--Container.
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Angelic intervention volume 2
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[2000]
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English
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When those irrepressible angels - Shirley, Goodness and Mercy - set out for the City of Angels to grant three rush Christmas prayers, they soon find it will take more than one miracle to teach their precious lessons of love - as well as make three special holiday dreams come true.
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Trials of Apollo volume 2
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English
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Zeus has punished his son Apollo--god of the sun, music, archery, poetry, and more--by casting him down to earth in the form of a gawky, acne-covered sixteen-year-old mortal named Lester. The only way Apollo can reclaim his rightful place on Mount Olympus is by restoring several Oracles that have gone dark. What is affecting the Oracles, and how can Apollo/Lester do anything about them without his powers? After experiencing a series of dangerous--and...
33) Skeleton man
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 17
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[2004]
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English
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34) Cat & mouse
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Alex Cross novels volume 4
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English
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Alex Cross is back in a novel with a cast of characters more sinister and deadlier than ever. Gary Soneji, a dying prison escapee, is looking for revenge on Cross, while another insane killer is pursued by Thomas Augustine Pierce--a brilliant and relentless detective who may even be better than Cross. As the bodies pile up, and Cross is nearly murdered in his own home, the game of cat and mouse leads to one final trap, and it's anyone's guess who...
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Pub. Date
[2006]
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Español
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"Un libro esplendido de relatos acerca de México, ahora vistos con los ojos de la gran periodistas Cristina Pacheco. Esta mujer de letras y de una amplia cultura, tiene una gran influencia en el México contemporáneo. Y se lanza a narranos una serie de historias que describen a la perfección los sentimientos, pasiones y circunstancias de las personas que se ven obligadas a dejar su lugar de origen, para emprender la búsqueda y la aventura de buscar...
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 2
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English
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Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
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