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1) Tumble
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Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
3) Tumble
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Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
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2023.
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The rhyming text follows a lone tumbleweed in its journey across a desert teeming with life.
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A novel about the end of days full of surprising beginnings
The world is living in the shadow of oncoming disaster. An asteroid is set to strike the earth in just one week's time; catastrophe is unavoidable. The question isn't how to save the world-the question is, what to do with the time that's left? Against this stark backdrop, three island teens wrestle with intertwining stories of love, friendship and family-all with the ultimate stakes at hand.
Alexandra...
5) Tumbleweeds
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Three friends from a small Texas town that thrives on Friday night football games try to move on after a fateful event colors each of their futures.
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Albany Mathews is focused on winning a newspaper scholarship and getting accepted to Webster University. When she's given a journalism assignment likely to help her accomplish her goals but finds out Keegan will be her photographer for the project, will she runaway from his sexy smile and blue eyes, allowing history to repeat.Keegan O'Shae can't understand why Albany hates him. But he's determined to not let her dash away tactics to ruin what he loves...
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"The windows rattle. The roof leaks. Every surface cries out to be stripped, painted, or polished. But for writer Lisa Trumperton, the dilapidated manor house that once belonged to her great-grandfather is far more than the sum of its battered parts. It's the chance for a new start on her own terms. The fact that it's in the Melbourne countryside of her Australian homeland, far from the deceitful ex-husband she just left behind in New York...well,...
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"Tired of their high school teaching jobs and discouraged by their failed attempts at conceiving a child, Mark and Fran Finley decide they need a change in their lives. Abruptly, they leave their friends and family in suburban New Jersey to begin anew as innkeepers on a secluded lake in the Adirondack Mountains" --
10) Tumbled Graves
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A missing child. A dead mother. Kala Stonechild is about to discover what one betrayal can lead to. When Adele Delaney and her daughter, Violet, go missing, Jacques Rouleau is called upon to investigate. However, struggling with the impending death of his ill ex-wife, he sends Kala Stonechild and Paul Gundersund instead. Stonechild has been trying to adapt to life as her young cousin Dawn's guardian, and even though Gundersund has offered support,...
11) Tumbleweed skies
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Ellie's grandmother doesn't want her around the farm, but times are tough, and her salesman father can't take her on the road. Ellie's challenge is to break through her grandmother's isolation and find kinship among strangers.
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On a warm August evening, Brenda Missen, a 37-year-old single, unattached writer, pitches her tent beside a lake in Canada's 7,600 square-kilometre [3,000 square-mile] Algonquin Provincial Park. She is on a four-night "reconnaissance mission," an hour's paddle from the parking lot, to find out if she has the capability, and nerve, to one day take a real canoe trip in the park interior by herself. Paddling and portaging from her campsite by day and...
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In the pages of this book Tumbleweed, one would find messages of hope, friendship, love and turning back. It's about maturing and recognizing the things that are important to us. With steady growth comes a time of breaking away and the seeking of independence. It's about drifting through life, not always knowing what to look for, and after meandering through the years we eventually find contentment in the life we finally settle into and perhaps by...
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The vast oil fields of Texas between Abilene and Fort Stockton are referred to by many as "The Big Country." The towns, big and small, as different as they may be, they all share two things in common......oil and cattle.
The wind-blown hills of the Big Country can be desert-hot in the summer or bitter-cold in the winter. The harsh, unforgiving landscape there creates tough people who are tied closely to the land. People who work hard, play hard,...
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Tumblehome: a term to describe the way the side of a canoe arcs inward toward the center, toward home. James Raffan has always followed his own arc in life. Like his mentor and friend Bill Mason, Raffan has taken his love of the wilderness and integrated it into his life and his work, becoming not just a master canoeist and outdoorsman, but an accomplished and thoughtful writer. In Tumblehome, Raffan explores the notion that canoeing has the power...
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Terry Tumbleweed was having a weird day. The attempted robbery was bad enough. But then the beginning of a war in her parking lot, becoming a target in the same war and then falling for two guys at once - it was not what she had planned for her day, she would have remembered.
Of course she then had to defend herself from all of those things, including her desire for the president and second-in-command of the Daggers. The Daggers were a motorcycle...
17) Tumbleweed Baby
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Long ago in Nowhere, Texas, Mama and Papa Upagainstit agree to take in the wild baby their five children find in a passing tumbleweed, despite the objections of the one who used to be "the littlest-of-all girl."
18) Tumblebug
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Chimneys and evergreens
BBQs and residual snow
Picked the brain for certainty
What was lost may be found unknown
Code red while dressed in blue
Spread my bed in this place anew
Mind needs saving, heart is aching
Decisions I'm making have kept you waiting
Journey to the restoration
In the silence we hold a conversation
The nights you yearned and mistook
Will understanding I earn as you read this book
20) Tumbleweed Trail
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Jake Preston, travelling with his wife and children, takes the Tumbleweed Trail, heading for Kansas City. And if the mile after mile of inhospitable terrain was not enough to contend with, there is the added complication of a gang of marauding bandits led by the notorious Sam Brady who have vowed to kill Jake and his entire family. The family have only one hope and that is the mysterious stranger named Arkansas Smith, a man who some claim is an outlaw...
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