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"From the author of the widely acclaimed She Weeps Each Time You're Born--a new novel, at once comic and moving, set in 1989 Danvers, Massachusetts, where a high school field hockey team discovers that the witchcraft of their Salem forebears may be the key to a winning season. In this tour de female force, the Danvers High School Falcons Varsity is on an unaccountable streak. In chapters dense with '80s iconography--from Heathers to Big Hair--Quan...
2) Intercepted
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Playbook (Alexa Martin) volume 1
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Villa Park Public Library - Fiction
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F MARTIN, A.
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Marlee Harper is the perfect girlfriend. She's definitely had enough practice by dating her NFL-star boyfriend for the last ten years. But when she discovers he has been tackling other women on the sly, she vows to never date an athlete again. There's just one problem: Gavin Pope, the new hotshot quarterback and a fling from the past, has Marlee in his sights. Gavin fights to show Marlee he's nothing like her ex. Unfortunately, not everyone is ready...
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Atlas volume 1
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"The much-acclaimed BookTok sensation, Olivie Blake's The Atlas Six--now newly revised and edited with additional content. The tag #theatlassix has millions of views on TikTok. A dark academic debut fantasy with an established cult following that reads like THE SECRET HISTORY meets THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY. The first in an explosive trilogy. The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost...
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Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 1
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Villa Park Public Library - Jefferson Middle School
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JF GRA
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Kyle Keeley is the class clown, popular with most kids (if not the teachers), and an ardent fan of all games: board games, word games, and particularly video games. His hero, Luigi Lemoncello, the most notorious and creative gamemaker in the world, just so happens to be the genius behind the building of the new town library. Lucky Kyle wins a coveted spot to be one of the first 12 kids in the library for an overnight of fun, food, and lots and lots...
5) Be dazzled
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Seventeen-year-old Raffy is determined to win a cosplay competition that could lead to art school admission and respect for his talent, but being paired with his main competitor, ex-boyfriend Luca, complicates things.
6) Furia
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"In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a double life. At home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother's narrow expectations, in her rising-soccer-star brother's shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father. On the field, she is La Furia, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament, Camila gets the chance to see just how far those talents can take her. In her wildest...
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After a near-fatal attack, Adam Jensen was physically augmented with cybernetics. Caught in the middle of a vast conspiracy, he finds himself chasing leads all over the world and the choices he makes will help determine the fate of humanity.
8) Overcooked!
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In this chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players, you must work to prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the customers storm out in a huff. The Onion Kingdom is in danger and only the finest cooking can save it! Journey through a variety of cruel and unusual kitchens on a quest to become a master chef capable of conquering an ancient edible evil which plagues the land.
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"You've got your dream job--making video games. You have a great project, great designs, and clever controls. One morning, you get a call from your producer. Turns out that wall-jumping trick won't work because the artists don't have time to design a separate animation just for the plumber to move that way. Also, your lead designer keeps micromanaging the programmers, which is driving them crazy. Your E3 demo is due in two weeks, and you know there's...
10) Ready player one
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Ready player novels volume 1
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Villa Park Public Library - Large Type
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Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV
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"Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of...
11) Fast pitch
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Villa Park Public Library - Juvenile Fiction
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"Shenice Lockwood, captain of the Fulton Firebirds, is hyper-focused when she steps up to the plate. Nothing can stop her from leading her team to the U12 fast-pitch softball regional championship. But life has thrown some curveballs her way. Strike one: As the sole team of all-brown faces, Shenice and the Firebirds have to work twice as hard to prove that Black girls belong at bat. Strike two: Shenice's focus gets shaken when her great-uncle Jack...
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Sunny side up volume 3
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Villa Park Public Library - Juvenile Graphic Novels
ILLUS. NOVEL SUN
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ILLUS. NOVEL SUN
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"Sunny's just made it to middle school . . . and it's making her life very confusing. All her best friend Deb wants to talk about is fashion, boys, makeup, boys, and being cool. Sunny's not against any of these things, but she also doesn't understand why suddenly everything revolves around them. She's much more comfortable when she's in her basement, playing Dungeons & Dragons with a bunch of new friends. Because when you're swordfighting and spider-slaying,...
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Norumbegan quartet volume 1
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When two boys stay with an eccentric relative at his mansion in rural Vermont, they discover an old-fashioned board game that draws them into a mysterious adventure.
14) I'm on it!
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Elephant & Piggie like reading! volume 8
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"When Frog and Goat turn a simple game into an all-out competition, things get out of hand ... until finally, they're over it"--
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Bink & Gollie volume 2
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"The state fair is in town, and now Bink and Gollie-utter opposites and best friends extraordinaire-must use teamwork and their gray matter while navigating its many wonders. Will the energetic Bink win the world's largest donut in the Whack-a-Duck game? Will the artistic Gollie wow the crowd in the talent show? As the undaunted duo steps into the mysterious tent of fortune-teller Madame Prunely, one prediction is crystal clear: this unlikely pair...
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"Unbored is the most original, entertaining, and instructive all-in-one book for kids ever published--jam-packed with information, ideas, and activities for children and their parents to share together. Vibrantly designed and illustrated, it's crammed with activities that are not only fun and doable, but get kids engaged in the wider world--and provides information to expand their worldviews, too, inspiring them to learn more. Right at the age where...
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Includes a variety of exercises that explore the game's aspects and use them to teach lessons. Begin the book by brushing up on some common Minecraft language and examining each of the four game modes: survival, creative, adventure, and spectator. Then, use this knowledge to venture off onto the six different quests that encourage child and adult participation. These "gamified" labs will allow your child to earn stickers and badges as rewards as they...
18) Carcassonne
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Players place land tiles to develop roads, cities, fields, and cloisters, and deploy their followers as thieves, farmers, knights and monks to score points as they develop the land around the medieval city of Carcassonne.
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Classic Chinese Mah Jonng Set with 146 cream white melamine tiles, 3 ivory dice, a wind indicator, color coded chips, and English instructions booklet in a clear plastic case. Tiles have Chinese characters with number. Don't worry if you don't read Chinese, you can easily Read the number on tiles! The more you play, the more quickly you learn. Tiles measure at 1.5 " x 1.2 " 0.9 " (35mm x 28mm x 22mm), large enough to handle and read. For Chinese rules...
20) Hoop dreams
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Criterion collection volume 289
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Follows the high school careers of two young, African-American men from inner-city Chicago as they pursue their dream of playing professional basketball.