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"If not for her loving but controlling parents, Beth Prudhomme might never have taken charge of her life and moved from her native Chicago to Portland, Oregon, where she has reconnected with her spirited Aunt Sunshine and found a job as a high school music teacher. If not for her friend Nichole Nyquist, Beth would never have met Sam Carney, although first impressions have left Beth with serious doubts. Sam is everything Beth is not--and her conservative...
2) Silver borne
Author
Series
Mercy Thompson novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
"When mechanic and shapeshifter Mercy Thompson attempts to return a powerful Fae book she'd previously borrowed in an act of desperation, she finds the bookstore locked up and closed down. It seems the book contains secret knowledge--and the Fae will do just about anything to keep it out of the wrong hands. And if that doesn't take enough of Mercy's attention, her friend Samuel is struggling with his wolf side--leaving Mercy to cover for him, lest...
3) Soul taken
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Mercy Thompson novels volume 13
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English
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"Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, must face her greatest fears in this chilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. The vampire Wulfe is missing. Since he's deadly, possibly insane, and his current idea of "fun" is stalking Mercy, some may see it as no great loss. But when he disappears, the Tri-Cities pack is blamed. The Mistress of the vampire seethe informs Mercy that the pack must produce Wulfe to prove their innocence,...
4) River marked
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Mercy Thompson novels volume 6
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English
Description
Car mechanic and shapeshifter Mercy Thompson has never known any others of her kind. Until now. As Mercy comes to terms with this new information, an evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River--and if Mercy and her mate, the Alpha werewolf Adam, are to have any hope of surviving, they will need all the resources the shifters can offer.
5) Bone crossed
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Series
Mercy Thompson novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Car mechanic/shapeshifter Mercy Thompson must protect her friends from vampire queen Marsilia's revenge.
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Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"A gritty, voice-driven thriller about a former getaway driver who thought he had escaped the criminal life who is pulled back in by race, poverty, and his own former life of crime. Beauregard "Bug" Montage is a man with many different titles: husband, father, friend, honest car mechanic. But before he gave it up, Bug used to be known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best Wheel Man on the East Coast. After a series...
9) Iron kissed
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Series
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English
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Mechanic Mercy Thompson can shift her shape -- but not her loyalty. When her former boss and mentor is arrested for murder and left to rot behind bars by his own kind, it's up to Mercy to clear his name, whether he wants her to or not. Mercy's loyalty is under pressure from other directions, too. Werewolves are not known for their patience, and if Mercy can't decide between the two she cares for, Sam and Adam may make the choice for her.
10) Flights
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
Description
"From the author of Remainder and Satin Island (which was short-listed for the Booker Prize), a high-tech odyssey through CGI studios, wind tunnels, and drone research centers, where the limits of healing, entertaining, revelation, and destruction are continually being transformed. A kaleidoscopic exploration of motion and how the forces that compel and impel us continues to defy capture and understanding. The historical starting point: Lillian Gilbreth,...
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Roadside assistance trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies and she and her father move in with her wealthy aunt and cousin, Emily struggles when her car-loving, tomboy identity and her way of expressing her faith clash with the expectations of others.
14) Smoke bitten
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Series
Mercy Thompson novels volume 12
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Shapeshifting mechanic Mercy Thompson will face a threat unlike any other. . . . I am Mercedes Athena Thompson Hauptman. My only "superpowers" are that I turn into a thirty-five-pound coyote and I can fix Volkswagens. But I have friends in odd places and a pack of werewolves at my back. It looks like I'm going to need them. Centuries ago, the fae dwelt in Underhill-until she locked her doors against them. They left behind their great castles and...
15) Purgatory chasm
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly agreeing to help an obnoxious member of his local AA group, recovering alcoholic and resourceful mechanic Conway Sax is wrongly accused of the man's subsequent murder and struggles to catch the real killer in order to clear his name.
16) Dark fire
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Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Hired as the mechanic for a traveling troupe of musicians, Tempest, gifted with the ability to communicate with animals, is astounded to discover an overpowering attraction to Darius, the troupe's leader.
Author
Series
Nana's adventures volume 2
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Eufala and Bog's feisty Nana decides she wants to join the rodeo, but gets sidetracked when her car breaks down and the repair shop needs an extra hand.
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English
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"Lydia is fascinated by the freedom afforded by the new motor cars, and Spencer is a forward-thinking entrepreneur, looking for investors to support his chain of auto-supply shops. Lydia and Spencer's love of motor cars and their quick, witty banter leads to instant romantic chemistry, but their relationship is threatened by the traditional expectations of marriage and the needs of a free-spirited woman who is determined to create her own future"--
"London...
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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
Description
Nick Cosetti, a mechanic and closet writer from New York City, finds a job in Las Vegas at the newly constructed Flamingo Hotel and Casino. He quickly discovers that his employer is linked to the Mafia and that his employment involves more than maintaining a fleet of hotel vehicles to service visiting Hollywood celebrities. On the evening of June 20, 1947, while driving from Las Vegas to Phoenix carrying suitcases for Virginia Hill, Bugsy Siegel's...
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