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English
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After more than ten years without closure, thirty-year-old Kate Hollis gets the chance to take revenge on her superstar high school sweetheart for abandoning her, putting personal details about their relationship in his hit songs, and stealing music from his old bandmates--but finds herself falling in love with him again.
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Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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The closeness of five friends growing up in 1950s Pisgah, Missouri--including Rajiv Travers, a boy born to a East Indian mother and English father, abandoned by his family, and adopted by the American romance writer his uncle left behind by suicide--is threatened when a love triangle develops within their group and the dark secrets of Pisgah's residents emerge.
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, family ties severed with the violent death of her father, takes to the Stark River in a rowboat left to her by her grandfather and sets out to find her runaway mother, using her knowledge of the natural world and ability to see into the hearts of men and women to survive.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Ronnie Miller is resentful when her mother insists she and her ten-year-old brother spend the summer with their estranged father in North Carolina, and while things get off to a rocky start, Ronnie eventually makes friends and begins to better understand her dad and why he wanted her to visit.
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Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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Beth Lowe receives a scrapbook from her long-estranged mother entitled The Book of Summers which is filled with photographs and mementos recording the seven glorious childhood summers Beth spent in rural Hungary before it all came brutally to an end when she turned sixteen.
8) The kid
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Abdul, having been left on his own after his mother died when he was nine, struggles to form an identity he can stand behind as he reaches adulthood and faces challenges along the way.
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English
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Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton and his devout wife, Kate, bring three-year-old Benji from Nagasaki to live with them on their Illinois farm in the late nineteenth century, claiming he is an orphan, but when it becomes known that Benji is the son of Benjamin and a geisha, shock runs throughout their entire community, and Benji is freed to explore his own identity and the truth about his mother's death.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Seven years after witnessing the murders of three children in a cave in Greenwich, England, twenty-year-old Anita Naidu relates the events of the tragedy to a psychologist and reflects on her friendship with an angry, verbally abusive boy named Kyle and an obese outsider named Denis.
11) The cat's table
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Michael, now an adult, recalls the three-week long sea voyage he took as a boy in the early 1950s to meet his mother. During the trip across the Indian Ocean the boy meets a variety of characters on board.
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English
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Rachael, whose mother is Danish and father is an African-American, loses both her parents and is forced to move to a new city to live with her strict African-American grandmother, but when she is immersed into an African-American community, her physical appearance draws attention and Rachel struggles with her own uncertainties about her identity.
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Series
Annie's people volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Annie Zook, the only daughter of an Old Order Amish preacher, having passed up one chance at marriage, is torn between doing what is expected of her as a member of the Plain community, and her burning desire to be an artist.
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English
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"Original, engrossing, sweet." - Graeme Simsion, NYT bestselling author of The Rosie Project
"Wears its heart proudly." - The Guardian
"Sure to be a new favorite for readers who enjoyed V. E. Schwab's The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. . .a stunning tale" (Booklist, STARRED review) that follows a man who can never be remembered and his journey to become unforgettable...
On an ordinary night in an ordinary year, Tommy Llewellyn's doting parents...
15) The willow field
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Rossie Benasco, already a veteran cowboy though barely twenty, meets and marries the pregnant daughter of a Scottish rancher in the 1930s who becomes the focus of his life as he runs a farm in Montana, raises a family, joins the Marine Corps during World War II, and becomes involved in politics.
16) Gods of Aberdeen
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Eric Dunne, a sixteen-year-old genius, enrolls in Aberdeen College hoping to escape his foster family and live a normal life, but when he becomes entangled in a mysterious death, he must use his intelligence and cunning to find the killer.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Sebastian Prendergast, having left the safety of the geodesic dome in which he lived after his grandmother had a stroke, meets sixteen-year-old Jared Whitcomb, and together the boys experience the angst of being teenagers while forming a punk rock band, but when Jared's grandma asks him to return to her home, he is faced with choosing between her dying wish and his newfound life.
18) Arcadia
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Language
English
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Description
The rise and fall of Arcadia, a hippy commune, and its lasting impact on Bit, a gifted young man.
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Fergus immigrates to America in the hopes of escaping the Great Famine plaguing Ireland in 1847, and encounters a diverse cast of characters that introduce him to violence, sexual longing, and the glories and dangers of the industrial revolution.
20) On Canaan's side
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Lilly Bere reflects on her life as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill, recounting her forced emigration from Ireland at the end of World War I, her life in America, her first taste of love and betrayal, and her capacity for forgiveness.
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