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After the violent death of their patriarch, the Needham family members move from South Carolina to Philadelphia, where widow Selma does her best to raise her children and her great-grandson Rayne, who is eventually responsible for trying to save their land and mend rifts between them.
3) The odds
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The Homicide Department is upside down-Richard Christie is in the hospital, Artie Dolan is headed away on vacation, John Potocki's life is falling apart, and Colleen Greer is so worried about her boss's health, she can hardly think. A young boy in Pittsburgh's North Side neighborhood dies of a suspicious overdose. The Narcotics police are working on tips and they draft Colleen and Potocki to help them. In this same neighborhood, four young kids have...
7) Blue Monday
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Viking
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Psychotherapist Frieda Klein is caught up in the disappearance of five-year-old Matthew Farraday when one of her patients, Alan Dekker, tells her the dreams he has been having of desperately wanting a child and the description he gives matches Matthew perfectly but Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson doesn't believe they are one and the same until he uncovers a link from an unsolved abduction twenty year ago.
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
A New York Times Bestseller
"Funny, tender, and moving, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry reminds us all exactly why we read and why we love." -Library Journal, starred review
A. J. Fikry's life is not at all what he expected it to be. He lives alone, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. But when a mysterious...
11) Warlight
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Decades after World War II, Nathaniel Williams reflects on his experiences in 1945, when his parents left him and his sister in the care of a mysterious neighbor.
13) Take me with you
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Raised in an Italian orphanage in the years following World War II, a biracial girl named Susanna and her best friend Pina want to be adopted but fear being separated.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Ten years after the Civil War's end, twelve-year-old Addy, abandoned by her parents, is taken from the horrid town of No-Bob by schoolteacher Frank Russell and his bride, but when her father returns to claim her she must find another way to leave her O'Donnell past behind.
16) Don't let go
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Persefone trilogy volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"In his final installment of the Don't Turn Around trilogy, Noa, Peter, and what is left of their army race across the country in their search to destroy Project Persephone before time runs out"--
17) Girl in pieces
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016].
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.
18) Don't look now
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Teen hackers Noa and Peter struggle to take down the AMRF corporation while rescuing foster kids from AMRF's gruesome experiments"--
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English
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Inadvertently reunited with the daughter she secretly abandoned and the girl's Irish Catholic adoptive mother during the height of the Prohibition era, the adult daughter of a Jewish industrialist finds her life turned upside down by her daughter's bold and unconventional personality.
20) August Rush
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
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The musical genius inside young orphan August Rush emerges as he searches New York City for the parents who were separated from him--and each other--years earlier.
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