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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Julie Harmon, having taken over the work of a man after her father gets ill and dies, imagines that marriage will be different, but she and her young husband Hank discover their life together is also full of struggles.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Seven-year-old Ellie's testimony led to the conviction of the man she was firmly convinced was the murderer of her sister. After twenty-two years in prison he returns, still denying his guilt, to their home town intent on proving his innocence and Ellie follows, equally intent on proving his guilt.
5) Panic
Author
Language
English
Description
Documentary filmmaker Evan Casher's life comes crashing down when his mother is brutally murdered and he narrowly escapes an attempt on his own life, only to learn from the enigmatic mercenary who saved him that Evan's entire life has been little more than a carefully constructed lie.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
Shay Bourne shattered June Nealon's life when he murdered her husband and daughter. Now, as New Hampshire's first death row inmate in 58 years, his last request is one he believes might bring him salvation. Shay wants to donate his heart to June's other, ailing daughter. But since he is scheduled for lethal injection, this not possible. Further complications arise when Shay begins performing miracles in full view of witnesses--including his Catholic...
7) Housekeeping
Author
Language
English
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Ruth and her sister Lucille are cared for by Sylvie, the transient sister of their dead mother. They attempt to keep house as the forces of nature erode their stronghold.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Emilia, a Harvard law school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After they marry, her happiness unexpectedly turns to grief with the death of their infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia is determined to carry on as she attempts to forge a connection with her stepson William and resist the interference of Jack's jealous ex-wife.
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Language
English
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Sent to Vienna to discover the truth about a bombing that killed an old friend, art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sidetracked by a photograph that turns his world upside-down. Could it really be the face of a man who during the last days of World War II had brutalized his mother on the Death March from Auschwitz? Questions abound when Allon, driven by an intensity he had not felt in years, begins to investigate, discovering in the process...
11) Cat Heaven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
God created Cat Heaven, with fields of sweet grass where cats can play, kitty-toys for them to enjoy, and angels to rub their noses and ears.
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Language
English
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The prize-winning author of Versailles tells the story of a small New England village unsettled by a young girl's unearthly gift. In Varennes, a town near the Canadian border, three girls come across the body of a dead man on the local lake's beach. Two of them run to get help, but twelve-year-old Mees Kipp stays with the body and somehow, inexplicably, brings it back to life. Her mysterious gift is at the center of this haunting and transcendent...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows nine-year-old Oskar Schell as he encounters a number of interesting characters in his search for information about his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and tries to find the lock that fits the mysterious key he left behind.
15) The gate house
Author
Language
English
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Description
When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world. John returns to Long Island to attend the funeral of an old family servant. Anthony Bellarosa, the long dead mafia don intends to drawing John back into the violent world of the Bellarosa family, and exact revenge on his father's murderer Susan Sutter.
16) The big chill
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1983
Language
English
Description
Seven college housemates from the 1960s who have drifted apart reunite at the funeral of a friend. Having entered adulthood as non-conformists, most now belong to the establishment. Stunned by the death of their peer, sensing their own mortality and the loss of their innocence, each takes the opportunity to reevaluate his or her life and re-establish their bond.
17) The confession
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Travis Boyette is paroled because of inoperable brain tumor, for the first time in his life, he decides to do the right thing and tell police about a crime he committed and another man is about to be executed for.
18) Everyman
Author
Language
English
Description
An unnamed man recounts his own life, from a sickly boy concerned with his own health, to becoming a father, an advertising man, a philanderer, and a deteriorating old man.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Kathryn Lyon's life was peacefully routine, she had a good job and a happy marriage, so when she received the news that her pilot husband has died in a crash, her world was drastically changed. Even before his body is recovered the media discovers that her husband had a secret life, and Kathryn sets out to learn who her husband really was.
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