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21) High on a hill
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Anabel Lee and her father have made a middle-of-the-night move from their former home to a remote hilltop house. When a young boy calls to the house, he brings trouble for Anabel and her father.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Donna Milewski, an only child, is living a perfectly happy life with her grandmother, mother, and dad, who she charms with her accordian playing, until her parents adopt a precious, pitiful little girl from Poland who causes a rift between Donna and her father that takes many years to heal.
24) Sacrifice
Author
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
After miraculously recovering from a gunshot wound to the head, a man discovers that an ancient Mayan ritual has given him immortality, provided he offers a virgin sacrifice every nineteen years. His time almost up, he takes his seventeen-year-old daughter to Guatemala and prepares to offer her as a sacrifice.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six years ago Maddie lived in Washington D.C. with her father, a Secret Service agent assigned to the President's family, and her best friend was Logan, the President's son; but after her father was wounded in an attempted kidnapping the two of them moved to a remote cabin in Alaska and Logan never replied to her letters-- but now he has suddenly turned up on her doorstep, and, while she has no intention of forgiving him for his silence, she soon...
27) The family man
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Language
English
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Description
A hysterical phone call from Henry Archer's ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend his well ordered life and bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago. Henry is a lawyer, an old fashioned man, gay, successful, and lonely. Thalia is now 28, a hopeful actress, estranged from her newly widowed crackpot mother-Denise, Henry's ex. Hoping it will lead to better things...
28) March
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
30) Pure colour
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A short epic novel about art, grief, and love by Sheila Heti, the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be"--
31) The usual rules
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's a Tuesday morning in Brooklyn---a perfect September day. Wendy is heading to school, eager to make plans with her best friend, worried about how she looks, mad at her mother for not letting her visit her father in California, impatient with her little brother and with the almost too-loving concern of her jazz musician stepfather. She's out the door to catch the bus. An hour later comes the news: A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center---her...
34) Hanging up
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Eve seems to be the person her two sisters and cranky father rely on to keep them bound together as a family.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Alice Brill wakes up one day with a vague, but nagging sensation of unease in her chest that signals trouble. Is it her marriage-drifting along for years on auto pilot-that's so troubling? Her unrealized aspirations as a writer? Her unsettled younger son? Or is it something about her father, once a prominent surgeon but now slipping deeper into senility in a nursing home? There is also the matter of the writer whose book she's editing, in her new...
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