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1) Snow angels
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Language
English
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Arthur Parkinson tells how his family fell apart, his problems when he turned fifteen, and how the murder of Annie Marchand, his old babysitter affected him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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In 1979, an odd man drives what at first glance looks like a 1954 mint-quality Buick Roadmaster up to a service station in rural Pennsylvania, then vanishes, leaving behind the car. The state police of Troop D deposit the vehicle in a shed near their barracks, where, up to the present, it remains a secret from all but cop colleagues, for the car isn't exactly a car; it may well be alive, and it certainly serves as a doorway between our world and ......
Author
Publisher
Distributed by St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Retired oil-field worker W.T. Halvorsen tracks down an illegal operation to steal natural gas run by a local company whose minions think nothing of kidnapping children or killing anyone else who might pose a threat to the highly profitable scheme.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Small but fast twelve-year-old Will Tyler, an avid football player in the down-and-out town of Forbes, Pennsylvania, takes matters into his own hands to try and finance the city's football team, giving the whole community hope in the process.
5) Crow call
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger who is her father, just returned from the war, when he goes hunting for crows in Pennsylvania farmland.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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After an injury ends former star pitcher Peter Friedman's athletic dreams, he concentrates on photography which leads him to a girlfriend, new fame as a high school sports photographer, and a deeper relationship with the beloved grandfather who, when he realizes he is becoming senile, gives Pete all of his professional camera gear.
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Experience love and healing in these two Amish tales A Wife for Jacob by Rebecca Kertz Jacob Lapp has loved Annie Zook since childhood. But she's never seen him that way. Annie is intent on marrying someone older, more established -- someone the opposite of Jacob. Can he ever break down the walls she's forged around her fragile heart and prove to her that he's the perfect man for her? Buried Sins by Marta Perry When the youngest Hampton sister, Caroline,...
13) Coal River
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Language
English
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In this vibrant new historical novel, the acclaimed author of The Plum Tree and What She Left Behind explores one young woman's determination to put an end to child labor in a Pennsylvania mining town…
As a child, Emma Malloy left isolated Coal River, Pennsylvania, vowing never to return. Now, orphaned and penniless at nineteen, she accepts a train ticket from her aunt and uncle and travels back to the rough-hewn community. Treated like a servant...
15) Kornwolf
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Language
English
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Tristan Egolf's new novel is a book about the return of an old curse - the Kornwolf, a ferocious werewolf whose nocturnal rampaging becomes increasingly impossible to ignore. Kornwolf takes the reader for a good old-fashioned romp in the stubble - a journey through the slums and honky tundra of rural Pennsylvania, where nothing quite passes for good or bad, sublime or dismal, discrete or brash. And then the monotony breaks. Something - a freak of...
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Language
English
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Sarah McClure, unable to secure a job after she and her husband move to the small town of Waterford, Pennsylvania, learns some lessons about life, love, and family when she reluctantly takes a temporary position helping the elderly, cantankerous Sylvia Compson prepare her family estate for sale.
19) Blood mud
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Retired police chief Mario Balzic, now working as a private investigator, finds himself in a life-and-death struggle against heart disease and murder, when he sets out to track down a cache of weapons stolen from a local gun shop.
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