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27) Too big to miss
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Too big to miss—that's Odelia Grey. A never-married, middle-aged, plus-sized woman who makes no excuses for her weight, she's not super woman just a mere mortal standing on the precipice of menopause, trying to cruise in an ill-fitting bra. She struggles with her relationships, her crazy family, and her crazier boss. And then there's her knack for being in close proximity to dead people...When her close friend Sophie London commits suicide in front...
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From Tatjana Soli, The New York Times bestselling author of The Lotus Eaters, comes a breathtaking novel of a California ranching family, its complicated matriarch, and the enigmatic caretaker who may destroy them.
When Claire Nagy marries Forster Baumsarg, the only son of prominent California citrus ranchers, she knows she's consenting to a life of hard work, long days, and worry-fraught nights. But, her love for Forster is so strong, she turns...
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Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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Because he looks like the drug dealer Bobby Z, and he wants to get out of his life sentence for killing a fellow Hell's Angel, Tim Kerney decides to impersonate Bobby Z and be given to a drug kingpin in exchange for a captured DEA agent.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Julie Otsuka’s commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination—both physical and emotional—of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point of view—the mother receiving the order to evacuate; the daughter on the long train...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Biographer and amateur sleuth Cece Caruso, researching the life of author Carolyn Keene, heads for the annual Nancy Drew convention in Palm Springs where she plans to stay at the vacation home of a collector of original volumes of the mystery series, but her trip takes a deadly turn when she arrives to find a corpse in the pool.
40) V
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Publisher
Perennial Classics
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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Follows the orbits of old acquaintances headed for a less than harmonic convergence in Northern California in 1984.
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