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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Living with her warden father in an apartment above a 1950s prison, Cammie O'Reilly struggles to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who died saving her from harm when she was a baby, and interacts with some of the reformed inmates.
62) Panic
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English
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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.
63) All night long
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English
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Shy, studious Irene Stenson and wild, privileged Pamela Webb had been the best of friends for one short high school summer. Their friendship ended the night Pamela dropped Irene off at home-and Irene walked in to discover her parents' bodies on the kitchen floor. It was ruled a murder-suicide, and Irene fled Dunsley, determined to wipe out every memory attached to her northern California hometown. But now she has been summoned back. Pamela's e-mail...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Acclaimed critic, essayist, and New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose is a National Book Award finalist. Set in a rustic New York village, Goldengrove revolves around the tragic drowning of Nico's older sister Margaret. With her parents distracted by grief, 13-yearold Nico-confidant and decoy in Margaret's clandestine romance-is left alone to fall under the seductive spell of Margaret's beau.
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Mallory and Jared attempt to rescue Simon from goblins, they use a magical stone which enables them to see things that are normally invisible.
67) Persuasion
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Language
English
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Persuasion unfolds against the backdrop of early 19th-century England, where societal norms and familial expectations shape the lives of its characters. At the heart of the narrative is Anne Elliot, a woman of quiet strength and discernment. The story begins with a fateful decision: Anne, guided by the counsel of her family, reluctantly breaks off her engagement with the charming and ambitious Captain Frederick Wentworth. Eight years pass, and the...
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English
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Will the ties that bound these three families for generations finally tear them apart? New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky's classic novel Twilight Whispers now available as an e-book for the first time.
Linked for years through friendship and intermarriage, the Warren and Whyte families find their charmed world is marred when Mark Whyte and his wife Deborah Warren are found murdered. Police detective Robert Cavanaugh, working on a...
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English
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Wife, mother, lover, celebrated singer, and problem solver Nuala Anne McGrail has a tender side that she often shows to her devoted friends and family. But when those under her protection are in danger, she becomes a veritable Irish Tiger, akin to the fierce warrior women of ancient Erin. With Dermot, her loyal husband, in tow, there are few mysteries she can't untangle.
The couple will need all their resources when they come to the aid of two loving...
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English
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ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • In his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, riveting novel of suspense with the saga of a unique family. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the Eastern seabord—families who summer at Martha’s Vineyard—and the inner circle...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When Billy Crosby, who was arrested for killing Jody Linder's parents in 1986, is released from prison by his son a lawyer, the two return to Rose, Kansas, where Jody works as a teacher, forcing the Linder family to confront the truth of what had happened twenty-three years earlier.
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Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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Adam Arnring, son of an Irish immigrant and a Jewish peddler, heads West and lays the foundations of what will become one of the country's greatest retail companies. But along the way, love and war intervene, testing the ties that bind him to his brothers and to his trusting wife.
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English
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Dark and compassionate, graceful yet raw, Undressing the Moon explores the seams between childhood and adulthood, between love and loss. . .
At thirty, Piper Kincaid feels too young to be dying. Cancer has eaten away her strength; she'd be alone but for a childhood friend who's come home by chance. Yet with all the questions of her future before her, she's adrift in the past, remembering the fateful summer she turned fourteen and her life changed...
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English
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From the author of The White Bone, a piercing novel of passionate attachment and of the fear and freedom of letting go.
Louise Kirk learns about love and loss at an early age. When she is nine years old, her former beauty queen mother disappears, leaving a note that reads only, and incorrectly, Louise knows how to work the washing machine. Soon after, the Richters and their adopted son, Abel, move in across the street. Louise's immediate devotion...
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English
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For decades-in China and in San Francisco-Winnie Louie and Helen Kwong have kept each other's confidences, but those secrets are about to be revealed. Convinced that she is dying, Helen decides to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of hidden truths-not only hers, but those of Winnie and of Winnie's daughter, Pearl. So begins a series of comic misunderstandings and heartbreaking realizations about luck, loss, and trust-about the...
80) The blessings
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When John Blessing dies and leaves behind two small children, the loss reverberates across his extended family for years to come.
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