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83) Finding Laura
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Laura Sutherland struggles to clear her name when she becomes the prime suspect in the murder of Peter Kilborne who was found dead in a motel room not long after he tried to persuade her to give up a mirror she had purchased earlier in the day at a sale on the Kilborne family estate.
Author
Series
First kids mystery volume 6
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When their pet cockroach disappears and then reappears wearing a tiny transmitter, seven-year-old Tessa and ten-year-old Cammie, daughters of the first female president, search for spies in the White House.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The lives of three people--Francine, a child who hears her mother's murder while hiding in her room; Harriet, an aging beauty who seeks out handymen to ease her boredom; and Teddy, a young man who had been ignored by his parents since birth--converge with harrowing results.
86) The first man
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The final book by Camus, covering the years of his fatherless childhood in Algeria, taken from his incomplete, handwritten manuscript.
87) Reservation Road
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Two ordinary families face an extraordinary crisis when ten-year-old Josh Learner is killed by hit-and-run driver Dwight Arno, a small-town lawyer who is also the father of a ten-year-old boy.
Author
Series
First kids mystery volume 3
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
With the help of their rambunctious dog, Hooligan, seven-year-old Tessa and ten-year-old Cammie, daughters of the first female president, investigate when Dorothy's ruby slippers vanish while on loan to the White House.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amelia Peabody and her family arrive in Egypt in 1911 for their annual excavation and to celebrate the wedding of Amelia's niece Lia to David, an Egyptian artist; but Amelia's attention is diverted from the dig when David is accused of selling ancient artifacts, and she must work fast to clear his name.
93) Small town girl
Author
Language
English
Description
Country music star Tess McPhail returns to her small home town to help care for her ailing mother and discovers that her fame carries no weight with her family or with the good-looking man next door.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Feeling a need for stability after her divorce and pursuit by a stalker, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham accepts a job with a Manhattan law firm and buys the former family house in New Jersey. When the house is renovated, the corpse of a missing woman turns up along with evidence linked to a family disappearance in 1892.
95) Sandcastles
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A painter and art instructor has made a peaceful life for herself with her three daughters at the Star of the Sea Academy, until the wedding of her eldest daughter brings her former love--and the girl's father--back into her life from his self-imposed exile and sets in motion a life-changing series of events.
96) Summer magic
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
2003, c1963
Language
English
Description
After losing her fortune, a widow moves her family to the country.
Author
Publisher
Longstreet
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A novelized version of the life of Laura Hoge Woods, based upon notes she left for her granddaughter, discussing her life in the pioneer days of Central Texas, her struggles against hardship and crisis, and her strong desire to make a different in the world, which leads her into the political arena.
98) One red rose
Author
Series
Clayborne brides volume 3rd
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Adam Clayborne, an escaped slave who made a new life for himself and his family in Montana, is content with his life as a confirmed bachelor, taking refuge in books about distant lands, but he finds himself under siege when his mother introduces him to Genevieve Delacroix, a woman who shares his dream of seeing the world, but also knows the value of love.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he's done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn't want to die--he wants to be celebrated, understood. Through a kaleidoscope of women--a mother, a sister, a homicide detective--we learn the story of Ansel's life. As the clock ticks down, these three women sift through the choices that culminate in tragedy, exploring the...
100) The witch of Exmoor
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Frieda Haxby Palmer, an aging feminist writer, throws her children into an uproar when she sells the family home and purchases a dilapidated hotel by the sea in Exmoor, where she proceeds to engage in increasingly eccentric behavior that has Daniel, Rosemary, and Gogo living in fear for their inheritances.
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