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41) Ghost wall
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English
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Spending time with her family at an Iron Age reenactment field site in northern England that requires participants to use prehistoric tools and knowledge to survive, Silvie begins to envision her own future before a spiritual ritual involving human sacrifice raises disturbing questions.
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Everyman's library volume 148
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English
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The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
45) Tough customer
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English
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A man of uncertain character finds his past haunting him when a madman targets him and the people he loves, and he must face his sins in order to protect himself and others.
46) Talk to me
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"A wry yet tenderhearted father-daughter story that looks at family, marriage, and fame through the lens of a popular TV anchor's public fall from grace" --
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English
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Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, it is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter and her brilliant, unemotional father. The plot of the novel is based upon a true story told to James by his close friend, British actress Fanny Kemble. The book is often compared with Jane Austen's work...
49) Here lies Alice
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Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Wow . . . one of the best books I have read!" --Goodreads reviewer, five stars A widower lets a new woman into his heart and his home--but she has her own agenda, in this thriller from the bestselling author of The Girl I Used to Be . Ever since Sophia Saunders was murdered, her husband, Peter, and daughter, Lauren, have been trying to rebuild their lives. Desperate to fill the emotional void, Peter becomes involved with a woman from his grief support...
51) Hanging up
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Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
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English
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Eve seems to be the person her two sisters and cranky father rely on to keep them bound together as a family.
53) Crow call
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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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.
54) High on a hill
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English
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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.
55) Fool me once
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English
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With a spark of romance and a bevy of chaotic canines (Romantic Times), #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels delivers a wonderfully entertaining novel about the things we do to protect the ones we love and the happiness life can bring when we least expect it...
Olivia Lowell always believed her father's claim that her mother died in childbirth, until the shocking day a lawyer informs her that her mother has just passed away, leaving...
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Gaiam
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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After the death of their mother, two young girls are forced to leave their life in the city and live with their estranged father, Mac, who is a rodeo cowboy. Though hostilities and challenges arise at first, Mac is determined to give it his best shot. Just as father and daughters are beginning to bond, Aunt Gayle steps in determined to gain custody.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Lizzie, a young girl whose mother died, begins thinking that her father has lost it when he starts to act like a bird, but agrees to help him with his goal of winning the town's Great Human Bird Competition, strengthening the bond between them.
59) Fable
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Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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As the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home Fable has ever known. Four years ago she watched her mother drown during a storm-- and the next day her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves and little food. To survive kept to herself, learned to trust no one and relied on the unique skills her mother taught her. Fable enlists the help of a young trader named West to get her off the island...
60) I liked my life
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English
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"Maddy is a devoted stay-at-home wife and mother, host of excellent parties, giver of thoughtful gifts, and bestower of a searingly perceptive piece of advice or two. She is the cornerstone of her family, a true matriarch...until she commits suicide, leaving her husband Brady and teenage daughter Eve heartbroken and reeling, wondering what happened. How could the exuberant, exacting woman they loved disappear so abruptly, seemingly without reason,...
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