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Series
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English
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Anna McNichol knows how to take charge. Raised by a single mother, she's worked to ensure her three children have every advantage she didn't. And while her marriage has its problems, she values commitment and believes in 'till death do us part.' Now an empty nester, she's at the peak of her career and ready to seize the opportunity to focus on her future. But life can change in an instant, and when her husband dies suddenly, Anna's carefully constructed...
2) Graceful
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic I
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Angelina D'Angelo has left town to see the world. It's now Grace's turn to use her magic to protect the people of Willow Falls, and she is up to the challenge. This is her destiny, after all. But destiny is a funny thing - it doesn't always behave the way you'd expect it to.
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English
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"Summer begins with Mary Kay Andrews, in this delightful summer read about flipping houses, and finding true love. Hattie Kavanaugh went to work helping clean up restored homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at eighteen; married the boss's son at twenty; and was only twenty-five when her husband, Hank, was killed in a motorcycle accident. Broken hearted, but determined to continue the business of their dreams, she takes the life insurance money,...
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Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
16 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Emergent readers will discover what animals do to get ready for winter. Full-color photographs and carefully leveled text help readers learn about the world around them. Pairs with the fiction title Beaver Bev"--
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names, there are no grades, and every day begins with 20 minutes of contemplative silence in the Meetinghouse. It is during one of those meetings that an airplane hits the Twin Towers. For two Idlewild outcasts, 9/11 serves as the first day of an intense, 18-month friendship. Fay is prickly, aloof, and obsessed with gay men; Nell is shy, sensitive,...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America, he threw himself into the low-life of Bohemian Paris with unwavering gusto.
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants—some of whom have barely spoken to each other—become real neighbors. In this Decameron-like serial novel,
Author
Series
Izzy volume 3
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
168 pages : 100 illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Isabel and Zoë are going to their first summer camp and everything's going to be a blast! -- until it isn't. Not only does the camp not allow dogs, they also don't allow Izzy's favorite songs, awesome penguin races and necessary lunch trades. But it isn't until Izzy accidentally uses permanent maker to draw some fake eyebrows on herself, that the camp experience really goes downhill. So, what do the girls do when camp isn't all sunshine and roses?...
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Language
English
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New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Sherryl Woods draws you into the emotional journey of a marriage worth savingWhen Elliott Cruz first courted struggling single mom Karen Ames, it was a romance worthy of any Sweet Magnolia fantasy. The sexy personal trainer made it his mission to restore Karen's strength-physical and emotional-and to charm her children.Now, a few years into the marriage, colliding dreams threaten to tear them apart....
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to adopt a baby--and to see his elderly mother for the first time in several years. Discovering that she is in the hospital, has stopped talking, and seems to have given up on life, he is struck with guilt for not realizing just how sick she has become. His unexpected appearance and assiduous attention revives her and...
11) Mercury
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1990 and seventeen-year-old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual loner, she seeks a place at someone's table and a family of her own. The first thing she sees when she arrives in town is three men standing on a rooftop. Their silhouettes blot out the sun. The Joseph brothers become Marley's whole world before she can blink. Soon, she is young wife to one, The One Who Got Away to another, and...
12) The scent keeper
Author
Language
English
Description
Emmeline lives an enchanted childhood on a remote island with her father, who teaches her about the natural world through her senses. What he won't explain are the mysterious scents stored in the drawers that line the walls of their cabin, or the origin of the machine that creates them. As Emmeline grows, however, so too does her curiosity, until one day the unforeseen happens, and Emmeline is vaulted out into the real world--a place of love, betrayal,...
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Last Election is a unique political thriller about an outlandish yet frighteningly possible—even probable—scenario in America's near future, during the crucial 2024 presidential election. Though it is fiction, it is a wake-up call to a country tearing itself apart. The story focuses on two characters: Mikey Ricci, a political operative who has lost faith in traditional structures following the bitter races of 2016 and 2020; and Martha Kass,...
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Series
Publisher
Random House Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
32 pages :
Language
English
Description
Journey into the world of Minecraft in this Step 3 Step into Reading, the only official leveled reader series based on Minecraft, one of the world's best-selling video game!Minecraftr is one of the best-selling video game of all time! And now learning to read has never been more fun for players of the game ages 4 to 7. They'll get a great introduction to the game's most mysterious biomes when two players, Emmy and Birch--and their tame wolf Byte--set...
15) Grave secrets
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Facing the most heartbreaking case of her career, Temperance Brennan investigates shallow graves where fading clues begin to emerge. Two decades ago something savage happened in this village -- soldiers massacred its women and children.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Atria paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 324 pages : genealogical table ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The stars have shifted. The earth has turned. The time is here. I am dying. Come and collect your inheritance. The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low or empty, or why their matriarch won't ever leave their home in Four Rivers--not for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. But when Orquídea Divina invites them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance, they hope...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the night garden, you can lie on the cool grass and look up to the millions and trillions of stars...
In the night garden, blinking stars and pale moonlight might reveal a lone cat tiptoeing across a roof, intoxicating flowers unfurling in the cool air, or a mama fox escorting her sleepy cubs home. Listen closely and you might hear the wind blowing through the trees, the murmur of a slow stream, or the gentle song of crickets and bullfrogs, lulling...
19) Saving Grayson
Author
Publisher
Focus on the Family
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An inspiring fiction story from the bestselling author of War RoomGrayson Hayes doesn't remember things as well as he used to, but he's sure his time is running out. Diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's, he realizes he has a small window of time left to right a terrible injustice-he just can't remember what it is.Convinced of the importance of his mission, he embarks on a journey to the small West Virginia town of his childhood hoping he can put...
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[This edition published 2023.]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
In this interactive, laugh-out-loud story where readers must only ever count to one, children can find ways to outsmart the book... and count all the way up to 100!