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Author
Series
The walk volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
Continues the walking journey of Alan Christoffersen and recounts more of the experiences of betrayal and tragic loss that motivated his travels.
2) The walk
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After advertising executive Alan Christoffersen loses everything he holds dear, he embarks on a walk across America, a journey where he will meet people, form relationships, and learn important lessons as he walks to a new life.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The #1 internationally bestselling author returns with a new novel in the vein of her New York Times bestsellers Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter--a story even more electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful than anything she's written before. What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she's spent her whole life in the small beachside town...
Author
Language
English
Description
From her silver Mercedes to her designer kitchen, Molly's life is gleaming and beautiful, at least on the surface. Married to Tanner, a top cosmetic dentist, she has a wonderful daughter finishing high school and twin stepsons from Tanner's first marriage. No one in her exclusive neighborhood in Goldenhills, Massachusetts, knows what living with the demanding Tanner is really like. They know even less about the life she left behind in Florida almost...
Author
Series
Christmas hope volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Relocating to an apartment with her two children to be closer to her mother, Gretchen offers to help clear out the home of a reclusive neighbor's recently deceased mother and discovers that the neighbor, Melissa, has two siblings and an identity that she never suspected.
6) Freshwater
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born "with one foot on the other side." Unsettling, heart wrenching, dark, and powerful, Freshwater is a sharp evocation of a rare way of experiencing the world, one that illuminates how we all construct our identities. Ada begins her life in...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Description
Lizette Henry, possessing unusual detection skills but struggling with a memory disorder, accepts help from the mysterious and seductive Xavier--a stranger who triggers disturbing images of an unspeakable crime of which Lizette may or may not be the perpetrator.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband, Charlie, lead a charmed life--except when there's a crisis at work, a leak in the roof at home, or a problem with their twins at college. And why not? New York City was once Nora's dream destination, and her clannish dead-end block has become a safe harbor, a tranquil village amid the urban craziness. Then one morning she returns from her run to discover that a terrible incident has shaken the...
10) Insurgent
Author
Series
Divergent volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Christine, suffering from a rare form of amnesia where she cannot retain memories from day to day, starts seeing a new doctor who recommends she keep a journal. Her life starts getting scary when she sees she has written "Dont' trust Ben," the man who claims to be her husband.
12) Being Nikki
Author
Series
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
336 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Studious Emerson Watts learns startling news about the family of Nikki Howard, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted by the evil Stark corporation.
13) Runaway
Author
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts learns the truth about Nikki, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted, she finds that there is only one person to turn to for help--especially since her loved ones seem to be furious with her.
14) Mo's mustache
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Monster Mo's big, beautiful mustache inspires all of his friends to copy his style by growing fabulous mustaches of their own, leaving Mo to wonder how he will continue to distinguish himself.
15) Petra
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books of Northern New York
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
North American Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Petra is a little rock who believes she is a mighty mountain, until a dog fetches her for its owner, and she is tossed into a bird's nest. A mountain? No, Petra is now an egg!
16) Broken glass
Author
Series
The mirror sisters volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of the Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina series, now Lifetime movies, comes book two of the haunting saga of identical twin sisters tortured by their perfectionist mother--until one of them snaps. Haylee and Kaylee Fitzgerald are twin sisters who have been forced to be identical in every way by their domineering mother. She insists they wear the same clothes, eat the same food, get the same grades,...
17) Bear and duck
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2015
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bear is tired of being a bear and thinks he would like to be a duck. With a few lessons from Duck, he finds out that it is quite fun, but realizes he actually makes a really good bear.
18) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Envious of the other dogs that have tails, Henry goes in search of a tail of his own, but in the end he decides he is happy the way he is.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First Atria books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
New York, 1993. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts. At turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self-possessed, Lucy is in unrequited love with her best friend and pick-up teammate Percy, scion to a prominent New York family who insists he wishes to resist upper crust fate.