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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher. Someone older who understood you when you were young and searching, who helped you see the world as a more profound place, and gave you advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of your mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't...
3) Memory man
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Amos Decker's life changed forever--twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect--he can never forget anything. The second time was at home nearly two decades later....
4) Drift
Author
Series
Rachel Hatch volume 1
Publisher
Liquid Mind Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ex-Army criminal investigator Rachel Hatch is a drifter. No home. No commitments. Until her sister's drowning drags her back to the town she left fifteen years ago. Convinced her sister's death was no accident, Hatch partners with the local sheriff, Dalton Savage to uncover the truth. Every answer unlocks another question, and as the investigation begins to unravel, Hatch and Savage find their lives on the line. Hatch is forced to use her special...
5) The newcomer
Author
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads, delivers her next page-turner for the summer in The Newcomer. IN TROUBLE AND ON THE RUN . . . After she discovers her sister Tanya dead on the floor of her fashionable New York City townhouse, Letty Carnahan is certain she knows who did it: Tanya's ex; sleazy real estate entrepreneur Evan Wingfield. Even in the grip of grief and panic Letty heeds her late sister's warnings: "If anything...
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Series
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Atria books trade paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Following the unexpected death of her father, eighteen-year-old Layken is forced to be the rock for both her mother and her younger brother. Outwardly, she appears resilient and tenacious, but inwardly, she's losing hope. One young man brings change to all of this. After moving across the country, Layken meets her attractive twenty-one-year-old neighbor who has an intriguing passion for slams. Within days of their introduction, Will and Layken form...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
288
Language
English
Description
When Laurel starts writing letters to dead people for a school assignment, she begins to spill about her sister's mysterious death, her mother's departure from the family, her new friends, and her first love.
Author
Series
Palace chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After a terrible fire destroys her home and kills her twelve sister-princesses, Desmia must rise above those who intend to manipulate her and sieze power for themselves--and find out the truth"--
10) Death note 3
Author
Publisher
VIZ Meida
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Black edition
Physical Desc
412 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call...
12) Things hoped for
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
�2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Gwen, who has been living with her grandfather in Manhattan while she attends music school, joins up with another music student to solve the mystery of her grandfather's sudden disappearance.
Author
Publisher
Wings Books
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
506 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Where are the children: Nancy Harmon flees her disastrous marriage and the deaths of her two children to Cape Cod, where she marries again and starts a new family, but when her two new children disappear, the nightmare begins anew.--Where.
A Stranger is Watching: Ronald Thompson knows he never killed Nina Peterson ... yet in two days the state of Connecticut will take his life, having found him guilty via due process of law. But Thompson's death...