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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
" For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe that she would be abandoned as a young child, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice's old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
On a cold November night, Evelyn Van Pelt steals her roommate's two underfed and neglected little girls from their beds and drives to the northwestern hometown she fled fourteen years earlier-Cormorant Lake. There, hidden in the mountains and woods, dense with fog and the cold of winter, Evelyn grapples with the guilt of what she's done, and as she attempts to reconcile her wild independence with the responsibilities of parenthood, she reconnects...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (8.75 hrs.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Malin has always been different, and when her father dies, leaving her alone, her choice is clear: stay, and remain an outsider forever, or leave in search of the mythical inheritance she is certain awaits her. Apprenticed to a series of strange and wonderful characters, Malin embarks on a grueling journey that crosses oceans and continents from the high seas to desert plains - and leads to a discovery that she could never have expected.
8) Far away
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 7 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"CJ's Aunt Nic is a psychic medium who tours the country speaking to spirits from Far Away, passing on messages from the dearly departed. And CJ knows firsthand how comforting those messages can be -- Aunt Nic's Gift is the only way CJ can talk to her mom, who died just hours after she was born. So when CJ learns that she won't be able to speak to her mother anymore, even with Aunt Nic's help, she's determined to find a workaround. She sets off on...
9) Monday's lie
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A new literary thriller from the ... author of the ... debut novel Three Graves Full, Jamie Mason Mason tells the ... story of the daughter of a spy who suspects her husband wants her dead"-- Provided by publisher.
10) The four winds
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she...
11) Blueprints
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work-and what to do when they break. Caroline MacAfee is a skilled carpenter, her daughter Jamie, a talented architect. Together they are the faces of Gut It!, a home renovation series on local public television. Caroline takes pride in her work, and in the way she connects with the show's audience. But when she is told the network wants her daughter to replace her as host-the day after...
12) Esperanza renace
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (5 hr., 24 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
Español
Description
"Esperanza Ortega possesses all the treasures a young girl could want: fancy dresses; a beautiful home filled with servants in Aguascalientes, Mexico; and the promise of one day rising to Mama's position and presiding over all of Rancho de las Rosas. But a sudden tragedy shatters that dream, forcing Esperanza and Mama to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp. There, Esperanza must relinquish her hold on the past as she confronts...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester's father but her mother-a stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher when the family moved to the South-who made the most...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A young Asian girl notices that her eyes look different from her peers'. They have big, round eyes and long lashes. She realizes that her eyes are like her mother's, her grandmother's, and her little sister's. They have eyes that kiss in the corners and glow like warm tea, crinkle into crescent moons, and are filled with stories of the past and hope for the future. Drawing from the strength of these powerful women in her life, she recognizes her...