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2) The Lost
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon's backyard. He's always kept it local, attending the University of Miami on a football scholarship and, as a Miami PD officer, protecting the city's most vulnerable. Now, as the leader of an FBI task force called Operation Guardian, he is combating international crime. Moon's investigative team discovers that the opportunistic "Blood Brothers"-- Russian nationals Roman and Emile Rostoff-- have evaded authorities...
3) Warlight
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Decades after World War II, Nathaniel Williams reflects on his experiences in 1945, when his parents left him and his sister in the care of a mysterious neighbor.
4) The nest
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Gathering to confront their older brother, who has recently been released from rehab after a drunk driving accident, the Plumb siblings watch as the trust fund left by their father rises and falls according to self-inflicted problems.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his father and sister are injured in an accident that has rendered his father comatose, estranged son Edward decides to stop his father's life support so that his organs can be donated, a choice his sister urges him to reconsider.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
239 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Mr. Green, a stingy widower with three children he cannot be bothered with, decides to find a nanny for his children, he winds up hiring a glamorous ex-circus pig who knows nothing about children but a lot about chocolate.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The head of her family's haute couture Italian leather brand, Cosima Saverio, partnering with France's most successful handbag company, must make an impossible choice when her brother loses a hefty sum at the casino and his debt must be repaid with money or his life"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 247 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The author explains how she discovered she had a secret half-brother--a youthful "mistake" by her mother who grew up neglected and abused in an uncaring foster system--and explores how their different upbringings impacted their destinies.
Author
Series
Practical magic volume Book 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
From beloved author Alice Hoffman comes the spellbinding prequel to her bestseller, Practical Magic.Find your magic.For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man.Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three children are dangerously unique. Difficult Franny, with skin as...
12) Under currents
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a novel about the power of family to harm--and to heal. Within the walls of a tasteful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, young Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers--and even Zane's own aunt across the lake--see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children's ballet recitals and baseball games. Zane and his...
13) A secret kept
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When traumatic memories about a disturbing event from a childhood summer holiday cause his sister to suffer a debilitating car accident, Antoine befriends a street-wise mortician who helps him to manage painful family truths.
Author
Series
Family upstairs volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sequel to: The Family Upstairs.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell comes an intricate and affecting novel about twisted marriages, fractured families, and deadly obsessions in this standalone sequel to the The Family Upstairs. Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Discovering that two withdrawn neighborhood children are being physically abused by their father, Mascha bravely takes things into her own hands when the adults in the community deny that anything is wrong.
17) Dark places
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
For a price Libby Day will reconnect with the players that murdered her mother and two sisters in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." Having testified that her brother Ben was the murderer on that fateful night twenty-five years ago, now she is not so sure as, piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started--on the run from a killer.
18) Liar, liar
Author
Series
Harriet Blue volume 3
Language
English
Description
In the space of a week, she has committed theft and fraud, resisted arrest, assaulted a police officer, and is considered a dangerous fugitive from the law. It's all because of one man, Regan Banks. He viciously killed the only person in the world who matters to Harriet--and he plans to kill her next. As she recklessly speeds toward the dark side--and finally crosses it--Harriet won't stop until Regan pays for the many lives he has taken.--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text portray a young brother and sister as they spend an afternoon imagining great adventures together.
Author
Series
Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 1 of 3
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
162 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter into the soon-to-be completed Mangrove Hollow, eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas finds an ally in his new stepsister when a little nixie with a huge problem comes to him for help.