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1) Fearless
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Weaving a thread of suspense into her trademark powerful storytelling, #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels delivers a compelling new novel about a woman who learns that her new life may not be all it appears . . . Anna Campbell is ready to take her first tentative steps back into the world after widowhood. On a singles cruise, she meets divorced professor Ryan Robertson, and the sparks between them are undeniable. Back home in West...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed, bestselling author--winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize--tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly--thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wordsworth
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Complete and unabridged.
Physical Desc
596 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth Gaskell, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
4) After Anna
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nobody cuts deeper than family... Noah Alderman, a doctor and a widower, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie, and for the first time in a long time he and his son are happy. But their lives are turned upside down when Maggie's daughter Anna moves in with them. Anna is a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under their rules though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter back, ignores the red flags that hint at the trouble that is brewing....
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.
7) After Anna
Author
Language
English
Description
"Nobody cuts deeper than family... Noah Alderman, a doctor and a widower, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie, and for the first time in a long time he and his son are happy. But their lives are turned upside down when Maggie's daughter Anna moves in with them. Anna is a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under their rules though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter back, ignores the red flags that hint at the trouble that is brewing....
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"As the owner of Twisted, Seattle's best salons, Erica knows that the sharpest cuts come from the people we love. She's terrified that she's losing her teen daughter, Summer, to her "other" family, especially to her stepmom, Allison. All it takes to blow up Allison's happy life is one collect call. From prison. Her beloved husband, Peter, has been arrested, leaving Allison pregnant, broke, scared and alone with a toddler. But when her stepdaughter...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jane cares for her mother and sister until her stepfather dies, leaving nothing but debts and Jane's spoiled stepsister behind, but a mysterious boy from the woods and an invitation to a royal ball are certain to change her fate.
10) Me and Ms. Too
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When her Dad marries Ms. Too, who is no longer her favorite librarian, Molly has a hard time adjusting until she and Ms. Too learn that change isn't always scary--it may be the best thing of all.
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the storybook world of Enchancia, we meet Sofia, an average girl whose life suddenly transforms when her mother marries the king and she becomes a princess. Sofia must learn to navigate the extraordinary life of royalty while holding onto her own hopes and dreams. Her journey to be the best she can be also paves the way for those around her to realize how special they each are. Cinderella makes an appearance to offer Sofia some words of wisdom,...
12) Boundless Grace
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[28] p.: col. ill.; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Grace is invited for a visit with her father and his new family in Africa.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A modern-day girl finds herself at the start of the twentieth century, and as she and Samantha adjust to their respective new stepfamilies, the reader is invited to choose how Samantha continues her adventure.
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Square Fish/Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Square Fish ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
390 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cinder, a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle.
15) Better together!
Author
Publisher
Flamingo Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
During a storm, a squirrel family and a chipmunk family seek shelter in the same tree hollow and, despite their differences, become friends, and more.
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
267 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Stella North (Virgo) is shaken up by her father's surprise engagement; she takes fate into her own hands with astrology, tarot, and crystals, and even Magic 8 balls.
18) Geekerella
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In a modern version of "Cinderella," geek girl Elle Wittimer enters a cosplay contest behind her stepmother's back and meets teen actor Darien Freeman at a convention cosplay ball.
19) The second wife
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Alex met Natalie she changed his life. After the tragic death of his first wife, which left him a single parent to teenage daughter Jade, he was desperate to leave the pain of his past behind. But his newfound happiness is shattered when the family home is gutted by fire and his loyalties are unexpectedly tested. Jade insists she saw a man in the house on the night of the fire; Natalie denies any knowledge of such an intruder. One of them must...
Author
Series
Holly's heart volume 6
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
149 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Holly struggles with jealousy when her best friend invites an Austrian exchange student to stay for six weeks.