Nicola Barber
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English
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Upon learning that she is an earl's illegitimate daughter, 1920s governess Rachel Woodley teams up with an associate who helps her infiltrate key social circles in order to contact her father and undermine her privileged half-sister's world.
Raised in a poor yet genteel household, Rachel Woodley is working in France as a governess when she receives news that her mother has died, suddenly. Grief-stricken, she returns to the small town in England where...
Author
Series
Spirit animals. Fall of the beasts volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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After being smuggled to a remote palace, four young Greencloaks and their spirit animals discover someone has been manipulating Erdas's leaders to uncover a relic believed to have the power to flood the world.
3) Lullaby
Author
Series
Watersong volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Harper has a boyfriend, but even Daniel's gentleness and loyalty cannot completely ease her fears about her younger sister. Gemma has fallen under the influence, even control of Penn, Thea, and Lexi, three gorgeous girls whose dark powers neither Harper nor her sister can yet fully comprehend. In this standalone sequel to Wake, matters coalesce in disturbing ways, raising questions about how this rescue mission will really end.
5) I let you go
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English
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Devastated by a hit-and-run accident that has ended the life of her young son, Jenna moves to the remote Welsh coast to search for healing while two dedicated policemen try to get to the bottom of the case.
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English
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"By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained--by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household management--a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come....
8) The au pair
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"An addictive, highly commercial suspense novel featuring a grand estate, terrible secrets, and a young woman who bears witness to it all. If V.C. Andrews, Kate Morton, and Lexie Elliot had a love child, Emma Rous and THE AU PAIR would be it. Seraphine Mayes and her twin brother Danny were born in the middle of summer at their family's estate on the Norfolk coast. Within hours of their birth, their mother threw herself from the cliffs, the au pair...