Sandra Burr
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IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
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An Artist's Life: Historical Fiction about Art
Art & Artist Fiction
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Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist infatuated by Dorian's beauty. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Suddenly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than...
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Recently divorced and having no family of her own, Joy Candellaro is beginning to dream of a new life with widower Daniel O'Shea and his son, Bobby, until a fateful Christmas Eve forces her to make a painful choice
Joy Candellaro used to love Christmas more than any other time of the year. Now, as the holiday approaches, she finds herself at loose ends. Recently divorced and estranged from her sister, she can't summon the old enthusiasm for celebrating....
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Son of an ex-FBI agent, Miles Kettering, six-year-old Sam Kettering is kidnapped and taken to eastern Tennessee. The boy manages to escape. But the kidnappers do not give up. Miles Kettering joins Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich to investigate why the kidnappers want this little boy so badly - and they also soon find themselves ineluctably drawn into the investigation of the murders of three math teachers in the Washington, D.C. area.
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Cedar Cove series volume 7
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English
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Meet blissfully happy newlyweds Bobby and Teri Polger. He's an international chess champion, she's a salon stylist, and both will soon be confronted by deadly threats from a vindictive Russian rival.
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While renovating an old mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans, Declan Fitzgerald begins seeing visions of days from a century past. Local legend has it that the house is haunted but he uncovers the reason for the strange sensations of terror and unbearable grief.
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Angelic intervention volume 7
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Three angels with a penchant for trouble bring some much-needed Christmas magic into the lives of three people--an elderly man searching for peace of mind, a young woman afraid of commitment, and a little boy with a special holiday wish.
Archangel Gabriel and his three mischievous Prayer Ambassadors--Shirley, Goodness and Mercy--lend their celestial aid to three needy Christmas cases. Harry Alderwood, 86, prays that his increasingly forgetful wife,...
8) Little women
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
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This story of a wife and her four daughters living outside Boston during the Civil War has captivated readers for decades. Louisa May Alcott's classic heroines offer something with which every reader can identify. Jo's independence, Meg's resourcefulness, Beth's sweetness, and Amy's impetuousness see the girls through countless adventures and the everyday struggles of life during the Civil War.
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Authors Robert and Emi Kiyosaki tell the story of their lives together and apart, along with their search for personal and spiritual satisfaction. As brother and sister they have endured a lot and have now combined all of their inspirational stories to help enrich the lives of others.