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1) Alias Grace
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 28
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English
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The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments reveals the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century in this "shadowy, fascinating novel" (Time). • A Netflix original miniseries.
It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress.
Some believe Grace is innocent; others think...
It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress.
Some believe Grace is innocent; others think...
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 15
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English
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Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan examines the bodies of three babies while Detective Ryan investigates their mother in a case with ties to the high-stakes world of diamond mining.
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In 1956, Dell Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did after the war. His father, Bev, was a talkative airman from Alabama with an optimistic and easy-scheming nature. Their mother Neeva - shy, artistic - was alienated from their father's small-town world. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that Dell's parents decided to rob the bank. They weren't reckless people. In the days following the arrest,...
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"Flavia de Luce--"part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" (The New York Times Book Review)--takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools in the captivating new mystery from New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley"--
"Flavia rules! In this New York Times bestselling series of enchanting mysteries, youthful chemist and aspiring...
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English
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From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—one of Margaret Atwood’s most unforgettable characters lurks at the center of this intricate novel like a spider in a web. The glamorous, irresistible, unscrupulous Zenia is nothing less than a fairy-tale villain in the memories of her former friends.
Roz, Charis, and Tony—university classmates...
Roz, Charis, and Tony—university classmates...
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Canadian West series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Janette Oke's beloved story of a young teacher moving west finds the newly married Elizabeth carving out a new life. Canadian West book 2.
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Canadian West series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Janette Oke's beloved story of a young teacher moving west concludes with a poignant and touching tale. Canadian West book 4.
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Canadian West series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Janette Oke's beloved story of a young teacher moving west continues as she searches for love. Canadian West book 2.
10) The blue castle
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English
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Valancy Stirling, an inhibited twenty-nine-year-old spinster whose daydreams of the blue castle console her, undergoes a total personality change when a doctor tells her she has no more than one year to live. Oppressed by family and small-town prejudice, her apparently imminent death gives her the courage to assert herself and seek love.
11) The troop
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip. The boys are a tight-knit crew. For the most part, they all get along and are happy to be there. But for some reason, he can't shake the feeling that something strange is in the air this year. It comes to them in the night. An unexpected intruder, stumbling upon their campsite like a wild animal. He is shockingly thin, disturbingly...
13) Shattered
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Alaskan courage volume 2
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English
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"Piper McKenna would be overjoyed at the sight of her estranged brother, except that he's covered in blood. She knows he's innocent, but can they prove it?"--Provided by publisher.
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Canadian West series volume 6
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Canadian West series volume 5
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Henry and his sister Catherine face obstacles as they try to bring others to God.
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English
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With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadearship loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take...
17) Girl unwrapped
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Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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"Girl Unwrapped is a girl's coming-of-age story set in 1960s Montreal about the burdens and blessings of history, the divided self, and the quest to be whole. Toni Goldblatt's awakening to taboo desire conflicts with her Holocaust-scarred parents' expectations. Yearning to reinvent herself, she flees to Israel in the wake of the 1967 war, but the Zionist dream doesn't save her; only on her return, when she discovers kindred spirits in the underground...
19) Requiem
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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After spending his youth in an internment camp during World War II, Bin Okuma travels across Canada to find his biological father despite his leaving a devastating legacy.
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2014.
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English
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It was 1977 when a shoeshine boy, Emanuel Jacques, was brutally raped and murdered in Toronto. In the aftermath of the crime, Antonio Rebelo, the twelve year old narrator of this story, explores his Portuguese neighborhood's dark garages and labyrinthine back alleys, along with his rapscallion friends. The boys develop a curious relationship with a charismatic, modern day Fagin, a fledgling master over an amoral world of young hustlers, theft, and...
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