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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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"Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. And a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a "walking streak of sex". These are some of the real residents of Savannah, Georgia, a city whose eccentric mores...
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"Malibu: August 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over—especially as the offspring of the legendary...
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2021.
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English
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"From "a formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast...
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2023.
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over a thirty-year period-as well as previously unreleased material from the JFK Library-Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an unforgettable new portrait of a woman whose flaws and contradictions...
11) Encore in death
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In Death series volume 56
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The homicide cop with a passion for justice returns in the captivating crime thriller series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author. It was a glittering event full of A-listers, hosted by Eliza Lane and Brant Fitzhugh, a celebrity couple who'd conquered both Hollywood and Broadway. And now Eve Dallas has made her entrance-but not as a guest. After raising a toast, Fitzhugh fell to the floor and died, with physical symptoms pointing to cyanide,...
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Schooling Bianca in the art of behaving like a diplomat's wife will require intensive training from her etiquette coach, Margot, forcing her move into the mansion owned by Alec, Bianca's intensely private, and alluring, son. Determined to finish college, Alec's sister, Sunshine, refuses to screw up again by falling for the wrong guy, especially the single dad who just hired her as a nanny.
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"Perhaps the best place in 1943 Hollywood to see the stars is the Hollywood Canteen, a club for servicemen staffed exclusively by those in show business. Murder mystery playwright Annie Laurence, new in town after a devastating breakup, definitely hopes to rub elbows with the right stars. Maybe then she can get her movie made. But Hollywood proves to be more than tinsel and glamour. When despised film critic Fiona Farris is found dead in the Canteen...
14) Miracle cure
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English
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They're one of the country's most telegenic couples: beloved TV journalist Sara Lowell and New York's hottest basketball star, Michael Silverman. In a Manhattan clinic, a doctor has dedicated his life to eradicating a devastating disease. One by one, his patients are getting well -- and, one by one, they're being targeted by a serial killer. And now Michael has been diagnosed with the disease.
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Series
Once upon a con volume 2
Publisher
Quirk Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Return to the geek-tastic world of Starfield fandom with a tale of a superstar and a superfan who swap lives in this sweet and funny companion novel to GEEKERELLA. Movie star Jessica Stone can't go up onstage at another con and pretend to love Starfield anymore--except that she's contractually obligated. She never dreamed she'd be playing Princess Amara for life, but people love Princess Amara, and for better or worse, Princess Amara has Jessica Stone's...
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"A LIBRARYREADS PICK AND BEST BOOK CLUB PICK OF 2023. The beloved bestselling author of The Color of Air, Women of the Silk, and The Samurai's Garden returns with this magnificent historical novel based on the life of the luminous, groundbreaking actress Anna May Wong—the first and only Asian American woman to gain movie stardom in the early days of Hollywood. At the dawn of a new century, America is falling in love with silent movies, including...
18) American diva
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Series
Thrillseekers Anonymous volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
19) If I could tell you just one thing: encounters with remarkable people and their most valuable advice
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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In If I Could Tell You Just One Thing . . . some of the world's most remarkable people share their most valuable pieces of wisdom. Life lessons from 50 of today's most accomplished, diverse, and influential voices in an engaging collection of profiles including: President Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Stephen Fry, Dame Judi Dench, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Caitlyn Jenner, Margaret Atwood, Sir David Attenborough, Annie Lennox, Sir Richard Branson, Jude...
20) Model menace
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Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Nancy's friend Sydney, a model, is getting married to a reality-show star, but someone is trying to ruin the wedding and Nancy must uncover the culprit. Even after uncovering the villain, things did not go smoothly. Could Sydney be sabotaging her own wedding due to cold feet? Or does the suspect have an accomplice?
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