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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With his trademark emotional heft and storytelling skill, the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant presents a resonant novel about the unconventional family that forms after Terry and Laura Sheldon, a Vermont storm trooper and his wife grieving the loss of their twin daughters, take in a foster child.
His name is Alfred; he is ten years old and African American. And he has passed through so...
His name is Alfred; he is ten years old and African American. And he has passed through so...
2) The gift
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English
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On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town. She doesn’t intend to stay. She is just passing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason, and it is part of a story that you will never forget.
The time is the 1950’s, when life was simpler, people still believed in dreams, and family was, very nearly, everything. The place is a small midwestern town with a high school and a...
The time is the 1950’s, when life was simpler, people still believed in dreams, and family was, very nearly, everything. The place is a small midwestern town with a high school and a...
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Language
English
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Meet Macon Leary--a travel writer who hates both travel and strangeness. Grounded by loneliness, comfort, and a somewhat odd domestic life, Macon is about to embark on a surprising new adventure, arriving in the form of a fuzzy-haired dog obedience trainer who promises to turn his life around. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Language
English
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Celia and Djuna ruled their clique of friends with dual iron fists. But when Djuna disappeared while the duo was walking home together, Celia buried the terrible truth of that day deep down inside. Now, twenty years later, Celia is unable to consciously keep her secret any longer. Despite her success, her personal life has fallen stagnant, and, buried under the weight of her awful past, Celia returns to her hometown to confess her sins.
Author
Series
Regan Merritt novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
“Downright spectacular. A riveting page turner as prescient as it is purposeful.” —Providence Journal on Tell No Lies A family torn apart. A botched investigation. She’ll stop at nothing to get answers. US Marshal Regan Merritt never bought the FBI’s theory that her ten-year-old son’s murder was tied to her job. Yet as leads went cold, she’d had to walk away from the marshals, the case and her now ex-husband, Grant, who blamed her for...
12) Wiley's lament
Author
Series
Wiley mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"They say friends make life worth living... Once a spirited, independent woman with a rebellious streak, Masha's life was forever changed by a tragic event twelve years ago. Unable to let go of her grief, she finds comfort in her faithful canine companion Haizum, and peace in the quiet lanes of her town's swimming pool. Almost without her realizing it, her life has shuddered to a halt. It's only when Masha begins an unlikely friendship with the mysterious...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A compulsively readable and electrifying debut about an ambitious young female artist who accidentally photographs a boy falling to his deathan image that could jumpstart her career, but would also devastate her most intimate friendship.
19) The unpassing
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A Taiwanese immigrant family in rural Alaska is shattered by an outbreak of meningitis that ends the life of their daughter, leading the grieving father to commit a devastating fatal error that culminates in a profound revelation.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Getting his life back together after the death of his young son, Brendan, and his divorce, Mark Fife is jolted when he receives a call from a woman who owns his old house and claims it is haunted by Brendan's ghost.
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