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2021 Book Club volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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A curmudgeon hides a terrible personal loss beneath a cranky and short-tempered exterior while clashing with new neighbors, a boisterous family whose chattiness and habits lead to unexpected friendship.
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'....
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From her silver Mercedes to her designer kitchen, Molly's life is gleaming and beautiful--at least on the surface. Married to Tanner, a top cosmetic dentist, she has a wonderful daughter finishing high school and twin stepsons from Tanner's first marriage. No one in her exclusive neighborhood in Goldenhills, Massachusetts, knows what living with the demanding Tanner is really like. They know even less about the life she left behind in Florida almost...
3) On the edge
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Edge series (Ilona Andrews) volume 1
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English
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From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of the Kate Daniels novels comesan edgy new series about a world on the border of fantasy and reality, packed with pulse-pounding action and white-hot romance.
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Jack Reacher novels volume 4
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English
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Jack Reacher is back, dragged into what looks like a series of grisly serial murders by a team of FBI profilers who aren't totally sure he's not the killer they're looking for, but believe that even if he isn't, he's smart enough to help them find the real killer. And what they've got on the ex-MP is enough to ensure his grudging cooperation: phony charges stemming from Reacher's inadvertent involvement in a protection shakedown and the threat of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day's breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother's death. When Josef Weber, am elderly man in Sage's grief support group, begins stopping by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship. Despite their differences, they see in each other the hidden scars that others can't, and they become companions. Everything changes...
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2017.
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From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in post-war Ireland Cyril Avery is not a real Avery -- or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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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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In a confusing world poised on the brink of mayhem, Tyler Durden, a projectionist, waiter, and anarchic genius, comes up with an idea to create clubs in which young men can escape their humdrum existence and prove themselves in barehanded fights.
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In this follow-up to The Other Boleyn Girl, Anne Boleyn finds her life in upheaval due to a storm of political controversy and royal rivalries. When war breaks out, her husband and father both die, and her sister is forced to marry the enemy. With seemingly no one left to protect her, Anne is still able to become Queen, all the while protecting her only child, Prince Edward, from those who would betray them both in a heartbeat.
10) Guardian angel
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The Emerald flew across the seas, carrying the pirate Pagan -- despised by the ton, whose riches he plundered, and beloved by the poor, whose plight was eased by his gifts. The Marquess of Cainewood vows to hunt down the pirate wretch in revenge for his brother's death. But when Jade, an enchanting vision of rippling red hair and eyes of jewel-green, appears at his door to beg desperately for his protection, the Marquess agrees to keep her safe from...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Two motherless sisters--Bean and Liz--are shuttled to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that's been in their family for generations. When school starts in the fall, Bean easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz becomes increasingly withdrawn. Then something happens to Liz and Bean is left to challenge the injustice of the adult world.
It is 1970 in a small town in California. "Bean" Holladay is twelve and her sister,...
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A sweet and satisfying novel of how delicious it is to discover your dreams Having grown up in an apartment above her Grandpa Joe's little bakery, Issy Randal has always known how to make something sweet. She's much better at baking than she is at filing, so when she's laid off from her desk job, Issy decides to open up her own little café. But she soon learns that her piece-of-cake plan will take all her courage and confectionary talent to avert...
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Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Professional baker Ramona Gallagher is a master of an art that has sustained her through the most turbulent times, including a baby at fifteen and an endless family feud. But now Ramona's bakery threatens to crumble around her. Literally. She's one water-heater disaster away from losing her grandmother's rambling Victorian and everything she's worked so hard to build. When Ramona's soldier son-in-law is wounded in Afghanistan, her daughter, Sophia,...
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In this novel the author takes us to Telegraph Avenue. It is a story that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families, one black and one white. Here he creates a world grounded in pop culture: Kung Fu, 1970s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music, and an epic of friendship, race, and secret histories. Longtime band mates Archy and Nat preside over Brokeland Records, a used-record emporium. All is well...
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Jack Reacher novels volume 14
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. “Reacher gets better and better. . . . [This is the] craftiest and most highly evolved of Lee Childs electrifying Reacher books.”Janet Maslin, The New York Times. “Child is a superb craftsman of suspense, juggling several plots and keeping his herrings well-rouged. . . . Chances are youll want to seek out other Reacher adventures the moment you finish.”Entertainment Weekly. A bus crashes in a savage snowstorm...
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Kitty Norville series volume 10
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Kitty Norville has been tapped as the keynote speaker for the First International Conference on Paranatural Studies, taking place in London. The conference brings together scientists, activists, protestors, and supernatural beings from all over the world -- and Kitty, Ben, and Cormac are right in the middle of it. Master vampires from dozens of cities have also gathered in London for a conference of their own. With the help of the Master of London,...
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Mandala Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Big Panda and Tiny Dragon embark on a journey through the seasons of the year together. They get lost, as many of us do. But while lost, they discover many beautiful sights they'd never have found had they gone the right way. Told through a series of beautiful drawings and quiet, sometimes silly, conversations, the panda and the dragon explore the thoughts and emotions, hardships and happiness that connect us all. In nature, they learn how to live...
18) The stolen crown: it was a secret marriage... one that forever changed the fate of England forever
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Sourcebooks
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[2010]
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English
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"Katherine Woodville's sister never gave her a choice. A happy girl of modest means, Kate hardly expected to become a maker of kings. But when her sister impulsively marries King Edward IV in secret, Katherine's life is no longer hers to control..."--p. [4] of cover.
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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It may be summertime, but sales at Fairy Tale Cupcakes are below zero -- and owners Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura are willing to try anything to heat things up. So when local legend Slim Hazard offers them the chance to sell cupcakes at the annual Juniper Pass Rodeo, they're determined to rope in a pretty payday! But not everyone at Juniper Pass is as sweet for Fairy Tale Cupcakes as Slim -- including star bull rider Ty Stokes. Mel and Angie try...
20) Full throttle
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Fast track (Erin McCarthy) volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
c2013.
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English
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As one of only two girls on the tween racing circuit, Shawn Hamby always ran with a fast crowd. But now, at thirty-two, she doesn't need to prove anything to anyone. And she definitely doesn't need a man bossing her around off of the track. But after a silly girls' night at a fetish club, Shawn can't get Rhett Ford out of her mind. He's younger than her, and he's her best friend's brother-in-law, which should both be red flags. Rhett is looking for...
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