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When the renowned poet Fiona Skinner is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, The Love Poem, she tells her audience a story about her family and a betrayal that reverberates through time. It begins in a big yellow house with a funeral, an iron poker, and a brief variation forever known as the Pause: a free and feral summer in a middle-class Connecticut town. Caught between the predictable life they once led and an uncertain future that...
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A coolly manipulative woman worms her way into the lives of a wealthy golden couple from Connecticut as part of her plot to achieve a privileged life, unveiling dark secrets along the way.
3) Fablehaven
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Fablehaven volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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For Harry Potter Fans
Nevada Reading Week 2024: 3rd - 7th Grade
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Rick Riordan Read-ALikes
Nevada Reading Week 2024: 3rd - 7th Grade
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When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.
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As the public face of Vows wedding planning company, Parker Brown has an uncanny knack for fulfilling every bride's vision, but she just can't see where her own life is headed, until mechanic Malcolm Kavanaugh helps her retool her priorities and gives hera good reason to risk her heart for something more.
"number-one New York Times best-selling author Nora Roberts cordially invites you to meet childhood friends Parker, Emma, Laurel, and Mac - the...
6) Ninth house
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
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The mesmerizing adult debut from Leigh Bardugo, a tale of power, privilege, dark magic, and murder set among the Ivy League elite. Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yales freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved...
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New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice brings back two of her most beloved characters to tell of two undying love affairs. . . .
Sister Bernadette Ignatius has returned to Ireland in the company of Tom Kelly to search for the son they left behind. For it was here that these two long-ago lovers spent a season of magic before Bernadette’s calling led her to a vocation as Mother Superior at Star of the Sea Academy. For...
Sister Bernadette Ignatius has returned to Ireland in the company of Tom Kelly to search for the son they left behind. For it was here that these two long-ago lovers spent a season of magic before Bernadette’s calling led her to a vocation as Mother Superior at Star of the Sea Academy. For...
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Library lover's mysteries volume 3
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Berkley Prime Crime
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[2012]
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English
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Lindsey is enjoying her second year in Briar Creek as the library director, meeting with the crafternoon club, and happily dating tour boat captain Mike Sullivan. But when a salvage company arrives in town to dig up treasure buried on Pirate Island over three hundred years ago, the locals are torn between protecting the island and welcoming the publicity. In spite of the squabbling, Charlie Peyton, Lindsey's downstairs neighbor, takes a job with...
12) The stranger
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Alpha Video
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[1946]
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A Nazi (Welles) has escaped to a small town in Connecticut and established a new identity. He begins to crack as he is stalked by a famous Nazi hunter (Robinson).
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University of Massachusetts Press and the Wadsworth Atheneum
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1996.
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English
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This book recounts the story of gun manufacturer Samuel Colt and his wife, Elizabeth, who together turned a company into an empire and a name into a legend. It is a tale of two lives caught up in profound social and economic change, of a great fortune amassed and expended, of the rise of a new industry, and the transformation of an American city. Beginning with an account of Sam Colt's early failures as both inventor and businessman, William Hosley...
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Library lover's mysteries volume 1
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Berkley Prime Crime
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2011
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English
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"Lindsey is getting into her groove as the director of the Briar Creek Public Library when a New York editor visits town, creating quite a buzz. Lindsey's friend Beth wants to sell the editor her children's book, but Beth's boyfriend, a famous author, gets in the way. When they go to confront him, he's found murdered-and Beth is the prime suspect. Lindsey has to act fast before they throw the book at the wrong person."--Amazon.com.
16) The crossroads
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2008
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When eleven-year-old Zack Jennings moves to Connecticut with his father and new stepmother, they must deal with the ghosts left behind by a terrible accident, as well as another kind of ghost from Zack's past.
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Sanctuary Sound volume 2
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Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Claire McKenna knows about loss. The bullet wound that ended her promising professional tennis career drove her to make a quiet life for herself working with fabric samples, chatting with her book group, and spending time with her parents in her sleepy coastal Connecticut hometown. Then there was the boyfriend who dumped her to pursue her adventurous childhood friend. Now, Claire's business has hit a financial snag, but she's up to the challenge....
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2016.
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"In the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut, everything seems picture perfect. Until one night when young Jenny Kramer is attacked at a local party. In the hours immediately after, she is given a controversial drug to medically erase her memory of the violent assault. But, in the weeks and months that follow, as she heals from her physical wounds, and with no factual recall of the attack, Jenny struggles with her raging emotional memory....
19) Read it and weep
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Library lover's mysteries volume 4
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"Former Broadway actress Violet La Rue is holding auditions for "A midsummer night's dream," and everyone from the sour spinster librarian Ms. Cole to Lindsey's youthful library pages are trying out for parts. Brought in to play the mischievous Puck is the flirtatious professional actor Robbie Vine, who seems to have eyes for Lindsey. Before her blush has faded, the bard's dream turns into a nightmare when one of the cast is poisoned. Now Lindsey...
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