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1) Vixen
Author
Series
Flappers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1923 Chicago, seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody rebels against her upcoming society wedding by visiting a speakeasy, while her Pennsylvania cousin, Clara, hides similar tastes and her best friend, Lorraine, makes plans of her own.
Publisher
Osiris Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When two star-crossed lovers, set on eloping, are forced into having a big wedding, the bride develops a plan of her own. Unfortunately, the groom is not privy to the plan. Meanwhile, family and friends start to take sides at a reception for a wedding that never took place!
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A profound meditation on memory, history, and legacy, An Elegant Woman follows one woman over the course of the 20th century, taking the reader from a drought-stricken farm in Montana to a yellow Victorian in Maine; from the halls of a psychiatric hospital in London to a wedding gown fitting at Bergdorf Goodman; from a house in small town Ohio to a family reunion at a sweltering New Jersey pig roast. Framed by Isadora’s efforts to retell her grandmother’s...
Author
Series
Dragon Slayers' Academy volume 4
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1998-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the headmaster of the Dragon Slayers' Academy hears that Princess Belcheena will pay the matchmaker who finds her a husband, he decides that Wiglaf is the perfect candidate.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York City, 1950. Viviana Valentine and Tommy Fortuna have a lot of resolutions for the new year—whether it’s continuing to build up their detective agency or planning their wedding, the two are looking forward to the future. On their way to Times Square to celebrate, the two witness a brutal stabbing. When Tommy tries to chase down the culprit, Viviana tries her best to save the man. She’s unsuccessful, but Viviana hears his final words:...
6) Model menace
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
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Description
A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey.
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 13
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six-year-old Junie B. is disappointed to find out that her aunt has asked someone else to be the flower girl at her wedding.
Author
Series
Aunt Dimity series volume 20
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Overseeing her baby, a family wedding, and her own approaching birthday celebration amid rumors that a developer has unwanted plans for Finch village, Lori bonds with an inventor only to discover his true intentions.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
When the 1930s depression hits Glasgow, working-class girl Alison Burnside faces a dilemma, abandon her medical studies to care for her younger brothers and her widowed and unemployed father, or carry on? The grandmother says duty to family comes first, get a job, but the father says pursue glory.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Perfect Peter's tooth falls out, Henry gets a great idea. He will steal the tooth and put it under his own pillow so that the tooth fairy gives him the reward instead of Peter. Will the tooth fairy fall for it?"--P. [4] of cover.
12) Women as lovers
Author
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In Austria, two women get their man. Brigitte resorts to sex to ensnare Heinz-the-electrician, Paula uses good food to land Erich-the-woodcutter. Unfortunately, by the time wedding bells ring, both women are a little tired of their catch.
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Language
English
Description
"In the thick of the Cold War, a betrayal at the highest level risks the lives of two courageous female spies: MI6’s best Soviet agent and the CIA’s newest Moscow recruit. Vienna, 1954 After losing everyone she loves in the final days of World War II, Ingrid Bauer agrees to a hasty marriage with a gentle Soviet embassy worker and follows him home to Moscow. But nothing within the Soviet Union’s totalitarian regime is what it seems, including...
Author
Series
Dear dumb diary. Original series volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"...Isabella is probably right. She almost always is...But of all the dumb things she's ever done, this has got to be the dumbest..."--Cover back.
15) Petal's problems
Author
Series
Publisher
Sandpiper
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
During the month of June, Petal, one of the eight Huit octuplets, gets her power, which she uses to great advantage when Crazy Aunt Serena tries to kidnap Rebecca and throw her off the Eiffel Tower while the rest of the family attends a wedding.
Author
Series
Simon Ziele mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"The murder of Judge Hugo Jackson is out of Detective Simon Ziele's jurisdiction in more ways than one. It's high profile enough to command the attention of the notorious new police commissioner, since Judge Jackson was presiding over the sensationalist trial of Al Drayson. Drayson, an anarchist, set off a bomb at a Carnegie wedding, but instead of killing millionaires, it killed passersby, including a child. Furthermore, Simon's assigned precinct...
Author
Language
English
Description
Features “The Mist” now a TV series event on SpikeStephen Kings #1 New York Times bestselleran anthology of stories from the outer limits of the imagination!From one of the greatest storytellers in modern times comes this classic collection of twenty-two works of fright and wonderunforgettable tales that will take you to where your darkest fears await. Whether its a mysterious impenetrable mist camouflaging bizarre, otherworldly terrors that could...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"On the rain-drenched, wave-lashed, wind-battered Banffshire coast, tiny fishing villages perch on ledges that would make a seagull think twice, and crumbly mansions cling to crumblier cliff tops while, out in the bay, the herring drifters brave the storms to catch their silver darlings. It's nowhere for a child of gentle Northamptonshire to spend Christmas. But when odd things start to turn up in barrels of fish--with a strong whiff of murder most...
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