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Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
There are times we all feel we need more than one heart to get through. When Brianas father dies, she imagines she has a new heart growing inside her. It speaks to her in her Dads voice. Some of its commands are mysterious. Find Her! it says. Be Your Own! How can Briana “be her own” when her grieving mother needs her to take care of her demanding little brother all the time? When all her grandpa can do is tell stories instead of being the...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
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"Cuando el Dr. Louis Creed deja Chicago y se traslada con su familia a la idílica ciudad de Ludlow, en Maine, todo en la vida parece sonreírles. Pero en ese paisaje idílico un peligro oculto acecha a la comunidad. Louis estaba seguro: el gato había muerto atropellado, y por eso lo había enterrado. Aun así, incomprensiblemente, el gato había vuelto a casa. Church estaba allí otra vez, como él temía y al mismo tiempo deseaba, porque su hijita...
1924) XX
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Watch four deadly tales directed by four killer women in this horror anthology.
The Box: After peering into a shiny red gift box on a commuter train, seven-year-old Danny Jacobs inexplicably stops eating. When his father and sister also begin to waste away, Danny's mother Susan struggles to make the connection between herself, her dying family, and the mysterious box before it's too late.
The Birthday Party: A harried housewife tries to keep her...
1925) The longest Letsgoboy
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"As a dog and his little girl go on their final walk together, he gets to experience the sights, smells, and wonders of this world one last time before peacefully passing on. But for such a good boy and his foreverfriend, that doesn't mean it's the end"
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A high school boy finds the diary of his classmate--only to discover that she's dying. Yamauchi Sakura has been silently suffering from a pancreatic disease, and now exactly one person outside her family knows. He swears to her that he won't tell anyone what he learned, and the shared secret brings them closer together in this first-person story that traces their developing relationship in Sakura's final months of life.
1928) Facing death
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
How far would you go to sustain the life of someone you love or your own? When the moment comes, and you're confronted with the prospect of 'pulling the plug', do you know how you'll respond? Unfounded rumors of federal 'death panels' grabbed headlines last summer, but the real decisions of how we die, the questions that most of us prefer to put off, are being made quietly behind closed doors, increasingly on the floors of America's intensive care...
Author
Series
Death and Sparkles volume 2
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Death and Sparkles never imagined they would become besties for life . . . or rather, death. And they didn’t expect to get pulled into another wild adventure so soon. But when Sparkles’s horn begins to glow mysteriously and the pair discovers a message left by his unicorn parents, Death reluctantly follows Sparkles on a search to find out what it all means. Sparkles is 100 percent sure the answer will be revealed through some hard-hitting,...
1930) American mother
Author
Publisher
Etruscan Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"A spectacular tale of violence and forgiveness."— Salman Rushdie "It's kind of unique in my experience. . . . It's a novelist writing about an actual event with a depth and thoroughness that you never get from the news."—Michael Cunningham, via New York Times What does a mother say to the person responsible for kidnapping, torturing, and murdering her son? National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann channels Diane Foley's voice as she tells...
1931) Goob and his grandpa
Author
Series
7 habits of happy kids volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Goob's friends help him after his grandpa passes away.
1932) All that we never were
Author
Series
Let it be volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen-year-old Leah Jones is struggling to cope after she and her twenty-nine-year-old brother Oliver lose their parents in a horrific car accident. Leah was in the car and is plagued by nightmares, intense grief and numbness-her life as she knew it is over. Oliver hates leaving Leah at a time like this, but the only way he can support them both is if he transfers to Sydney for work. He implores his best friend Axel Nguyen to let her move in with...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In a breakthrough book that is sure to be relevant for years to come, bestselling author (The Reporter Who Knew Too Much) and distinguished historian Mark Shaw investigates the connection between the mysterious deaths of motion picture screen siren Marilyn Monroe, President John F. Kennedy, and What's My Line? TV star and crack investigative reporter Dorothy Kilgallen. A former noted criminal defense attorney and network legal analyst, Shaw provides...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After the body of her delivery driver's brother ends up on the floor of her pizzeria, Eleanor Swift enlists the help of her sister Maddy in searching for the real killer, all while trying to keep her pizza business afloat.
1935) Huesos
Author
Publisher
Lil' Libros
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Huesos is Abuelo's four-legged travieso, a rambunctious troublemaker with a constant ball of energy and a big bite. Nothing and no one is safe from Huesos' mischief and chomping teeth, from Grandpa's slippers to the neighborhood's mailman. Until one day, Calaca Pascuala knocks on his door and takes him on a journey through the afterworld. But even there, Huesos can't contain himself. Will he be able to knock, tumble, and chew his way back to Grandpa,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"Alma Cruz ha decidido ponerle punto final a su carrera de escritora, pero teme acabar como su amiga, una exitosa novelista arrastrada a la locura por un libro que jamás terminó de escribir. Por eso, cuando hereda un modesto terreno en República Dominicana, se le ocurre sepultar allí sus decenas de manuscritos inconclusos. Quiere que descansen en paz en la misma tierra donde yacen sus raíces. Pero a diferencia de Alma, los protagonistas de sus...
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Sixth grade is supposed to be the year that Jack Callahan would lead his team to a record-shattering season and the Little League World Series, but after the death of his brother he loses interest in baseball and only Cassie, star of the girls' softball team, seems to understand.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
''"Susie Finkbeiner never fails to transport her readers through time and space, welcoming us into worlds we never want to leave." --Julie Cantrell, New York Times best-selling author of Into the Free. "[Pearl's] voice isn't one you'll soon forget."--RT Book Reviews Pearl Spence has finally settled into a routine in Bliss, Michigan, far from her home in Red River, Oklahoma. Like all the other kids, she goes to school each day, plays in the woods,...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Why is "What's my line? TV star and Pulitzer-Prize-nominated investigative reporter Dorothy Kilgallen, one of the most feared journalists in history? Why has her threatened exposure of the truth about the JFK assassination triggered a cover-up by at least four government agencies and resulted in abuse of power at the highest levels? "Denial of justice", written in the spirit of bestselling author Mark Shaw's gripping true crime murder mystery. ...
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