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1) The walk
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Series
Walk novels volume 1
Language
English
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Alan Christoffersen is living the American Dream. Only 28-year-old, Alan is heading up his own successful advertising firm. However, when his loving wife McKale suffers from a fall while horseback riding and becomes paralyzed, Alan leaves his business in his partner's hands so that he may be by her side. But when his partner betrays him and his wife dies, an inconsolable Alan leaves most of his worldly possessions behind and sets off on a soul searching...
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
"Being a kid can really stink. And no one knows this better than Greg Heffley. It's a new school year, and Greg finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings...
3) Happy hour
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of 2013, and while New York swelters, Isa and Gala scrape and hustle to get by. Among a rotating cast of artists, academics, and bad-mannered grifters, they discover that desires aren't for denying. But as money gets sparse and circumstances grow precarious, the pair struggle to convert social capital into something more tangible"--
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Princess Diaries (Adult) volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Mia Thermopolis knows just what to do in a crisis: Rule. During the Covid-19 pandemic, a section of the diary of Princess Mia Thermopolis of Genovia fell into the hands of Meg Cabot, the Princess’s royal biographer. As reported in media outlets such as Entertainment Weekly, The Mary Sue, Refinery 29, Bustle, and more, from March until June of 2020, sixteen entries of the princess’s diary were leaked onto Ms. Cabot’s blog, to the delight of...
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Dirt diary volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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After her parents' divorce, eighth-grader Rachel Lee joins her mother's new housecleaning business, which has her scrubbing bathrooms in her more popular classmates' homes and learning useful secrets.
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Dork diaries volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Loveand crushesare in the air for Nikki Maxwell in this sixth book of the New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series. Its the biggest dance of the year and Nikki Maxwell is hoping her crush, Brandon, wants to be her date. But time is running out. What if he doesnt want to go with her? Or worsewhat if he ends up going with Mackenzie?!! In the sixth book in the blockbuster Dork Diaries seriesnow with more than 8 million copies in printjoin Nikki,...
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Series
Princess Diaries (Adult) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Princess Mia and her Prince Charming plan their fairy tale wedding--but a few poisoned apples could turn this happily-ever-after into a royal nightmare.
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Bridget Jones volume 1
Language
English
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Bonnie Garmus Read Alikes
Elin Hilderbrand Read-alikes
Fiction Inspired by Jane Austen
Bonnie Garmus Read Alikes
Elin Hilderbrand Read-alikes
Fiction Inspired by Jane Austen
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A comedy on an Englishwoman's quest for self-improvement. Single and thirty-something Bridget diets, keeps tabs on her tobacco and alcohol consumption, visits the gym regularly, yet she still has problems finding the right man. A debut in fiction.
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"In the seventh book of the Wimpy Kid series, Greg's world is turned upside down when his middle school has a Valentine's Day dance. Greg scrambles to find a date, but is worried that he will be left without one. An unexpected twist gives Greg a date and leaves his best friend Rowley without one, but Greg soon learns that a lot can happen in one night and it's hard to predict who will be lucky in love"--Container.
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Series
Dork diaries volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
As Nikki plans how she's going to spend her summer, things get more complicated after she starts hanging out with a visiting student.
11) Go ask Alice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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A fifteen-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
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Series
Dork diaries volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Nikki Maxwell is determined to help out her crush Brandon save an animal shelter. So Nikki and her friends Chloe and Zoey enter an ice skating competition to help raise money for the shelter, but (big surprise) Mackenzie has to stick her nose in and cause trouble.
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Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Presents the events of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" from the viewpoint of Mr. Darcy, as his diary entries show his changing perceptions of himself and others, and his growing feelings for Elizabeth Bennett.
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Series
One thousand White women trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Follows May Dodd as she travels to the Cheyenne, becomes the bride of Little Wolf, chief of that tribe, and struggles with living in and being loyal to two different worlds.
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Series
Read the world volume 5
Publisher
Maclehose Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Nevada Days is a fictionalised account of Atxaga's nine months' stay as writer-in-residence at the Centre for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada. He is accompanied by his wife, Angela, who is also doing research there, and by their two daughters. During their first few weeks, the family encounter a strange mapache (racoon), which is always staring at them from the garden, a flight of helicopters immediately overhead, a black widow spider,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Author Birthdays - January
Banned Books Week
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A coming of age novel about Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent. He deals with the usual teen problems, but also with the suicide of his best friend.
A haunting coming of age novel told in a series of letters to an unknown correspondent reveals the life of Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent, it's a story of what it's like...
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English
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One of the most important books of the growing feminist movement of the 1950s, it was brought to a wider public by the Nobel Prize award to Doris Lessing in 2007. Authoress Anna Wulf attempts to overcome writer's block by writing a comprehensive 'golden notebook' which draws together the preoccupations of her life, each of which is examined in a different notebook: sources of her creative inspiration in a black book, communism in a red book, the breakdown...
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Secret diary of Hendrik Groen volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon. Granted, his daily strolls are getting shorter because his legs are no longer willing and he has to visit his doctor more than he'd like. Technically speaking he is...elderly. But surely there is more to life at his age than weak tea and potted geraniums? Hendrik sets out to write an exposé: a year in the life of his care home in Amsterdam, revealing...
20) Deceit: a novel
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Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Set in interwar Paris and taking the form of a diary, the novel relates the complex and fraught relationship between an unnamed narrator and his love interest and muse, the beguiling Lyolya Heard. Subtle and profound in its exploration of love, deceit and betrayal, Felsen's novel is a daring and highly original work of psychological fiction"--
"Once considered the 'Russian Proust', Yuri Felsen tells the story of an obsessive love affair set in interwar...
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