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61) Lost boy found
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In 1913, on a summer's day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny Davenport walks into the woods and never returns. The boy's mysterious disappearance from the family's lake house makes front-page news in their home town of Opelousas. John Henry and Mary Davenport are wealthy and influential, and will do anything to find their son. For two years, the Davenports search across the South, offer increasingly large rewards and struggle not...
62) Citizen Orlov
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Not every fishmonger can be a secret agent. Journey to an unnamed mountainous country in central Europe at the end of the Great War. Enter Citizen Orlov, a simple fishmonger and an honest, upright citizen, who stumbles into the Ministry of Security, and consequently a hidden world of espionage and secrecy. His first assignment? To safeguard the King when he visits the scenic town of Kufzig. But Orlov soon discovers that his ministry handler, the...
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Wallace Ritchie, an American vacationer in London, doesn't know that the bullets are real and the truth serum true. He thinks the intrigue erupting around him is part of an audience-participation theater event. Yet the world's fate depends on this gullible goofus who can't even spell CIA.
66) Holding the fort
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Louisa Bell never wanted to be a dance-hall singer, but dire circumstances force her hand. With a little help from her brother in the cavalry, she's able to make ends meet, but lately he's run afoul of his commanding officer, so she undertakes a visit to straighten him out. Major Daniel Adams has his hands full at Fort Reno. He can barely control his rowdy troops, much less his two adolescent daughters. If Daniel doesn't find someone respectable to...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
Joss Whedon's sexy and contemporary spin on Shakespeare's classic comedy about the story of sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick offers a sensual, tragic and occasionally absurd view of the intricate game that is love.
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Notified by a cantankerous aunt that only one of them will be welcome in her London home for the summer, identical twins Sophie and Mariah hatch a scheme to pretend to be the same person while taking turns visiting the city’s art venues, before finding themselves courted by two gentlemen.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
A man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he did not commit describes how he became a victim of a flawed legal system, recounting the years he shared with fellow inmates who were eventually executed before his exoneration.
Author
Series
Christchurch novels volume 4
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Private Detective Theodore Tate is overseeing an exhumation. But when doubts are raised about the identity of the body found in the coffin, the case takes a sinister turn. Tate knows he should walk away and let his former colleagues on the police force deal with it but his strong sense of justice intervenes. With time running out and a violent killer lurking, will he manage to stay one step ahead of the police or will his truth be unearthed?
Author
Series
Barefoot William volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Though his family owns the charming beachside town of Barefoot William, Aidan Cates is as down-to-earth as the locals. He's also practical to a fault and doesn't believe some psychic on the boardwalk can predict the future. Jillie Mac is as free as the ocean breeze, so when the hot stranger and his date mistake her for a fortune teller, she's ready to have some fun. But one devastating secret told, one mistaken identity revealed, and numerous long...
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A passionate kiss from a handsome valet becomes a Regency Cinderella story when he is revealed to be an earl. York, England, 1819. As a once happily married woman, Rebecca Parker lived a charmed life, but now widowed and working for a living, she feels alone and living a mundane existence. That is until the day a valet speeding by on a horse nearly runs her off the road. Mr. Malcolm Henry is apologetic, gentle, and very handsome. She's instantly...
74) Coco
Series
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Aspiring musician Miguel journeys to the land of the dead to meet his ancestor and change his family's ban on music."--provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Adapted for young readers, this true story follows a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit and how he transformed not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates, until his release in 2015.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An unforgettable and stirring memoir in the vein of Free Cyntoia, Just Mercy, and The Sum of Us that both inspires and upends our understanding about the future of policing in the United States. In 2012, nineteen-year-old Leon Ford was shot five times by a Pittsburgh police officer as he was racially profiled during a case of mistaken identity. When he woke up in the hospital, he was faced with two life-changing realities: he was a new father, and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Geronimo Stilton publicly insults famous Chef Ricardo on his cheese selection in his own restaurant. Geronimo Stilton cuts ahead of an an elderly woman in line. Geronimo Stilton steals ice cream from a little girl. All around New Mouse City, the once upstanding Editor-in-Chief of The Rodent’s Gazette is wreaking havoc. Could Geronimo be suffering amnesia? Is he mind controlled? Or has he finally joined the dark side? Only Benjamin, Thea, and Trap...
78) Kitty
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Granny comes to cat-sit, she anticipates a little work, a few snuggles, and a good night's sleep. What she doesn't expect is CHAOS. After Granny misplaces her glasses, she accidentally lets the cat out...and a raccoon in...a raccoon that looks a little like a cat. What follows is a raucous escapade that leaves in its wake one very confused Granny, one very upset cat, and one very satisfied raccoon"--
Series
Criterion collection volume 519
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Persian
Description
Close-Up is the true story of Hossain Sabzian, a poor, underemployed, divorced, father of two. He is obsessed with the cinema. In 1989, Sabzian convinced the Ahankhah family that he was Iranian filmmaker Moshen Makhmalbaf (The Silence) and that he would cast them in his next film. Eventually, the family caught on to the ruse and contacted the authorities, leading to Sabzian's arrest. A journalist wrote a column about the incident that Kiarostami read....
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