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American chronicle (Gore Vidal) volume 7
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
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English
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"Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be drawn back into it. Wounded, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has moments...
68) Por un día más
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
Español
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Charles Benetto uses alcohol as a crutch to deal with his loneliness, isolation, and depression, until he is given the chance to spend one more day with his mother's ghost.
70) Kingfisher
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Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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A young man comes of age amid family secrets and revelations, and transformative magic.
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Rogues and remarkable women volume 1
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English
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1814: "When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune--and her freedom. Falsely imprisoned, she risks her life to be near her child--until The Widow's Grace gets her hired as her own son's nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington, has perils of its own. Especially when Patience discovers...
72) Bloodstream
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Dr. Claire Elliot, having moved from the city with her son to set up practice in Tranquility, Maine, is looking forward to a peaceful life, but when the town's teenagers start committing violent acts, Claire knows she has to find the cause before it ruins Tranquility and her family.
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Psycho volume 1
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English
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Robert Bloch's Psycho captivated a nation when it appeared in 1959. The story was all too real-indeed this classic was inspired by the real-life story of Ed Gein, a psychotic murderer who led a dual life. Alfred Hitchcock too was captivated, and turned the book into one of the most-loved classic films of all time the year after it was released.Norman Bates loves his Mother. She has been dead for the past twenty years, or so people think. Norman knows...
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Symphony of Ages volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
76) Harrison squared
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When his mother disappears at sea, a teenage boy, who is attuned to the supernatural world, attempts, along with an unusual group of allies, to solve the mystery of her accident.
77) Mr. X: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Ned, a man who grew up always looking over his shoulder, learns from his mother, shortly before her death, the name of the father he never knew, and despite a warning that he is in grave danger, sets out discover as much as he can about his absent family--including his otherworldly twin brother.
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Midnight Investigations volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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English
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"'I had but one delusion, which I held onto with all my willpower: we once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I'm doing it over again, this time by words.' In a world created outside of time, Li and the son who died talk about their lives. Deeply intimate and moving, this story cycle of grief captures the love and humor in a relationship which goes on now in a mother's heart, between a mother and child, even as it captures the pain of Li's...
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