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Pub. Date
2016.
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Frannys mother, Beverlythus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia,...
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English
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From the author of The Pleasing Hour: A “moving and deeply absorbing” novel of painful truths and the refuge of fiction set in a New England prep school (Newsday).
A Chicago Tribune and Publishers Weekly Best Novel
Fifteen years ago, English teacher Vida Avery arrived alone and pregnant at the elite Fayer Academy. Living on the campus off the coast of New England,...
A Chicago Tribune and Publishers Weekly Best Novel
Fifteen years ago, English teacher Vida Avery arrived alone and pregnant at the elite Fayer Academy. Living on the campus off the coast of New England,...
3) Black River
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
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A former prison guard and talented fiddler returns to his Montana hometown to bury his wife and confront an inmate who, twenty years earlier, held him hostage during a prison riot.
4) White noise
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English
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National Book Award for Fiction Winners
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National Book Award for Fiction Winners
Page to Screen 2021-2022
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"The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, soon to be a major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event," a lethal black chemical cloud...
5) Heart bones
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English
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"Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah...
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Series
William Murdoch mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
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Chesapeake Shores novels volume 10
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English
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As the only child of a single mom, Jenny Collins wanted to be part of a large family like the O'Briens but when her mother married into that family, Jenny still felt like an outsider. Now, after years in Nashville as an established songwriter, Jenny's drawn back to Chesapeake Shores to collaborate on a Christmas production and to make peace with the past. And on top of that, Caleb Green, the singer who broke her heart, has followed her to town, determined...
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English
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New York florist Flora Donovan is living the dream, but her bubbly optimism hides a secret. She's lonely. Orphaned as a child, she&;s never felt like she's belonged anywhere&;until she meets Jack Parker. He's the first man to ever really see her, and it's life changing. Teenager Izzy Parker is holding it together by her fingertips. Since her mother passed away a year ago, looking after her dad and little sister is the only thing that makes Izzy feel...
12) Come home
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Rebalancing her life and career after a painful divorce, pediatrician Jill learns that her ex has died from an alleged overdose that her former stepdaughter believes was actually murder, a situation that forces Jill to choose between her duty to past circumstances and her future happiness.
13) Ash
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
14) Forged by fire
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Series
Hazelwood High trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Teenage Gerald, who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, faces the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved.
15) Paradise Falls
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Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Caitlin Whittington is the second girl in Paradise Falls to disappear in five months. When Caitlin's mother discovers information that seems to implicate her stepson, Adam, it splits her once happily blended family. Detective Rayna Godwin, assigned to the case, is hampered by memories of her own murdered daughter.
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Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"On a summer break on the Greek island of Hydra, two girls make a startling discovery: a young Arab man washed up on shore, a migrant from Syria and a casualty of the crisis raging against across the sea. When a simple plan to help the stranger goes horrifically wrong, all must face the consequences they have set in motion"--
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Siblings Billa and Ed share their beautiful, grand old childhood home in rural Cornwall. With family and friends nearby, and their living arrangements free and easy, they seem as contented as they can be. But when postcards start arriving from a sinister figure they thought belonged well and truly in their pasts, old memories are stirred. Why is he contacting them now? And what has he been hiding all these years?"--
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
'A story of romance, scandal and intrigue within the confines of a watchful, gossiping English village during the early nineteenth century When seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson's widowed father remarries, her life is turned upside down by the arrival of her vain, manipulative stepfather. She also acquires an intriguing new stepsister, Cynthia, glamorous, sophisticated and irresistible to every man she meets. The two girls begin to confide in one another...
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Publisher
Mantle
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Rose Woodrowe is getting married to Tyler Masson - a wonderful, sensitive man who is head-over-heels in love with her. The only problem? This isn't the first time for either of them, and their five grown-up children have strong opinions on the matter... Who to listen to? Who to please? Rose and Tyler are determined to get it right this time, but in trying to make everyone happy, can they ever be happy themselves?
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English
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"Wedding bells are ringing, a family is reunited, and new love is blooming--for better or worse--in this captivating novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Island House and Secrets in Summer. A few years after losing her beloved husband, Alison is doing something she never thought she would do again: getting married. While placing the finishing touches on her summer nuptials, Alison is anxious to introduce her fiance, David, to her...
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