LLC Findaway World
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English
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Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
"In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor...
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Witches of West Harbor volume 1
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English
Description
"In her teenage years, lovelorn Jessica Gold cast a spell that went disastrously wrong, and brought her all the wrong kind of attention--as well as a lifetime ban from the World Council of Witches. So no one is more surprised than Jess when, fifteen years later, tall, handsome WCW member Derrick Winters shows up in her quaint little village of West Harbor and claims that Jess is the Chosen One. Not chosen by West Harbor's snobby elite to style them...
3) The crossing
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
No one steals a carrot from Mama's garden and gets away with it! Charlie howls and chases the thieving rabbit, and then camps out by Mr. Rabbit's hole until he appears. But the sun is so warm and cozy--perfect for a nap! Charlie must try another tactic: luring the rabbit with another carrot. Will Charlie succeed?
7) Epossumondas
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Series
Epossumondas volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Language
English
Description
A retelling of a classic tale in which a well-intentioned young possum continually takes his mother's instructions much too literally.
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English
Description
A group of actors, authors, and other Hollywood luminaries gather at the Pacific Palisades home of Max, a fifty-eight-year-old director, the day after the 2003 Academy Awards, where they watch films, eat, drink, make love, and ponder life and the war in Iraq from their unique perspective as inhabitants of a make-believe world.
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Groovy Joe volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Groovy Joe is a guitar-playing dog who loves to sing and dance, and when many other dogs come and join him his home gets a little crowded, but the party is fun, and Joe is definitely a guitar hero.
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English
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"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Lila, a worrier, moves to a new town, the what ifs only grow, and she feels alone and invisible until her teacher finds a creative and kind way to make Lila feel welcome and open to new experiences, a lesson that will stay with her long after second grade.
12) The maze
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
720L
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English
Description
Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.
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English
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Jack Travis leads the uncomplicated life of a millionaire Texas playboy. He makes no commitments, he loves many women, he lives for pleasure. Until one day, a woman appears on his doorstep with fury on her face and a baby in her arms. It seems Jack is the father and this woman is the baby's aunt.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
"The friends have to discover what is annoying both of them when Catina chatters during their canoe ride when Houndsley wants to enjoy the sounds of nature, and Houndsley balks at going on a bike ride with Catina"--
15) Mixed me!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Language
English
Description
Told in rhyming text, Mike is a mixed-race boy, completely comfortable with his identity and his parents--and his wild, curly hair.
16) Fear of dying
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English
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"As the afternoon of life looms over Vanessa Wonderman, she watches her parents age, attends doctor appointments with her pregnant daughter, and sits by the hospital bed of her husband, Asher, fifteen years her senior. With her best years as an actress behind her, she's discovering that beginnings are easy, but endings can be hard. Could her fountain of youth fantasies be fulfilled on zipless.com? A site inspired by the writings of her best friend,...
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English
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"Detective Elise Sutton is drawn to cold cases. Each crime is a puzzle to solve, pulled from the past. Elise looks for cracks in the surface and has become an expert on how murderers slip up and give themselves away. She has dedicated her life to creating a sense of order, at work with her ex-marine partner; at home with her husband and two young daughters; and within, battling her own demons. Elise has everything under control, until one afternoon,...
18) The professor
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Series
Marlitt Kaplan novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"On a spring afternoon in Athens, Georgia, Ethan Haddock is discovered in his apartment, dead, apparently by his own hand. His fatality immediately garners media attention: not because his death reflects the troubling increase of depression and mental health issues among college students, but because the media has caught the whiff of a scandal. His professor, Dr. Verena Sobek, has been taken in for questioning, and there are rumors his death is the...
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English
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In the years following the Civil War, Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock--the "Widow of the South"-- has quietly built a new life for herself as a midwife to the women of Franklin, Tennessee. But when her ambitious, politically-minded grown son, Theopolis, is murdered, Mariah--no stranger to loss--finds her world once more breaking apart. How could this happen? Who wanted him dead? Mariah's journey to uncover the truth leads her to unexpected...