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Florence Norris mysteries volume 1
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English
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In its 300-year history, there has never once been a scandal at Mullings, ancestral home of the decent but dull Stodmarsh family. Until, that is, Edward Stodmarsh makes an ill-advised second marriage to the scheming Regina Stapleton, who insists on bringing her family's 'ornamental hermit' to live on the estate. Suddenly everyone wants to visit Mullings to glimpse this mysterious figure. Strange but harmless, thinks Florence Norris, the family's longstanding...
2) Island apart
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Seeking to convalesce from a serious illness and finish a literary project, New York book editor Claire Doheney house-sits an oceanfront mansion on Chappaquiddick Island, where she falls in love with a mysterious loner who harbors a devastating secret.
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English
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"England, 1255. Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman much like Saint Hildegard of Bingen, shut away in a small cell, measuring seven by nine paces, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth and the pressure to marry, she decides to renounce the world, with all its dangers, desires, and temptations, and to commit herself to a life of prayer. But it soon...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Seeking to convalesce from a serious illness and finish a literary project, New York book editor Claire Doheney house-sits an oceanfront mansion on Chappaquiddick Island, where she falls in love with a mysterious loner who harbors a devastating secret.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
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"For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life lessons from the...
7) The hermit
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English
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A car is found on a deserted beach on the Spanish island of Fuerteventura. On the back seat lies a cardboard box containing the body of a small boy buried in newspaper cuttings. No one knows his name, and there is no trace of a driver. The last thing an ailing tourist resort needs is a murder, and the police are desperate to close the case. The island is rife with rumours about the reclusive Erhard. Two decades of self-imposed exile from his wife...
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English
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"The once-rising literary star Olivia Fitzgerald is down on her luck. Her most recent novel, a retelling of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, was a flop, her boyfriend of nine years just dumped her and she's battling a bad case of writer's block. So when her agent calls her with a high-paying ghostwriting opportunity, Olivia is all too willing to sign the NDA. At first, the write-for-hire job seems too good to be true. All she has to do is interview Henry...
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Español
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En Barkley Cove, un tranquilo pueblo de pescadores, circulan extraños rumores sobre la "chica de la marisma". Desde los seis años, Kya deambula completamente sola entre canales y cañaverales, apenas cubierta y descalza. Aunque solo asiste un día a la escuela, la marisma y sus criaturas no tienen secretos para ella: la alimentan, la acunan, la protegen, son sus maestros y compañeras de juego. Kya aprende a descifrar los signos de la naturaleza...
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Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 7
Hardy Boys adventures volume 7
The Hardy boys mysteries volume 007
Hardy Boys adventures volume 7
The Hardy boys mysteries volume 007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
"Now with a brand-new look, this is an edition that collectors won't want to miss! In The Secret of the Caves, the seventh book in the incredibly popular, long-running series, Frank and Joe Hardy discover the secret of the Honeycomb Caves while searching for a missing professor. A special treat for Hardy Boys fans and any reader who's new to the series!"--
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English
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No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world. For eight years, Cooper and his young daughter, Finch, have lived in isolation in a remote cabin in the northern Appalachian woods. And that's exactly the way Cooper wants it, because he's got a lot to hide. Finch has been raised on the books filling the cabin's shelves and the beautiful but brutal code of life in the wilderness. But she's starting to push back against the sheltered life...
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Series
Wilde (Harlan Coben) volume 1
Language
English
Description
"The man known as Wilde is a mystery to everyone, including himself. Decades ago, he was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past. After the police concluded an exhaustive hunt for the child's family, which was never found, he was turned over to the foster system. Now, thirty years later, Wilde still doesn't know where he comes from, and he's back living in the woods on the outskirts of town, content to be an outcast, comfortable...
13) Backwater
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
While compiling a genealogy of her family of successful attorneys, sixteen-year-old history buff Ivy Breedlove treks into the mountain wilderness to interview a reclusive aunt with whom she identifies and who in turn helps her to truly know herself and her family.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Aging, reclusive author Vida Winter, having given out multiple versions of her life story over the years, decides to finally set the record straight and engages Margaret Lea, a London bookseller's daughter, to write her biography, drawing the young woman into a tale of a governess, a ghost, a willful woman, feral twins, and a gothic mansion.
15) Demon seed
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Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
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Susan Harris, a woman who lives in self-imposed seclusion, becomes the victim of an artificial intelligence that is obsessed with learning everything there is to know about the flesh.
16) Red sky at night
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English
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What does it take to break a man? In one brutal instant, Thorn lost everything -- his freedom, his pride, and the woman he loved. While investigating the slaughter of eleven trained dolphins, Thorn is viciously attacked. Immobilized by pain, Thorn enters a Key West pain clinic run by an old friend. And within hours, he senses grave danger there: patients are isolated and experiments seem to be spinning out of control. Wheelchair bound or not, Thorn...
18) White bird
Author
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
330L
Language
English
Description
A lonely boy is found and reared by a hermit in the wilderness of the Tennessee mountains in the 1880s.
Author
Series
Road to Avonlea volume 3
Pub. Date
1992, c1991
Language
English
Description
Sara and her cousins discover the reclusive Old Miss Lloyd when they go exploring in her old, run-down Lloyd mansion. Sara sets out to discover the secrets behind Miss Lloyd's lonely, reclusive life.
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