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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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The search for her birth mother brought Cora Kelly to the New Horizons Boys Ranch. Getting a job there was easy enough, but confiding in Aiyana, the ranch's owner, that she's really her daughter? Cora's not sure she can do that, not unless she's confident the news will be welcomed. And once she gets to know Elijah Turner - Aiyana's adopted son and ranch manager - that decision becomes even more difficult. Although Elijah can't deny his deep attraction...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Animosity between the genetically engineered Elites and their human subjects is fierce, and many rebels fight back against Elite rule. Hays Baker is a high-ranking agent in the Elite forces and at the forefront of keeping the humans under control. However, Hays is unknowingly hiding a secret that will make him the greatest threat to the Elite regime, and their number one target.
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Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning a letter arrives, addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl, from a woman he hasn't heard from in twenty years. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye. But before Harold mails off a quick reply, a chance encounter convinces him...
4) The locket
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English
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Following the death of his mother, Michael finds work at the nursing home. It is there he meets a reclusive elderly lady who yearns for her youth and lost love. She gives him her locket which tells her story.
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English
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Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when their beloved father falls ill, Meredith and Nina find themselves together again, standing alongside their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, who even now, offers no comfort to her daughters. As children, the only connection...
6) Pretty woman
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English
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Despite owning her own successful business, Rosie has lived for the approval of her husband, Kent, who never approves. He spends her money lavishly, sleeps in a separate bed, and takes every opportunity to inform Rosie how ugly and overweight she is--until she kicks him out without a cent. Kent is not happy. He is even less so when he suspects that Rosie has purchased a winning lottery ticket worth
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Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
With surprising twists, spine-tingling turns, and a setting that proves as uncomfortably claustrophobic as it is eerily beautiful, Ruth Ware follows In a Dark, Dark Wood with another taut and intense read -- one that will leave even the most sure-footed reader restlessly uneasy long after the last page is turned.
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Juggling motherhood and her job as a real-estate agent, Elizabeth Jordan wishes her husband could help more around the house. But Tony's rising career as a pharmaceutical salesman demands more and more of his time. With a nice home in the suburbs and a lovely young daughter, they appear to have it all, yet they can't seem to spend time together without fighting.
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930L
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English
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"The first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker's new imprint, SJP for Hogarth, A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity and belonging A Place for Us unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown to celebrate the eldest daughter, Hadia's, wedding - a match of love rather than tradition. It is here, on this momentous day, that Amar, the youngest of the siblings, reunites...
10) Grey
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English
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See the world of Fifty Shades of Grey anew through the eyes of Christian Grey. In Christian's own words, and through his thoughts, reflections, and dreams, E L James offers a fresh perspective on the love story that has enthralled millions of readers around the world. Christian Grey exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty--until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office, in a tangle of shapely limbs...
11) Gideon's sword
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Gideon Crew volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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"At age 12, Gideon Crew witnessed the brutal murder of his father. More than 20 years later, Gideon gets his revenge. But then a mysterious witness steps forward to confront Gideon on his crime---and offer him the chance of a lifetime"--Provided by publisher.
12) The Dinner
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Two brothers and their wives meet for dinner at a fashionable restaurant in Amsterdam. Behind their polite conversation, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act; an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of...
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Christmas box trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
An inspirational Christian tale on a dying woman who convinces a busy shopkeeper in Utah to devote more time to his family because their love is God's greatest gift. This is the hardcover edition of a paperback self-published last year.
14) The nowhere man
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Evan Smoak thrillers volume 2
Orphan X novel volume 02
Thorndike Press large print basic
Orphan X volume 02
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Orphan X novel volume 02
Thorndike Press large print basic
Orphan X volume 02
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English
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Spoken about only in whispers, it is said that when the Nowhere Man is reached by the truly desperate, he can and will do anything to save them. Evan Smoak is the Nowhere Man. Taken from a group home at twelve, Evan was raised and trained as part of the Orphan program, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets-- i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the program, using everything he learned to disappear and...
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A holiday gift for all P.D. James fans to stand alongside her bestselling The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories: six previously uncollected stories from the beloved "Queen of Crime"--Swift, cunning murder mysteries from throughout her extraordinary career. Put your feet up and enjoy a good read! Longtime P.D. James fans will devour these short tales of criminality and deception, each one a pleasure, evocative and engrossing. Including several stories...
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Class Mom volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Jen Dixon is not your typical Kansas City kindergarten class mom. With two college-age daughters by two different (probably) musicians, it's her second time around the class mom block with five-year-old Max. Though her best friend and PTA president see her as the "wisest" candidate for the job, not all of Jen's methods win approval from the other moms--publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1100L
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English
Description
How do we think without thinking, seem to make choices in an instant--in the blink of an eye--that actually aren't as simple as they seem? Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others? Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology,...
18) The seventh man
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English
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A man under thirty needs neighbors and to stop up the current of his life with a long silence is like obstructing a river-eventually the water either sweeps away the dam or rises over it, and the stronger the dam the more destructive is that final rush to freedom. Vic Gregg was on the danger side of thirty and he lived alone in the mountains all that winter. He wanted to marry Betty Neal, but marriage means money, therefore Vic contracted fifteen...
19) Little Bee
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.
20) Dark of the moon
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English
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Virgil Flowers is sent to Bluestem, a small town where everyone knows everyone else, to investigate the murders of a man burned to death in his home and a doctor and his wife, unaware that he is tracking a murderer who may be targeting Virgil as his next victim.
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