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1) Lapvona
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh's most exciting leap yet. Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life's few consolations for Marek...
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Language
English
Description
Abandoned by his beautiful wife, Irene, Henry spends the summer in a tent on the edge of Black Pond with their two young children. Henry, a butcher, often must leave them alone as he travels the country in search of work. A prosperous neighbor begins to woo the children as companion for their strange housebound son. Henry must weigh an unusual proposition, the consequences of which may cost him everything.
4) Mother road
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Language
English
Description
Managing a Depression-era garage in Oklahoma while his friend recovers from an animal bite, Yates finds himself falling in love with his friend's babysitter and housekeeper, who has scandalized the town by living with her employer.
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Series
Heart of Hollyhill novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
When a black family moves into the neighborhood in 1964 Kentucky, a fourteen-year-old girl befriends him during an unforgettable summer.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Since there wasn't enough proof to convict Alva's father for the murder of her mother, she's been forced to live in his house in Ormscaula, Scotland, being raised by the man she holds responsible for her motherlessness. His family has been called guardians of the loch for generations, and now it falls to her to monitor the water levels, despite not knowing what she's watching for -- or what may be watching her back.
Author
Series
Flavia De Luce mysteries volume 1
Thorndike Press large print core
Flavia de Luce mystery volume 01
Flavia de Luce mystery volume 03
Thorndike Press large print core
Flavia de Luce mystery volume 01
Flavia de Luce mystery volume 03
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950-and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to...
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Series
Journals of Corrie Belle Hollister volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
"When her mother dies, Corrie Bell Hollister is left with four younger siblings to care for. Hoping to find her uncle, she arrives in Gold Rush territory determined to be strong and make her own way. But her long-lost father's so-called land of promise is a dangerous place, and she has never felt so alone."--Amazon.com
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English
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Fashionable Easterner Alison Stripling is shocked to receive a letter from her deceased sister's husband in Hope, Kansas, pleading for help with his six children. The letter gives Alison a chance to escape her troubles in Boston, and the name of the town seems like a sign from God. But when she arrives at a rustic cabin on the prairie, she's in for a bigger shock: Rafe Munroe didn't write the letter at all! Realizing the children are determined to...
11) Persuasion
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1100L
Language
English
Description
At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant...
12) Sarah's daughter
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Rose begins to think of her mother as Sarah because the very word mother makes her cry. She continually asks herself what her mother would do about breakfast for the family; about how to take care of her siblings; about her father s drinking and going off to a hotel almost every evening. After the unusual accident that killed her mother, fourteen-year-old Rose Hibbard copes. She is forced to take on her silently grieving father and her younger brother...
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