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"Over the last few years, prominent people--a retired diplomat, a beloved basketball coach, the CEO of an empire--have died in a series of fluke accidents and shocking suicides. There's no apparent connection, no signs of foul play. Behind it all is a powerful group of women, the Sophie Foundation, who meet over wine and cheese to review files of men who behave very, very badly and then mete out justice. Jessa Hall jumps at the mysterious, exclusive...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.8 - AR Pts: 60
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1210L
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Four bumbling members of a nineteenth-century London social club, known as the legendary Pickwick Club, journey to places outside the city and become involved in romantic foibles, danger, and a few legal scrapes.
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Reeling from deceptions involving the people she loves, Poppy feels as if her world has tipped sideways. What better way to vent than social media? With her friend Annalise, Poppy creates a private Facebook group that quickly takes off. Poppy feels like she's back in control, that her life choices are worth celebrating -- until someone begins leaking the group's private posts and stirring up a nasty backlash. Frankie, too, is careening toward a breaking...
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It is the 1930s, and hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up and there's not a job to be found. For Queenie Bean, a young farm wife, a highlight of each week is the gathering of the Persian Pickle Club, a group of local ladies dedicated to improving their minds, exchanging gossip, and putting their quilting skills to good use. When a new member of the club stirs up a dark secret, the women must band together to support...
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The Junior League of Willow Creek, Texas, is tres exclusive. Undesirables need not apply. Fredericka Mercedes Hildebrand Ware (Frede to her friends) is a member beyond reproach...until her life begins to unravel. When her husband betrays her, steals her money, and runs off to places unknown, it's something Frede would rather keep under wraps. The last thing she needs is to become fodder for the JLWC gossip mill. And to make matters worse, there's
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Knitting and crocheting books are selling like crazy at the bookstore where Molly works, so to keep the customers coming, she sets up a series of classes where the Tarzana Hookers can pass on their skills to others: a Yarn University. The only problem is the teacher of the most popular seminar - Sheila - is getting a massive case of stage fright about being in front of a crowd. To ease Sheila's nerves, the Hookers plan a practice class at crocheter...
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Marlow Murder Club volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
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"It's been an enjoyable and murder-free time for Judith, Suzie and Becks - AKA the Marlow Murder Club - since the events of last year. The most exciting thing on the horizon is the upcoming wedding of Marlow grandee, Sir Peter Bailey, to his nurse, Jenny Page. Sir Peter is having a party at his grand mansion on the river Thames the day before the wedding, and Judith and Co. are looking forward to a bit of free champagne. But during the soiree, there's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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930L
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"In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan's debut novel--now widely regarded as a modern classic--examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between these four women and their American-born daughters."--Publisher's description....
14) Boy-crazy Stacey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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660L
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"Stacey and Mary Anne are baby-sitting for the Pike family for two weeks at the New Jersey shore. There's a gorgeous old house, a boardwalk, plenty of sun and sand...and the cutest boy Stacey has ever seen! Mary Anne knows that Scott the lifeguard is way too old for Stacey, but Stacey's in love. Suddenly Mary Anne's doing the work of two baby-sitters, and she doesn't like it one bit. But how can she tell Stacey that Scot just isn't interested-without...
15) Scout's honor
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2022.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
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850L
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Sixteen-year-old Prudence Perry is a legacy Ladybird Scout, born to a family of hunters sworn to protect humans from mulligrubs--interdimensional parasites who feast on human emotions like sadness and anger. Masquerading as a prim and proper ladies' social organization, the Ladybirds brew poisons masked as teas and use knitting needles as daggers, at least until they graduate to axes and swords. Three years ago, Prue's best friend was killed during...
16) The slow burn
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Tobias Gamble knew from a young age precisely the kind of woman he was going to make his. She was not going to be like his mother. She was going to be like the mother he claimed.In other words, she was going to be just right.And when Toby returns to his hometown of Matlock, Kentucky and claps eyes on Adeline Forrester, he knows she's the one.The problem is, his brother Johnny has a new girlfriend. And Addie is her sister. Last, Toby would do nothing...
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The Bronx, 1891. Virginia Loftin, the boldest of four artistic sisters in a family living in genteel poverty, knows what she wants most: to become a celebrated novelist despite her gender, and to marry Charlie, the boy next door and her first love.When Charlie proposes instead to a woman from a wealthy family, Ginny is devastated; shutting out her family, she holes up and turns their story into fiction, obsessively rewriting a better ending. Though...
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"It's time for a savory soirée--but something sinister is stewing--in Raquel V. Reyes's second delightful Caribbean Kitchen mystery, perfectly delicious for fans of Mia P. Manansala. Fall festivities are underway in Coral Shores, Miami. Cuban-American cooking show star Miriam Quiñones-Smith wakes up to find a corpse in her front yard. The body by the fake tombstone is the woman that was kicked out of the school's Fall Festival the day before. Miriam's...
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