Bernadette Dunne
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English
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"Judith Kratt inherited all the Kratt family had to offer - the pie safe, the copper clock, the murder that no one talks about - and she knows in her old bones that it's time to make an inventory of her household and its valuables. But she finds that cataloging the family heirlooms can't contain their misfortunes, not when her wayward sister suddenly returns, determined to expose secrets that the Kratts had hoped to take to their grave. Interweaving...
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Alexandra Cooper novels volume 10
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English
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Manhattan D.A. Alex Cooper investigates the murders of three victims while dodging infuriated gang members packing heat. Her interrogation skills lead to someone with a twisted obsession concerning the military, and things grow increasingly dangerous when the chase leads to a chain of small, abandoned islands around New York harbor.
43) First test
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Protector of the small volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
760L
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English
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Ten-year-old Keladry of Mindalen, daughter of nobles, serves as a page but must prove herself to the males around her if she is ever to fulfill her dream of becoming a knight.
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The unflappable ornamental blacksmith-turned-detective Meg Langslow returns in this latest bird mystery. Meg helps her brother move his computer company into new quarters. Moving turns into murder when the office practical joker turns up dead on top of the mail cart and Meg must find out who did it.
45) The robber bride
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One of Margaret Atwood’s most unforgettable characters lurks at the center of this intricate novel like a spider in a web. The glamorous, irresistible, unscrupulous Zenia is nothing less than a fairy-tale villain in the memories of her former friends. Roz, Charis, and Tony—university classmates decades ago—were reunited at Zenia’s funeral and have met monthly for lunch ever since, obsessively retracing the destructive swath she once cut through...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton comes a “deeply moving” (The Washington Post) novel that “confirms Strout as the possessor of an irresistibly companionable, peculiarly American voice” (The Atlantic Monthly).
“Superb . . . a shimmering tale of loss, faith, and human fallibility.”—O:...
“Superb . . . a shimmering tale of loss, faith, and human fallibility.”—O:...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 31
Lexile measure
1000L
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English
Description
Overview: A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes,...
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English
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The economic downturn has hit New Bern, Connecticut, and Tessa Woodruff's herbal apothecary shop. For the Love of Lavender is suffering and so is Tessa's once-happy thirty-four-year marriage to Lee. The couple had given up everything to come back to New Bern from Boston, but now they're wondering if they made the right choice. To relieve the strain, Tessa signs up for a quilting class at the Cobbled Court Quilt Shop, and rediscovers the strength of...
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Series
Devil wears Prada volume 1
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English
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A small-town girl fresh out of an Ivy League college lands a job at a prestigious fashion magazine, but wonders if the glamorous perks are worth working for the editor from hell.
53) Bless this mouse
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
690L
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English
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Mouse Mistress Hildegarde musters all her ingenuity to keep a large colony of church mice safe from the exterminator and to see that they make it through the dangerous Blessing of the Animals.
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English
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When Meg chases an errant shot into a gully, she discovers the fresh corpse of a woman with her head bashed in. The victim appears to have been done in with a croquet mallet?or was it a sledgehammer? Meg starts with a long list of suspects involved in a local campaign against developers who hope to transform the bucolic pasture area into an outlet mall. When the body is identified as Lindsay Tyler, a beautiful, manipulative former history professor...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
920L
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English
Description
"First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House....
56) Lady knight
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Protector of the small volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
770L
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English
Description
Keladry of Mindelan finally achieves her dream of being a knight. With the land of Tortall at war with the Scanrans, she is assigned to oversee a refugee camp. Soon she's torn between her duty and a quest that she feels could turn the tide of the war.
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When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger sister Lee wept inconsolably. Then Jackie's thirty-eight-page will was read. Lee discovered that substantial cash bequests were left to family members, friends, and employees-but nothing to her. "I have made no provision in this my Will for my sister, Lee B. Radziwill, for whom I have great affection, because I have already done so during my lifetime,"...
59) The real macaw
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English
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During a 2 a.m. feeding for her four-month-old twins, Meg Langslow hears an odd noise and goes downstairs to find her living room filled with dozens of animals: cats, dogs, hamsters, gerbils, rabbits, guinea pigs, and a stunningly foul-mouthed macaw. She soon learns that financial woes have caused the local animal shelter to repeal its no-kill policy. Her kindhearted father, her zoologist grandfather, and other like-minded citizens have stolen all...
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Meg Langslow is plying her blacksmith's trade at "Caerphilly Days," a festival inspired by her town's sudden notoriety as "The Town That Mortgaged Its Jail." The lender has foreclosed on all Caerphilly's public buildings, and all employees have evacuated -except one. Phineas Throckmorton, the town clerk, has been barricaded in the courthouse basement for over a year. Mr. Throckmorton's long siege has only been possible because of a pre-Civil War...