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281) The space between us
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English
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Bhima, a domestic servant in the household of Sera Dubash, an upper-class Parsi housewife, develops a bond with her employer over the course of many years as they both suffer through abusive marriages, loss, and disappointments, but their friendship still cannot overcome the restrictions of class and money.
282) Phantom
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Flicker Alley, in partnership with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation is proud to present, Phantom, which marked a major turning point in the influential career and the groundbreaking style of cinema poet F.W. Murnau. In this beautifully reconstructed and restored edition from an amazingly detailed, original 1922 negative, Alfred Abel (Metropolis, Dr. Mabuse) plays Lorenz Lubota, a man obsessed with his own desires to achieve fame and wealth,...
283) Prom & prejudice
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
690L
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English
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For Lizzie Bennett, a music scholarship student at Connecticut's exclusive, girls-only Longbourn Academy, the furor over prom is senseless, but even more puzzling is her attraction to the pompous Will Darcy, best friend of her roommate's boyfriend.
284) Carve the mark
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Carve the mark volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
HL 780L
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English
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Living on a violent planet where everyone develops a unique power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra, youths from enemy nations, resent gifts that render them vulnerable to others' control before they become unlikely survival partners.
285) Dig two graves
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English
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"Seventeen-year-old film noir fan Neve Lanier is a girl who just wants to be seen, but doesn't really fit in anywhere. When Neve is betrayed by her best friend, Yasmin, at the end of the school year, she heads off to a girl's empowerment camp feeling like no one will ever love her again. So when she grabs the attention of the beautiful, charismatic Diane, she falls right under her spell, and may accidentally promise to murder Diane's predatory step-brother,...
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Enchantée volume 02
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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As the Revolution ignites Paris, Camille Durboness secretly uses magic to help girls living in society's margins, and when all magicians are declared traitors to France, Camille must decide who she is and what she believes.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, alternate telling how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but influential classmate, even as they are uncovering a long-kept secret about themselves.
288) Death below stairs
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English
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When her young assistant is murdered in the Mayfair mansion where they work, cook Kat finds that the girl's death was just the tip of the iceberg, a plot that threatens the life of Queen Victoria herself.
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Clique novels. Original series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
790L
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English
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A bet about wardrobes between the wealthy Massie and middle-class Claire results in a testing of old friendships, a forging of new ones, and a change for the student body at Octavian Country Day School.
290) Belles
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Series
Belles volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Isabelle loves her impoverished North Carolina beach community, but when her grandmother must enter a nursing home, Izzie is placed with distant relatives she never knew--a state senator and his preppy wife and children.
291) Grease live!
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A live one night musical production of the massively popular crossover musical! Featuring a young ensemble cast, this will reintroduce and reimagine some of the show's most memorable moments, great music, and timeless love story to an entirely new generation.
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English
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Paris, 2015. A crowd gathers outside the Chauvet home in the affluent suburban community of Maisons-Larue, watching as the family's American au pair is led away in handcuffs after the sudden death of her young charge. The grieving mother believes the caretaker is to blame, and the neighborhood is thrown into chaos, unsure who is at fault-the enigmatic, young foreigner or the mother herself, who has never seemed an active participant in the lives of...
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Once upon a dukedom volume 1
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English
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Lady Kathryn Lambert must marry a titled gentleman to claim her inheritance and has finally gained the attention of a duke. Yet she is unable to forget the scandalous second son who aided in her achievement-or his betrayal. Lord Griffith Stanwick is tormented by the bitter truth that as a "spare" he will never be able to give Kathryn what she yearns to possess. But when his father is found guilty of treason, Griff detours into the dark and dangerous...
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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"Desde muy pequeña, Josefina Jarama sueña con una vida mejor y sabe que para llegar hasta ella solo hay una vía, cruda y pragmática: el ascenso social. Este Lazarillo moderno comienza su andadura en una fábrica de juguetes en Ibi, Alicante. Allí es la protegida del jefe y además trabaja junto a su madre, una comunista militante que opera en la clandestinidad y que deberá huir para que no la encarcelen. La protagonista ha de elegir entonces...
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Clandestine affairs volume 2
Language
English
Description
London's finest bonesetter, Hanna Zaydan, the daughter of foreign merchants, is slowly seduced by a new patient--a mysterious former soldier--who threatens to destroy everything she's worked so hard for.
297) Reality check
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody's college hopes, he drops out of high school and gets a job in his small Montana town; but when his ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-country to join the search.
298) The liars society
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English
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"Weatherby is a fish out of water. When she lands a scholarship to the prestigious Boston School, she's excited to be in the same world as her dad, whom she's never met, and make real friends. But Weatherby has a secret she'll risk everything to protect, one that could destroy her new life. Every member of Jack's wealthy and privileged family has made their mark at the Boston School. Everyone, that is, except for Jack, who is entirely mediocre. He's...
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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Over the course of her glittering literary career, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala wrote some of the most wonderful novels of the twentieth century and screenplays to some of the most beloved films - but she was also a master of the short story form. This stunning new collection brings together the jewels in the crown of her writing: it is a showcase of astonishing storytelling power.
300) The making of a lady
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
During her duties as a lady's companion, Emily meets her employer's nephew, Lord James Walderhurst. Accepting his marriage proposal, Emily finds solace in the company of Walderhurst's nephew and his glamorous wife, after Lord James leaves to rejoin his regiment. Emily, alone with the Osborns, increasingly comes under their control. She begins to fear for her life.
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