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Pub. Date
2011
Description
It's the start of the summer when Ginny and William Owen's quiet and peaceful life comes to an abrupt halt. First their oldest daughter Lillian shows up with her two children. Next Lillian's younger brother Stephen arrives with his pregnant wife and their visit is extended indefinitely when Jane is put on mandatory bed rest. Finally, Rachael arrives, the youngest sibling who decided to escape New York City and her single life for the summer.
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Pub. Date
2011
Description
Imogene Gilfeather and Wally Yez meet while waiting on line for an apple pie at a party. She has been told he is the perfect guy. He has been told she is a lingerie designer. One date turns into two and then into more and thus begins the an absurd unbalanced relationship.
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Pub. Date
2023
Description
In 1986, twenty-year-old Syvert Løyning returns from the military to his mother’s home in southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream. Realizing that he doesn’t really know who his father was, Syvert begins to investigate his life and finds clues pointing to the Soviet Union. What he learns changes his past and undermines the entire notion of who he is. But when his mother becomes ill, and he must care for his little...
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Pub. Date
2018
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Marnie McGraw is marrying the man of her dreams when she meets Blix Holliday, her fiancé's irascible matchmaking great-aunt who's dying. When her marriage ends after two miserable weeks, Marnie is shocked. She's even more astonished to find that she's inherited Blix's Brooklyn brownstone and all of Blix's unfinished 'projects' to follow in Blix's matchmaker footsteps.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
SHADOWS IN THE NIGHTA year after the chilling death of her mentor, criminologist Harley Frasier is still rattled. Secretly she's suspected murder all along. Now the unveiling of the Amen mose exhibit is triggering a series of unexplained attacks, and there's only one man she can trust. FBI special agent Micah Fox is used to charging into dangerous territory to solve a case. Working with a civilian is new ground, especially when she's as irresistible...
71) Devil's gambit
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Tiffany Rhodes' horse farm was in trouble long before she met Zane Sheridan, a breeder with a shady reputation. Yet she couldn't help but feel relieved when Sheridan offered to buy her out. Though Tiffany didn't trust him, she was drawn to him like a magnet. What did this mysterious man want from her, and why was he using a gambit with her heart?
72) Fell, book 2
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 22
Description
In Transylvania during the Middle Ages, Fell, a lone wolf with unusual abilities, learns that his destiny is entwined with that of one human, fifteen-year-old Alina, whose mysterious origins have villagers believing she is a changeling. In this sequel to "The Sight," Larka is dead, and her twin brother Fell must face life without his sister and the rest of his pack. Hes an outcast who shares his sisters fatal gift for seeing the future. But the gift...
74) Toad Rage
Author
Series
Toad rage books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
Gr 3-6-Young Limpy just can't figure out why humans hate his kind so much that they gleefully squash cane toads flat on the road every chance they get. Determined to be a goodwill ambassador, he sets off to change people's minds, but meets with nothing but vilification until he and his hapless cousin Goliath hitch a truck to the city and become involved in the hoopla surrounding a major athletic competition, The Games. Humor, both outrageously broad...
Author
Series
Peachtree Bluff novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2021
Description
When the Murphy women are in trouble, they always know they can turn to their mother, Ansley. So when eldest daughter Caroline and her husband, James, announce they are divorcing—and fifteen-year-old daughter Vivi acts out in response—Caroline, at her wits end, can’t think of anything to do besides leave her with Ansley in Peachtree Bluff for the holidays. After all, how much trouble can one teenager get into on a tiny island?
Quite a lot,...
Author
Series
Shadow of liberty volume 3
Pub. Date
c 2001
Description
Inheriting his slighted forefathers' bitter hatred for Queen Victoria, Nigel Whitaker has finally found a way to punish the Queen: kidnap her great-grandson David, "the apple of her eye," and whisk him off to America. But when fortune-seeking emigrants Jeremy and Cecelia Barlow, unable to have children of their own after a riding accident, become attached to the adorable child, his fate is even more uncertain. Meanwhile back in England, Queen Victoria's...
79) Gilded girl
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Pub. Date
c2022
Description
Soon after her mother passes, London ladies maid, Eliza Chapman learns that her father is Ward Redfield--one of the richest men in Manhattan and he has sent a one-way ticket for her to stay with him and his family. He says his two daughters are excited to meet her but Eliza discovers they are actually far less enthused about her arrival. She feels like a fish out of water--suddenly thrust into a whole new world as she is presented to society and attends...
80) Life of Pi
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Pi is a small boy bound by ship to America with a boatload of animals. The ship taking them across the Pacific sinks. Pi finds himself in a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra with a broken leg, and a bengal tiger.