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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
It was a hunting accident that much Charlie is sure of. That's how his father, Matt Rizzo--a gentle intellectual who writes epic poems in Braille--had lost his vision. It's not until Charlie's troubled teenage years, when he's facing time for his petty crimes, that he learns the truth.Matt Rizzo was blinded by a shotgun blast to the face but it was while participating in an armed robbery. Newly blind and without hope, Matt began his bleak new life...
3262) The Dark Days pact
Author
Series
Lady Helen novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"In 1812, Lady Helen, taking refuge for the summer in Brighton, learns the Dark Days Club has a secret mission for her"--
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Was Edward Snowden a patriot or a traitor? Just how far do American privacy rights extend? And how far is too far when it comes to government secrecy in the name of security? These are just a few of the questions that have dominated American consciousness since Edward Snowden exposed the breath of the NSA's domestic surveillance program. In these seven previously unpublished essays, a group of prominent legal and political experts delve in to...
3264) The ruby notebook
Author
Series
Notebooks trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
When sixteen-year-old Zeeta and her itinerant mother move to Aix-en-Provence, France, Zeeta is haunted by a mysterious admirer who keeps leaving mementoes for her, and when her Ecuadorian boyfriend comes to visit, their relationship seems to have changed.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There she meets Ichimei Fukuda,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Traces the author's surprise discovery that his late mother had had a sister who was sent away under mysterious circumstances and never mentioned by the family again, his efforts to research his long-lost aunt's story and whereabouts, and his struggles to understand the secrecy of her existence.
3268) The aviary
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In late nineteenth-century Maine, isolated, eleven-year-old Clara Dooley gains a friend and uncovers a magical secret that changes her life when she learns to care for the once-feared birds in the aviary attached to the Glendoveer mansion where she lives.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women. All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita Sackville-West, her mother's Tory-conventional background. But then Juliet,...
3270) Kyra, just for today
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Krya has always felt like she’s a bit too much. Too tall. Too loud. Too earnest. But she’s okay with that, because she’s got her mom. Ever since Mom got sober about five years ago, she and Kyra have always been there for each other—something Kyra is thankful for every week when she attends her group meetings with other kids of alcoholics. When Mom is managing her cleaning business and Kyra is taking care of things at home, maybe, she thinks,...
3273) Château of secrets
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Gisèle Duchant guards a secret that could cost her life. Tunnels snake through the hill under her familys medieval château in Normandy. Now, with Hitlers army bearing down, her brother and several friends are hiding in the tunnels, resisting the German occupation of France. Taking in a Jewish friends baby, Gisèle convinces the Nazis that it is her child, ultimately risking everything for the future of the child. When the German officers begin to...
3274) El cumpleanos secreto
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the road and sees her mother speak to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy. Now, fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded...
3276) Unspoken fear
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
When her husband returns home after serving five years in prison, vineyard manager Rachel Gibson, faced with a virtual stranger, wonders if he is responsible for the brutal deaths of several townspeople who were killed to "pay" for their secret sins.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Collects two stories about law and love, including "The Law is a Lady," where filmmaker Phillip, after being pulled over by sheriff Victoria in Friendly, New Mexico, decides that the town is the perfect locale for his new film, and Victoria is the perfect woman for him.
3278) Good Girls: a thriller
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Lovely and Beauty know their place: at home, beneath the watchful eye of their mother. Life has never included friends, an education, or anything the sisters can call their own. Their comings and goings are supervised by Farida. Otherwise, they don’t come and go at all.
That changes on Lovely’s fortieth birthday. In a stroke of inexplicable fortune, Farida permits her eldest daughter to go to the Gausia Market alone, with no instructions but...
Author
Series
We set the dark on fire volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Description
"Dani must question everything she's worked for as she learns about the corruption of the Median government."--
At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society. Depending on her specialization, a graduate will one day run a husband's household or raise his children, but both wives are promised a live of comfort and luxury, far from the frequent political uprisings of the lower class....
3280) The stranger's child
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Embraced by the family of his Cambridge schoolmate, Cecil Valance writes an inspiring poem in an autograph album that becomes a staple of every English classroom after he is killed during World War I.