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"As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck,...
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Soho Press
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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This novel told from the perspectives of both humans and chimpanzees “packs a huge emotional punch” (The Gazette, Montreal).
Looee is a chimp raised by a well-meaning and compassionate human couple who cannot conceive a baby of their own. He is forever set apart—not human, but certainly not like other chimps. Then one night, after years at the family’s Vermont home, all their lives are changed...
Looee is a chimp raised by a well-meaning and compassionate human couple who cannot conceive a baby of their own. He is forever set apart—not human, but certainly not like other chimps. Then one night, after years at the family’s Vermont home, all their lives are changed...
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Librarian Martha Storm has always found it easier to connect with books than people--though not for lack of trying. She keeps careful lists of how to help others in her superhero-themed notebook. And yet, sometimes it feels like she's invisible. All of that changes when a book of fairy tales arrives on her doorstep. Inside, Martha finds a dedication written to her by her best friend--her grandmother Zelda--who died under mysterious circumstances years...
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Multnomah
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
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354 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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In 1909 London, Laura's mother falls ill and her brother and sisters are forced into an orphan's home, so Laura teams up with a wealthy young lawyer to find them and reunite their family.
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The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot's second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver growing up on the river Floss near the town of St. Oggs (a fictionalised version of Gainsborough, in Lincolnshire, England) in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, with both as young adults eventually meeting a tragic end by the Mill which the family holds...
87) Love
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
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IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Illustrations and easy-to-read text celebrate the bonds of love that connect us all.
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Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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As her tenth birthday approaches, Felicity is excited by her grandfather's visit, but she is also concerned about the growing tensions between the colonists and the British governor in Williamsburg.
89) After the end
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
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390 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Disagreeing for the first time when their son falls ill and they receive conflicting doctor recommendations, a devoted couple finds a unique way for both of their preferences to become possible.
90) The Dog Park
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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A couple's best friend?
Stylist Jessica Champlin knows it takes more than a darling goldendoodle to save a marriage. She and her ex-husband, investigative journalist Sebastian Hess, had too many irreconcilable differences for even their beloved dog, Baxter, to heal. So they've agreed to joint custody, and life has settled into a prickly normalcy.
But when Baxter heroically rescues a child and the video footage goes viral,...
Stylist Jessica Champlin knows it takes more than a darling goldendoodle to save a marriage. She and her ex-husband, investigative journalist Sebastian Hess, had too many irreconcilable differences for even their beloved dog, Baxter, to heal. So they've agreed to joint custody, and life has settled into a prickly normalcy.
But when Baxter heroically rescues a child and the video footage goes viral,...
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Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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"A fast-paced and gripping exploration of a mother's love. A powerful affecting novel."—Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author of The Weight of Silence and One Breath Away
How Far Will a Mother Go to Find Her Daughter?
Michelle Mason can't remember that day, that drive, that horrible crash that killed the young man in her car. All she knows is she's being held responsible, and her daughter is missing.
Despite
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Heartland volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
193 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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As Amy adjusts to life without her mother, she relies on her friend Ty, who shares with Amy the responsibility for maintaining Heartland, and when she's struck by another family crisis, it's to Ty that she turns for support.
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John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
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358 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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In Appalachia and the Midwest at the turn of the twentieth century, fifteen-year-old Albertina "Bertie" Winslow leads her farm family through a series of challenges and hard-won triumphs.
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English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fifth novel. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten--by...
95) Afterlife
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English
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"A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise"--
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A young girl narrates her family's move from the city to the country, where they have bought a piece of land and live in a trailer while they build a house from the ground up, with help from relatives and friends.
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English
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"Nantucket writer Madeline King couldn't have picked a worse time to have writer's block. Her deadline is looming, her bills are piling up, and inspiration is in short supply. Madeline's best friend Grace, is hard at work transforming her garden into the envy of the island with the help of a ruggedly handsome landscape architect. Before she realizes it, Grace is on the verge of a decision that will irrevocably change her life. Could Grace's crisis...
99) Between friends
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Pub. Date
2002
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English
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A novel encompassing more than thirty years follows the lives of two women, Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski, as they learn to seek comfort in their powerful friendship, which has seen them through marriage, children, and tragedy.
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The whole family joins in a lively small-town celebration of Independence Day, including a parade, a picnic, music, and fireworks. An author's note explains the origin of the celebration of July 4th.