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2082) Sea escape
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Pub. Date
p2010
Description
Balancing her roles as wife and mother with the responsibility of caring for a parent who is recovering from a stroke, Laura reads the love letters exchanged by her parents during the 1950s and tumultuous Vietnam War period, a correspondence that reveals unexpected truths.
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Pub. Date
2016
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When Orhan's grandfather is found dead, Orhan inherits the decades-old business. But his grandfather has left the family estate to a stranger thousands of miles away, Seda, an aging woman in a retirement home in Los Angeles. Over time, Orhan begins to unearth the story that eighty-seven-year-old Seda so closely guards. .
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Series
Inheritance games volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Un paso adelante. Avery pensó que resolver el acertijo que le puso el multimillonario Tobias Hawthorne revelaría por qué le dejó a ella, una completa desconocida, toda su fortuna. Dos pasos atrás. Pero, a medida que las pistas crípticas dan un giro inesperado y los atractivos y enigmáticos nietos de Hawthorne continúan atrayéndola en diferentes direcciones, Avery no puede evitar preguntarse en quién puede confiar realmente. ¿Qué sucede...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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"The Ghost on the Mountain ... takes YOU on an adventure to Haiti, where you're spending the summer with your Grandma Yolette to learn about your heritage. You will discover the secrets that lie inside of your family and deep in the soil of the enchanting land"--
2086) Of monsters and madness
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"In 1820s Philadelphia, a girl finds herself in the midst of a rash of gruesome murders in which her father and his alluring assistant might be implicated"--
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, and his family. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. When the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Jende is desperate to keep his job and is soon forced to make an impossible choice.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"A sweeping, unforgettable novel fromThe New York Timesbest-selling author ofMaine, about the hope, sacrifice, and love between two sisters and the secret that drives them apart. Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. Nora is the responsible sister; she's shy and serious and engaged to a man she isn't sure that she loves. Theresa is gregarious; she is thrilled by...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants"--ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star seems set to rise when he stumbles across a sensational scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents beloved across the neighborhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and "bad apples": the...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Life used to be great for Rose: full of friends, a loving mom, and a growing fashion blog. But when her mother dies in a car crash, Rose is sent away to live with a strange grandmother she hardly knows and forced to attend a new school where mean girls ridicule her at every turn. The one place Rose finds refuge is in her grandmother's Tudor-style greenhouse. But one night, she sees a strange light glowing from within it. She climbs a ladder to investigate......
2092) The kingdom over the sea
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
When twelve-year-old Yara's mother passes away, she leaves behind a letter and a strange set of instructions. Yara must travel from the home she has always known to a place that is not on any map, Zehaira, a world of sorcerers, alchemists and simmering magic. But Zehaira is not the land it used to be. The practice of magic has been outlawed, the Sultan's alchemists are plotting a sinister scheme, and the answers Yara is searching for seem to be out...
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Dr. Jake Rosen, world-famous pathologist, deputy chief medical examiner, and devoted scientist; and top litigator Manny Manfreda, who is as lovely (and accessorized) as she is gutsy, take on a case with a bizarre serial killer. The case begins in New York as a strange kind of thief stalks his victims with the purpose of extracting a vial of blood -- earning him the nickname Vampire in the tabloids. As the attacks escalate from torture to murder,...
Author
Series
We set the dark on fire volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
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"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....
2095) The unloved (CD)
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Pub. Date
2017
Description
Lush, a deceptively tranquil, the secluded island basks in splendid isolation off the South Carolina coast--as does the Devereaux mansion, a once-great plantation house now crumbling amidst the ancient oaks. Now, for the first time in two decades, Kevin Devereaux has returned here with his wife and children
2096) El regreso
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Trevor Benson no tuvo intenciones de volver a New Bern, Carolina del Norte. Pero una terrible explos̤in a las fueras del hospital en el que trabajaba como cirujano, le obliga a volver a casa desde Afganis̀tn con graves heridas. La destartalada cabąa que ha̕ba heredado de su abuelo parece el lugar ideal para recuperarse. Trevor, que cuida las amadas colmenas de abejas de su abuelo, no es̀t preparado para enamorarse de alguien del pueblo. Sin...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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CSL - AAPI Books
CSL - Adapted for Film or Television
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Woman Authors
CSL - Adapted for Film or Television
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Woman Authors
Description
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and...
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2023.
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"Soichi, the unhinged second son of the Tsujii family, chews nails and makes them clatter and clack as he spouts horrific curses to bring about the most bizarre happenings. Whether it's summer holidays or a birthday party, Soichi can turn any occasion into a nightmare in a heartbeat. What is the terrible secret of his origin?' Meanwhile, tormented by his little brother's never-ending pranks, older brother Koichi has a soundproof room built. But why...
2100) Confessions
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Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
After investigating multiple homicides and her family's decades-old skeletons in the closet, Tandy Angel is finally reunited with her lost love in Paris. But as he grows increasingly distant, Tandy is confronted with disturbing questions about him, as well as what really happened to her long-dead sister. With no longer any way to tell whom in her life she can trust, how will Tandy ever get to the bottom of the countless secrets her parents kept from...