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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 41
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English
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Tom Wingo is a high school football coach whose marriage and career are crumbling. He flies to New York after learning of his twin sister's suicide attempt. He realizes that while trying to save her, this may be his last chance to save himself as well.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death in this unforgettable story of grief, identity, and the complexities of family, from the acclaimed author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein. The three Blue sisters are exceptional - and exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a...
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Forever, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They'll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other's out, and they'll both go on to find the love of their lives. It's a bonkers idea... and it just might work. Emma hadn't planned that...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Once a superstar investigative reporter, disgraced by misconduct, Conn returned to his Vermont hometown to put his life back together. Now, after ten years covering local news, he knows his community like nobody else. When he kicks a submerged object while swimming-something with the density and resilience of human flesh-he wonders if it's connected to an unsolved murder in a nearby town. Detective Marlene Selanski heads up the State Police investigation....
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Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Ellen and Morris Owen head to Alabama hoping to save their sister Bonnie from her latest mistake, and are surprised to find Bonnie married to a charismatic young man who seems to have saved Bonnie from herself, but when Morris reveals his homosexuality to the couple, they set out to change his ways.
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Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this heartrending debut, Fatimah Asghar traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another. The youngest, Kausar, grapples with the incomprehensible loss of her parents as she also charts out her own understanding of gender; Aisha, the middle sister, spars with her "crybaby" younger sibling as she desperately tries to hold on to her sense of family in an impossible situation; and Noreen,...
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Moffats volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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The adventures of the Moffat children living in Cranbury, Connecticut in the early twentieth century as they create a museum, participate in their sister's wedding, and try to buy a trolley car.
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Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is truly over. Living alone in her late mother's country home, Isabel knows her life is as it should be--led by routine and discipline. But all is upended when her brother Louis brings his graceless new girlfriend Eva, leaving her at Isabel's doorstep as a guest, to stay for the season. Eva is Isabel's antithesis: she...
9) Thistlefoot
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Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The Yaga siblings--Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist--have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But when they learn that they are to receive a mysterious inheritance, the siblings are reunited--only to discover that their bequest isn't land or money, but something far stranger: a sentient house on chicken legs. Thistlefoot, as the house...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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When eleven-year-old Hank's mother does not come home after a week, he and his toddler sister, Boo, seek out the stranger listed as their emergency contact, even though it means social workers, a new school, and having to answer questions about his mom that he has been trying to keep secret.
13) The wide window
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Catastrophes and misfortune continue to plague the Baudelaire orphans after they're sent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine, who offers little protection against Count Olaf's treachery.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"When the patriarch of a famed hotel empire dies under suspicious circumstances, his daughter and her estranged brother join forces to find out what happened, unraveling a larger mystery about who their father really was. From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and Reeses Book Club Pick The Last Thing He Told Me comes a riveting mystery wrapped in an epic love story"--
"Liam Noone was many things to many people. To the public, he was...
15) Our John Willie
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Publisher
Bobbs-Merrill
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
Two orphans, one deaf and mute, struggle to stay alive by relying on their own wits and stolen food from a formidable recluse.
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning and bestselling author of Black Buck: A speculative novel about a young woman-invisible by birth and relegated to second-class citizenship-who sets off on a mission to find her older brother, whom she had presumed dead but who is now the primary suspect in a high-profile political murder"--
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English
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"Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and...
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Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
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"After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest, never left home. She stayed with her mom, caring for her until the very end. Nicole, the middle child, has been kept at arm's length due to her ongoing battle with a serious drug addiction. Michael, the youngest, lives out of state and hasn't been back to their small Wisconsin town since their father ran out on them seven years before. While going...
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