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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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Ellie Cavanaugh was only seven years old when her fifteen-year-old sister, Andrea, was murdered near their home in Oldham-on-the-Hudson, a rural village in New York's Westchester County. There were three suspects: Rob Westerfield, nineteen-year-old scion of a wealthy, prominent family, whom Andrea has been secretly dating Paul Stroebel, a sixteen-year-old schoolmate, who had a crush on Andrea and Will Nebels, a local handyman in his forties. It was...
43) Mansfield Park
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Mansfield Park is a study of three families-the Bertrams, the Crawfords, and the Prices-with the isolated figure of the heroine, Fanny Price, at its center. Fanny's quiet passivity, her steadfast loyalty and love for the son of the family who regard her as the poor relation, and who have taken her under their roof, are not appreciated until they are tried against the brilliant and witty Mary and Henry Crawford, the unfortunate consequences of whose...
44) Halos
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It was the halo that caught her heart between beats and made her pause to take notice. When Alessi Moore drives her red Mustang convertible into town, she wonders if this could be the place she was meant to find, a place to settle down. But when her convertible and all she owns is stolen, she is filled with doubt.
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They're calling for the "Storm of the Century," and in western Maine, that means something. So Eric closes his law office early and heads to the grocery store. But when an unkempt and seemingly unstable young woman in line comes up short on cash, a kind of old-school charity takes hold of his heart--twenty bucks and a ride home; that's the least he can do. Trouble is, Danielle doesn't really have a home. She's squatting in a cabin deep in the woods:...
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In early-twentieth-century Korea, Najin Han, the privileged daughter of a calligrapher, longs to choose her own destiny. Smart and headstrong, she is encouraged by her mother--but her stern father is determined to maintain tradition, especially as the Japanese steadily gain control of his beloved country.
47) Tully
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The astonishing debut novel from international number one bestselling author Paullina Simons, beautifully repackaged Tully Makker is a tough young woman from the wrong side of the tracks and she is not always easy to like. But if Tully gives friendship and loyalty, she gives them for good, and she forms an enduring bond with Jennifer and Julie, school friends from very different backgrounds. As they grow into the world of the seventies and eighties,...
48) Ransom my heart
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Finnula needs money for her sister's dowry, and fast. Hugo Fitzstephen, returning home to England from the Crusades with saddlebags of jewels, has money, and lots of it. What could be simpler than to kidnap him and hold him for ransom? Well, for starters, Finnula could make the terrible mistake of falling in love with her hostage.
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Lost lords (Mary Jo Putney) volume 3
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He's a bastard, a gambler, and society's favorit reprobate. But to Lady Kiri Lawford he's a hero, braver than the smugglers he rescues her from, more honorable than any lord she's ever met, and far more attractive than any man has a right to be. Damian Mackenzie has secrets that leave no room in his life for courting high-born young ladies, but when Kiri's quick thinking reveals a deadly threat to England's crown, he finds her far more alluring than...
50) Homeless bird
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
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In the segregated South of the early 1960s, Mary Swan Middleton tries to cope with her grief over a family tragedy by reaching out to Atlanta's poor and meets Carl, who is her opposite in every way but helps her to see beyond her privileged life.
52) Violet dawn
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Kanner Lake series volume 1
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Something sinuous in the water brushed against Paige's knee. She jerked her leg away. What was that? She rose to a sitting position, groped around with her left hand. Fine wisps wound themselves around her fingers. Hair? She yanked backward, but the tendrils clung. Something solid bumped her wrist. Paige gasped. With one frantic motion she shook her arm free, grabbed the side of the hot tub, and heaved herself out. Paige Williams slips into her hot...
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This counterpart to the award-winning Every Young Man's Battle can help readers learn how the sexual battle begins in the heart and mind, understand the hunger for attention from guys, recognize and avoid the potential pitfalls awaiting young women on the journey toward adulthood and possibly marriage, find out how the media, novels, fashion, internet chat rooms, and body and beauty obsessions influence sexual choices, and what you can do about it....
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X-OPS volume 4
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Minka isn't sure she should trust the Special Forces soldier who found her. Minka is terrified of the monster she's becoming and Angelo is the only one who can calm the beast inside of her.
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Daevabad trilogy volume 2
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"The sequel to S.A. Chakraborty's brilliantly imagined fantasy The City of Brass, which #1 New York Times bestelling author Sabaa Tahir called "the best adult fantasy I've read since The Name of the Wind", in which a young con artist drawn into the kingdom of the djinn must navigate her way through their dangerous world of magic, court politics, and ever-shifting alliances"--
When she accidentally summoned Dara, a formidable djinn, Nahri was whisked...
56) The distant echo
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Karen Pirie novels volume 1
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This "cunningly plotted" (New York Times) thriller is coming to Britbox this October!
Bestselling, award-winning author Val McDermid delivers her most stunning story yet in The Distant Echo—an intricate, thought-provoking tale of murder and revenge.
Four in the morning, mid-December, and snow blankets St. Andrews School. Student Alex Gilbery and his three best friends are staggering home from a party when
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Katie Raber's journey of discovery continues after her mamm's marriage to Jesse Mast. Jesse's oldest daughter, Mabel, refuses to accept Katie, creating conflict at home. When a secret donor pays for an opportunity for Katie to travel with her Mennonite friends to Europe to explore the roots of the faith, she can't believe how much she is being blessed. But will she make sense of her world when it all comes crashing down in the aftermath of the worst...
58) Phoebe's light
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Phoebe Starbuck has always adjusted her sails and rudder to the whims of her father. Now, for the first time, she's doing what she wants to do: marrying Captain Phineas Foulger and sailing far away from Nantucket. As she leaves on her grand adventure, her father gives her two gifts, both of which Phoebe sees little need for. The first is an old sheepskin journal from Great Mary, her highly revered great-grandmother. The other is a "minder" on the...
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Danny Duggin novels volume 3
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Danielle Strange disguises herself as Danny Duggin to track down and kill the men who murdered her father--with bounty hunters on her trail and a U.S. federal marshall pursuing her.
60) Sin Killer
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Berrybender narratives volume 1
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"It is 1830, and the Berrybender family, rich, aristocratic, English, and fiercely out of place, is on its way up the Missouri River to see the American West as it begins to open up." "Accompanied by a large and varied collection of retainers, Lord and Lady Berrybender have abandoned their palatial home in England to explore the frontier and to broaden the horizons of their children, who include Tasmin, a budding young woman of grit, beauty, and determination,...
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