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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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An Edgar Award Winner for Best Biography and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
The plucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930-and eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women's libbers) to enter the pantheon of American culture. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and...
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"Laid off from her department store job, Carmen has little cash and few options. Spending Christmas with her perfect sister Sofia and her perfectly ordered life does not appeal. But Sofia has a client who needs help revitalizing his bookshop. So Carmen moves in and takes the job. Thrown into the workings of Mr. McCredie's ancient bookshop in historic Edinburgh, Carmen is intrigued. The store is dusty and disorganized but undeniably charming. Can she...
84) A sari for Ammi
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Publisher
Amazon Crossing Kids
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Ammi makes beautiful saris, but never gets to wear them. Her two little daughters decide to do something about that. A glossary of Indian terms is provided.
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English
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Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love story. Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic ... and then her bus drives away. Certain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him....
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English
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Journalist Joan Lurie has written a seething exposé about a notorious newspaper tycoon. Traumatized after being brutally attacked, she moves into a highly secure apartment called the Refuge. Lillian Day is Joan's new 96-year-old neighbor, who, in 1941, witnessed a mysterious murder that sent her into hiding. Another resident, Melissa Osgood, discovers a suspicious paper trail that leaves her wondering about her marriage. As these three women's lives...
87) Those who knew
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a brutal regime, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days may be guilty of murder. She says nothing, assuming no one will believe her, given her family's shameful support of the former regime and her lack of evidence. They are the same reasons she told no one, a decade earlier, what happened with the senator while they were dating"--
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Debols!llo
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
231 p. ; 19 cm.
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Español
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"Nuria, una atractiva psicóloga cubana de cuarenta años, es la mujer del coronel Arturo Gómez, un tipo duro y heroico al que ama. Pero en un breve viaje a Italia, adonde acude a dictar una conferencia, su vida dará un vuelco radical tras conocer al profesor Martinelli, un erotómano consumado."--Publisher's description.
When the wife of heroic general Arturo Gómez, an attractive Cuban psychologist Nuria, takes a trip to Italy for a conference,...
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English
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Ginger Kelly wakes up in 1924 in tranquil Cocoa Beach, Florida, after fleeing to safety with disgraced Prohibition agent Oliver Anson Marshall, and her newly-orphaned young sister, Patsy. But Marshall is reinstated to the agency with suspicious haste to patrol for rumrunners on the high seas. When he promptly disappears, Gin hurries north to rescue him, only to be trapped in an agonizing moral quandary by Marshall's desperate mother. In 1998, Ella...
90) Clue Krewe
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Miss Fortune mystery volume 24
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English
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Beckett Rousseau is the firstborn son of one of New Orleans' most prominent families. He's the quintessential golden boy--great looks, money, and a political career in his future--until his wife murders him. Or at least that's what everyone thinks. Athena Durand is still reeling from her murder conviction but now that it's overturned, she's at a loss on how to proceed with her life. As long as people still believe she's guilty, she has no future in...
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English
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Louisa loves to play basketball, but in 1974, her Portland, Oregon high school only offers a team for boys. An encounter with feminist Gloria Steinem teaches her about Title IX--the law that bans discrimination based on gender--so she asks her principal to start a girls team. Little does she know that she'll soon be viciously targeted by male coaches at her school, lied to by the school board, and fall in love--a couple of times--as she fights for...
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (11 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Jenna is blindsided when her husband asks for a divorce. But with life in flux, she agrees to accompany her eccentric grandmother Evelyn on a road trip that Evelyn insists isn't about her first love seventy years ago.
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (11 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Anita is over her life in NYC, so she moves to LA in search of a new career, enlightenment, and wellness. She discovers a workout class called the Goddess Effect, but not everything is what it seems.
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English
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When surrogate mother, Cally has a change of heart, engineering a harrowing escape from the hospital with the newborn, a whole series of doubts and secrets are revealed and it's no longer clear what's "right" and what's "wrong."
Minnesota. Ruth is a fortysomething journalist desperate for a child with her new husband. Hal is a divorced attorney and the father of two teenage boys; open to having another child, he wants Ruth to be happy. Their hope...
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"While sidekick Matt Flowers shoots a film abroad, Poppy dusts off her own acting chops to break up a Gen Z crime ring targeting seniors in Palm Springs. Tanya Cook and her gal pals have been swindling susceptible residents for all they're worth -- until the gang meets Poppy undercover ... Poppy's already sweating over a menacing mystery stalker when a shocking death proves she's in serious danger. As suspicions fall once again on Tanya, finding answers...
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An extraordinary story, inspired by real events, of a female aviator who defies the odds to embark on a daring air race across the Pacific, perfect for fans of Great Circle and Her Last Flight.
1927. Olivia "Livy" West is a fearless young pilot with a love of adventure. She yearns to cross oceans and travel the skies. When she learns of the Dole Air Race——a high-stakes contest to be the first to make the 2,400-mile Pacific crossing from the West...
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It's Labor Day weekend, 1935, and members of the Darling Dahlias--the garden club in little Darling, Alabama--are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn't easy, though, since there's a firebug on the loose in Darling. He--or she!--strikes without apparent rhyme or reason, and things have gotten to the point where nobody feels safe. What's more, a dangerous hurricane is poised to hurl itself in Darling's direction, while...
98) Tell-tale bones
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Private Investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and her partner Tinkie are in Sheriff Coleman Peters's office, consulting Coleman about cold cases, when Elisa Redd storms in with a case of her own. She wants Coleman to reopen the investigation of her missing daughter, Lydia Redd Maxell, the heiress to a large fortune who disappeared along with her friend Bethany nearly seven years ago. Lydia and Bethany were rumored to be working as human rights organizers...
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Publisher
Otter-Barry Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (color), color map ; 29 cm
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English
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"Set in Ancient Greece, this inspiring story tells of a slave girl who became champion in the Heraean Games (the girls' and women's version of the Olympic Games) in the great stadium at Olympia. Born in Corinth, abandoned as a baby, she becomes a nameless slave until her strength and skill are noticed by her owner, a famous athlete. Her spirit and courage take her to victory in the Games, to freedom and to fame."--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1990.
Edition
Vintage International edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Laurel Hand, long absent from the South, comes from Chicago to New Orleans, where her father dies after surgery. With Fay, the stupid new young wife of her father, Laurel returns to her former Mississippi home and stays a few days after the funeral for reunions with old friends. In a night alone in the house she grew up in, she confronts elements of the past and comes to a better understanding of it and of herself and her parents.
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