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121) The summer kitchen
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When Nora Banks goes to answer the doorbell very early one November 1st, she thinks it must be a group of teen pranksters still out trick-or-treating. But, it's no prank-it's the Feds, who have come to arrest her husband Evan for a white collar crime. Nora's enviable, privileged life in the eighteenth-century house she'd quit her job to renovate to museum-quality perfection, is upended in an instant.
The Bedford wives close ranks against Nora and...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
When they meet as girls on a beach in Nantucket, Maggie McIntyre and Emily Porter become fast friends--though Emily's well-heeled mother would prefer that she associate with the upscale daughters of bankers and statesmen rather than a child of the local seamstress. Even as Emily falls for Maggie's brother, Ben, and the young women's paths diverge, the duo remain close friends. Then the unthinkable happens: a lifelong friendship is pushed to its breaking...
124) The new girl
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
125) True believer
Author
Series
Make lemonade trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to.
126) Vendetta, book 3
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the final volume of the author's "Revenge of the Sisterhood" series, founder of the Sisterhood Myra Rutledge has her turn at vengeance as she prepares to avenge the murder of her daughter by the playboy son of a former Chinese ambassador to the United States, who was deported to his native China after the crime.
127) What I was: a novel
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s, off the coast of East Anglia, a disgruntled boarding school student develops an obsessive friendship with a boy living by himself at the edge of the sea.
128) Best friends forever
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Things are falling apart in the Richardson household. Angry arguments between Celine and her husband, Keith, have become routine. She resents that he's working long hours and staying out all night, and he accuses her of not giving him the attention he deserves. Their marriage is at a cross-roads and Celine worries how her 10-year-old daughter, Kassie, will be affected. But the situation turns devastating when Celine is diagnosed with breast cancer....
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Language
English
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Description
It is the end of the nineteenth century and China is riding on the crest of great change, but for nine-year-old Willow, the only child of a destitute family in the small southern town of Chin-kiang, nothing ever seems to change. Until the day she meets Pearl, the eldest daughter of a zealous American missionary.
Pearl is head-strong, independent and fiercely intelligent, and will grow up to be Pearl S Buck, the Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning...
Pearl is head-strong, independent and fiercely intelligent, and will grow up to be Pearl S Buck, the Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning...
130) Home free, book 20
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the latest book in the Sisterhood series.
Author
Series
Horse crazy (Alison Lester) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In Currawong Creek, Australia, best friends Bonnie and Sam, who share a mutual love of horses, enhance their trick-riding skills when a traveling circus comes to town.
132) Strong and free
Author
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
With the help of an Indian friend and through his own love and understanding of wild Appaloosa ponies, a young boy finds the courage to save the herd from horse thieves.
133) Fade
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the new war on terror. A secret wing of Homeland Security is recruiting agents to work undercover in the Middle East, and the director wants his second-in-command, Matt Egan, to bring aboard an old friend, Salam Al Fayed--better known as Fade. He's perfect: An ex-Navy Seal and the son of immigrants, he speaks flawless Arabic. Trouble is, he's "retired"; he was wounded in the line of duty, and the government refused to pay for the risky...
137) Anne of Green Gables
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
As soon as Anne Shirley arrived at the snug, white farmhouse called Green Gables, she knew she wanted to stay forever. But would the Cuthberts send her back to the orphanage? Anne knows she's not what they expected -- a skinny girl with decidedly red hair and a temper to match. If only she could convince them to let her stay, she'd try very hard not to keep rushing headlong into scrapes or blurt out the very first thing she had to say. Anne was...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
"James Fenimore Cooper's romantic adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French-Indian War vividly to life. The most popular of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, The Last of the Mohicans portrays the inevitable conflict of opposed cultures and stands as a testament to the ways in which this struggle has been mythologized. Featuring the well-loved noble woodsman Natty Bumppo, or "Hawk-eye," Cooper's novel is a memorable...
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