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IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 49
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"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds...
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Ballantine Books
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[2010]
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English
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After losing her husband, Meg Rosenthal and her daughter Sally move to Arcadia Falls where she takes up a teaching position at a boarding school. During the First Night bonfire, one of her students plunges to her death in a campus gorge. Meg is unnerved by the sheriff's interest in the girl's death and as long-buried secrets emerge, she must face down her own demons and the danger threatening to envelop Sally.
3) House Rules
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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They tell me I'm lucky to have a son who's so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there's a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn't know...
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Deep inside the United States government is a closely guarded list. Members of Congress never get to see it--only the President and a secret team of advisers. Once your name is on the list, it doesn't come off--until you're dead. Someone has just added counter terrorism operative Scot Harvvath's name. Harvath must evade the teams dispatched to kill him and untangle who has targeted him and why they want him out of the way. Somewhere, someone, somehow...
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Nobody likes The Complaints--they're the cops who investigate other cops. It's a department known within the force as "The Dark Side," and it's where Malcolm Fox works. He's a serious man with a father in a nursing home and a sister who persists in an abusive relationship, frustrating problems about which he cannot seem to do anything.Then the reluctant Fox is given a new case. There's a cop named Jamie Breck, and he's dirty. The problem is, no one...
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You dont have to look very hard at Drew Silver to see that mistakes have been made. His fleeting fame as the drummer for a one-hit wonder rock band is nearly a decade behind him. He lives in the Versailles, an apartment building filled almost exclusively with divorced men like him, and makes a living playing in wedding bands. His ex-wife, Denise, is about to marry a guy Silver cant quite bring himself to hate. And his Princeton-bound teenage daughter...
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Sookie Stackhouse novels volume 13
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English
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In this final novel of the series, Sookie and Sam are finding it hard to concentrate on their bar Merlotte's. Former barmaid Arlene had tried to have Sookie killed, but then Sookie is arrested for Arlene's murder. Meanwhile, Sookie's relationship with Eric and his vampires is in limbo. Helped by both her living and dead friends, Sookie must discover the truth about Arlene's death.
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
©2011
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English
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Running a Kabul coffee shop that is patronized by ex-pats, American Sunny reaches out to a growing circle of new friends including a pregnant rape victim, a journalist with a painful secret, and a den mother who is engaged in a complicated affair.
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The painful and courageous journey toward adoption made by several of her clients forces Maya Lange, founder of The Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families, to confront the lost daughter of her past.
11) Lost Lake
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The first time Eby Pim saw Lost Lake, it was on a postcard, half a life ago. Now it is about to slip into Ebys past. Her husband George is long passed away, and most of her demanding extended family are gone. All thats left is a once-charming collection of lakeside cabins succumbing to the Southern Georgia heat and an assortment of faithful misfits drawn back to Lost Lake year after year by their own unspoken dreams and desires. Its not enough to...
12) Taming the wind
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Carissa Lowe and Tyler Atherton meet again, but a future together may not be possible because of their histories and the hardships of life on the Texas plains.
13) Beautiful you
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Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm who has an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, aka "Climax-Well," a software megabillionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth. After taking her to Manhattan's most exclusive restaurant, he whisks Penny off to a hotel suite in Paris, where he proceeds,...
14) My abandonment
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild," Rock's "My Abandonment," inspired by a true story and told through the startlingly sincere voice of his young protagonist, offers a riveting and unsettling account of a girl and her father who live off the grid.
15) Stone Cold
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Joe Pickett novels volume 14
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English
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Investigating allegations about a hit man who lives a life of wealth and secrecy on a remote Wyoming ranch, troubleshooter Joe Pickett discovers two men at the ranch including a ruthless killer and a disturbing person from his past
"The electrifying new Joe Pickett novel from the New York Times-bestselling author. Everything about the man is a mystery: the massive ranch in the remote Black Hills of Wyoming that nobody ever visits, the women who live...
16) Tempting fate
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2014.
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"Gabby and Elliott have been happily married for eighteen years. They have two teenaged daughters; they have built a life together. So why does forty-three-year-old Gabby feel like she has only three more minutes left of youth? Why do her friends so desperately try to hang on to their attractiveness? And why does she ever even look at the handsome guy--ten years younger--at the other end of the bar one night? Gabby is the last person to have an affair--a...
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"Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. Like Fannie Flagg's classic Fried Green Tomatoes, this is a riveting, fun story of two families, set in present day America and during World War II, filled to the brim with Flagg's trademark funny voice...
18) Fantasy In Death
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In Death series volume 30
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English
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They were best friends, driven by one shared vision - to rule the world of virtual reality games. Cill, hard-edged and beautiful, Var and Benny, brains and business acumen, and Bart, the genius behind the idea. Their newest invention, developed to transport the player into a fantastical virtual world, is just about to be launched. Then, suddenly, Bart is found brutally killed, defeated by their own game. Their close-knit group is torn apart. Who could...
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Paris, France: September 1929. For Harris Stuyvesant, the assignment is a private investigators dream-hes getting paid to troll the cafés and bars of Montparnasse, looking for a pretty young woman. The American agent has a healthy appreciation for la vie de bohème, despite having worked for years at the U.S. Bureau of Investigation. The missing person is Philippa Crosby, a twenty-two year old from Boston who has been living in Paris, modeling and...
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No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. They grow vegetables, they tend chickens, they make chocolate. And they sing. Ironically, for a community that has taken a vow of silence, the monks have become world famous for their glorious voices, raised in ancient chants whose effect on both singer and listener is...