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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
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.
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English
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A revised edition of the best-selling guide to interpersonal relationships provides suggestions for successfully dealing with people both in social and business situations. You can go after the job you want and get it! You can take the job you have and improve it! You can take any situation you're in and make it work for you! For over 50 years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder...
4) House Rules
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
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Description
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...
6) The Ability
Author
Series
The Ability volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
8) Have a New You by Friday: How to Accept Yourself, Boost Your Confidence & Change Your Life in 5 Days
Author
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
How many times have we tried to change our own habits, only to find that changing ourselves is even harder than trying to change someone else? Now, what the bestselling Have a New Kid by Friday has done for families and Have a New Husband by Friday has done for couples, Have a New You by Friday will do for individuals. With his signature wit and commonsense psychology, Dr. Kevin Leman will walk readers through their own personal five-day action plan....
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Language
English
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The Jensen and MacCallister families are of two of the most legendary clans in frontier fiction. Now, the "USA Today"-bestselling authors of "A Lone Star Christmas" bring them together in a gripping tale of tragedy, survival, love, betrayal, and maybe even a miracle. Original.
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Cookies are the perfect end to a wonderful meal. One-bite meringues and macaroons melt in your mouth, while linzers and tuiles are the ultimate fanciful confections. Tracey Zabar has selected distinctly original cookie recipes from seventy-five of the very best culinary talents in Manhattan. Some are the chefs personal recipes, while others are the signature creations of top restaurants-Le Cirque, Eleven Madison Park, Gramercy Tavern, Artisanal, City...
Author
Series
Christmas volume 6
Publisher
Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
For Cassie Beaumont, it's meeting her perfect match. Cassie, at thirty-three, wants a husband and kids, and so far, nothing's worked. Not blind dates, not the Internet and certainly not leaving love to chance. What's left? A professional matchmaker. He's Simon Dodson, and he's very choosy about the clients he takes on. Cassie finds Simon a di[fb03] cult, acerbic know-it-all, and she's astonished when he accepts her as a client. Claiming he has...
16) The way we were
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
On a cold winter day in 1976, unmarried and pregnant, Tiggy packs up her camper van and drives west to the Cornwall moors to live with her friend Julia. Tiggy's fiancé recently died, and Julia, alone with her kids while her husband is at sea, gladly accepts Tiggy as her houseguest. Life is chaotic with the two women, two dogs, and Julia's three children, but for Tiggy, with no family and a growing belly, it's a haven. But there's something sinister...
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English
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Vanessa "Michael" Munroe deals in information-expensive information-working for corporations, heads of state, private clients, and anyone else who can pay for her unique brand of expertise. Born to missionary parents in lawless central Africa, Munroe took up with an infamous gunrunner and his mercenary crew when she was just fourteen. As his protégé, she earned the respect of the jungle's most dangerous men, cultivating her own reputation for years...
20) The Ask
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After he loses his job as a development officer at a university, family man Milo Burke is given a chance to regain his position, but only if he can reel in a potential donor, one who has requested his involvement and turns out to be his sinister college classmate.