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John Puller novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The case soldier/sleuth John Puller gets called out on what turns out to be a crime that is personal and close to home. His Aunt Betsy has been found dead in the pool at her Florida home and while the police have ruled it an accident, Puller has reason to believe it wasn't. Deciding to check for himself, his suspicions are soon confirmed. Even more unsettling is the real reason she died.
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English
Description
Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret, something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive. Cecilia Fitzpatrick has achieved it all; she is an incredibly successful businesswoman, a pillar of...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: his crayons have had enough! They quit! Beige Crayon is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown Crayon. Black wants to be used for more than just outlining. Blue needs a break from coloring all those bodies of water. And Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking -- each believes he is the true color of the sun. What can Duncan possibly...
4) The chance
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The day before a teenage Ellie moved from Georgia to California, she and her best friend Nolan sat beneath the Spanish moss of an ancient oak tree where they wrote letters to each other and buried them in a rusty old metal box. The plan was to return eleven years later, dig the box up, and read the letters. But now, as that date approaches, much has changed. Ellie has abandoned the faith she grew up with, her days consumed with loving her little girl...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fifth novel. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten--by...
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Series
Inspector Armand Gamache mysteries volume 18
Three Pines mystery volume 18
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
Chief Inspector Gamache novel volume 18
Three Pines mystery volume 18
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
Chief Inspector Gamache novel volume 18
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and...
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Series
Noel collection volume 4
Language
English
Description
"After nearly two decades, Noel Post, an editor for a major New York publishing house, returns to her childhood home in Salt Lake City to see her estranged, dying father. What she believed would be a brief visit turns into something more as she inherits the bookstore her father fought to keep alive. Reeling from loneliness, a recent divorce, and unanticipated upheavals in her world, Noel begins receiving letters from an anonymous source, each one...
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Series
Rose Harbor novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"In this enchanting novel set at Cedar Cove's cozy Rose Harbor Inn, #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber celebrates the power of love--and a well-timed love letter--to inspire hope and mend a broken heart. Summer is a busy season at the inn, so proprietor Jo Marie Rose and handyman Mark Taylor have spent a lot of time together keeping the property running. Despite some folks' good-natured claims to the contrary, Jo Marie insists that...
10) Delicious!
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English
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Billie Breslin has traveled far from her home in California to take a job at Delicious!, New Yorks most iconic food magazine. She is also seduced by the vibrant downtown food scene, especially by Fontanaris, the famous Italian food shop where she works on weekends. Then Delicious! is abruptly shut down, but Billie agrees to stay on in the empty office, maintaining the hotline for reader complaints in order to pay her bills. To Billies surprise, the...
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English
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Faded photographs of a glamorous couple in postwar Europe. Old letters hinting of tragic loss. And a breathtaking array of magnificent jewelry, spectacular stones in exquisite settings. These are the contents of a safe-deposit box long abandoned in a New York City bank. If no heir can be identified, the jewelry will be auctioned. But who was the woman who left such a fortune and no will? Two people, drawn together by chance, begin to unravel the mystery....
12) Lake season
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Series
Bluebell Inn volume 1
Language
English
Description
"When their parents die in a tragic accident, Molly Bennett and her siblings pull together to fulfill their parents' dream: turning their historic Bluebell, North Carolina home back into an inn. The situation would just be temporary-three years at the most-then they would sell the inn and Molly could get back to chasing her own dreams. Adam Bradford (aka bestselling author Nathanial Grey) is a reclusive novelist with a bad case of writer's block....
13) I wanna iguana
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Alex and his mother write notes back and forth in which Alex tries to persuade her to let him have a baby iguana for a pet.
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Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sophie writes a letter home each of the twelve days she spends exploring the state of Colorado at Christmastime, as her cousin Zach shows her everything from a lark bunting in a blue spruce sapling to twelve skiiers gliding over snow. Includes facts about Colorado.
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Series
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English
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A love story in the Baxter Family collection about two people who lost their parents in the same national tragedy two people desperate to find each other and the connection they shared for a single day a day that changed everything. Brady Bradshaw was a child when the Oklahoma City bombing killed his mother. Every year, Brady visits the memorial site on the anniversary to remember her. A decade ago on that day, he met Jenna Phillips, who was also...
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Series
Hathaways volume 5
Language
English
Description
As a lover of animals and nature, Beatrix Hathaway has always been more comfortable outdoors than in the ballroom. Even though she participated in the London season in the past, the classic beauty and free-spirited Beatrix has never been swept away or seriously courted...and she has resigned herself to the fate of never finding love. Has the time come for the most unconventional of the Hathaway sisters to settle for an ordinary man-just to avoid spinsterhood?...
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Series
Hidden Forest volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A series of letters describe the actions of Goldilocks, Peter Rabbit, the Three Pigs, Little Red Hen, and other storybook characters when Little Red Hen and her chicks become the target of the unsavory Wolf and his cousin, Fer O'Cious.