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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her violent husband, disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of Joe Claiborne thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera's physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Kathleen has always been dramatic. She suffers from the bizarre malady of experiencing stabbing pain in her feet. On her sixteenth birthday, she woke screaming from the sensation that her tongue had been cut out. No doctor can find a medical explanation for her pain, and even the most powerful drugs have proven useless. Only the touch of seawater can ease her pain, and just temporarily at that. Now Kathleen is a twenty-five-year-old opera student...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A story of desire, black magic and love interweaves the Rapunzel fairy tale with the true-life story of French novelist Charlotte-Rose de la Force, who was banished from the court of Versailles by Louis XIV after a series of scandalous love affairs.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In 1860, Alexander Ferguson, a newly ordained vicar and amateur evolutionary scientist, takes up his new parish, a poor, isolated patch on the remote Scottish island of Harris. He hopes to uncover the truth behind the legend of the selkies--mermaids or seal people who have been sighted off the north of Scotland for centuries. He has a more personal motive, too; family legend states that Alexander is descended from seal men. As he struggles to be...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"They wondered if they would ever find their way back--back to the village, back to a life of meaning, back to each other. Corfu 1946--In a poor Greek community, ten-year-old Marco is perhaps the poorest of them all. But it wasn't always that way. His grandmother once worked for the royal family where Marco's mother played alongside young Prince Phillip himself. Now Greece is on the brink of civil war, and Marco's mother still clings to the desperate...
9) Whispers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Hilary Thomas, a screenwriter scarred by abuse suffered in childhood, and Tony Clemenza, an ace cop and would-be artist, plunge into a love affair while pursuing the psychopath who brutally assaulted Hilary.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Nine classic fairy tales set in modern, magical landscapes and retold with a twist.
Nine classic fairy tales set in modern, magical landscapes and retold with a twist. Some of the fairy tales that these stories are based on are easily recognizable and others are not. The fairy tales used include Snow White, Thumbelina, Cinderella, Rose Red and Rose White, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, the Snow Queen, and Beauty and the Beast.
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Throughout history, stories were passed down through the oral tradition. And often, the female characters in these stories were viewed as weak, vain, jealous, or just plain boring! This enchanting anthology of 20 forgotten fairy tales features stories of strong girls from different cultures around the world. Every tale features a female heroine who approaches life with humor, wit, cunning, and bravery. The collection includes stories from countries...
Author
Series
Publisher
Red Chair Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Rapunzel with the long dark hair, was the most beautiful girl in the land. When a Prince wanders by, the two soon fall in love. Can they outwit the witch or must they suffer from her curse?"--
16) The immortals
Author
Series
Olympus bound volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A high quality contemporary fantasy novel that will appeal to a wide range of readers from American Gods to the kids who grew up reading Percy Jackson. The Relentless One, the Bearer of the Bow, the Untamed.....those are only a few of the names Selene DiSilva's answered to over the years. But these days she's content to work in secret, defending the women of Manhattan from the evils of men. She's reclusive, stubborn, and deeply unfriendly to everyone...
Author
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books, G. P. Putnams Sons
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A Gothic retelling of the real story behind the legend of Sleeping Beauty. Reflecting on her long-ago service with a princess who fell under a sleeping curse, Elise remembers witnessing how events actually transpired and were connected to a secretive labyrinth of evil."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
She woke up in a hospital room, barely able to remember her own name. She didn't know what terrible accident brought her there--or the four shadowy strangers who hovered in the darkened corridors. Yet step by step, she unlocked the mysteries of her past--returning to a single night of violence waged by four young men. Susan Thorton awakens in a hospital, after a near-fatal car crash, to see four men lurking outside her door--men who exactly resemble...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Throughout this illuminating book, Gould delves into the deeper meanings behind fairy tales and myths - helping you to understand not only what your choice of fairy tale may mean for you, but also what you need to be doing during the three main stages of development: maiden, matron, and crone."--BOOK JACKET.