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(0)Sophie Aldred
Author
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
"A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has...
2) The one
Author
Language
English
Description
"How far would you go to find The One? A simple DNA test is all it takes. Just a quick mouth swab and soon you'll be matched with your perfect partner--the one you're genetically made for. That's the promise made by Match Your DNA. A decade ago, the company announced that they had found the gene that pairs each of us with our soul mate. Since then, millions of people around the world have been matched. But the discovery has its downsides: test results...
3) Farmer duck
Author
Lexile measure
420L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a kind and hardworking duck nearly collapses from overwork, while taking care of a farm because the owner is too lazy to do so, the rest of the animals get together and chase the farmer out of town.
4) The daughter
Author
Language
English
Description
Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished and her family is broken. As the months pass, the worst-case scenarios--kidnapping, murder--seem less plausible. The trail...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a snowy February morning, the body of twenty-five-year-old journalist Alice Salmon washes up on a riverbank south of London. The shocking death causes a media sensation, and those who knew her cannot understand what could have happened to this lively, intelligent young woman. Was it suicide? A tragic accident? Or murder? Professor Jeremy Cooke, known around campus as Old Cookie, is an anthropologist nearing the end of his unremarkable academic...
7) Pig tale
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
When they find a treasure chest in the orchard, two discontented pigs abandon their rural paradise for what they think will be the pleasures of a more luxurious life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After escaping the runaway spaceship, George finds himself on a barren Earth where society is under corporate control, access to technology is restricted, and the uneducated population is swamped with fake news.
Series
Sylvester McCoy years 1987-1989 volume story no. 157
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (71 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1983. An old house mysteriously burns to the ground. One hundred years earlier, the Doctor and Ace arrive at a sinister mansion in the rural hamlet of Perivale. Horrors old and new await the Doctor amongst the peculiar residents of Gabriel Chase, but it is Ace who must confront her own worst nightmares when she discovers that her past and the house's future are inextricably linked."
Author
Publisher
PlayAway
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 7 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"George and his best friend, Annie, have been selected as junior astronauts--part of a program that trains young people for a future trip to Mars. This is everything they've ever wanted: They get to be a part of up-to-the-minute space discoveries and meet a bunch of new friends who are as fascinated by the universe as they are. But when they arrive at space camp, George and Annie quickly learn that strange things are happening on earth as well as...