Anna Fields
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Lexile measure
AD 750L
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English
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"The story that started it all and spawned a series of film adaptations that have become the stuff of silver screen legend: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' by L. Frank Baum is in fact the first in a series of novels set in Oz, but it is by far the most famous. Published right at the turn of the century in the year 1900, the novel's fantastical setting---a world inhabited by zany creatures and terrifying villains---is a perfect sort of quaint escapism...
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Lexile measure
810L
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English
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"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is the coming-of-age story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn. This poignant and moving classic of American literature is filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and incident.
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Lexile measure
930L
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English
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Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening--until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite...
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English
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Left mostly to herself, Emily Parmenter has built a life around the faded plantation where her family raises the legendary Boykin hunting spaniels. It is a narrow world, but to Emily it has magic: deep-sea dolphins who play in Sweetwater Creek; her extraordinary bond with the dogs she trains; her almost mystic communion with her own spaniel, Elvis; the dreaming old Lowcountry itself. Then comes Lulu Foxworth, who has run away from her hectic Charleston...
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Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When a woman named Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover a forgotten cache of valuable Native American artifacts. After all, the family descends from an Indian agent who worked on the North Dakota Ojibwe reservation that is home to her mother's family. However, she stops dead in her tracks when she finds in the collection a rare drum -- a powerful yet delicate...
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English
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Three women do not consider themselves victims of rape--they are survivors and helped in the investigation that caught their attacker. Now they are prime suspects in his murder. Could one of these women have been driven to do the unthinkable? When another woman is attacked, the survivors club fear they fingered the wrong man. Now the real killer is still out there.
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Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard is the luckiest man in the world: a bona-fide sports superstar and the pride of the NFL with a profitable side career as a buff billboard model for End Zone underwear. But life in the glory lane has started to pale, and Dean has set off on a cross-country trip to figure out what's gone wrong. When he hits a lonely stretch of Colorado highway, he spies something that will shake up his gilded life in ways he...
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Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, "the Widow Bride of the Falls," begins a relentless seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found. At her side is confirmed bachelor and pillar of the community Dirk Burnaby, who is unexpectedly drawn to her. What follows is a passionate love affair, marriage, and family -- a seemingly perfect...
10) Heaven, Texas
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English
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Come heck or high water, Gracie Snow is determined to drag the legendary ex-jock Bobby Tom Denton back home to Heaven, Texas, to begin shooting his first motion picture. But bad boy Bobby has no plans to cooperate with the prim and bossy Ohio wallflower whom he can't get off his mind or out of his life.
11) Malice prepense
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English
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A man with the mind of an eight-year-old is accused of murdering an Oregon senator. He is Teddy Wendover, 28, who as a child was stunted by an accident on a field trip led by the senator. For defense lawyer Barbara Holloway it's a frame-up, but who is behind it?
12) Calder promise
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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The unforgettable Calder saga continues as Laura Calder, a young lady on the verge of becoming her own woman, finds herself caught up in a whirlwind courtship with two men determined to own her heart. On tour through Europe with her glamorous "Aunt" Tara, Laura meets the men who are to shape her destiny: one the black sheep son of a Texas billionaire who always gets what he wants; the other, the handsome, sexy Earl of Crawford with more charm than...
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Series
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved Native American tribe, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. To further complicate his quiet existence, a troubled colleague comes to the reservation to investigate the life of the perplexing, possibly false saint Sister...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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A matchmaking business owner needs a major client. She targets the best and most ruthless sports agent in Chicago. She'll do whatever it takes to find a woman for him--no matter who that woman turns out to be.
Annabelle is tired of being the lone failure in a family of overachievers. She's endured dead-end jobs and a broken engagement. Even her hair's a mess! But that's going to change now that she's taken over her late grandmother's matchmaking...
15) Lone Calder star
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English
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Author Janet Dailey journeys to the Lone Star state and the Cee Bar Ranch, where the Calders face a new threat to their land and way of life. In order to protect his family, Quint Echohawk is prepared to take a stand against a ruthless cattle baron who is more determined than anyone knows and more dangerous than the Calders could possibly imagine...
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Lexile measure
1280L
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English
Description
In December 1937, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred in the capital of China. The Japanese army swept into Nanking and not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured, and murdered half of the city's remaining population, some 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the account of this atrocity was denied by the Japanese government. The Rape of Nanking tells the story...
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Lexile measure
1140L
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English
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West with the Night is a memoir by British-born author, aviator, and equestrian, Beryl Markham. Friend and fellow author Ernest Hemingway once wrote to his editor Maxwell Perkins asking: "Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West with the Night? ... bloody wonderful work." Markham was one of, if not the first, female bush pilots in Africa, and her memoir details adventures in Kenya with a unique perspective both from the ground and the sky.
Markham...
19) Wild justice
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Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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Seven years ago, Phillip Margolin seized the imagination of thriller readers everywhere with his chilling breakout bestseller, Gone, but Not Forgotten. After five subsequent New York Times bestsellers, Margolin now returns to the haunting terrain of Gone, but Not Forgotten with a mesmerizing tour de force of psychological suspense, an electrifying tale of revenge and retribution that shows a master storyteller at the very peak of his craft.
Thursday:...
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Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
It's been 26 years since the brutal murders in Bowers Inlet robbed Cassie Burke of her family. Now a homicide cop, Cassie must work through the old trauma when the killings begin again. Luckily, FBI agent Rick Cisco is dispatched to lend support to Cassie. Together, Cassie and Rick must uncover the link between the dark past and dangerous present to bring this small town's nightmare to an end.