Sandy Rustin
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Language
English
Description
The Lakey sisters are perfect opposites. After their mother died and their father was lost in grief, Willa had no choice but to raise her sister, Harper, and their brother, Lucas. Then, as an adult, she put her own life on hold to nurse Harper through a terrifying illness. Now that Harper is better and the sisters are living as roommates, Willa has realized her dream of running her own bakery and coffee shop, bringing her special brand of caretaking...
2) Linked
Author
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's...
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Series
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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Description
Marzana and her best friend, Nialla, are bored. In a city where normal rules don't apply, it seems that adventure should be everywhere, yet nothing exciting ever happens to them. Nothing, that is, until Marzana's parents are recruited to help solve a kidnapping that makes no sense. This could be the excitement Marzana and Nialla have been looking for - if they can crack the case without getting caught meddling. They gather a group of kid detectives...
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Language
English
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Description
Ten years ago, Grace saw something that would forever change the course of history. When evil in its purest form is unleashed on the world, she and others from their religious community are already hidden deep in the hills of Tennessee, abiding by every rule that will keep them safe, pure--and alive. As long as they stay there, behind the red perimeter.
6) Nine
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Language
English
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Description
Zoe Johnson spent most of her life living in the shadows, never drawing attention to herself, never investing in people or places. But when a wide-eyed, bedraggled teenager with no memory walks into the diner where Zoe works, everything changes. Now, against her better judgment, Zoe, who has been trying to outrun her own painful memories of the past, finds herself attempting to help a girl who doesn't seem to have any past at all. The girl knows only...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Working women today are better educated and more well qualified than ever before. Yet men still predominate in the corporate world. In The Confidence Code, Claire Shipman and Katty Kay argue that the key reason is confidence. Combining cutting-edge research in genetics, gender, behavior, and cognition--with examples from their own lives and those of other successful women in politics, media, and business--Kay and Shipman go beyond admonishing women...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Corey moves away from Lost Creek, Alaska, she makes her friend Kyra promise to stay strong during the long, dark winter, and wait for her return. Just days before Corey is to return home to visit, Kyra dies. The entire Lost community speaks in hushed tones, saying her death was meant to be. And they push Corey away like she's a stranger. With every hour, Corey's suspicion grows. Lost is keeping secrets--but piecing together the truth about what...
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Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young, restless Alabama teacher searching for a sense of purpose accepts a position at a tiny Louisiana bayou school, where a lonely Cajun fisherman, a tight-knit community, and a legendary white alligator will change her life forever"--
Ellie Fields accepts a teaching job in tiny Bernadette, Louisiana deep in bayou country to escape the familiarity of her Alabama home. Though suspicious of outsiders, most of the people come to appreciate the...
Author
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
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Description
"Orianna and Violet are ballet dancers and best friends, but when the ballerinas who have been harassing Violet are murdered, Orianna is accused of the crime and sent to a juvenile detention center where she meets Amber and they experience supernatural events linking the girls together." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
x, 404 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
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The niece of controversial Scientology leader David Miscavige presents a tell-all memoir about her life in the Church of Scientology. The author was raised as a Scientologist but left the controversial religion in 2005. In this memoir, she shares her true story of life inside the upper ranks of the sect, details her experiences as a member Sea Org, the church's highest ministry, speaks of her "disconnection" from family outside of the organization,...
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Lucille is struggling to get through each day, paying bills and looking after her little sister, Wren, while her father is institutionalized after a breakdown and her mother is "on vacation," but nothing else seems to matter when she is with Digby Jones, her best friend's twin brother.
13) The body book: the law of hunger, the science of strength, and other ways to love your amazing body
Author
Publisher
HarperWave
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Here the author shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, and stronger in this positive, essential guide that is grounded in science and inspired by personal experience. Throughout her career, she has been a role model for millions of women. By her own candid admission, though, this fit, glamorous, but down to earth star was not always health conscious. Learning about the inseparable link between nutrition and the body was just one of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1897, seventeen-year-olds Dacia and Lou, New York socialites and cousins, visit their maternal homeland of Romania and learn the family secret--that they are shapeshifters, expected to take their rightful places and marry proper husbands.
15) Pay dirt road
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Annie McIntyre has a love/hate relationship with Garnett, Texas. Recently graduated from college and home waitressing, lacking not in ambition but certainly in direction, Annie is lured into the family business--a private investigation firm--by her supposed-to-be-retired grandfather, Leroy, despite the rest of the clan's misgivings. When a waitress at the café goes missing, Annie and Leroy begin an investigation that leads them down rural routes...
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this gender-flipping reimagining of S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders" set in 1964 Houston, Texas, Evie Barnes and all her friends are the sort who wear bold makeup, laugh too loud, and run around with boys. Most of all, they protect their own against the world. They're the bad girls. When Evie is saved from a sinister encounter by a good girl from the "right" side of the tracks, every rule she has always lived by is called into question. Now she must...
17) In her skin
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jolene Chastain, a con artist since early childhood, assumes the identity of a girl who went missing years before. As she takes on Vivienne Weir's life, and weaves a new life of deception with Vivi's wealthy Boston family, hidden crimes come to the surface. Can Jo escape the dangers before it's too late?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Life is reasonably rosy for plus-size ex-pop star turned Assistant Dormitory Director and sometime sleuth Heather Wells. Her freeloading ex-con dad is finally moving out. She still yearns for her hot landlord, Cooper Cartwright, but her relationship with "rebound beau," vigorous vegan math professor Tad Tocco, is more than satisfactory. Best of all, nobody has died lately in "Death Dorm," the aptly nicknamed student residence that Heather assistant-directs....
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Teenage Bina runs away to New York City's Catherine House, a young women's residence in Greenwich Village with a tragic history and dark secrets, where she is drawn to her mysterious downstairs neighbor Monet.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
345 pages, 10 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Heather Wells rocks. Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two -- and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina). Now that the glamour and glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, Heather's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape (the average for the American woman!) and her new job as an assistant...