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Author
Publisher
Custom House, an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
229, 11 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"One hot summers day, John Cole decides to shut his bookshop early, and possibly forever, and drives out of London to see his brother. When his car breaks down on an isolated road, he goes looking for help and finds a dilapidated house. As he approaches, a laughing woman hes never seen before walks out, addresses him by name and explains shes been waiting for him. Entering the home, John discovers an enigmatic clan of residents all of whom seem to...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1945, as the war in Germany nears its violent end, the Huber family is not yet free of its dangers or its insidious demands. Etta, a mother from a small, rural town, has two sons serving their home country: her elder, Max, on the Eastern front, and her younger, Georg, at a school for Hitler Youth. When Max returns from the front, Etta quickly realizes that something is not right. He is thin, almost ghostly, and behaving very strangely. Etta strives...
Author
Publisher
Rising Action
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Maddie Butler has been haunted for fourteen years. After the suspicious death of a friend when she was twenty-two, Maddie tried to move on, convincing herself there was nothing she could have done. Now in an unfulfilling marriage, she realizes how much the guilt has led to an unhappy life. When she runs into her ex-boyfriend, the memories come flying back in full force. Burdened with regret and unhappiness, Maddie wonders how her life could have...
Author
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Keiko, Audrey, and Jenna have always been best friends, and Keiko desperately wants it to stay that way, but now they are starting seventh grade, and everything seems to be changing; Audrey is obsessed with the idea of them all securing boyfriends, but when she and Jenna focus on the same boy their friendship starts to break apart--and then Keiko finds herself attracted to Audrey's brother, Conner (who has generally been cast as the enemy), and suddenly...
Author
Series
Team cheer volume 4
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (102 pages).
Language
English
Description
Gaby has loved dancing since was a little girl, so she jumps at the chance to try dancing with an all-star team. Her friends on the cheerleading squad are jealous that dance and a new friend are taking so much of Gaby's time. It doesn't take long before they question Gaby's decision and her loyalty.
49) You
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
910L
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kyle discovers the shattering ramifications of the decisions he makes, and does not make, about school, the girl he likes, and his future.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
AD 590L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 33 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the options available to a monster from the time it is born, such as becoming the scary monster under someone's bed or playing on the school basketball team.
53) Flip flop!
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
210L
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text explores the many options that summer presents to two best friends, from swimming in a pool versus swimming in the sea, to wearing flip flops versus going barefoot.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When the bookmobile librarian refuses to lend Stanley the story he wants, he learns the importance of advocating for the book of his choosing, and in doing so teaches the librarian the virtue in allowing everyone to select the stories they enjoy.
55) A bride in store
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, A division of Baker Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is 1881 when a mail-order bride arrives in a small Kansas town, but her groom is away. What will she do when sparks begin to fly with her future husband's best friend?"--
56) A Christmas snow
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kathleen Mitchell has carried around the unwanted memory of her father abandoning her and her mother almost 30 years ago on Christmas Eve. She has always blamed her mother for that night and still refuses to celebrate Christmas in any fashion. Although she has tried to forget her past, it has not forgotten her, and in the days leading up to Christmas, a blizzard traps her in her house with two unlikely guests. The storm brings her face to face with...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in bookbag
Language
English
Description
"It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance--and the subsequent cover-up--will have an impact...
58) Mountain Laurel
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"North Carolina, 1793. Ian Cameron, a Boston cabinetmaker turned frontier trapper, has come to Mountain Laurel hoping to remake himself yet again--into his planter uncle's heir. No matter how uneasily the role of slave owner rests upon his shoulders. Then he meets Seona--beautiful, artistic, and enslaved to his kin. Seona has a secret: she's been drawing for years, ever since that day she picked up a broken slate to sketch a portrait. When Ian catches...
Author
Description
Fox siblings Fritz and Franny, and their patient dog Fred, are at the amusement park squabbling about which ride is fastest and loudest--but when they are confronted by the biggest, tallest, and loudest roller coaster they decide that maybe Fred would prefer something not quite so scary.
60) Amnesty: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Dannyformerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnamis an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years hes been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend, Sonja, with his hidden accent and highlights in his hair, he is as close as he has ever come to living a normal life. But then one morning, Danny learns...