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Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “hypnotically interesting” (The Washington Post Book World) novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Miller’s Valley
“[Anna Quindlen] writes passionately . . . painstakingly uncovering all the intensity, suspicion and primitive love that bonds mothers and daughters.”—The Boston Globe
Ellen...
“[Anna Quindlen] writes passionately . . . painstakingly uncovering all the intensity, suspicion and primitive love that bonds mothers and daughters.”—The Boston Globe
Ellen...
2) Mercy
Author
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
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Description
In Mercy, Jodi Picoult explores the depths of love in its many forms.
Police chief Cameron McDonald has lived in idyllic Wheelock, Massachusetts for most of his life, as has his beloved wife Allie. Their comfortable lives are thrown into tumult, however, when Cam's distant cousin Jamie arrives in town along with his wife's dead body. Jamie admits to the murder, a mercy killing to end the pain caused by a ravaging cancer. And now Cam is torn by his...
3) Mercy
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Series
Language
English
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When Michelle Renard's medical clinic is vandalized, Justice Department attorney Theo Buchanan discovers the crime was committed by a group of four white-collar professionals known as the Sowing Club who have turned to murder to cover up their crimes.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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Description
We've all been there. A loved one or a dear friend becomes desperately ill or is tragically injured. Someone, maybe even you, says, "If that ever happens to me, I wish someone would just kill me." What if you could choose when to die? But once you decide, you can't change your mind. Ever, no matter what. Welcome to the next step in the evolution of suspense fiction, to an in-your-face what-would-you-do topical thriller. Kill Me is a brilliantly conceived...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Fie's Crow caste of undertakers and mercy-killers takes more abuse than coin, so when they're called to collect royal dead, she's hoping they'll find the payout of a lifetime. But Crown Prince Jasimir faked his death, and Fie's ready to cut his throat. He offers a wager that she can't refuse: protect him from a ruthless queen, and he'll protect the Crows when he reigns. Hawk warrior Tavin, Jas's bodyguard, magically assumed the prince's appearance...
Author
Language
English
Description
Wanting to organize an assisted death on her own terms, world-weary octogenarian Eudora Honeysett forges an unexpected bond with exuberant ten-year-old Rose, who drags her to tea parties, shopping sprees, and other social excursions.
Eudora Honeysett is done with this noisy, moronic worldall of it. She has witnessed the indignities and suffering of old age and has lived a full life. At eighty-five, she isnt going to leave things to chance. Her end...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
ix, 114 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him.
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Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Through the years of success in Hollywood composing music for the world's most lauded films, Chris always promised his wife they would return to the Yorkshire Dales one day. Now, after his wife's death, Chris feels he must not forget his promise. Back in the Dales, he rents an isolated house that will allow him the space to come to terms with his grief and the quiet to allow him to compose his piano sonata. But when he finds that the house was the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Four female mercenaries known as Boneless Mercies, weary of roaming Vorseland, ignored and forgotten until they are needed for mercy killings, decide to seek glory by going after a legendary monster in this reimagining of Beowulf.
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
389 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
As the new chieftain of the Crows, Fie knows better than to expect a royal to keep his word. Still she's hopeful that Prince Jasimir will fulfill his oath to protect her fellow Crows. But then black smoke fills the sky, signaling the death of King Surimir and the beginning of Queen Rhusana's merciless bid for the throne. With the witch queen using the deadly plague to unite the nation of Sabor against Crows--and add numbers to her monstrous army--Fie...
14) 200: 1
Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
166 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
It is Eva Thorne's 200th birthday. But it's not a celebration, more like a funeral. Eva lives in a world where the cure for aging and illness has been discovered and administered to every person on Earth. Only, there's one big hitch. It turns out that very few people can handle immortality. So on their two hundredth birthday, they have to take a test. If they pass, they get to live forever. But if they fail, they must be euthanized. Eva's not an optimist....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 561 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a well-intentioned reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children. The reality, however, was very different: in the wake of Germany's annexation of Austria on the eve of World War II, its doctors, nurses, and teachers created a monstrous parody of the institution's benign-sounding brief. The Nazi regime's euthanasia program would come to determine the...