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1) The nanny
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After losing her job and being on the brink of eviction, Cassie Evans finds herself with two choices: get a new job (and fast) or fire up her long-untouched OnlyFans account. But there are no jobs to be found, and as for OnlyFans.... Well, there are reasons she can't go back. Just when all hope seems lost, an ad for a live-in nanny position seems the solution to all her problems. It's almost too perfect--until she meets her would-be employer. Aiden...
Author
Language
English
Description
"One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly--thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Cassie Hanwell was born for emergencies. As one of the only female firefighters in her Texas firehouse, she's seen her fair share of them, and she's a total pro at other people's tragedies. But when her estranged and ailing mother asks her to give up her whole life and move to Boston, Cassie suddenly has an emergency of her own. The tough, old-school Boston firehouse is as different from Cassie's old job as it could possibly be. Hazing, a lack of...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A commercial jetliner crashes into the Pacific Ocean and sinks to the bottom with passengers trapped inside. More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer Will Kent and his eleven-year-old daughter Shannon are waist-deep in water and fighting for their lives. Their only chance at survival is an elite rescue team on the surface led by professional diver Chris Kent--Shannon's mother and Will's soon-to-be ex-wife--who must work together with...
5) Jacky Ha-Ha
Author
Series
Jacky Ha-Ha volume 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Adapted from James Patterson's #1 bestselling story, this hilarious and heartwarming graphic novel introduces Jacky Ha-Ha, a class clown who makes people laugh with her so they can't laugh at her! With her irresistible urge to tell a joke in every situation--even when it's a bad idea--Jacky Ha-Ha loves to make people laugh. And cracking wise helps distract her from thinking about not-so-funny things in her life, like her mom serving in a dangerous,...
6) Nightfall
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
"Sophie must uncover the truth about the Lost Cities' insidious past, before it repeats itself and changes reality"--
7) Hear no evil
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Miami attorney Jack Swyteck is involved in the most explosive criminal trial of his career -- a case that starts with a murder on a military base and concludes with a shocking surprise that will change Jack's life forever.
A beautiful woman comes to see Jack and begs him to represent her. She says she's about to be arrested for the murder of her husband, an officer stationed at Guantanamo Bay. Having no expertise in military law and sensing that...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Aladdin edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of the book in which twelve-year-old Sophie discovers the abilities that have always caused her to stand out are because she is actually an elf and, after she is brought to Eternalia where she can hone her skills, Sophie learns she harbors certain secrets that others would kill to learn.
9) Arrival
Author
Series
Phoenix files volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
10) We were Kings
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A twenty-year-old crime, an accelerated death penalty, and an elitist family cover-up forces eighteen-year-old Nyla to race against the death row clock to save her mother's best friend.
11) Pardalita
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"16-year-old Raquel lives in a small town in Portugal, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else's business. Her parents are divorced and she's just been suspended for cursing out a school aide asking about her father's new marriage. She has two best friends, Luísa and Fred, but wants something more. Then, from afar, she sees Pardalita, a senior and a gifted artist who's moving to Lisbon to study in the fall. The two girls get to know...