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At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers--Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as...
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English
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Camille Lammenais has grown up in the beauty of the Napa Valley, surrounded by acres of her family's vineyards. Her parents, Christophe and Joy, still deeply in love after two decades of marriage, have built a renowned winery and château modeled after Christophe's ancient family estate in his native Bordeaux. Camille has had a perfect childhood, safe in her parents' love. After graduating from Stanford, she returns to help manage Château Joy, her...
5) The island
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they're deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking...
6) Winter
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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Princess Winter, admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, teams up with the cyborg mechanic Cinder and her allies to defeat Queen Levana and find their happily ever afters.
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English
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"From the lighthouse sporting a huge wreath to the Christmas Stroll along its quaint streets, holidays on Nantucket are always magical. However, while the town might be aglow like a scene from Dickens tale, unfortunately for newly married island newcomer Nicole Somerset, Christmas means a dreaded visit from her step-daughter. Headstrong Kennedy brings with her a family of her own--husband Archer and adorable 3 year old son, Maddox--but Kennedy's yet...
8) Nightmares!
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Series
Lexile measure
670L
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English
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"Charlie Laird has several problems. His dad married a woman he is sure moonlights as a witch. He had to move into her purple mansion, which is not a place you want to find yourself after dark. He can't remember the last time sleeping wasn't a nightmarish prospect. Like even a nap. What Charlie doesn't know is that his problems are about to get a whole lot more real. Nightmares can ruin a good night's sleep, but when they start slipping out of your...
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Publisher
Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Cindy loves shoes. A well-placed bow or a chic stacked heel is her form of self-expression. As a fashion-obsessed plus-size woman, she can never find designer clothes that work on her body, but a special pair of shoes always fits just right. With a shiny new design degree but no job in sight, Cindy moves back in with her stepmother, Erica Tremaine, the executive producer of the world's biggest dating reality show. When a contestant on Before Midnight...
10) Skylark
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Series
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
11) Cinderella
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Celebrate the transformative power of kindness with Disney's Cinderella, a modern classic that shines with beauty, imagination...and magic! Despite being bullied by her stepmother and stepsisters, a spirited Ella refuses to despair or retaliate, choosing instead to honor her mother's last words: "Have courage and be kind". Then one day, she meets a remarkable, like-minded man in the woods and she resolves to take charge of her fate in hopes of seeing...
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"Korey, the middle Bontrager brother, has been spending time with cousins in Ohio and hasn't been home in a year. When he does return, it's clear the distance he feels from his family spans more than time and space. Plus he's the odd man out among his friends who are all dating or engaged, and he's tired of being teased for his decision to remain a bachelor. Savannah Zook has always felt the need to use her voice to speak up for her younger brother...
14) The house guests
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English
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"In the wake of her husband's sudden death, Cassie Costas finds her relationship with her teenage stepdaughter unraveling. After their move to historic Tarpon Springs, Florida, Savannah hates her new town, her school and most of all her stepmom, whom she blames for her father's death. Cassie has enough to contend with as she searches for answers about the man she shared a life with, including why all their savings have disappeared. When Savannah's...
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English
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Snow White is a beautiful girl who takes refuge in the forest at the home of the seven dwarfs. She is hiding from the wicked Queen, her stepmother. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as 'the fairest in the land, ' but Snow White's beauty surpasses her own. The dwarfs grow to love their unexpected visitor. But one day while the dwarfs are at their diamond mine, the Queen arrives at the cottage disguised as an old peddler woman and persuades...
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by their father and living in poverty with their heartless stepmother in Louisiana, two sisters from the Philippines, twelve-year-old Sol and six-year-old Ming, learn the true meaning of family.
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Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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This novel enters the mind of a sociopath--a place where the rules don't apply. Where anything is fair game. And where murder is the ultimate means to an end. Film and theatre critic Caroline Enright thinks her trip to a theatre festival in the beautiful Berkshire mountains of Massachusetts will be as easy as a summer breeze--until her complicated relationship with her stepdaughter, Meg, grows even more tense, and two of Meg's friends are killed in...
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English
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"Andi has spent much of her adult life looking for the perfect man, and at thirty-seven, she's finally found him. Ethan -- divorced with two daughters, Emily and Sophia -- is a devoted father and even better husband. Always hoping one day she would be a mother, Andi embraces the girls like they were her own. But in Emily's eyes, Andi is an obstacle to her father's love, and Emily will do whatever it takes to break her down. When the dynamics between...
19) Chime
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Language
English
Description
In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of Wicked, The Woodcutter, and Boy, Snow, Bird, a luminous reimagining of a classic tale, told from the perspective of Agnes, Cinderella's 'evil' stepmother. We all know the story of Cinderella. Or do we? As rumors about the cruel upbringing of beautiful newlywed Princess Cinderella roil the kingdom, her stepmother, Agnes, who knows all too well about hardship, privately records the true story. A peasant born into serfdom, Agnes is separated...