1969-
Author
Series
Sisters Grimm volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Hoping to save their family and the citizens of Ferryport Landing from the evil plans of Mirror, Sabrina and Daphne Grimm seek counsel from the other magic mirrors, who advise them to join forces with the Scarlet Hand.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Coming September 22nd From the worldwide bestselling author of Eat Pray Love: the path to the vibrant, fulfilling life you've dreamed of. Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert's books for years. Now this beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant generosity, she offers potent...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
" A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed. In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as...
6) On the road
Author
Language
English
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Description
Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.
Author
Language
English
Description
From the best-selling author of Claire of the Sea Light and Brother, I'm Dying, a long-awaited return to fiction: a gorgeous collection of stories about community, family and love; about the forces that pull us together or drive us apart--a book rich with vividly imagined characters, hard-won wisdom, and humanity. In these eight stories by widely acclaimed, prizewinning author Danticat--some of which have appeared The New Yorker--a romance unexpectedly...
Author
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
How can two siblings who truly love each other manage to also drive each other so crazy? Well, if you have a sibling, then you already know the answer! Wendy and Maureen continue their sisterly shenanigans and manage to not kill each other as they continue to act--like sisters. Can you imagine what would happen if they didn' love each other? While their friends know to stay out of the sisters' way while they'e going at it, they also know what a good...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and After You, a sensational collection featuring the title novella and eight other stories. Quintessential Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories is an irresistibly romantic collection filled with humor and heart. Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She's never even been on a romantic weekend away--to anywhere--before. Everyone knows travelling abroad isn't really her...
10) Greenlights
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction--
I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me...
Author
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The never-ending war between older sister Wendy and younger sister Maureen is fought on many fronts-at a big school dance that Wendy is ecstatic about (especially since no little sisters are allowed, but Maureen has her dancing shoes on and will get her last dance by any means possible), and at the Portnawak Run, a crazy relay race through the countryside! Maureen has been training hard for this, Wendy, however, is more interested in spending time...
12) Kwanzaa
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
An introduction to the history, purpose, and observance of Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa is an important holiday that celebrates African heritage and African-American culture. Readers will learn that African Americans celebrate this holiday with gift giving, lighting Kinara candles each day, a big feast, and much more. Complete with simple text and colorful photographs.
13) City of girls
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Language
English
Description
In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing showgirls to a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a...
15) The race
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
As a bunch of caribou race, some of them decide to engage in tricks in order to win at all costs, while others question the merit of that mentality.
Author
Series
Bourbon kings volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Edward Baldwine is arrested for his father's murder, life for the Baldwine family is thrown into disarray. Tensions at Easterly, the family estate, are already high--the family's bourbon business is hanging on by a thread and Miss Aurora, head of Easterly's kitchen and surrogate mother of the Baldwine children, is in the ICU. Lane Baldwine, the younger and more successful of the Baldwine siblings, has taken control of the Bradford Bourbon Company...
Author
Series
Bourbon kings volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward delivers the second novel in her Bourbon Kings series--a sweeping saga of a Southern dynasty struggling to maintain a facade of privilege and prosperity while secrets and indiscretions threaten its very foundation...In Charlemont, Kentucky, the Bradford family is the crA¨me la crA¨me of high society--just like their exclusive brand of bourbon. And their complicated lives and vast estate are run by...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Pete the Cat wants a supercool Sharkbot toy, but he doesn't have enough money in his piggy bank. He takes on odd jobs -- from shoveling snow to selling lemonade and more -- and saves every penny. How long will it take for him to earn enough money to buy the toy? Early readers will love saving up with Pete! --