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1) Memory man
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"Amos Decker's life changed forever--twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect--he can never forget anything. The second time was at home nearly two decades later....
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When every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside, the world is thrown into a collective frenzy, in this novel told through multiple perspectives that introduces an unforgettable cast of characters.
It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds...
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In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with...
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A Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier--
At seventeen, Lenora Hope
Hung her sister with a rope
Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has...
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Bourbon kings volume 1
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English
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"For generations, the Bradford family has worn the mantle of kings of the bourbon capital of the world. Their sustained wealth has afforded them prestige and privilege--as well as a hard-won division of class on their sprawling estate, Easterly. Upstairs, a dynasty that by all appearances plays by the rules of good fortune and good taste. Downstairs, the staff who work tirelessly to maintain the impeccable Bradford facade. And never the twain shall...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call home The Nasr family is spread across the globe--Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. Still, they've always had their ancestral home in Beirut--a constant touchstone--and the complicated,...
8) Pet sematary
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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When Dr. Louis Creed, the new director of student health at the local university, is first taken by a neighbor friend to the pet cemetery in the woods behind his house, he thinks it is just an eccentric, if morbid, local site. However, after he learns that the Micmac Indian burial grounds beyond it have the power to bring his daughter's dead cat back from death, albeit slightly altered, he discovers that he has been touched by a power beyond anything...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"Ten years after her teenage daughter disappears, a woman crosses paths with a charming single father whose young child feels eerily familiar, in this evocative, suspenseful drama from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell--perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins and Liane Moriarty. Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenaged...
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How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law...
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2021.
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The Delaney family is a communal foundation. Stan and Joy are the envy of all of their friends. They're killer on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. But after fifty years of marriage, they've finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. So why are they so miserable? The four Delaney children, Amy, Logan, Troy, and Brooke, were tennis stars in their own right,...
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2023.
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English
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A sweeping, tenderhearted love story, Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash tells the story of two families living through World War II on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and the shy, irresistible young woman who will call them both her own. As German bombs fall over London in 1940, working-class parents Millie and Reginald Thompson make an impossible choice: they decide to send their eleven-year-old daughter, Beatrix, to America. There,...
13) Salt houses
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"From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home...On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted...
14) Poached
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FunJungle volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
Twelve-year-old Teddy Fitzroy is the prime suspect when FunJungle's newly-acquired koala goes missing, thanks to a prank staged by middle school bully Vance Jessup.
15) Bluey: the pool
Pub. Date
s202
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English
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Bluey and Bingo head to the pool with Dad. What could go wrong?
16) My sister, Daisy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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An older brother reacts to his younger sibling's gender transformation with compassion. Includes a note from the author.
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The 39 clues. Main series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Orphans Amy and Dan Cahill, continuing their worldwide quest to track down the thirty-nine clues that will reveal the secret of the Cahill family's power, follow a link to one of the planet's strongest fighters, and have a run-in with the unreliable Alistair.
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Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, Flight Behavior tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm, oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband's antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by surrendering to an obsessive...
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The 39 clues. Main series volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Amy and Dan travel to a distant land to follow in the footsteps of their most formidable ancestor yet, a military leader who teaches them the art of ancient warfare.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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After a rocky first year, Anna's family have settled into life in California--their small restaurant is even turning a profit. Then her parents make a shattering discovery: their visas have expired. Anna's world is quickly overwhelmed by unfamiliar words like undocumented and inequality. She longs to share the towering secret that looms over every aspect of her life with a friend, but her parents strictly forbid her from telling anyone. As Anna grapples...
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