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Rona Parish's last assignment, a series of articles on the town of Buckford, is almost complete, when a young woman approaches her with a request to help her trace her natural parents. Rona's curiosity is aroused - not least because she discovers that the woman's birth mother had been murdered in her bath twenty-five years earlier.
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The Petrakis family lives in the small Greek seaside village of Plaka. Just off the coast is the tiny island of Spinalonga, where the nation's leper colony once was located-a place that has haunted four generations of Petrakis women. There's Eleni, ripped from her husband and two young daughters and sent to Spinalonga in 1939, and her daughters Maria, finding joy in the everyday as she dutifully cares for her father, and Anna, a wild child hungry...
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Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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"A brilliant page turner…rich with drama and historical detail."
-Glamour (UK)
A beautiful and epic novel that spans nearly a hundred years, The Thread is a magnificent story of a friendship and a love that endures through the catastrophes and upheavals of the twentieth century-both natural and man-made-in the turbulent city of Thessaloniki, Greece. Victoria Hislop, internationally bestselling author of The Island and The Return, has written a...
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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" Nancy Atherton's seventeenth cozy mystery featuring the beloved Aunt Dimity-the original paranormal detective When Amelia Thistle moves to Finch, her new neighbors welcome her with open arms-and inquiring minds. Among them is Lori Shepherd, who isn't fooled by Amelia's unassuming persona. Amelia is, in fact, a world-famous artist with a rabid and eager-to-stalk fan base. In order to keep peace in Finch, Lori must help Amelia conceal her identity....
6) Mercury
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Tara is forced to move in with her cousins after her house burns down. She faces a difficult adjustment while her mother is away trying to earn money. Interwoven with this story is that of Tara's ancestors, who in 1859 were convinced by a mysterious stranger to put all their money into searching their property for gold.
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Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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A magical coin coin leads sixth-graders Ruthie and Jack to 1753 Massachusetts and to Jack's pirate ancestor when they return to the Art Institute of Chicago's miniature Thorne Rooms on a mission to restore an African American family's reputation.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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In this retelling of the Korean legend The tale of Shim Cheong, sixteen-year-old Mina is swept away to the Spirit Realm, where, assisted by a motley crew of demons, gods, and lesser spirits, she sets out to awaken the sleeping Sea God and save her homeland and family from deadly storms.
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 14
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English
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Master quilter Sylvia Compson discovers a stash of letters in the attic of Elm Creek Manor and traces a tale back to 1859. An escaped slave, Joanna, spent a brief period at Elm Creek Farm until she was captured and returned to bondage, leaving her so
10) Legacy: a novel
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English
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This compelling, centuries spanning novel brilliantly interweaves the lives of two women, a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is an unforgettable story of courage in the face of the unknown.
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Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
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IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Stymied by her unfinished family tree assignment for school, a young girl seeks Grandma's counsel and learns about her ancestors, the consequences of slavery, and the history of Black resistance in the United States.
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Secrets from grandma's attic volume 3
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Guideposts Books & Inspirational Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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While rummaging around Grandma Pearl's attic, sisters Tracy Doyle and Amy Allen discover a box of old letters written to their grandmother in 1945 from a woman named Peggy living in Washington, DC. Each letter has a reference to a Bible verse in the Book of Numbers. When they also find an old Bible with cryptic notations in the margins next to those exact same verses, the sisters' curiosity is piqued. With a little digging, Tracy concludes that Peggy...
13) A king's ransom
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister Amy race against time to find an ancient map that has not been seen for half a century and use it to redeem their family members who have been kidnapped by a sinister organization called the Vespers.
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Secrets from grandma's attic volume 1
Publisher
Guideposts Books & Inspirational Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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One, day, Tracy Doyle is thumbing through her grandma Pearl's Bible, which had been carried up to the attic following Pearl's death, the day after her 100th birthday. Tracy finds a handwritten family tree in the Bible's beginning pages. Tracy looks over the names she knows well, thinking of each person on the tree. Then, to her surprise, she sees the name Ezekiel Collins listed as one of her grandparents' descendants. Ezekiel Collins? Tracy is shocked....
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Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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In 1924, four-year-old Cecily Larson’s mother reluctantly drops her off at an orphanage in Chicago, promising to be back once she’s made enough money to support both Cecily and herself. But she never returns, and shortly after high-spirited Cecily turns seven, she is sold to a traveling circus to perform as the “little sister” to glamorous bareback rider Isabelle DuMonde. With Isabelle and the rest of the circus, Cecily finally feels she’s...
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