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1) Serendipity
Author
Series
Serendipity novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
He's from the wrong side of the tracks. She lived in the house on the hill. Now their fortunes have reversed…but their long-ago attraction still burns. From high school golden girl to wife of a high-powered New York attorney, Faith Harrington lived the dream. Until divorce and her father's imprisonment for fraud left her with almost nothing. Now she's back in her hometown to redesign her life, and not every face is friendly. Least of all the town...
Author
Language
English
Description
The inspiration for the film starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, this resonant story of a mother’s unsettling quest to understand her teenage son’s deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them remains terrifyingly prescient.
Eva never really wanted to be a mother. And certainly not the mother of a boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker,...
Eva never really wanted to be a mother. And certainly not the mother of a boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker,...
7) The door-man
Author
Publisher
Fomite
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1917, during reservoir construction in the Catskill hamlet of Gilboa, a young paleontologist, Miss Winifred Goldring, identified fossils from an ancient forest flooded 350-400 million years ago -- when the earth's botanical explosion of oxygen opened new paths towards human evolution. Since the reservoir water was needed for NYC, the fossils were flooded again, along with the doomed town. A mix of fact and fiction, The Door-Man follows three generations...
Author
Series
Heather Wells mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
With her upcoming nuptials to PI Cooper Cartwright only weeks away, Heather's already stressed. When a pretty junior turns up dead, and every student in the dorm where she works is a possible suspect, Heather thinks it can't get any worse. And then her long-lost mother shows up....
12) Life with Lily
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Introduces Lily Lapp who, beginning at age five, finds opportunities for blessings, laughter, learning, and mischief as she explores her Amish community, welcomes a new baby brother, begins school, and spends time with family and friends.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Darby-Jones boardinghouse in Ruby Falls, New York, is home to Mona Jones and her daughter, Oneida, two loners and self-declared outcasts who have formed a perfectly insular family unit: the two of them and the four eclectic boarders living in their house. But their small, quiet life is upended when Arthur Rook shows up in the middle of a nervous breakdown, devastated by the death of his wife, carrying a pink shoe box containing all his wife's...
15) Peacemaker
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old Iroquois boy rethinks his calling after witnessing the arrival of a mystical figure with a message of peace in this historical novel based on the creation of the Iroquois Confederacy--
17) The hunter
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
You probably haven't noticed them, but they've noticed you. They notice everything. That's their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers' work habits. Lagging a few car lengths behind the Brinks truck on its daily rounds. Surreptitiously jiggling the handle of an unmarked service door at the racetrack. They're heisters. They're pros, and Parker is far and away the best of them. In The Hunter, the first volume...
18) Home another way
Author
Language
English
Description
After her mother's death and her father's abandonment, tiny infant Sarah Graham was left to be raised by her emotionally distant grandmother. As a child she turned to music for solace and even gained entrance to Juilliard. But her potentially brilliant music career ended with an unplanned pregnancy and the stillborn birth of her child. In an attempt to escape the past, Sarah, now twenty-seven, is living life hard and fast--and she is flat broke. When...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
There are unexpected consequences when thirteen-year-old Gracie sends texts pretending to be her bashful best friend, Sienna, and their friend Emmett starts texting back pretending to be shy A.J.
20) Where she fell
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Teenager Eliza and her friends are going to explore a cave near their upstate New York home, but first her friends insist on dragging her to Drowner's Swamp, a bog legendary for its dangerous sinkholes, and a place which her mother has frequently warned her about; Eliza does not want to go, and when the earth opens up and swallows her she finds herself in a system of caves--and what she finds living there is strange and dangerous beyond anything the...
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