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81) The tiger's wife
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Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • The instant classic debut novel from the author of Inland and The Morningside, hailed as “a thrilling beginning to what will certainly be a great literary career” (Elle)
“Spectacular . . . [Téa Obreht] spins a tale of such marvel and magic in a literary voice so enchanting that the mesmerized reader...
“Spectacular . . . [Téa Obreht] spins a tale of such marvel and magic in a literary voice so enchanting that the mesmerized reader...
Author
Series
Friday Harbor novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Lisa Kleypas’ new series begins during the most magical time of year
ONE LITTLE GIRL NEEDS A FAMILY
One rain-slicked night, six-year-old Holly lost the only parent she knew, her beloved mother Victoria. And since that night, she has never again spoken a word.
ONE SINGLE MAN NEEDS A WIFE
The last thing Mark Nolan needs is a six-year-old girl in his life. But he soon realizes that he will do everything he can to make her life...
83) Blind trust
Author
Series
Port Aster secrets volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Investigating a small-time counterfeit operation leads amateur sleuth Kate Adams into a far more elaborate web of intrigue"--
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Language
English
Formats
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From one of our most talented and original new literary voices comes the next great American supernatural novel: a work that explores the dark dimensions of the hometowns and the neighbors we thought we knew.
Some places are too good to be true.
Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map: Wink, New Mexico.
In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things.
After...
86) After her
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English
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Thirty years after destroying her detective father's career and altering the lives of everyone she loves, Rachel, who has never given up hope of vindicating her father, finally finds The Sunset Strangler, a killer who, in the summer of 1979, preyed on young women in northern California.
87) Graveminder
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
Description
Anyone who adores dark fantasy, horror, and paranormal suspense is going to love Graveminder, a hauntingly atmospheric tale of the walking dead-and the living who are charged with keeping them at rest-from Melissa Marr, the New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Lovely series. A young woman returns to the rural small town of her adolescence only to discover it is cursed ground bordering the land of the dead in this spectacularly imagined...
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English
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"It has been two years since the death of Merritt Heyward's husband Cal, when she receives unexpected news--Cal's family home in Beaufort, South Carolina, bequeathed by Cal's reclusive grandmother, now belongs to Merritt. Charting the course of an uncertain life--and feeling guilt from her husband's tragic death--Merritt travels from her home in Maine to Beaufort, where the secrets of Cals unspoken-of past reside among the pluff mud and jasmine of...
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English
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Mrs. Sookie Poole of Point Clear, Alabama, has just married off the last of her three daughters and is looking forward to relaxing and perhaps traveling with her husband, Earle. The only thing left to contend with now is her mother, the formidable and imposing Lenore Simmons Krackenberry ... never an easy task. Lenore may be a lot of fun for other people, but is, for the most part, an overbearing presence for her daughter. Then one day, quite by accident,...
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Language
English
Description
The American master's first novel since Winter's Bone tells of a deadly dance hall fire and its impact over several generations.
Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the 42 killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to blame? Mobsters...
Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the 42 killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to blame? Mobsters...
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English
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"In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the...
93) The farm
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English
Description
After learning his mother was committed to a mental hospital, Daniel receives a call from her, claiming that his lying father is part of a crime conspiracy.
94) After Tex
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Series
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English
Description
From the bestselling author behind the hit Sweet Magnolias Netflix series
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods sweeps readers away to the quiet plains of Whispering Wind ranch, where one woman's conflict between family, career, and the promise of rekindled love threatens to change her life forever.
Megan O'Rourke's beloved grandfather, Tex, had always been determined to lure her out of New...
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods sweeps readers away to the quiet plains of Whispering Wind ranch, where one woman's conflict between family, career, and the promise of rekindled love threatens to change her life forever.
Megan O'Rourke's beloved grandfather, Tex, had always been determined to lure her out of New...
95) The raven king
Author
Series
Raven cycle volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Blue has always been warned that she will cause her true love?s death. But since she doesn?t believe in that sort of thing, she?s never been worried about it. Then the Raven Boys lured her into their mysterious world and now Blue isn?t sure of anything.
96) One step too far
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English
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A woman leaves her happy family and home to reinvent herself as a completely different person, with no trace of her former self, working in a hip London ad agency, until a shocking revelation makes her face what she has done.
Author
Series
Forensic Instincts volume 2
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English
Description
The man she loved is gone forever. The child she lives for could be next.
Each day is a struggle for Amanda Gleason's newborn son as he battles a rare immune deficiency. Justin's best chance for a cure lies with his father&151;who was brutally murdered before Amanda even realized she carried his child.
Or was he?
One email changes everything--a recent photo of a man who looks exactly like Paul. Could Justin's
...98) The way we were
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English
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Marcia Willett captured the hearts of Rosamunde Pilcher and Maeve Binchy fans across the nation with her previous heartwarming stories of family devotion and abiding compassion. Now, in her newest novel, The Way We Were, Willett introduces a deeply moving and utterly real tale that is sure to win over a whole new set of readers.
Tiggy arrives at the remote house on Bodmin Moor in the middle of a snowstorm. All alone, having lost
her partner in a...
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Language
English
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This mesmerizing literary novel is written with all the emotional precision and intimacy that have won Hisham Matar tremendous international recognition. In a voice that is delicately wrought and beautifully tender, he asks: When a loved one disappears, how does that absence shape the lives of those who are left?
“A haunting novel, exquisitely written and psychologically rich.”—The Washington Post
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“A haunting novel, exquisitely written and psychologically rich.”—The Washington Post
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English
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Parker Bennett has been missing for two years. He dropped out of sight-- on a sailboat in the Caribbean-- just before it was discovered that the $5 billion dollars in the fund he had been managing had vanished. Lane Harmon, assistant to an upscale interior designer, is working on his wife's townhouse. Gradually, Lane finds herself drawn to Eric, the Bennetts' son, who is determined to prove that his father is not guilty. Lane doesn't know that the...