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Series
Winter Street Inn novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
"It's been too long since the entire Quinn family has been able to celebrate the holidays under the same roof, but that's about to change. With Bart back safe and sound from Afghanistan, the Quinns are preparing for a holiday more joyous than any they've experienced in years. And Bart's safe return isn't the family's only good news: Kevin is enjoying married life with Isabelle; Patrick is getting back on his feet after paying his debt to society;...
Author
Series
Winter Street Inn novels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Some of the stormy weather of the past few seasons seems to have finally lifted for the Quinns. After a year apart, Mitzi has returned to rule the roost; Patrick is about to be released from prison; Kevin has a successful new business and is finally ready to tie the knot with Isabelle; and best of all, there's hopeful news about Bart, who has been captured by enemy forces in Afghanistan. That doesn't mean there aren't a few dark clouds on the horizon....
3) The dinner
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Language
English
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Description
Two couples meet for dinner at a fashionable restaurant in Amsterdam. Behind their polite conversation, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act; an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families. As...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Language
English
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Description
"July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister's disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father...
Author
Series
Me before you volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
"How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't help but feel she's right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the remix tradition of the cult favorite movie Clueless and Curtis Sittenfeld's Eligible comes a modern retelling of the beloved story of the March sisters, delivered with Anna Todd's signature style. With plenty of sass, romance, and drama, The Spring Girls is the perfect chance for listeners to revisit Little Women or discover this cherished story for the first time.
10) Little women
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Series
Language
English
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Little Women is the heartwarming story of the March family that has thrilled generations of readers. It is the story of four sisters--Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth-- and of the courage, humor and ingenuity they display to survive poverty and the absence of their father during the Civil War.
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books / Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, about a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for--and everything she feared. Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting, supportive mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter--Violet...
Author
Series
Publisher
Libros de Seda
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
En Ivy Hill, un pueblecito situado en una colina, está The Bell, la posada que es el alma del pueblo, allí donde se detienen los coches de postas, donde llegan las noticias, el correo, los viajeros y los productos más diversos. Jane Belle vive junto a la posada, el negocio de su marido. En tiempos fue una gran dama, pero lo dejó todo por amor, para casarse con el posadero. Él le prometió que la trataría como una reina y que nunca tendría que...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 5
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
©1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
14) Prophet song
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning toward tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new,...
Author
Series
Ellie's deli volume 1
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Ellie accidentally overhears that her family deli is most likely going to close, she does the only thing she can think of. She makes a wish on matzo ball soup. Eleven-year-old Ellie is feisty, determined, and a little bit anxious. She considers Lukshen Deli part of the family--after all, it's been around for four generations, ever since her great-grandmother opened it. Along with her BFF, Ava; her sisters, Anna and Mabel; her lunch buddies, Aanya,...
16) Boot camp
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"In the middle of the night Garrett is kidnapped from his home to Harmony Lake, a disciplinary boot camp for troubled teens. Beaten, humiliated, and stripped of his pride, Garrett is abused almost to his breaking point. He won't be allowed to leave until he admits his "mistakes" and conform completely ... whether he's guilty or not. Then Garrett hears whispers of an escape plot --incredibly risky-- if he's caught, the consequences will be unthinkable...
17) Brother: a novel
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the heart of Appalachia stands a crooked farmhouse miles from any road. The Morrows keep to themselves, and it's served them well so far. When girls go missing off the side of the highway, the cops don't knock on their door. Which is a good thing, seeing as to what's buried in the Morrows' backyard. But nineteen-year-old Michael Morrow isn't like the rest of his family. He doesn't take pleasure in the screams that echo through the trees....
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
An evocative tale based on the life of a controversial Victorian New York City midwife features plucky orphan Axie Muldoon, who recounts her apprenticeship and establishment of a thriving practice that is threatened by a censorious zealot.
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
At her stepdaughter's wedding day to her pandemic boyfriend--the last gathering at the family's beach house in Cape Cod--Sarah is faced with lovers being revealed as their true selves, misunderstandings, and secrets, ensuring that nothing will ever be the same.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It's fun to be a Baby-sitters Little Sister. No fair! Karen is having a bad-luck day. Her favorite jeans are missing. There's no prize in the Crunch-O cereal box. And Boo-Boo the cat runs away from her! Karen tries everything to make her day better. But her bad luck just won't go away. She even gets punished and sent to her room! Poor Karen--will this be her worst day ever?"--.