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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
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Presents Dickens' classic novel of love, courage, and sacrifice set against the cataclysmic events of the French Revolution. During the French Revolution a sissolute English lawyer goes to the guillotine to save a French aristocrat, husband of the woman he loves.
Author
Series
Kindred series (V. C. Andrews) volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Lorelei escapes from the vampire world of her early life and struggles to follow her heart and hide from the past in spite of terrifying nightmares and the constant threat of her powerful and vindictive father.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Reclusive Sally Diamond causes outrage by trying to incinerate her dead father. Now she's the center of attention, not only from the hungry media and police detectives, but also a sinister voice from a past she does not remember. As she begins to discover the horrors of her early childhood, Sally steps into the world for the first time, making new friends, big decisions, and learning that people don't always mean what they say. But who is the man...
64) On a summer tide
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When her father buys an island off the coast of Maine with the hope of breathing new life into it, Camden Grayson thinks he's lost his mind. An unexpected event sends Cam to his rescue, and she discovers the island has its own way of living and loving"--
"Camden Grayson loves her challenging career, but the rest of her life could use some improvement. Cam's full-throttle life skids to a stop when her father buys a remote island off the coast of...
65) Open season
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden -- especially one like Joe who won't take bribes or look the other way -- is far from popular. When he finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind Joe's state-owned home, he takes it personally. There had to be a reason that the outfitter, with whom he's had run-ins before, chose his backyard, his woodpile...
68) Passersthrough
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An elderly man [is] reunited with his daughter [after encountering] various tragedies, dog bites, lakes moving through the wilderness, [and] ghosts. Pete returns to Portland to create familial friction that leads to a cluster of reality-bending wonders and terrors that only Pete can summon. It is a crushing story, told with devastating economy and depth of feeling"--
Author
Series
Greywalker volume 5
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After dying for two minutes, private Investigator Harper Blaine becomes a Greywalker, straddling the line between the living world and the paranormal realm, and must search for the ghost of the man who killed her.
70) Closer to home
Author
Series
Valdemar universe. Herald spy novels volume 1
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Trained as a spy by the King's Own Herald, an orphan named Mags rises through the ranks of the Heralds' Collegium and uses his powerful Mindspeech gift to outmaneuver a royal court plot that risks his mentor and family.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After his wife's death, a man brings his young daughter to live in a cave he has found in the Cascade mountains. Once there, his daughter begins to sense the presence of other people in the cave, a mother and son who retreated there during the last ice age in an effort to survive"--
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
The two Minnesota towns couldn't be more different: in affluent Barron, a powerful and secretive scientific research corporation enriches its residents, while downriver in blue-collar St. Croix, victims of that company's carcinogenic waste struggle to survive. The bad blood between the communities escalates into open warfare when the beautiful Ashlynn, daughter of the corporation's president, is found shot dead--and a St. Croix girl, Olivia Hawk,...
74) The scent keeper
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Erica Bauermeister, the national bestselling author of The School of Essential Ingredients, presents a moving and evocative coming-of-age novel about childhood stories, families lost and found, and how a fragrance conjures memories capable of shaping the course of our lives. The Scent Keeper explores the provocative beauty of scent, the way it can reveal hidden truths, lead us to the person we seek, and even help us find our way back home"--
75) Little Dorrit
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 111
Language
English
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Description
Of the complex, richly rewarding masterworks he wrote in the last decade of his life, Little Dorrit is the book in which Charles Dickens most fully unleashed his indignation at the fallen state of mid-Victorian society. Crammed with persons and incidents in whose recreation nothing is accidental or spurious, containing, in its picture of the Circumlocution Office, the most witheringly exact satire of a bureaucracy we possess, Little Dorrit is a stunning...
76) A better man
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It's Gamache's first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter. As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. But with a daughter...
77) What we find
Author
Series
Sullivan's Crossing volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A Denver neurosurgeon relocates to the small rural town named after her ancestor in the aftermath of a wrongful malpractice suit to recover and reconnect with her estranged father--
Maggie Sullivan has hit a wall in her high-stress career in neurosurgery. After an emergency high-risk procedure, Maggie is in the middle of a wrongful death lawsuit. She returns to Sullivan's Crossing to slow down before she burns out completely. Her eccentric father,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Instant national bestseller Nathan Ripley follows up the success of Find You in the Dark with another suspenseful page-turner--this time about a woman whose notorious father died when she was a child, but whose legacy comes back to haunt her."--
79) River bodies
Author
Series
Northampton County novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Portland, Pennsylvania care for her ailing father, the former police chief, Becca Kingsley is drawn into a murder investigation that is linked to a twenty-year-old cold case and that causes her to start questioning all her past relationships as dark secrets come to light.
80) The waking land
Author
Series
Waking land volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A young girl is kidnapped by the king to punish her father's rebellion against him. Years later, she returns home a fugitive, while grappling with a repressed magic that could, if mastered, make her the most powerful person in two kingdoms"--
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