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1) Middlemarch
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English
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In nineteenth-century England, Dorothea Brooke's wishes to defy social conventions are inhibited by the strict nature of her surroundings.
2) Bandits
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Publisher
HarperTorch
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A wild ride with 'the coolest, hottest writer in America' (Chicago Tribune), Bandits has everything Elmore Leonard fans love: non-stop thrills, unexpected twists and turns, unforgettable characters, and the most razor-sharp dialogue being rapidly exchanged anywhere in the crime fiction genre. Leonard stands tall among the all-time greats (John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain) and towers far above most of the writers currently plying...
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English
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Psychic Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full with an amnesiac vampire in the fourth seductive novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series—the inspiration for the HBO® original series True Blood.
When cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse sees a naked man on the side of the road, she doesn’t just drive on by. Turns out the poor thing hasn’t a clue who he is, but Sookie does. It’s...
When cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse sees a naked man on the side of the road, she doesn’t just drive on by. Turns out the poor thing hasn’t a clue who he is, but Sookie does. It’s...
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Series
Newford series volume 10
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Language
English
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2017 Aurora Awards Best of Decade Finalist
In novel after novel, and story after story, Charles de Lint has brought an entire imaginary North American city to vivid life. Newford: where magic lights dark streets; where myths walk clothed in modern shapes; where a broad cast of extraordinary and affecting people work to keep the whole world turning.
At the center of all the entwined lives in Newford stands a young artist named Jilly Coppercorn,...
6) Sula
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1050L
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English
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A Black woman returns to her Ohio hometown after a long absence and becomes an evil presence, until her death affects the residents.
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English
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Birmingham real estate agent and former Miss Alabama Maggie Fortenberry learns valuable lessons about the nature of friendship, the challenges of modern life, and the dangers of impossible dreams as she struggles to keep Red Mountain Realty afloat and bury the heartbreaking secrets of her past.
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Cedar Cove series volume 3
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English
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Olivia Lockhart
Cedar Cove, Washington
Dear Reader,
One thing about Cedar Cove--people sure are interested in what other people are doing. Take Zach and Rosie Cox, for instance. Everybody in town knows that they recently got a divorce. Everybody also knows that I decreed a somewhat unusual custody arrangement. It won't be the kids moving between Rosie's place and Zach's. They'll continue to live in the family home at 311 Pelican
...11) Tart of darkness
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English
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After unexpectedly inheriting a huge old house in a small college town, Dani, to fund her new personal chef business, takes in boarders, but when one of them is murdered and she becomes the prime suspect, she must serve up the real killer to clear her name and save her business
12) Driftless
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English
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Words, Wisconsin, an anonymous town of only a few hundred people. But under its sleepy surface, life rages. Cora and Graham guard their dairy farm, and family, from the wicked schemes of their milk co-op. Lifelong paraplegic Olivia suddenly starts to walk, only to find herself crippled by her fury toward her sister and caretaker, Violet. Recently retired Rusty finds a cougar living in his haymow, dredging up haunting childhood memories. Winifred becomes...
13) Plainsong
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Series
Lexile measure
770L
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English
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Ambitious, but never seeming so, Kent Haruf reveals a whole community as he interweaves the stories of a pregnant high school girl, a lonely teacher, a pair of boys abandoned by their mother, and a couple of crusty bachelor farmers. From simple elements, Haruf achieves a novel of wisdom and grace--a narrative that builds in strength and feeling until, as in a choral chant, the voices in the book surround, transport, and lift the reader off the ground....
14) Paradise valley
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Virgin River volume 7
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English
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For a favorite son returned from war and an outsider looking for a home, Virgin River offers both a chance to make peace with the men they once were and to find the dreams they thought they had lost.
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Indiana summers volume 2
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English
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Forty-two, divorced, and responsible for an aging aunt and uncle, florist Emily Lucretia, deciding to put herself out there, starts dating the owner of the local barbecue joint until her meddling small town gets involved in her relationship, with hilarious and unexpected results.
16) Shoot the moon
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Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
©2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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In the 1970s, thirty years after a baby's disappearance from the community of DeClare, Oklahoma, a grown Nicky Jack Harjo mysteriously returns.
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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The story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Spring has sprung in quaint Taylorsford, Virginia, and the mayor has revived the town's long-defunct May Day celebration to boost tourism. As part of the festivities, library director Amy Webber is helping to organize a research project and presentation by a local folklore expert. All seems well at first--but spring takes on a sudden chill when a university student inexplicably vanishes during a bonfire.
19) Rock Island line
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Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Born and raised in an idyllic Iowa town, July Montgomery is rocked by the tragic death of his parents. Fleeing to Philadelphia via the Rock Island line, he fashions a ghostly existence beneath an underground train station.
20) Florida
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English
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A collection of stories spanning centuries of time in mercurial Florida examines the decisions and connections behind life-changing events in characters ranging from two abandoned sisters to a conflicted family woman.
The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries. Yet Florida-- its landscapes, climate, history, and state of mind-- becomes the gravitational center as Groff writes about loneliness, rage, family, and...
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