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English
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After uprooting her life in the States, Irene Steele has just settled in at the villa on St. John where her husband Russ had been living a double life. But a visit from the FBI shakes her foundations, and Irene once again learns just how little she knew about the man she loved. With help from their friends, Irene and her sons set up their lives while evidence mounts that the helicopter crash that killed Russ may not have been an accident. Meanwhile,...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families, and long-buried secrets--for fans of the New York Times bestsellers The Paper Palace and Ask Again, Yes. Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them mostly on his own in his remote home on Cape Cod, where the...
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Language
English
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Life is meant to be savored, but that's not easy with no family, limited prospects and a past you'd rather not talk about. Still, Callie Smith doesn't know how to feel when she discovers she has a brother and a sister - Malcolm, who grew up with affection, wealth and privilege, and Keira, a streetwise twelve-year-old. Callie doesn't love being alone, but at least it's safe. Despite her trepidation, she moves into the grand family home with her siblings...
6) The nest
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Gathering to confront their older brother, who has recently been released from rehab after a drunk driving accident, the Plumb siblings watch as the trust fund left by their father rises and falls according to self-inflicted problems.
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Series
Practical magic volume Book 1
Language
English
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From beloved author Alice Hoffman comes the spellbinding prequel to her bestseller, Practical Magic.Find your magic.For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man.Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three children are dangerously unique. Difficult Franny, with skin as...
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Language
English
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Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling...
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Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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In Appalachia and the Midwest at the turn of the twentieth century, fifteen-year-old Albertina "Bertie" Winslow leads her farm family through a series of challenges and hard-won triumphs.
Author
Series
Wildstone volume 3
Language
English
Description
Free-spirited Brooke and her high-achieving sister, Mindy, reconnect in the face of devastating personal setbacks before deciding to trade places to confront long-kept secrets.
12) The stepsisters
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Publisher
Mira
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, when her dad married Sage’s mom, Daisy was thrilled to get a bright and shiny new sister. But Sage was beautiful and popular, everything Daisy was not, and she made sure Daisy knew it. Sage didn’t have Daisy’s smarts—she had to go back a grade to enroll in the fancy rich-kid school. So she used her popularity as a weapon, putting Daisy down to elevate herself. After the divorce, the stepsisters’ rivalry continued until...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Assembling at their country house one final time before it is sold, four siblings and their children share past memories, hidden passions, and devastating secrets that threaten to overwhelm them.
14) Waiting for Nick
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Language
English
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"Frederica Kimball had been waiting for the day when Nicholas LeBeck would fall as desperately in love with her as she had always been with him. Nick didn't know what had hit him...sweet, adorable Freddie, whom he'd always loved like a kid sister, was suddenly looking and acting like a sensual woman. The waiting was over, but the wanting had just begun!"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Albert Whitman
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard.
16) Blue Bay mystery
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Aldens are excited to visit a deserted South Seas island. But soon they discover clues that they are not alone. Is someone watching them?
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 7
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Already frustrated about having to babysit her younger brother, Emma is disgusted when she learns she will have to sit with him on the bus when they go to summer day camp and deal with his susceptibility to motion sickness.
Author
Series
Penderwicks volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
The Penderwick family returns to Arundel for Rosalind's wedding, but Lydia, who has only heard stories of the grand estate, is eager to explore the place where her older siblings had endless adventures.
19) My life begins!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dubbing his new triplet sisters "the Trips," nine-year-old Jacob studies them for a science project by watching them grow and realizes they aren't just "the Trips" anymore, but individuals he has come to love.
Jacob wants a litter of puppies. His parents have a different surprise: he's going to be a brother... to triplets. The babies look identical to him and he gives them a name: "the Trips." For a school science project, Jacob decides to study...
Author
Series
The Genius Files volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
On a cross-country vacation with their parents, twins Coke and Pepsi, soon to be thirteen, fend off strange assassins as they try to come to terms with their being part of a top-secret government organization known as The Genius Files.