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1) Faithful
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After walking away from an accident that robs her best friend of her future, Shelby Richmond struggles to fight her way back to her own future.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died. No one blames Margaret. Not in so many words. Her mother insists to everyone who will listen that her daughter never even left the house that day...Margaret wills herself to forget these unbearable memories, replacing them with imagined stories full of faith and magic--that...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
119 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Feeling guilty after accidentally breaking his friend's leg, Rocky Fletcher takes on extra duties at school, from selling chocolate bars and managing his injured friend's student council campaign to playing both offense and defense on the football team.
4) Remarkables
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Marin and her neighbor Charley hope that by preventing a disaster that occurred twenty years ago, they can save Charley's dad from a future of guilt and self-destructive behavior.
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Curator of paleontology Dr. Simon Nealy never expected to return to his Pennsylvania hometown, let alone the Hawthorne Museum of Natural History. He was just a boy when his six-year-old sister, Morgan, was abducted from the museum under his watch, and the guilt has haunted Simon ever since. After a recent break-up and the death of the aunt who raised him, Simon feels drawn back to the place where Morgan vanished, in search of the bones they never...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
One very special work of art--a Chaim Soutine painting--connects the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart, in a novel that moves from World War II Vienna to contemporary Los Angeles.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.' Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh winters; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads; the sound of 'blush words' that aren't in the Bible. But when a tragic accident ruptures the family, her curiosity warps into a vortex of increasingly disturbing...
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/ Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame and fearat their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past. Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. When a couple moves into the flat below her in her London mansion block, it should be nothing more than a momentary inconvenience. However, the appearance...
9) Long lost
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
276 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Feeling lonely and out of place after her family moves to a new town, eleven-year-old Fiona Crane ventures to the local library, where she finds a gripping mystery novel about a small town, family secrets, and a tragic disappearance.
10) I refuse
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lena Wise is always looking forward to tomorrow, especially at the start of her senior year. She's ready to pack in as much friend time as possible, to finish college applications and to maybe let her childhood best friend Sebastian know how she really feels about him. For Lena, the upcoming year is going to be epic--one of opportunities and chances. Until one choice, one moment, destroys everything. Now Lena isn't looking forward to tomorrow. Not...
12) The rat queen
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For Annie's tenth birthday, her papa gives her a pad of paper, some colored pencils, and the Klimas family secret. It's called the nuodeema burna, or eater of sins. Every time Annie misbehaves, she has to write down her transgression and stick the paper into a hidey-hole in the floor of their house. But Annie's inheritance has a dark side: with each paper fed to the burna, she feels less guilty about the mean things she says and does. As a plague...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Kate is in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter's exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter now. But Kate's stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. By then it's already...
14) Autumn skies
Author
Series
Bluebell Inn romance volume 03
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (7 hrs., 58 min.) : audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The Bluebell Inn is turning a profit, and it's time for the Bennett siblings to sell it and move on. Only Grace has plans to stay in the small lake town of Bluebell, North Carolina, where she hopes her growing outfitters business will save her from the loneliness of her siblings' departure and the persistent sense of unworthiness in her life. A gunshot wound resurrects the past for Secret Service agent Wyatt Jennings, and a mandatory leave of absence...
15) Controlled Burn
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
237 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Maia's parents say she's lucky she noticed something as early as she did. Lucky to have smelled the smoke, lucky to have pulled her sister, Amelia, out of their burning house. But is it really "lucky" when Maia knows it was her candle, left unattended, that started the fire in the first place?
When she's sent to spend the summer with her grandparents in northern Minnesota while her sister recovers in the hospital, Maia discovers that...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
James Henry hasn’t been the same since that fateful night at the lighthouse when his momma went into the sea. Now months later, he is barely able to leave the house without having a panic attack, and talking to people, well, that’s just too hard. His feisty twin sister Hattie intervenes on his behalf again and again—protecting him from neighborhood bullies and an uncle who just wants him to snap out of it.
But it's 1939, and without a local...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
485 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A father's sudden disappearance exposes the private fears, dreams, longings, and joys of a Black American family in the late decades of the twentieth century, in this page-turning and intimate new novel from the author of The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls. It's a warm, bright October afternoon, and Ozro Armstead walks out into the brilliant sunshine on his thirty-seventh birthday. At home, his wife Deborah and daughter Trinity prepare...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
565 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hazel DeFord is a woman haunted by her past. While berry picking in a blackberry thicket in 1943, ten-year old Hazel momentarily turns her back on her three-year old sister Maggie and the young girl disappears. Almost seventy years later, the mystery remains unsolved, and the secret guilt Hazel carries has alienated her from her daughter Diane, who can't understand her mother's overprotectiveness and near paranoia. While Diane resents her mother's...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
177 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ruminating on his past relationships with the men in his family, New York city theater critic Yedidyah is assigned to cover the murder trial of a German expatriate whose enigmatic plea triggers Yedidyah's own revelations.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
351p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
On the hottest day in 1935, and on the brink of a world war, three children lose their innocence as the sweltering summer heat bears down and their lives are changed forever. Cecilia Tallis is of England's privileged class; Robbie Turner is the housekeeper's son. In their moment of intimate surrender, they are interrupted by Cecilia's hyper-imaginative and scheming 13-year-old sister, Briony. As chaos consumes the family, Briony commits a crime, the...
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