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3) Tangerine
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Arriving in Tangier with her new husband, only to encounter the estranged best friend she has not seen in more than a year, Alice allows her friend to introduce her to the rhythms and culture of Morocco, but is quickly stifled by the woman's controlling nature.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Amy Whey is proud of her ordinary life and the simple pleasures that come with it--teaching diving lessons, baking cookies for new neighbors, helping her best friend, Charlotte, run their local book club. Her greatest joy is her family: her devoted professor husband, her spirited fifteen-year-old stepdaughter, her adorable infant son. And, of course, the steadfast and supportive Charlotte. But Amy's sweet, uncomplicated life begins to unravel when...
5) The Compound
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008.
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Eli, locked inside a radiation-proof compound built by his father to keep them safe following a nuclear attack, begins to question his future, as well as his father's grip on sanity as the family's situation steadily disintegrates over the course of six years.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
CIA agent Sophie Marx, working for a new intelligence unit disguised as a Los Angeles record company, Hit Parade, uncovers a shocking conspiracy when she sets out to investigate the assassinations of four agents who were killed while trying to control a Pakistani terrorist cell through bribery.
Author
Series
Remnant chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
"On the morning of her wedding, Princess Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive--and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deception abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets--even as she finds herself falling in love"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Simply told but deeply affecting, in the bestselling tradition of Alice McDermott and Tom Perrotta, this urgent novel unravels the heartrending yet unsentimental tale of a woman who kidnaps a baby in a superstore--and gets away with it for twenty-one years. Lucy Wakefield is a seemingly ordinary woman who does something extraordinary in a desperate moment: she takes a baby girl from a shopping cart and raises her as her own. It's a secret she manages...
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