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Author
Series
Winter Street volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A family Christmas gathering at Kelley Quinn's Nantucket inn is thrown into turmoil by his four adult children's personal dramas and the discovery of his second wife's infidelity.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
84) A sudden light
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When a boy tries to save his parents' marriage, he uncovers a legacy of family secrets in a coming-of-age ghost story by the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon, The Art of Racing in the Rain. In the summer of 1990, fourteen-year-old Trevor Riddell gets his first glimpse of Riddell House. Built from the spoils of a massive timber fortune, the legendary family mansion is constructed of giant, whole trees, and is set on a huge estate...
Publisher
Columbia
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Hotel Transylvania, run by Dracula, is a unique, high-end resort catering only to the finest monsters and their families. Dracula is preparing for an extra special weekend - his daughter Mavis's 118th birthday - when trouble arises: a human has stumbled upon the resort for the first time ever! Even worse: the human has taken a liking to Mavis!.
"...lovely to look at."--New York Times.
"A fast, funny and wildly inventive animated tale..."--Toronto...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Calla Lily enjoys a blissful childhood in La Luna, Louisiana, learning her mother's healing ways and experiencing the joys of new love, until Calla's heart is broken, prompting her to move to New Orleans, where she discovers her destiny and begins to fully understand her special powers.
Author
Series
Lola Levine volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Second-grader Lola has a wonderful family, a great teacher, and the best friend ever, Josh, and they all help her feel better after she is teased and forbidden to play team sports at recess for having accidentally hurt classmate Juan during a soccer game.
89) Everybody's fool
Author
Series
North Bath Trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, the Rust Belt town first brought to unforgettable life in Nobody’s Fool. • "Irresistible.... Very funny.... A joy." —The New York Times
Now, ten years later, Doug Raymer has become the chief of police and is tormented by the improbable death of his wife—not to mention his suspicion...
Now, ten years later, Doug Raymer has become the chief of police and is tormented by the improbable death of his wife—not to mention his suspicion...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
The author--tapped by Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine as the expert on this topic for a new generation of women--offers a revolutionary, real-world solution to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shouldered for too long. too long.
91) Under currents
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a novel about the power of family to harm--and to heal. Within the walls of a tasteful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, young Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers--and even Zane's own aunt across the lake--see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children's ballet recitals and baseball games. Zane and his...
92) Raju's ride
Author
Publisher
Dingles & Co
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Raju feels like he is missing out on everything, but her gets a big treat in the end.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
A novel set against the three decades of Afghanistan's history shaped by Soviet occupation, civil war, and the Taliban, which tells the stories of two women, Mariam and Laila, who grow close despite their nineteen-year age difference and initial rivalry as they suffer at the hand of a common enemy: their abusive husband.
94) Farmer Boy
Author
Series
Little House volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the end of the nineteenth century, nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State where he raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.
95) Eyes wide open
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A horrible family tragedy that may not be what it seems . . .
A past encounter with an infamous killer turns deadly today . . .
An ordinary man must risk his own family to find the truth.
Jay Erlich's nephew has been found at the bottom of a cliff at Morrow Bay. It's all just a tragic suicide, until secrets from the past begin to rear up again. Did a notorious killer, jailed for many decades, have his hand in this?
Years ago, Jay Erlich's older brother,...
Author
Series
Stink volume 6
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Second-grader Stink's parents tell him he must play a sport after he gets an unsatisfactory grade in physical education, and so he masters thumb wrestling, as seen on a sports channel.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Molly Arnette is very good at keeping secrets. She lives in San Diego with a husband she adores, and they are trying to adopt a baby because they can't have a child on their own. But the process of adoption brings to light many questions about Molly's past and her family-- the family she left behind in North Carolina twenty years before. The mother she says is dead but who is very much alive. The father she adored and whose death sent her running...
98) The abduction
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Theodore Boone uses his knowledge and skills to investigate the disappearance of his best friend, April, after police hit dead ends.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. Now, over twenty years later, her father has passed away and she's in New Bern, North Carolina cleaning out his house when she finds evidence to the contrary. Lisa is alive. Alive and living under a new identity. But why exactly was she on the run all those years ago, and what secrets are being kept now? As Riley works to uncover the truth,...
100) Caterpillar summer
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Since her father's death, Cat has taken care of her brother, Chicken, for their hardworking mother but while spending time with grandparents they never knew, Cat has the chance to be a child again.
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