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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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-- Us Weekly), The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is “Tinseltown drama at its finest” (Redbook): a mesmerizing journey through the splendor of old Hollywood into the harsh realities of the present day as two women struggle with what it means—and what it costs—to face the truth.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Now with a new look celebrating 20 years of Nicholas Sparks! Divorced and disillusioned about relationships, Theresa Osborne is jogging when she finds a bottle on the beach. Inside is a letter of love and longing to "Catherine," signed simply "Garrett." Challenged by the mystery and pulled by emotions she doesn't fully understand, Theresa begins a search for this man that will change her life. What happens to her is unexpected, perhaps miraculous-an...
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Practical magic novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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-- New York Times For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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He calls himself Alvin Limardo, and the job he has for Kinsey is cut-and-dried: locate a kid who’s done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000. Stiffed for the retainer, Kinsey finds out Limardo’s real name is John Daggett… ex-con, ex-liar-, ex-alchy, currently dead. The cops call it an accident but Kinsey differs. Look at his life! A lot of people hated him, from much-abused wives, to drug dealers out big money, to the families of five...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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This Pulitzer Prize–winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers, but they will soon meet their own downfall. Hard times come upon Wang Lung and his family when flood and drought force them to seek work...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"Ms. Grafton writes a smart story and wraps it up with a wry twist." - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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When Kinsey Millhone answers her office door late one night, she lets in more darkness than she realizes. Janice Kepler is a grieving mother who can’t let the death of her beautiful daughter Lorna alone. The police agree that Lorna was murdered, but a suspect was never apprehended and the trail is now ten months cold. Kinsey pieces together Lorna’s young life: a dull day job a the local water treatment plant spiced by sidelines in prostitution...
9) Oathbringer
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Stormlight archive volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 69
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English
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The eagerly awaited sequel to the number one New York TimesOathbringer, the third audio book in the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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"The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center--a women's reproductive health services clinic--its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.'As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash. Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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-- Nine-year-old Oskar Schell embarks on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts of an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey. With...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 26
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English
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-- New York Times -- The Orphan Master’s Son -- Named ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by more than a dozen publications, including -- —Pulitzer Prize citation “Mr. Johnson has written a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea, but one that also excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “Rich with a sense...
17) Supermarket
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"A stunning debut novel from one of the most creative voices of our generation, Bobby Hall--a.k.a. Logic. Flynn is stuck--depressed, recently dumped, and living at his mom's house. The supermarket was supposed to change all that. An ordinary job, routine hours, a steady check. Work isn't work when it's saving you from yourself. But things aren't quite as they seem in these aisles. Arriving to work one day to a crime scene, Flynn's world begins to...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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"From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine), comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley....
19) Circe: a novel
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child, not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Having set aside her own life in her support of her parents, husband, and children, Helen Knightly confronts the realities of the choices that were imposed upon her during a harrowing twenty-four-hour period of death and revelation.
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