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181) Table for five
Author
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
391 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sometimes it takes a leap of faith in order to soar . . . A gifted teacher, Lily Robinson adores her students, but fiercely guards her independent lifestyle. Deep inside, she is afraid of loving too deeply for fear of getting hurt. Only her best friend, Crystal, has ever been able to get close. Now an unthinkable tragedy has drawn Lily into the shattered lives of Crystal's family -- a family that suddenly needs her. Sean McGuire is a rolling stone...
182) Paint the wind
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
183) The hundredth queen
Author
Series
Hundredth queen volume 1
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (10 hrs. 9 mins.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As an orphan ward of the Sisterhood in the ancient Tarachand Empire, eighteen-year-old Kalinda is destined for nothing more than a life of seclusion and prayer. Plagued by fevers, she's an unlikely candidate for even a servant's position, let alone a courtesan or wife. Her sole dream is to continue living in peace in the Sisterhood's mountain temple. But a visit from the tyrant Rajah Tarek disrupts Kalinda's life. Within hours, she is ripped from...
184) Gallant
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Olivia Prior has grown up at the grim Merilance School for Girls with no no past except for her one treasure, her mother's journal, so when a letter arrives inviting her to come home to ruinous manor, Gallant, she seizes the chance to find out about her family.
Author
Publisher
Barns & Noble Books
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
ix, 850 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Oliver Twist: As a young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But, Oliver is not content to be a thief for he knows that life holds great joys and that true happiness cannot be stolen, but must be earned.
A tale of two cities: A doctor, unjustly imprisoned in Paris before the French Revolution, is rescued and reunited with his daughter in London. She is...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
431 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"His Crow name was Crazy Wolf. Orphaned after losing his family in an Indian attack, young Cody Hunter found a loving home among the Crow people -- and learned the ancient ways of the Crow trackers. His well-honed skills earned him a place in the U.S. Army as a valued scout. But now, after fifteen years of living his life as Crazy Wolf, Cody is ready to face his painful past. He will return to the place that still gives him nightmares -- and where...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canterbury Classics
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xvii, 912 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Overview: He wrote stories of chance and peril, pirates and buried gold. He told tales of good and evil, of men struggling with the darkest parts of their souls. Acclaimed Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson was a master whose works offer compelling insight into our hearts and minds. His novels should be studied and treasured, kept in every home library. Featuring the full texts of Treasure Island, Prince Otto, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr....
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Forced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even suspect existed ... As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted a new name--The Nowhere Man--and a new mission, helping the most desperate in...
189) Dark roads
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For decades, people have been warned about the Cold Creek Highway. Hitchhikers have vanished along it over the years, and women have been known to have their cars break down ... and never be seen again. When Hailey McBride decides to run away from an unbearable living situation, she thinks that her outdoor skills will help her disappear into the Cold Creek wilderness, and she counts on people thinking that she was the victim of the killer. One year...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Time is running out for the Peculiar Children. With a dangerous madman on the loose and their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom are forced to stage the most daring of rescue missions. They'll travel through a war-torn landscape, meet new allies, and face greater dangers than ever. Features over 50 new Peculiar photographs.
192) Sangre azul
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Londres, 1943. Las bombas caen sobre la ciudad y el rey y la reina deciden enviar a su hija menor a vivir en el campo con una familia de confianza. Tercera en la línea de sucesión al trono, la princesa Charlotte, de diecisiete años, acepta a regañadientes usar un nombre falso a su llegada a Yorkshire.
Pronto, Charlotte empieza a disfrutar de su nueva libertad y de su pasión por los caballos, y comienza a sentirse atraída por el hijo de sus protectores....
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (11.75 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"In 1931 England, Astra Davies defies all the conventions. Clever, witty, and determined, she smokes, drinks, plays a mean piano, and gallivants around London with her beloved Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. But she finds herself in a tight spot when her parents die suddenly, leaving her with a raft of debts. With few marketable skills and a closet full of family secrets, she has two choices: find a rich husband or make her own way. A fiercely driven...
194) Hawk: bk. 1
Author
Series
Hawk volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maximum Ride's seventeen-year-old daughter, Hawk, is living under the radar in post-apocalyptic New York City until a destiny that is perilously close to her mother's forces her to take flight.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At the break of dawn, Caroline Shelby rolls into Oysterville, Washington, a tiny hamlet at the edge of the raging Pacific. She's come home. Home to a place she thought she'd left forever, home of her heart and memories, but not her future. Ten years ago, Caroline launched a career in the glamorous fashion world of Manhattan. But her success in New York imploded on a wave of scandal and tragedy, forcing her to flee to the only safe place she knows....
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mags was an orphan who had slaved in a gem mine for all his young life. Found in a bandit camp when he was an infant, he was taken in by Cole Pieters, who owned the mine. Pieters constantly told him that he had 'bad blood' and would never amount to anything. Had he not been Chosen by his Companion, Dallen, and taken to Haven to be trained in the new Herald Collegium, he probably would have died before he reached adulthood. Now, Mags was never hungry...
Author
Series
Shadowfell volume 1
Publisher
Ember
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
410 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Neryn is alone in the land of Alban, where the oppressive king has ordered anyone with magical strengths captured, but when she sets out for Shadowfell, a training ground for a rebel group, she meets a mysterious soldier and the Good Folk, who tell her that she, alone, can save Alban.
198) The innocents
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An orphaned brother and sister ... must fend for themselves on a remote fishing outpost in the late 1800s"--
Author
Series
Heralds of Valdemar volume 4
Publisher
Distributed by Penguin Putnam
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
351 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Skif, an orphan who is forced to sleep on the kitchen floor of his uncle's inn, has learned how to sneak into the castles of the upper class by dressing as a page so that he can steal enough food and drink to survive, but when he meets Deek, he decides to join his gang of pickpockets and start earning his living on the streets.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late 19th century Scotland Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven farm, Lizzie Craig discovers at a young age that she can see into the future. Her gift of sight is selective-she doesn't, for instance, see that she has an older sister who will come to join the family on her...
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