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2) East of Eden
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900s in Northern California.
Author
Series
New beginnings volume 1
Language
English
Description
The Palmer sisters couldn't be more different. Karen, the eldest, is the responsible one the one who got the grades, married the perfect guy, and has two wonderful, high-achieving children. Cassie is the rebellious one, who got pregnant right after high school and married the wrong man, despite her family's misgivings. And Nicole is a free, creative spirit, who's always been indulged and pampered as the baby of the family who could do no wrong. These...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Harper Frost is laid-back, easygoing. She doesn't care what anyone thinks of her. She likes a beer and a shot and wouldn't be caught dead wearing anything fashionable. She's inherited her father's rundown house on Martha's Vineyard, but she can't hold down a job, and her latest romantic disaster has the entire island talking. Tabitha Frost is dignified, refined. She prefers a fine wine and has inherited the impeccable taste of her mother, the iconic...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 6
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
451 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
FBI Special Agent Pendergast is pitted against his most personal foe: His brother, Diogenes, has planned a horrendous crime and is framing Pendergast for a series of terrible murders.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways... until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 7
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
454 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the New York Museum of Natural History prepares for the gala opening of an ancient Egyptian tomb, FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast sits in prison for a murder he did not commit and his psychotic brother lays the groundwork for his crowning criminal achievement.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a matter of days, Peter McDowell loses everything he has worked so hard for — his wealth, his property, his livelihood as a star investment banker. And then it gets worse. The stock market crash not only plunges Peter into joblessness, it causes a rift in his marriage that he cannot repair. Stripped of everything, he has only one place to retreat: a lakeside cottage he inherited from his parents, who left most of their modest estate to Peter’s...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cal has always lived in the shadow of his brother Frank, a complicated narcissist who was doted upon by their mother and beloved by the girls in their hometown--including Cal's own girlfriends. In an attempt to escape Frank's insidious presence, Cal pursues a different kind of freedom in the world's wild spaces, prospecting for gold and precious minerals everywhere from the heat of the desert at the Mexican border to the Alaskan chill to the suffocating...
10) Crazy blood
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
viii, 290 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Carson dynasty rules the ski resort town of Mammoth Lakes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Founded by patriarch Adam, the town is the site of the Mammoth Cup ski race-a qualifier for the Olympics. But when Wylie Welborn, Adam's illegitimate grandson, returns after a stint in Afghanistan, it reopens a dark moment in Carson family history: the murder of Wylie's father by his jealous and very pregnant wife, Cynthia. Her son Sky, born...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Big Son is a spirit of the times--the times being 1837. Behind his broad shoulders, shiny hair, and church-organ laugh, Big Son practically made Ohio City all by himself. The feats of this proto-superhero have earned him wonder and whiskey toasts but very little in the way of fortune. And without money, Big cannot become an honest husband to his beloved Cloe (who may or may not want to be his wife, honestly). In pursuit of a steady wage, our hero...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hank, Leland, Kip and Ronny were all born and raised in the same Wisconsin town -- Little Wing -- and are now coming into their own (or not) as husbands and fathers. One of them never left, still farming the family's land that's been tilled for generations. Others did leave, went farther afield to make good, with varying degrees of success; as a rock star, commodities trader, rodeo stud. And seamlessly woven into their patchwork is Beth, whose presence...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape-trying not just to survive but to find a home. Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them...
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