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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...
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
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
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Popular parenting expert Dr. Laura Markham, author of PEACEFUL PARENTS, HAPPY SIBLINGS, has garnered a large and loyal readership around the world, thanks to her simple, insightful approach that values the emotional bond between parent and child. As any parent of more than one child knows, though, it’s challenging for even the most engaged parent to maintain harmony and a strong connection when competition, tempers, and irritation run...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lindy finds a ventriloquist's dummy and has fun learning to make him move and talk. Kris is jealous, and decides to get a dummy of her own. Then nasty evil things begin to happen. No way can a dummy be causing all the trouble. Or can it?
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
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...
Author
Publisher
POW!
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Although Little Brother and Big Brother have fun playing together in the climbing tree, Little Brother is disappointed that Big Brother always gets to go higher than him and play the most important parts in their make-believe world. Will the two ever be able to share the same space?"--Provided by publisher.
13) Lift
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Young Iris loves elevators. She especially loves when her parents let her push the button. However, her relationship to elevators--and to her little brother--changes when he starts pushing the buttons.
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
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
Fudge books volume 1
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2002, c1972
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
120 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever-increasing problem.
17) 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...
18) Twins: bk. 1
Author
Series
Twins volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
247 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Maureen and Francine Carter are twins and best friends. They participate in the same clubs, enjoy the same foods, and are partners on all their school projects. But just before the girls start sixth grade, Francine becomes Fran -- a girl who wants to join the chorus, run for class president, and dress in fashionable outfits that set her apart from Maureen. A girl who seems happy to share only two classes with her sister! Maureen and Francine are...
Author
Series
Iris and Walter volume 3
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
44 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Iris's baby sister Rose is a very, very fussy baby, and Grandpa takes Iris out for a special day without the baby.
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.
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