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1) Cinder
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl... Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai's,...
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In this story loosely based on the Cinderella fairy tale, Gisela is determined to get an invitation to the ball being thrown for the duke's son, Valten, but meeting him may not lead to her happily-ever-after.
3) White noise
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chairman of the department of Hitler studies at a Midwestern college, Jack Gladney is accidently exposed to a cloud of noxious chemicals, part of a world of the future that is doomed because of misused technology, artifical products and foods, and overpopulation.
Author
Language
English
Description
Wes Carver returns to his hometown — Black River, Montana — with two things: his wife’s ashes and a letter from the parole board. The convict who once held him hostage during a prison riot is up for release. For years, Wes earned his living as a corrections officer and found his joy playing the fiddle. But the riot shook Wes’s faith and robbed him of his music; now he must decide if his attacker should walk free.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly -- thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Bestseller
What if the person you need the most is someone you’ve never met?
Funny and romantic, this tug-at-your-heartstrings contemporary YA debut is perfect for readers of Rainbow Rowell, Jennifer Niven, and E. Lockhart.
Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that’s what it feels like during her first week as a junior at her new ultra-intimidating...
What if the person you need the most is someone you’ve never met?
Funny and romantic, this tug-at-your-heartstrings contemporary YA debut is perfect for readers of Rainbow Rowell, Jennifer Niven, and E. Lockhart.
Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that’s what it feels like during her first week as a junior at her new ultra-intimidating...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
431 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson’s disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent on his family. His step-children, Coomy and Jal, have a spacious apartment (in the inaptly named Chateau Felicity), but are too squeamish and resentful to tend to his physical needs. Nariman must now turn to his younger daughter, Roxana, her husband, Yezad, and their two sons, who share a small, crowded home....
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years ago Vida Avery arrived alone and pregnant at elite Fayer Academy. By living on campus, on an island off the New England coast, Vida has cocooned herself and her son, Peter, from the outside world and from an inside secret. For years she has lived largely through the books she teaches, but when she accepts the impulsive marriage proposal of ardent widower Tom Belou, the prescribed life Vida has constructed is swiftly dismantled. As Vida...
10) After Anna
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Noah Alderman, a widower and single father, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie Ippolitti, and for the first time in a long time, he and his young son are happy. Despite her longing for the daughter she hasn’t seen since she was a baby, Maggie is happy too, and she’s even more overjoyed when she unexpectedly gets another chance to be a mother to the child she thought she'd lost forever, her only daughter Anna. Maggie and Noah know that...
Author
Series
Maren and Jake volume 2
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
297 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's been more than a decade since Maren Griffin turned down Jake Jantsen's marriage proposal. Now, twelve years later, Maren and Jake have another chance at life and love. But they know the road ahead will not be easy. Maren is still recovering from an abusive marriage to a volatile man who continues to want her back, and Jake's ex-wife has just abandoned her children for the second time. To add to their difficulties, one of Jake's children is violently...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
viii, 341 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Doug Parker is a widower at age twenty-nine, and in his quiet suburban town, that makes him something of a celebrity--the object of sympathy, curiosity, and, in some cases, unbridled desire. But Doug has other things on his mind. First there's his sixteen year-old stepson, Russ: a once-sweet kid who now is getting into increasingly serious trouble on a daily basis. Then there are Doug's sisters: his bossy twin, Clair, who's just left he husband and...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Alison Shaw may not be beautiful, but she doesnt́ really care: Shed́ much rather read a good book than primp in front of a mirror anyway. But Alisonś gorgeous mother, Risa, knows that beauty can be a key to success and wishes only the best for her daughter, especially when Risa marries a widowed plastic surgeon and moves Alison from Santa Monica to Bel Air. Beauty may be only skin deep, but to the denizens of Bel Air it means the...
14) 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...
Author
Series
Highland falls volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
461 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Can the magic of mistletoe bring together two busy single parents? Mallory Maitland knows all too well what it's like to feel abandoned, which is why she's sworn never to give up on her two stepsons -- her late husband's children. But when the teens land in hot water, she's got a whole new problem: how to resist the caring and incredibly hot Chief of Police Gabriel Buchanan. All Mallory wants is to give the boys a magical holiday. She doesn't need...
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