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"At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril's son Danny, as he and his older...
Author
Language
English
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Camille Lammenais has grown up in the beauty of the Napa Valley, surrounded by acres of her family’s vineyards. Her parents, Christophe and Joy, still deeply in love after two decades of marriage, have built a renowned winery and château modeled after Christophe’s ancient family estate in his native Bordeaux. Camille has had a perfect childhood, safe in her parents’ love. After graduating from Stanford, she returns to help manage Château Joy,...
4) The island
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they're deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry,...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty — the opposite of the life she's left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she'd become, but elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy's daughter,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1810, Lucy Bluecrowne, twelve, is bored living ashore with her stepmother and half-brother until two nefarious strangers identify her little brother as the pyrotechnical prodigy they need for their evil plan.
Author
Publisher
Five Spot
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
vi, 410 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Which child would you save? A decision no parent can even fathom. Eliot Gordon would do anything for her family. A 38-year-old working mother, she lives an ordinary but fulfilling life in suburban Atlanta with her partner, Grant Delaney, and their three daughters. The two older girls are actually Eliot's stepdaughters, a distinction she is reluctant to make as she valiantly attempts to maintain a safe, happy household . . . Then Finn Montgomery, Eliot's...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
278, [1] p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Raised by peasants, Bella discovers that she is actually the daughter of a knight and finds herself caught up in a terrible plot that will change her life and the kingdom forever.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Eight-year-old Cassie Witting is upset when she finds out that her mother, Sarah, is expecting a baby, but writing in the journal that belonged to her brother Caleb helps her sort out her feelings and understand that Sarah will always love her.
12) Blancanieves
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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None
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Hated by her evil stepmother, a young girl learns the art of bullfighting from her father and runs away with a troupe of dwarves to become a legendary matador.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
332 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Maggie Holloway arrives at the home of her long-lost stepmother Nuala, only to the find the older woman dead. During a visit to the cemetery, Maggie, a professional photographer, notices something is amiss and finds herself the target of a sinister money-bilking plot.
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