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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment's flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of World War!! and into the close of the twentieth century.
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Cat Who mysteries volume 29
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Moose County, 400 miles north of everywhere, is in an uproar (good and bad) follwoing vast inheritances from wealthy old families. Only "Cool Koko" knows what's happening ... and he's not telling. Jim Qwilleran thinks it's because he has more whiskers than ordinary cats, but who's counting?"--Publisher website (March 2007).
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Cat Who mysteries volume 28
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While the residents of Pickax eagerly await a festival celebrating the 150th anniversary of the town's founding, newspaper columnist James Qwilleran must entertain Harvey Ledfield, an aspiring architect. Strange occurrences seem to follow Harvey around. Koko, the Siamese cat, leaps on his head, a knitter predicts murder, and a woman comes from California to leave a message for Qwill. It's up to Koko to help Qwill piece the clues together. -- from...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When the Cuthberts adopt a child, they expect a boy. To their surprise, an imaginative, impulsive red-haired girl arrives instead. Green Gables will never be the same again. Join Anne on her many adventures on Prince Edward Island in this much-loved story from Lucy Maud Montgomery. Presented in a beautiful slipcase edition featuring brand-new illustrations by Luisa Uribe, this classic tale of mischief, romance, and friendship is sure to delight readers...
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Cat Who mysteries volume 27
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The people of Pickax are in a state of eager anticipation. The Pirate's Chest, the long-awaited new bookstore, is finally set to open, and the Theatre Club is preparing to perform Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. However, the play is brought to an abrupt halt as a cast member is killed in a car accident. But was it really an accident? As suspicions rise, Qwill and his sleuthing Siamese cats have their work cut out for them.
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English
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"In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Texas. 1921: A time of abundance. Elsa Wolcott meets Rafe Martinelli and changes the direction of her life. Her only choice: marriage to a man she barely knows. 1934: Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. Elsa Martinelli, like so many of her neighbors, must make an agonizing...
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English
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This novel begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the expensive world she knows in New York City, sublet her apartment, and move to a small, inexpensive cabin in the country, where her life falls into a quieter rhythm. There...
10) The lost man
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English
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Two brothers meet at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. In an isolated belt of Western Australia, they are each other's nearest neighbor, their homes four hours' drive apart. The third brother lies dead at their feet. Something caused Cam, the middle child who had been in charge of the family homestead, to die alone in the middle of nowhere. So the eldest brother returns with his younger sibling to the family...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils, Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town's council...
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Series
Sam Levitt mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
℗2009
Language
English
Description
Danny Roth, a Los Angeles entertainment lawyer, is preparing to show off his impressive home and even more impressive wine collection. However, when the Los Angeles Times expresses interest in profiling Roth's liquid assets, several rare bottles are inexplicably purloined. Consequently, Sam Levitt, a wine connoisseur and part-time sleuth, is called to uncover the identity of the thief and soon finds himself in France, taking on an unconventional billionaire...
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