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21) One true thing
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A New York psychiatrist recounts her mother's death for which she was arrested. At the time, Dr. Ellen Gulden was accused of killing her mother with an overdose of morphine, a charge in part based on a high school essay in which she advocated euthanasia. By the author of Object Lessons.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
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"My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and I was born. Instead, they returned to Ireland when I was four ... When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the...
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"Trevor McKinney, a twelve-year-old boy in a small California town, accepts his teacher's challenge to earn extra credit by coming up with a plan to change the world. His idea is simple: do a good deed for three people and instead of asking them to return the favor, ask them to 'pay it forward' to three others who need help"--
25) Heartbreaker
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Agent Nick Buchanan works against the clock to discover the identity of a murderer who has already revealed the name of his next victim.
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Wheeler Pub
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[1994]
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In 19th Century London, a wealthy young widow likes to play matchmaker, arranging evenings between widows and eligible men, then exposing the men so they have to marry. A certain bachelor decides to play a trick by seducing her, then proposing, knowing well she will say no, thus showing up her to ridicule: one rule for men, another for women. It happens too, but there's a twist.
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Opinion is divided in a village in the English Cotswolds to a company's request to bottle water from the village spring. One side sees economic benefits, the other a degraded environment. When the council chairman who was to make a decision is murdered, sleuth Agatha Raisin goes to work.
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