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1) Warlight
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Decades after World War II, Nathaniel Williams reflects on his experiences in 1945, when his parents left him and his sister in the care of a mysterious neighbor.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Discovering an abandoned newborn while working behind the tenement houses of late-nineteenth-century New York, Sylvan finds his life intertwined with that of a sideshow performer's daughter and a woman wrongly trapped in a lunatic asylum.
7) Virgin River
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arriving in the remote mountain town of Virgin River in response to an ad, recently widowed Melinda realizes that she has made a mistake, until she finds an abandoned baby on her porch and lets a former Marine into her heart.
8) The match
Author
Series
Wilde volume 2
Language
English
Description
Harlan Coben returns to Wilde, the man with a past shrouded in mystery who appeared one day in the Ramapo Mountains with no memory of how he got there or the mother and father who abandoned him. Wilde uncovers a major break in the case that may hold the key to revealing the truth of his origins. But the discovery links him with a present-day disappearance and presumed suicide that is much more than at first it appears.
Wilde has grown up knowing...
9) Brother Odd
Author
Series
Odd Thomas volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Leaving the small desert town where he has spent his life, Odd Thomas, a hero who lives between the living and the dead, seeks the solitude of an isolated monastery, but he soon finds himself confronting a killer stalking his sanctuary's halls.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"True crime writer Wylie Lark doesn’t mind being snowed in at the isolated farmhouse where she’s retreated to write her new book. A cozy fire, complete silence. It would be perfect, if not for the fact that decades earlier, at this very house, two people were murdered in cold blood and a girl disappeared without a trace. As the storm worsens, Wylie finds herself trapped inside the house, haunted by the secrets contained within its walls—haunted...
12) Girl on fire
Author
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
215 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author and 15-time GRAMMY® Award-winning artist Alicia Keys comes a new authentic and poignant coming-of-age young adult graphic novel, about finding the strength within when your whole world changes in an instant. Lolo Wright always thought she was just a regular fourteen-year-old dealing with regular family drama: her brother, James, is struggling with his studies; her dad's business constantly teeters on the edge...