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2) The new kid
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Tales from Maple Ridge volume 6
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
121 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
"There's a new kid in Logan's one-room school house. He's quiet and has thick glasses and the other students are sure he's trouble. When a new book goes missing from the classroom's book shelf, accusations fly. Logan decides he must track down the book--with the help of his new friend--and teaches the class that there is always room for more in their small school house"--
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Life is hard for Ruby growing up in poverty on the wrong side of the mountain on her grandfather's farm where literally the sun didn't shine. The Appalachian setting isn't her friend as she searches for an easy life at the "tippy-top" with contentment and security. Two different men come into her life, one virtuous and the other rebellious. Ruby makes a series of bad decisions, causing her life to tumble into an unexpected outcome.
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"Flint Moran was fourteen years old when the Civil War ended. He was fifteen when his family bought a plot of land near Tinhorn, Texas. He was barely nineteen when he caught a pair of rustlers stealing cattle - and singlehandedly brought them to justice. How did a teenaged boy track down and capture two hardcase thieves without any help? That's what Tinhorn sheriff Buck Jackson wants to know. He can't help but be impressed by Flint's sharp eye and...
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
With only one shot at finding a husband before the ton discovers she's one of the triplet sisters hidden away from society, Miss Edwina Fine, when she receives a marriage proposal from the Duke of Stonerick, has no choice but to accept and no desire to deny the attraction between them.
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
307 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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"If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe...and the impossible is exactly what the formidable Captain Sharpe is asked to do when he's sent on an undercover mission to a small village in the Spanish countryside, far behind enemy lines. For the quiet, remote village, sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, is about to become the center of a battle for the future of Europe. Two French armies march towards the bridge, one from the North and...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 17 cm.
Description
Fleeing to her family home in Ireland after a devastating betrayal, Elise Lanscarr, when her stagecoach crashes in a storm, is rescued by a rough-looking, albeit handsome stranger, and finds this night is just the beginning of an unexpected, often dangerous, adventure which puts their hearts at risk.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"A sumptuous novel based on the fascinating true story of La Belle ©poque icon Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, who shattered the boundaries of fashion with her magnificently sensual and enchantingly unique designs. Lucy Duff Gordon knows she is talented. She sees color, light, and texture in ways few people can begin to imagine. But is the male dominated world of haute couture, who would use her art for their own gain, ready for her? When she is deserted...
Author
Series
Thunderbolt Club volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023].
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 17 cm
Description
Raised by an overprotective mother, bookish romantic Sandrine Oliver craves adventure, but nothing exciting ever happens in her sleepy seaside village. Until a handsome, mysterious stranger arrives and sweeps her off her feet…only to leave suddenly with no explanation. Lord Dane Walker, brother to the Duke of Rydell, is infamous for racing fast carriages and breaking hearts. But when his brother is mortally injured, Dane inherits the responsibilities...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"With the Great War finally behind them, thousands of civilians and business moguls alike flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay, they become the toast of the newly burgeoning society. Anna and Robert appear to have it all, but in a town like Miami, appearances can be deceiving, and one scandal can change everything....
11) The river run
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Series
Legend of Big Heart volume 3
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The River Run is the third installment in The Legend of Big Heart collection. To fulfill the government's policy to "destroy the Indian and save the man," Alfred Swallow and his friends Orson and Junior are forced to leave their families and homes to attend a residential mission school. The students' beautiful long hair is cut, and they are forbidden to speak their native language. Even the slightest infraction is severely punished. At the height...
12) It takes a rake
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Series
Rogues to lovers volume 3
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
"Since she was a girl, Miss Kitty Beckett has been adept at finding trouble: sneaking brandy, running away, and getting under the skin of the boy who, like her, was an apprentice to an architect. Now Kitty's a talented heiress who can take a dry building plan and breathe life into it with her pencils and paints. Also? She can spot a rake at a hundred yards--and she won't be tricked or charmed into marriage. Certainly not by a man who might interfere...
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Timekeepers volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"Traveling back to the 1889 World's Fair to witness the unveiling of the newly built Eiffel Tower, the Timekeepers discover DeLay is up to his old tricks and must stop him from changing the course of history"--
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Series
I survived volume 23
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
91 pages, unnumbered sequence of pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
The Great Alaska Earthquake is the largest and most powerful recorded earthquake in US history. Lauren Tarshis's story of one child surviving this terrifying natural disaster pounds with page-turning action and heartwarming hope. It was 1964 in the brand-new state of Alaska, a vast land of staggering beauty and heart-stopping dangers. Eleven-year-old Jack had grown up living happily with his parents in an off-the-grid cabin, miles from their closest...
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Synneful spinsters volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xii, 308 pages : map ; 18 cm
Description
"Iain MacInnes, Duke of Balgair, has spent the last thirteen years believing his wife is dead--until he receives word that she is very much alive and living under an assumed name on the remote Isle of Synne. He sets off with only one goal in mind: bring his wife back to Scotland where he can divorce her and expose her for the liar she is. After a devastating deception by the man who was supposed to love her, Seraphina did what was necessary to keep...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly--and dangerously--collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 18 cm
Description
When a wounded soldier and self-proclaimed "beast" finds unlikely friendship with a headstrong and unconventional beauty, they quickly find themselves weaving a tale as old as time... Despite a hero's return to England from the Napoleonic Wars, Wesley Audley isolates from the ton. Deep wounds from the horrors of combat--and the despair of a broken heart--left him scarred. As he struggles to cope and resume his place in Polite Society, Wesley is quick...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
395 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated Sage of Concord, to meet his coterie of enlightened friends. There she becomes “the radiant genius and fiery heart” of the Transcendentalists, a role model to a young Louisa May Alcott, an inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne and the scandalous Scarlet Letter, a friend to Henry David Thoreau...
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"Esther's family has always believed they were descended from a great, though scandalously underappreciated Impressionist-era artist. But when questions arise about her ancestor's greatest work--The Lady with the Dark Hair--her once-solid family history rests on shaky ground as a search for the truth begins"--
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
519 pages ; 23 cm.
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A fictionalized account of the professional life of Frances Perkins, who served as the United States's fourth Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945--the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet and the developer of the social security program.
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