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The Delaney family loved one another dearly--it's just that sometimes they want to murder each other...If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect is your father? This is dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings. The Delaney's are fixtures in the community. The parents Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. They are killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry are palpable....
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"World War II has ended and American women are shedding their old clothes for the gorgeous new styles. Voluminous layers of taffeta and tulle, wasp waists, and beautiful colors, all so welcome after years of sensible styles and strict rationing. Jeanne Brink and her sister Peggy both had to weather every tragedy the war had to offer: Jeanne without the fianc©♭ she's counted on, Peggy now a widowed mother, both living with Peggy's mother-in-law...
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"Cal has always lived in the shadow of his brother Frank, a complicated narcissist who was doted upon by their mother and beloved by the girls in their hometown--including Cal's own girlfriends. In an attempt to escape Frank's insidious presence, Cal pursues a different kind of freedom in the world's wild spaces, prospecting for gold and precious minerals everywhere from the heat of the desert at the Mexican border to the Alaskan chill to the suffocating...
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Mermaid tales volume 10
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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95 pages : ill., map ; 19 cm.
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Echo Reef is tail-flipping with excitement when she find a human object. But when her older sister claims the object for her own, how far will Echo go to reclaim it?
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Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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Tiring of a newborn sibling who demands all her busy mother's attention, Ruby gets bored with endless solo activities and imagines creative ways to make her baby brother disappear, adventures that become so much fun that she decides to tag along.
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Rotten Richie tales volume 1
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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After losing running, climbing, throwing, and burping competitions to her obnoxious older brother, a young girl makes a wish on a falling star.
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Clementine volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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Third-grader Clementine tries to adjust to the news that her perfect family of four is adding a new brother or sister.
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Chester Raccoon (Picture books) volume 2
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
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Chester Raccoon is worried that his mother does not have enough love for both him and his new baby brother.
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"One of the most compelling novels I've read in a long time." -Eowyn Ivey
"Shares the trail with the likes of Edward Abbey, Cormac McCarthy, and Larry McMurtry." -Craig Johnson, best-selling author of the Walt Longmire Mysteries, the basis for the hit show Longmire
When Silas Van Loy flees home on horseback to avoid capture for his brother's murder, he is followed by both the police and his brother's wife, Lena, who is intent on exacting...
16) Stardust
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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A girl who is always outshone by her older sister is comforted by her grandfather, who reminds her that everything and everyone is made of stardust that shines in all different ways.
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Pendergast novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2006
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454 p. ; 24 cm.
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The Museum of Natural History receives back a pilfered gem collection, which has been ground to dust. To quell the PR nightmare the museum decides to reopen the Tomb of Senef; that's when the killings and talk of ancient curse start. FBI agent Pendergast is pitted against his brilliant, psychotic brother Diogenes.
19) Lift
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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From the award-winning and bestselling creators of Drawn Together comes the fantastic tale of a magical elevator that will lift your spirits--and press all the right buttons! Iris loves to push the elevator buttons in her apartment building, but when it's time to share the fun with a new member of the family, she's pretty put out. That is, until the sudden appearance of a mysterious new button opens up entire realms of possibility, places where she...
20) East of Eden
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Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
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601 p. ; 22 cm.
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The biblical account of Cain and Abel is echoed in the history of two generations of the Trask family in California.
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