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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him.
In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, Travis Boyette abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donté Drumm, a local football star,...
In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, Travis Boyette abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donté Drumm, a local football star,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
3) Every breath
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Nicholas Sparks returns with his signature combination of gripping, emotionally resonant storytelling and love overcoming all odds"-- Publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Sent to America at age nine with nothing but an old guitar, Frankie Presto achieves success on the mid-twentieth-century music scene before becoming overburdened by his ability to affect people's futures through his music.
5) Dear John
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When a rebel serving in the Army meets the girl of his dreams, he must face an impossible choice as a national tragedy forces them apart in this powerful New York Times bestseller.An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life—until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
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Taking a job as an assistant to extreme sports enthusiast Will, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident, Louisa struggles with her employer's acerbic moods and tries to demonstrate to him that life is still worth living.
7) The wedding
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Wilson Lewis, son-in-law to Noah and Allie ("The Notebook"), knows that the romance has gone out of his marriage. As he prepares for his daughter's wedding, he seeks a way to make his wife Jane fall in love with him again.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Alicia Berenson is a famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, living in a posh area of London. One evening, her husband Gabriel returns home late. Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
From the bestselling author comes an epic novel of love and war, spanning from the 1940s to the present day, and the secret lives of those who live in a small French town. Vivid and exquisite in its illumination of a time and place that was filled with great monstrosities, but also great humanity and strength, Kristin Hannah's novel will provoke thought and discussion that will have readers talking long after they turn the last page.
10) The litigators
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The incomparable master of the legal thriller takes us deeper into the labyrinth that is the justice system.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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"Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call...
12) The associate
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • If you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in The Firm, wait until you meet Kyle McAvoy, The Associate
Kyle McAvoy possesses an outstanding legal mind. Good-looking and affable, he has a glittering future. He also has a dark secret that could destroy his dreams, his career, even his life. One night that secret catches up with him. The men who accost Kyle have a compromising...
Kyle McAvoy possesses an outstanding legal mind. Good-looking and affable, he has a glittering future. He also has a dark secret that could destroy his dreams, his career, even his life. One night that secret catches up with him. The men who accost Kyle have a compromising...
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Big Stone Gap novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLER • Ave Maria starts a new chapter in this wise, powerful, and humorous novel, the fourth book in the beloved Big Stone Gap series
“[Adriana Trigiani is] one of the reigning queens of women’s fiction.”—USA Today
Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home for Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney and her...
“[Adriana Trigiani is] one of the reigning queens of women’s fiction.”—USA Today
Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home for Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney and her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In the ten years since 90 Minutes in Heaven was published, millions of people worldwide have read the incredible true story of Don Piper's experience with death and life--and in reading they have found their own lives changed. After a semi-truck collided with Don Piper's car, he was pronounced dead at the scene. For the next ninety minutes, he experienced the glories of heaven. Back on earth, a passing minister felt led to stop and pray for the accident...
15) Camino Island
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Series
Camino Island novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A delightfully lighthearted caper . . . [a] fast-moving, entertaining tale.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, impossible to resist.
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of...
A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, impossible to resist.
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Commonwealth is the story of two broken families and the paths their lives take over the course of 40 years, through love and marriage, death and divorce, and a dark secret from childhood that lies underneath it all"-- Publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Discover two extraordinary romantic stories about the power of a life-changing love letter.
Have you ever gotten a letter that changed your life completely? Sam's Letters to Jennifer is a novel about that kind of drama. In it, a woman is summoned back to the town where she grew up. And in the house where she spent her most magical years she finds a series of letters addressed to her. Each of those letters is a piece of a story...
Have you ever gotten a letter that changed your life completely? Sam's Letters to Jennifer is a novel about that kind of drama. In it, a woman is summoned back to the town where she grew up. And in the house where she spent her most magical years she finds a series of letters addressed to her. Each of those letters is a piece of a story...
19) Two by two
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
The seemingly charmed life of a Charlotte family man abruptly tumbles around him, leaving him an unemployed single father who embarks on a new reality that tests his skills and emotional resources beyond his imagining.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill.
This riveting collection of short stories features an unforgettable cast of characters: Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons embark on a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit Inez’s youngest son,...
This riveting collection of short stories features an unforgettable cast of characters: Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons embark on a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit Inez’s youngest son,...
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