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1) The other
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
Description
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes a coming-of-age novel about two different visions of what it means to live a good life and the compromises that come with the search for fulfillment. • “Gorgeous, haunting…. A deeply considered tragedy of social alienation and hubris.” —The Washington Post Book World
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2) Songbird
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English
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It is 1078. As a woman who is young and vibrant grows older, she experiences both great love and terrible pain, only to find herself in isolation, having deserted everything she cares for.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just hours away, Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions—a message that will touch off a vicious legal battle and transform dozens of lives.
Because Troy Phelan’s new will names a sole surprise heir to his eleven-billion-dollar fortune: a...
Because Troy Phelan’s new will names a sole surprise heir to his eleven-billion-dollar fortune: a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
After Morris Bellamy discovers that notebooks and money belonging to his favorite author were taken by Pete Saubers, only Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson can rescue the Saubers family from the deranged and vengeful criminal.
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Series
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English
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In his newest heart-pounding suspense novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind introduces the world to his most unforgettable and deadly character yet.
Angela Constantine is a girl born broken.
When Angela was young, before she came to realize she had a rare ability, she was a rather ordinary girl. At least, that was what everyone said. But Angela is anything but ordinary. The daughter of a meth addict, she is convinced she was...
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Girls comes this chilling, harrowing thriller set in rural Vermont about a recluse who believes the young girl he's found in the woods is the reincarnation of his missing daughter, returned to help him solve her and his wife's disappearance. I won't say a word. Cross my heart and hope to die… Jonah Baum, a professor of poetry at a local college in Vermont, sees his ordinary life come tumbling...
10) Touchstone
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Series
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English
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Left with an extraordinary sensitivity that allows him to determine the lies and deceptions of everyday life with a mere touch after the Great War, Bennett Grey lives a reclusive life until he is called in by the British government to find a terrorist.
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Doubleday Canada
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English
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Ruth Rendell's latest psychological thriller. When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites everyone in his building. The party will be one everyone remembers, but not for the right reasons. Living opposite in reclusive isolation is a young, beautiful Asian woman christened Tigerlily by Stuart. As though from some strange urban fairytale, she emerges to exert a terrible spell on the occupants of Lichfield House....
14) Unsettled ground
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English
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"Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At fifty-one years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. But when Dot dies suddenly, threats start raining down. Jeanie and Julius would do anything to preserve their small sanctuary against the perils of the outside world, even as their mother's secrets begin to unravel, putting everything they thought they knew about their lives at stake"--Publisher....
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English
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"Sally Diamond is a reclusive middle-aged woman who is thrust into the spotlight when she tries to incinerate her dead father's body. As tabloid and news reporters descend on her, Sally starts receiving mysterious messages from across the globe -- all from someone purporting to know about her past. But Sally can't remember anything from her childhood... that is, until dark memories and figures begin reappearing."-- Provided by publisher.
16) The love scribe
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English
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While trying to harness her extraordinary gift--the ability to write stories that make others fall in love--Alice is summoned to the estate of the reclusive Madeline Alger and her mysterious library where she is faced with her most challenging assignment yet, one that forces her to confront her own guarded heart.
17) The long Earth
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Language
English
Description
Finally finding the mecca of isolation in a distant region known as the High Meggas, Larry Lynsey, a recluse who is aggressively protective of his singular solitude, finds his quiet existence shattered by the arrival of two accidental tourists and will do everything in his power to make them leave.
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Series
Deverill chronicles volume 5
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English
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Margot Hart acquires a nine-month residency at Castle Deverill in Ireland--now a hotel. But to write her biography of the Deverill family, she must talk to the current Lord Deverill, JP, who is a well-known recluse. She becomes close to JP and is drawn into his family disagreements. Taking the blame for the debts that required him to sell the family castle, JP is alone. With the help of his son Colm, Margot might have to restore JP's fortune and rediscover...
19) No way out
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English
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"Ellie Bowman barely remembers the incident that put her into a coma. When she awoke, filled with unease, all she knew for certain was that her boyfriend, Rick, was missing. She knew she needed to get away from her old life and recover in safety. Ellie starts over in rural Missouri, working from her cottage and trusting no one except her business partner. But when Ellie hears that Rick has resurfaced, her nightmares return, and with them, small snippets...
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Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada
Language
English
Description
Ivory Frame, now in her nineties, is the famously reclusive painter. She has never married, never had a family, never had a child. So when a letter arrives disclosing that she has a grand daughter living in New York, her world is turned upside down and the past is brought painfully to life. Emotionally charged, this novel is about love and grief and art and the realization that, like tragedy, the best things in life arrive out of the blue.
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