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Simon & Schuster
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English
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"When a boy tries to save his parents' marriage, he uncovers a legacy of family secrets in a coming-of-age ghost story by the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon, The Art of Racing in the Rain. In the summer of 1990, fourteen-year-old Trevor Riddell gets his first glimpse of Riddell House. Built from the spoils of a massive timber fortune, the legendary family mansion is constructed of giant, whole trees, and is set on a huge estate...
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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.
3) Hurry home
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English
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Alexandra Van Ness has the perfect life. But when her long-lost sister, Ruth, unexpectedly shows up at her door asking for help, Alex's perfect life is upended. Their relationship is fraught with hurts and regrets from their childhood that bind them to silence, but they can't outrun them forever. When a local child is in danger, Alex becomes very involved and the secrets from long ago come back to haunt her with terrible consequences for everyone....
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Christopher's diary (V.C. Andrews) volume 3
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Gallery Books
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English
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A retelling of the events from the "Flowers in the Attic" series from another perspective follows the experiences of a boy who, after being adopted by a wealthy family, struggles with amnesia and trauma from his past.
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Simon & Schuster
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English
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"What if you started to see the people you've known your whole life-your family-as strangers? After the death of their absentee father, Aaron and Bridge Quinlan travel to a vast rainforest property in the Pacific Northwest to hear the reading of his will. There, they meet up with their mother and troubled sister, Franny, and are shocked to discover the will's terms: in order to claim their inheritance they must remain at the estate for thirty days...
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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...
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"From the #1 internationally bestselling author, her first book set in America, the story of a mother and daughter searching for love and happiness, unaware of the secrets that bind them. To find what they are longing for they must confront the past, and unravel the lies told long ago. England, 1932: Grace Hamblin is growing up on the beautiful estate of the Marquess and Marchioness of Penselwood. The beekeeper's daughter, she knows her place and...
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Simon & Schuster
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English
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"Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to "America's Playground" and move into the apartment above their bakery. The apartment is where they raised their two daughters, Fannie and Florence,and, despite the cramped quarters, it still feels like home. Now Florence has returned from college, determined to spend the summer training to swim the English Channel, and Fannie, pregnant again...
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Simon & Schuster
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English
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Growing up on her family's Sonoma vineyard, Georgia Ford learned some important secrets. The secret number of grapes it takes to make a bottle of wine: eight hundred. The secret ingredient in her mother's lasagna: chocolate. The secret behind ending a fight: hold hands. But just a week before her wedding, thirty-year-old Georgia discovers her beloved fiance has been keeping a secret so explosive, it will change their lives forever. Georgia does what...
10) I'll never tell
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Simon & Schuster
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English
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After the sudden death of their parents, the MacAllister children return to the run-down summer camp where they spent their childhood. Over the course of the Labour Day weekend, the siblings must determine what to do with the property, now worth millions. But a stunning condition of their father's will compels them to face their past - and come to a decision that threatens to tear them apart forever.
11) Magic lessons
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Simon & Schuster
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English
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In the 1600s, under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the "Unnamed Arts." Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. It is here that she learns her first important lesson: always love someone who will love you back. When Maria is abandoned by the man who has declared his love for her, she follows him to Salem, Massachusetts. Here she invokes the curse that will haunt her family. And it is here that she...
13) Oleander girl
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Simon & Schuster
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English
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Enjoying a sheltered childhood with adoring grandparents but troubled by the silence surrounding her parents' deaths, Korobi is prompted by a love note among her mother's possessions to travel from India to post-9/11 America in search of her true identity.
14) As time goes by
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The #1 New York Times bestselling "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark crafts a thrilling mystery in which a news reporter develops an interest in her birth parents just as she is assigned to cover the high-profile trial of a woman accused of murdering her wealthy husband.
Television journalist Delaney Wright is on the brink of stardom when she begins covering a sensational murder trial. She should be thrilled with the story of...
Television journalist Delaney Wright is on the brink of stardom when she begins covering a sensational murder trial. She should be thrilled with the story of...
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When five hyper-successful women agree to appear on a reality series set in New York City called Goal Diggers, the producers never expect the season will end in murder. This novel explores the invisible barriers that prevent women from rising up the ranks in today's America - and offers a scathing take on the oft-lionized bonds of sisterhood, and the relentless pressure to stay young, relevant, and salable.
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Practical magic novels volume 2
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English
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"The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger--the curse is already at work"--
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Simon & Schuster
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A dark secret from a family's past threatens the lives of two sisters. Step by step, in a novel of dazzling suspense and excitement, Mary Higgins Clark presents the reader with a perplexing mystery and a fascinating cast of characters - one of whom may just be a ruthless killer.
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Where are the children? volume 2
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English
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"A lawyer turned successful podcaster, Melissa has recently married a man whose first wife died tragically, leaving him and their young daughter, Riley, behind. While Melissa and her brother, Mike, help their mom, Nancy, relocate from Cape Cod to the equally idyllic Hamptons, Melissa's new stepdaughter goes missing. Drawing on the experience of their own abduction, Melissa and Mike race to find Riley to save her from the trauma they still struggle...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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At age eighty-two and in failing health, Olivia Morrow must decide whether she will expose a long-held family secret and reveal that her cousin, Catherine, gave birth to a son at age seventeen and gave him up for adoption before entering a convent. Now deceased, Sister Catherine is being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church.
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