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Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. So when anacquaintance informs him that he would make a "wonderful" husband, his first reaction is shock. Yet he must concede to the statistical probability that there is someone for everyone, and he embarks...
2) Orphan train
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Close to aging out of the foster care system, Molly Ayer takes a position helping an elderly woman named Vivian and discovers that they are more alike than different as she helps Vivian solve a mystery from her past.
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The bestselling author of the highly praised novels "The Color of Lightning," "Stormy Weather," and "Enemy Women" pushes into new territory with this captivating and atmospheric story set in the far future - a literary dystopian tale resonant with love and hope. In the coming centuries, the world's population has exploded and covered the earth with cities, animals are nearly all gone, and drought has taken over so that cloudy water is issued by the...
5) Dark witch
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With only the most basic understanding of her powers, Iona Sheehan leaves America for Ireland in search of family, destiny, and home. There, as the third hereditary Dark Witch, she'll join forces with her two cousins - and the man she comes to love - to break a centuries-old curse, and defeat the ancient evil that seeks to destroy them all. First in an all-new paranormal trilogy set in Ireland.
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Hope's Crossing volume 4
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Offered her dream job at an exclusive new restaurant in town, sous chef Alexandra McKnight, who prefers a life of long workdays and short-term relationships, gets involved with construction foreman Sam Delgado, who wants more than she is willing to give.
8) Identical
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Kindle County novels volume 9
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State Senator Paul Giannis is a candidate for Mayor of Kindle County. His identical twin brother Cass is newly released from prison, 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, Dita Kronon. When Evon Miller, an ex-FBI agent who is the head of security for the Kronon family business, and private investigator Tim Brodie begin a re-investigation of Dita's death, a complex web of murder, sex, and betrayal-as only Scott Turow could...
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At loose ends with her daughter leaving home and her husband on the road, Sue Halpern decided to give herself and Pransky, her under-occupied Labradoodle, a new leash -- er, lease -- on life by getting the two of them certified as a therapy dog team. Smart, spirited, and instinctively compassionate, Pransky turned out to be not only a terrific therapist but an unerring moral compass. And little by little, their adventures expanded and illuminated...
10) Regency buck
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After their father's death Miss Judith Taverner and her brother Peregrine travel to London to meet their guardian who to their surprise is not much older than they are.
12) The boyfriend
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Jack Till must delve into the shadowy world of the online escort business to find a serial killer who hops from city to city.
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One of Heyer's funniest Regency romances, and one of readers' favorites. An impetuous young lady and a fugitive nobleman? When spirited Eustacie stumbles into a band of smugglers, she is delighted to be having an adventure at last. Their leader, young heir Ludovic Lavenham, is in hiding, falsely accused of murder. Pursued by the law, Eustacie and Ludovic find refuge at an unassuming country inn. And the delightfully sensible couple who try to keep...
14) Sandrine's case
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Sharing a seemingly tranquil relationship with his brilliant bohemian wife only to find himself on trial for her murder, liberal arts college professor Samuel Madison struggles with a hostile town while reevaluating his marriage.
15) Life after life
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The staff and residents at Fulton, North Carolina's retirement facility, share the realities of their lives, from a prominent lawyer who feigns dementia to escape life with his son, to a woman who keeps a scrapbook of every local crime.
18) The tooth tattoo
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Investigating the murder of a young woman whose only identifying mark is a tattoo on one of her teeth, British criminal investigator Peter Diamond teams up with violist Mel Farran and discovers frightening truths about the cutthroat world of professionalmusic.
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Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
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Recently widowed Sunny Day Burnett discovers a body in her urban garden, but doesn't tell the police that she found a compromising photograph of her late husband in the man's hand and instead solicits the help of her neighbor, a former cop, to investigate her husband's secrets.
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