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1) The telling
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A series of murders that are eerily similar to the dark stories Lana's deceased brother used to tell start happening in her home town, threatening her newfound popularity.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Roland Merullo's playful, eloquent, and life-affirming novel finds the Pope and the Dalai Lama teaming up for an unsanctioned road trip through the Italian countryside to rediscover the everyday joys of life that can seem, even for the two holiest men in the world, unattainable. What happens when the Pope and the Dali Lama decide they need an undercover vacation? During a highly publicized official visit at the Vatican, the Pope suggests an adventure...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Quinn has spent her life playing by the rules. But when, on her thirtieth birthday, she is laid off, her boyfriend leaves her because their life is too "predictable" and she spends the night with violent food poisoning, she hits rock bottom at a stunning velocity, and her carefully constructed world unravels. She has no choice but to return to her childhood home in LA, where her little sister strikes up an idea: Can control freak Charlie...
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Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The first book in the Katie Weldon Series, Peculiar Treasures follows Katie as she struggles to believe that God can love her, faults and all. Katie turns to the women in her life as she tries to figure out her relationship with her boyfriend, but even their advice can't postpone the decision that will define the woman she's becoming.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Publication Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Katie has every reason to smile at her future.
College graduation is almost here, and Katie is pretty sure she and Rick are ready to make plans for their future together.
Why does Eli keeps igniting thoughts of new adventures and spontaneity? His wild love for God challenges her and he seems to always be right there when she needs support. Katie reminds herself that Rick is one she's been waiting for. Rick can offer her stability and purpose.
The...
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Series
Language
English
Description
When Miss Edi passes away, she leaves Jocelyn Minton all her worldly possessions, including an eighteenth-century house and a letter with clues to a mystery that began in 1941. In an attempt to understand the legacy that has been left to her, Jocelyn digs into Miss Edi's mystery and soon discovers some shocking surprises about her family's history and a man with his own mysterious past.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Seasoned pro golfer Travis McKinley is cruising toward a new season when he misses a putt on the 18th green. Just like that, he's down and out and off the Senior Tour, his career all but dead. Then Travis is visited by a mysterious stranger whose vision is clear. Go back to the beginning. The very beginning. Taking his advice both literally and to heart, Travis and his family travel to their ancestral home - Scotland. In the place where golf was born,...
8) Likes
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A new collection from an acclaimed author weaves together the real and unreal, fairy tale, sci-fi, and myth"--Provided by publisher.
In a nimble dance of lightness and gravity, Bynum explores the range and contradictions of our current moment. Through school fairs, indie-film stars, and capitalist shell games she weaves together the real and unreal, fairy tale, sci-fi, and myth, exposing the roots of our most abiding terrors and delights. -- adapted...
9) Forgotten
Author
Language
English
Description
"If your old life vanished completely, should you try to get it back or create a whole new one? That's the intriguing question at the heart of Catherine McKenzie's Forgotten. The smart, funny, and provocative story of a woman who returns home after being stranded for months in Africa by an earthquake only to find that everyone in her life believed she was dead and moved on"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publication Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Alex Award Winner
You alone know that the world will end thirty-six years after your birth. Do you succumb to nihilistic apathy? Use your singular knowledge to save mankind? To what end do you live your life?
While still in his mother’s womb, Junior Thibodeau is encoded with a prophecy: in thirty-six years a comet will obliterate life on Earth. Born to a working-class family in rural Maine,...
You alone know that the world will end thirty-six years after your birth. Do you succumb to nihilistic apathy? Use your singular knowledge to save mankind? To what end do you live your life?
While still in his mother’s womb, Junior Thibodeau is encoded with a prophecy: in thirty-six years a comet will obliterate life on Earth. Born to a working-class family in rural Maine,...
11) Dear Lucy
Author
Language
English
Description
Lucy is a young woman with an uncommon voice and an unusual way of looking at the world. She doesn't understand why her mother has sent her to live with old Mister and Missus on their farm, but she knows she must never leave or her mother won't be able to find her again. Also living at the farm is a pregnant teenager named Samantha who tells conflicting stories about her past and quickly becomes Lucy's only friend. When Samantha gives birth and her...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Publication Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A professor in Denmark and a grandmother in England begin a correspondence, and a friendship, that develops into something extraordinary.
In Denmark, Professor Anders Larsen has lost his wife and his hopes for the future. On an isolated English farm, Tina Hopgood is trapped in a life she doesn't remember choosing. Brought together by a shared fascination with the Tollund Man, subject of Seamus Heaney's famous poem, they begin writing letters to one...
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Language
English
Description
"In David Hoon Kim's debut novel, in a strangely distorted Paris, a Japanese adoptee is haunted by the woman he once loved"-- Provided by publisher.
When Fumiko emerges after one month locked in her dorm room, she's already dead, leaving a half-smoked Marlboro Light and a cupboard of petrified food in her wake. For her boyfriend, Henrik, an aspiring translator, these remnants propel him forward in a search for meaning. Meanwhile, Fumiko, or perhaps...
14) Savage
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Publication Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Sidney and her friends must race to find the origin of a storm that has hit their small island home turning every animal into savage weapons"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
One night Jim, a quiet wine steward, wakes to find two men trying to steal his car. Against the petitions of his wife, he goes outside to get the plate number of the thieves' truck. Instead, something comes over him and he drives away in their truck until he recovers his wits and realizes what he's done. When Jim learns that the two would-be thieves are brothers with a history of violence, he soon finds himself over his head in a mire of sinister...
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Language
English
Description
"Meet Yinka: a 30-something, Oxford educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is "Yinka, where is your huzband?" Yinka's Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her girlfriends think she's too traditional (she's saving herself for marriage!), her sister thinks she needs to get over her ex already, and the men in her life...well, that's a whole other story. But...
17) Checkout 19
Author
Publication Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the "dazzling. . . . and daring" Pond (O magazine), the adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets-and dreams up-along the way. In a working-class town in a county west of London, a schoolgirl scribbles in the back pages of her exercise book, thrilling to the first sparks of her own inventiveness. As she grows, she becomes one on whom nothing is lost. Not the novels an eccentric customer...
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Language
English
Description
Solomon's Oak is the story of three people who have suffered losses that changed their lives forever.
Glory Solomon, a young widow, holds tight to her memories while she struggles to hold on to her Central California farm. She makes ends meetby hosting weddings in the chapel her husband had built under their two-hundred-year-old white oak tree, known locally as Solomon's Oak.
Fourteen-year-old Juniper McGuire is the lone survivor of...
Glory Solomon, a young widow, holds tight to her memories while she struggles to hold on to her Central California farm. She makes ends meetby hosting weddings in the chapel her husband had built under their two-hundred-year-old white oak tree, known locally as Solomon's Oak.
Fourteen-year-old Juniper McGuire is the lone survivor of...
Author
Publication Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Aspiring author Eva takes to heart the words of her high school English teacher and spends the summer before she goes away to college trying to figure out just what she knows and enjoying new experiences that she can draw from in her writing.
20) When it happens
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
High school seniors Sara and Tobey attempt to figure out what is important in life as they try to balance their preparations for their futures with their enjoyment of the present.


