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Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date:
©2024
Language:
English
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Decades after the murder of nineteen-year-old college student Karlie Richards, her former roommate, now middle-aged and divorced, becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth amidst online conspiracy theories, speculation and the lingering shadows of the past.
2. Jane Eyre
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Lexile measure:
840L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
This is a story of a woman of passion and intelligence who refuses to be satisfied with her "place" in society, and asserts her identity and aspirations with defiance and dignity.
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.
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Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 740L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The thick glass of a mason jar cuts deep, and the pain washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie's heart just a little more,...
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Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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Enjoy your favorite container plants year after year! From geraniums to fuchsias and beyond, many container plants can be overwintered and enjoyed again the next season. Alice and Brian McGowan offer simple techniques for overwintering a variety of common tender perennial plants based on what kind of dormancy the plants go through in their native environment. With a plant-by-plant guide for quick reference, this Storey BASICS® guide will inspire...
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Publisher:
Grove Press
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
"Beautifully told with humor and tenderness, a Norwegian Christmas tale of sisterhood, financial hardship, and far-off dreams, acclaimed by reviewers and beloved by readers across Europe, where it has been a bestseller. Christmas is just around the corner, and Ronja and Melissa's dreamer of a father is out of work again. When ten-year-old Ronja hears about a job selling Christmas trees near where the family lives in central Oslo, she thinks it might...
6. Gray
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Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
"Some days you may feel sunshine yellow or orange-balloon bright. Other days you're gray, or even night-sky black-like a dark scribble on a page, a storm in the clouds, or a puddle in the road. Gray is when you don't feel like yourself, or like you don't belong. But however you feel, there are big hugs (red) and loving lullabies (blue) waiting, and even the grayest sidewalk is a canvas for you to fill with the colors you choose. A tender narration...
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Language:
English
Description:
Here there be gods and monsters - forged from flesh and stone and vengeance - emerging from the icy abyss of deep space, ascending from dark oceans, and prowling strange cities to enter worlds of chaos and wonder, where scientific rigor and human endeavour is tested to the limits. These are cosmic realms and watery domains where old offerings no longer appease the ancient Gods or the new and hungry idols. Deities and beasts. Life and death. Love and...
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Series:
Great War volume 1
Language:
English
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A Golden Heart Award winner and Christy Award finalist, Maureen Lang enthralls listeners with Look to the East, the first entry in her sweeping World War I trilogy. Caught on the front lines of the Great War and torn by feuding families, the French village of Briecort is rocked by fear, suspicion, and blame. As the tale unfolds, the chaste and tender love of an adopted villager and a Belgian refugee shines brightly against a dark backdrop of pride,...
9. Maggot Moon
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Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date:
2013
Lexile measure:
690L
Language:
English
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"An unlikely teenager risks all to expose the truth about a heralded moon landing. What if the football hadn't gone over the wall. On the other side of the wall there is a dark secret. And the devil. And the Moon Man. And the Motherland doesn't want anyone to know. But Standish Treadwell--who has different-colored eyes, who can't read, can't write, Standish Treadwell isn't bright--sees things differently than the rest of the "train-track thinkers."...
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Series:
Montgomerys and Armstrongs volume 1
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
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When Eveline Armstrong, who never speaks, is forced into an arranged marriage with Graeme Montgomery, a warrior from a rival clan, love grows between them as clan rivalries and dark forces conspire to keep them apart.
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English
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From the author of Winter in Sokcho, Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature. The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and gaze out of the window. Women's calves, men's shoes, heels trodden down by the weight of bodies borne for too long. It is summer in Tokyo. Claire finds herself dividing her time between tutoring twelve-year-old Mieko, in an apartment in an abandoned...
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Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Language:
English
Description:
"The state of the world makes it difficult to look on the bright side. If there is a bright side perhaps it is that we have come to see the virtues of previously taboo emotions such as anger, sadness, anguish, anxiety, and grief. According to philosopher Mariana Alessandri, we're beginning to see that they are not evils to be avoided but valuable and sometimes even productive states. Many of us are coming to see that our darker feelings have something...
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Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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From Pushcart Prize nominee Danny Johnson comes a powerful, lyrical debut novel that explores race relations, first love, and coming-of-age in North Carolina in the 1950s and '60s. At eight years old, Raeford "Junebug" Hurley has known more than his share of hard lessons. After the sudden death of his parents, he goes to live with his grandparents on a farm surrounded by tobacco fields and lonesome woods. There he meets Fancy Stroud and her twin...
14. A World for Two
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Publisher:
AuthorHouse UK
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
The novel is not just about the love, passion, obsession, and friendship across the boundaries. As much as anything else, the novel is also about Karachi, the transcultural metropolis and the capital of Pakistan. One gets swayed by the colorful, bright, and sunny Karachi world. The bustling streets, the exotic charm, and the ethos of its inhabitants are all animated by the authors profound knowledge of Pakistani setting, culture, and ideology. The...
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Publisher:
Lamplight Audiobooks
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
In the early 1950s, the Berkshire Constabulary finally opened its ranks to more women. And WPC Crockford was one of those early pioneers...When 21-year-old Gwendoline Crockford signed up to join the Berkshire Constabulary in 1951, she had little idea of what she was getting herself into. Whether carrying a human skeleton out of the woods, finding a missing child, investigating thefts, or chasing an escaped zebra, every day brought fresh adventures.In...
Author:
Publisher:
Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
In Jennifer's Journey: From Orphan to White Coat, witness the remarkable tale of resilience, determination, and triumph against all odds. Abandoned at birth and raised in an orphanage, Jennifer's early years were bleak, but her spirit remained unbroken. Through sheer luck, she was adopted by a loving couple who cherished her, providing love and support that fuelled her dreams. However, the day after her sweet sixteen birthday party, life took an unexpected...
Author:
Publisher:
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
I was puzzled by how I had changed. But I could no longer go back . . . It is spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year, as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone. Her new home is filled with light streaming through the windows, so bright she has to squint, but she finds herself plummeting deeper into darkness, becoming unstable, untethered....
Author:
Publisher:
Sharon Lee Foley
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
After the death of his wife, Daniel leaves Boston and its painful memories to open an art supply store in a small New England town. Daniel invites five women to join his painting class who are diverse in every way except for, perhaps, the camouflage with which they try to cover their own tender scars. The sixth woman who joined did not receive or need an invitation. On their journey to learn to paint, these women discover the brightness under their...
19. Impossible Heat
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Publisher:
Little Betty
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
these basements that taught me to breathe;my body happening in the space between moonlight &the leather straps wrapped round an old dyke's wristgender split open like a crass piñata on the sticky floor' Ciara Maguire's poems explore the bright fields and dark corners of love. They are heartbreaking, sexy and addictive. 'Impossible Heat is a work of claustrophobia, heat, and longing. Sexual ideation extends from the mind of the speaker to colour and...
20. Shadow Frost
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Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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In the kingdom of Axaria, a darkness rises. Some call it a monster, laying waste to the villagers and their homes. Some say it is an invulnerable demon summoned from the deepest abysses of the Immortal Realm. Many soldiers from the royal guard are sent out to hunt it down. Not one has ever returned. When Asterin Faelenhart, Princess of Axaria and heir to the throne, discovers that she may hold the key to defeating the mysterious demon terrorizing...