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In fifteenth-century England, when his father's murderer is revealed to be his guardian, seventeen-year-old Richard Shelton joins the fellowship of the Black Arrow in avenging the death, rescuing the woman he loves, and participating in the struggle between the Yorks and Lancasters in the War of the Roses.
3) Bleak House
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 67
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English
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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed. Bleak House defies a single description. It...
4) Fin & lady
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Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books; Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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In the Greenwich Village of 1964, eleven-year-old Fin moves in with his glamorous, careless older sister, and it's hard to tell who's raising whom.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
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Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. Their relationship and its fallout, played against a backdrop of a lost America will haunt Helen for the rest of her life.
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English
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New York Times bestseller Iris Johansen is back with another high octane thriller that will leave your mind racing and your heart pounding. Despite her tragic childhood, violin prodigy Cara Delaney has finally found peace in her career as a professional musician and stability in her relationship with her guardians, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and ex-Navy SEAL Joe Quinn. If only Jock Gavin, Cara's lifelong friend and a man with his own twisted history,...
8) Rooftoppers
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When authorities threaten to take Sophie, twelve, from Charles who has been her guardian since she was one and both survived a shipwreck, the pair goes to Paris to try to find Sophie's mother, and they are aided by Matteo and his band of "rooftoppers."
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English
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"Stitched together with love, this is a story just waiting for your favorite reading chair. With her signature style and skill, Susan Wiggs delivers an intricate patchwork of old wounds and new beginnings, romance and the healing power of friendship, wrapped in a lovely little community that's hiding a few secrets of its own."
— Lisa Wingate, New York Times Bestselling author of Before We Were Yours
— Lisa Wingate, New York Times Bestselling author of Before We Were Yours
The #1 New York Times
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From the Bestselling Author of the hit Netflix series, Virgin River
#1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr delivers an emotional and triumphant novel about the fierce power of a mother's love.
A summer rental, a new beginning...
Hannah Russell's carefully crafted plans for her life have been upended without warning. When her best friend died suddenly, Hannah became guardian to a five-year-old named Noah. With...
#1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr delivers an emotional and triumphant novel about the fierce power of a mother's love.
A summer rental, a new beginning...
Hannah Russell's carefully crafted plans for her life have been upended without warning. When her best friend died suddenly, Hannah became guardian to a five-year-old named Noah. With...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Mark Nolan's happy-go-lucky bachelorhood is interrupted by the death of his sister and his subsequent guardianship of her six-year-old daughter, Holly, who is traumatized into muteness and desperately seeking a maternal figure. Enter Maggie Collins, a toy shop owner who lost her own husband to cancer.
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Series
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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When single attorney Steven Creed becomes guardian of an orphaned five-year-old boy, he trades his big-city law firm for a ranch near his McKettrick kin in the close-knit community of Stone Creek, Arizona. Steven takes on the pro bono defense of a local teen and meets his match in the beautiful county prosecutor Melissa O'Ballivan.
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"Adele, the daughter of a celebrated Parisian actress, is a homesick, forlorn eight-year-old when first brought to Thornfield Hall by Edward Fairfax Rochester, her mother's former lover. Lonely and ill at ease in the unfamiliar English countryside, she longs to return to the glitter of Paris, and to the mother who has been lost to her. But a small ray of sunshine brightens her eternal gloom when a stranger arrives to care for her -- a serious yet...
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Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
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When the authorities threaten to take Sophie from Charles, her guardian since she was one and both survived a shipwreck, the pair goes to Paris to try to find Sophie's mother, and they are aided by Matteo and his band of "rooftoppers."
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"A major new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for the Barbarians, The Life & Times of Michael K and Disgrace Nobel laureate and two-time Booker Prize winner J. M. Coetzee returns with a haunting and surprising novel about childhood and destiny that is sure to rank with his classic novels. Separated from his mother as a passenger on a boat bound for a new land, David is a boy who is quite literally adrift. The piece of paper explaining...
16) The cowboy way
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Publisher
Hqn Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Creed in Stone Creek : When single attorney Steven Creed becomes guardian of an orphaned five-year-old boy, he trades his big-city law firm for a ranch near his McKettrick kin in the close-knit community of Stone Creek, Arizona. Steven takes on the pro bono defense of a local teen and meets his match in the beautiful county prosecutor Melissa O'Ballivan.
Part time cowboy : Sadie Miller wasn't expecting a warm welcome on her return to Copper Ridge,...
17) Four in hand
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Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Four in hand: After roguish Max Rotherbridge inherits the dukedom of Twyford and the Twinning sisters as wards, he must figure out a way to protect them from his disreputable friends and win the heart of the oldest sister, Caroline.
The dissolute duke: After circumstances force them to marry, Taylen Ellesmere, Duke of Alderworth, leaves his new wife and disappears. Three years later, having barely survived the scandal, Lady Lucinda has placed one...
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Publisher
Roca Bolsillo
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
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"Toda historia abre una puerta. Entra y descubre la magia. A principios del siglo XX, una joven se embarca en un viaje fantástico después de encontrar un misterioso libro. Enero Demico es una joven curiosa que vive en una extensa mansión llena de objetos y tesoros peculiares. Como la pupila del rico señor Locke, se siente un poco distinta a todo aquello que la rodea. Entre todos los artefactos que habitan la casa, Enero descubrirá un maravilloso...
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