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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent just twenty-four hours in her early twenties with the aggravatingly attractive, idealistic artist, a chance encounter that spiraled into a daylong adventure in Toronto. The timing was wrong, but their connection was undeniable: they shared every secret, every dream, and made a pact to meet one year later. Fern showed up. Will didn't. At thirty-two, Fern's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning, flashing past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stopping at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. Their life, as she sees it, is perfect ... until she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but now everything is changed. Rachel goes to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in the lives of everyone involved....
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Mitsuha and Taki are two total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he's never been to. What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together?
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A mysterious gunman has just arrived in San Miguel, a grim and dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers are terrorizing the impoverished citizens. A master of the "quick-draw", the stranger soon receives lucrative offers of employment from each gang.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one fateful night, everyone will have a last shot at redemption; before everything goes to hell.
11) Love, come to me
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Heath Rayne, a dashing Southerner, has been waiting for his chance to meet Lucinda Caldwell, but he never expects to find the spirited beauty in such a desperate dilemma, as he rescues her from an icy New England river. And when Lucinda opens her eyes, she is stunned to find herself in the arms of a handsome stranger with a dangerous reputation--a man forbidden to her by the rules of society and by her own guarded heart. But the chance encounter...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
"Five Spice Street tells the story of a street in an unnamed city, whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. The novel interweaves their endless suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasia. Some think X is fifty years old, others that she is twenty-two. Some believe she uses occult powers to enslave the youth of the street; others think she is playing clever mind games with people. Who is...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
While in Athens, Rebecca--young, beautiful and lost--finds a confidant in George, a translator whose closest friends are Aristophanes and Jack Daniels, but their blossoming relationship becomes complicated when they meet Henry, a happy-go-lucky archaeologist who changes their lives forever.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Emma Lion loves to make new friends, but Mama tells her to be careful and never talk to strangers. Emma sees new people to meet everywhere she goes. How will she know who is a stranger?
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
As Lu waits in the rain after school, many people offer to take her home but she will only go with someone on the list of those allowed to pick her up. Includes resources for adults and a form for the reader to make his or her own list, with a parent or guardian's help.
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