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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning novel is now a new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino.
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar...
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Britt-Marie is a socially awkward, fussy busybody who is used to being organized. When she walks out on her cheating husband and gets a job as caretaker of the dilapidated recreation center in Borg, she is woefully unprepared for the changes. But as she takes on the task of leading the supremely untalented children's soccer team to victory, she just might find a place she belongs.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Helen Ward has escaped an abusive husband, changed her identity, and started a new life, but just when she meets a new man and thinks her dreams may come true, her past begins to catch up with her. Soon, she'll have to make the biggest decision of her life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cassie Barrett, world-renowned anthropologist, wakes up in a Los Angeles graveyard and doesn't know who she is. Taken in for a few days by William Flying Horse, a Native American police officer, she waits for answers and is stunned to discover that she is the wife of Hollywood leading man Alex Rivers. A picture-perfect romance that deteriorates into wife beating. By the author of Harvesting the Heart.
6) The husband
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mitchell Rafferty, a landscaper, is planting flowers in his client's yard when his cell phone rings. The caller informs him they have his wife, and they want two million dollars for her return. Events turn Mitchell's life into a dark nightmare.
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Language
Español
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Espionaje e intriga en estado puro, amores y desamores desgarrados, aventura e historia de un siglo hecho pedazos, Dime quién soy es un apasionante relato protagonizado por unos personajes inolvidables cuyas vidas construyen un magnífico retrato de la historia del siglo XX. Ahora en formato audiolibro.
Un periodista recibe la propuesta de investigar la vida de su bisabuela, Amelia Garayoa, una mujer de la que sólo sabe que
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
At the age of ten, Liza Barton had shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged step-father, Ted Cartwright. Despite his claim that the shooting was a deliberate act, the Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident. Many people, however, agreed with Cartwright, and the tabloids compared her to the infamous murderess Lizzie Borden, pointing even to the similarity of their names. To erase Liza's past, her adoptive parents change...
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Language
English
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Tess Monaghan is called to help Mark Rubin, a wealthy Orthodox Jew who grudingly gives important information, find his family that simply vanished. Tess is able to locate the runaway wife and family, moving furtively with an unremarkable stranger. An intricate web of betrayal and vengeance unravels as memory leads to rage to murder.
Author
Language
English
Description
Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, this novel tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm, oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband's antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by surrendering to an obsessive...
12) Spencerville
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five years after he left for a career in cloak-and-dagger work, Keith Landry returns to his hometown in Ohio and starts seeing a former sweetheart. A dangerous liaison because her husband is chief of police. By the author of The General's Daughter.
14) The consequences
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books / Kensington Publication Corp
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
16) The nix: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
It|s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson -- college professor, stalled writer -- hasn't seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she's re-appeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the internet, and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
A legal thriller on a woman lawyer who is starting out anew. Single parent Nina Reilly, recently divorced, moves to another town where she is reduced to handling mundane cases. Opportunity knocks when the husband of a barmaid, whose divorce she is arranging, is found murdered. A first novel by a team of sisters, one a writer, the other a lawyer.
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