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1) The nix
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 36
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"An epic novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim his own"--
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In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family's vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. Sixty years later, Lucy, Emily's only surviving sister, lives in the lake house alone. Before her death, she writes the story of that devastating summer in a notebook that she leaves, along with the house, to the only person who might care: her grandniece, Justine.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
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Two years after the death of enigmatic and celebrated author Scott Landon, his wife Lisey fields inquiries from academics and private collectors requesting his personal letters and unpublished works--if any exist. Then aother interested party makes contact by leaving a dead cat in her mailbox. And then the terrifying phone calls begin. Lisey's only escape comes in the strange fantasy world where her husband found his inspiration. Now she must struggle...
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"Present day: Emma Lovett, who has dedicated her career to breathing new life into long-neglected gardens, has just been given the opportunity of a lifetime: to restore the gardens of the famed Highbury House estate, designed in 1907 by her hero Venetia Smith. But as Emma dives deeper into the gardens' past, she begins to uncover secrets that have long lain hidden. 1907: A talented artist with a growing reputation for her ambitious work, Venetia Smith...
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Glory Akindele returns to London from her seemingly glamorous life in LA to mourn the sudden death of her father, only to find her previously close family has fallen apart in her absence. Her brother, Victor, is in jail and won't speak to her because she didn't come home for his trial. Her older sister, Faith, once a busy career woman, appears to have lost her independence and ambition, and is instead channeling her energies into holding together...
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"Deep in the Hungarian woods, the sacred magic of King Solomon lives on in his descendants. Gathering under the midnight stars, they perform small miracles and none are more gifted than the great Rabbi Isaac and his three daughters. But darkness is creeping across Europe, threatening the lives of every Jewish person in every village. Each sister will have to make an impossible choice in an effort to survive - and change the fate of their family forever"--...
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"In the late 1800s, haunted by an old secret, Richard Brockwell prefers to stay away from Ivy Hill-until his mother threatens to stop funding his carefree life unless he returns for Christmas. Will Christmastime in Ivy Hill, with all of its divine hope, surprises, and romance, work its magic?"--
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"Not since childhood has Faraz returned to the Mohalla, Lahore's infamous walled inner city, where women still pass down the profession of courtesan to their daughters. But he still remembers the day he was abducted from the home he shared with his mother and sister there, at the direction of his powerful father, who wanted to give him a chance at a respectable life. Now Wajid, once more dictating his fate from afar, has sent Faraz back to Lahore,...
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Abbie MacIntyre is living the dream in the picturesque Nova Scotia town she calls home. She is a successful surgeon, is married to a handsome cardiologist, and has a model teenage son who is only months away from going off to college. But then one fateful night, everything changes. When a drunk driver hits her car, Abbie is rushed to the hospital. She survives, but the accident forces unimaginable secrets out into the open and plagues Abbie with nightmares...
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Murder gone cold: When James Colt decides to solve his late father's final murder case, he has no idea of the danger he's unleashing. And Lorelei Wilkins can't believe that her high school crush is implicating her stepmother! Now James and Lorelei are embroiled in unraveling a cover-up involving some of Lonesome, Montana's finest citizens, including a killer determined to keep the truth hidden.
Crossfire: Five years ago Anna Carson left Courage...
12) Old head
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The madcap action-horror story of the world's toughest former pro basketball player returning home with his daughter to learn about his destiny and his mother's mysterious past, while--right next door--Dracula and his goons are on the eve of their bloodiest holiday.
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"Hansel & Gretel return home one evening to find their house ransacked and their parents missing. They soon discover a hidden lair under the family home and learn their mother and father have been leading a secret double life as suburban parents by day and heroic monster hunters by night; a family tradition dating back hundreds of years. Hansel & Gretel must now pick up where their parents left off and rise to become the new protectors of Grimms Town....
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Magical boy (Graphix) volume 1
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Although he was assigned female at birth, Max is your average trans man trying to get through high school as himself. But on top of classes, crushes, and coming out, Max's life is turned upside down when his mom reveals an eons old family secret: he's descended from a long line of Magical Girls tasked with defending humanity from a dark, ancient evil! With a sassy feline sidekick and loyal gang of friends by his side, can Max take on his destiny,...
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"The final battle begins as Stella and Alice take on little Melm in a hair-raising fight to the death! His abilities have been dubbed godlike, but what exactly does the youngest Kuonji's power entail?! And the true nature of the link between matriarch-turned-mastermind Olga and the secret of the Kuonji clan is at long last revealed in the conclusion to Kaori Yuki's Alice in Murderland!"--Provided by publisher
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"Just two Kuonji siblings remain--Stella and her baby brother Melm--and their dance to the death is set to take place on the bones of the dead. As the curtains open on the final showdown, Stella discovers to her horror that she and Melm will be fighting in the graveyard where their siblings are buried. As the fight gets underway, Stella glimpses dead sister Claire, and sweet Melm's personality changes entirely. And in the heat of battle, the veil...
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It is 1938 and the final days of the British Empire. In a bungalow high up in the green hills above the plains of Ceylon, under a vast blue sky, live the Ferguson family: Bella, a precocious eight-year-old, her father Henry, owner of Pitlochry, a tea plantation, and her mother Virginia. The story centres around the Pavilion in the Clouds, nestled in idyllic grounds carved out of the wilderness. But all is not as serene as it seems. Bella is suspicious...
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