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When her grandfather's health begins to decline, Havyn is determined to keep her family together. But everyone has secrets--including John, the hired stranger who recently arrived on their farm. To help out Havyn starts singing at a local roadhouse--but dangerous eyes grow jealous as she and John grow closer. Will they realize the peril before it is too late?
5) Looker
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Pub. Date
2019.
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In this taut and thrilling debut, an unraveling woman, unhappily childless and recently separated, becomes fixated on her neighbor--the beautiful, famous actress. The unnamed narrator can't help noticing with wry irony that, though she and the actress live just a few doors apart, they are separated by a chasm of professional success and personal fulfillment. When an interaction with the actress at the annual block party takes a disastrous turn, what...
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"Milo Andret, the genius who solved the Malosz Conjecture and won the Fields Medal for mathematics, had an unusual, even eerie mind from birth, but not until he moves to Berkeley in the 1970s to pursue a Ph. D. does he realize the extent of his singular talents. From the drug-soaked enclaves of beatnik California to the verdant lawns of Princeton University, from turbo-charged Wall Street to the quiet woods of Michigan, his reputation as one of the...
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Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
As Lilith grows closer to Matt, she begins to recognize the dark undertow of obsession and jealousy that her presence has created between Matt and Frances, and finds herself balancing on a knife's edge between pain and pleasure, the promise of the future and the crushing isolation of the present. With stripped-down prose and unflinching clarity, Nash examines madness in the wreckage of love, and the loss of self that accompanies it.
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Kitty is excited to throw a kitty-corn party but becomes frustrated when newcomer Puppy messes up the decorations, ruins the gift Kitty made, and worst of all, he takes up all of Unicorn's attention.
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Publisher
Mira Books, an imprint of Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
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When Mel receives an unexpected email from her oldest friend Abi, it brings back memories she thought she had buried forever. Their friendship belonged in the past. To those carefree days at university. But Abi is recovering from a bad breakup and needs Mel's help, and she wants a place to stay. Just for a few days, while she sorts things out. It's the least Mel can do. After all, friends look out for each other, don't they? But when glamourous Abi...
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A tight-knit high school 'It' clique takes a dark turn when one member is lost to a tragedy. But it's only the first in a series of misfortunes as the friends become frenemies, and the girls become women who wonder who will be the last one standing...
At Bristol High they were an elite clique known as the Five Firsts: Amanda, Bailey, Carmen, Delta and Zora. At a pre-graduation party just before the end of senior year,Tanner Stahd, the school daredevil,...
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Publisher
Dutton Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Fifteen-year-old Carly's summer volunteer experience makes her feel more real than her life of privilege in Atlanta ever did, but her younger sister starts high school pretending to be what she is not, and both find their relationships suffering.
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It is said that everyone over a certain age can remember distinctly what they were doing when they heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated, or that Princess Diana had been killed in a Paris car crash, but I, for one, could recall all too clearly where I was standing when a policeman told me that my wife had been murdered. Bill Russell is acting as a volunteer steward at Warwick races when he confronts his worst nightmare--the violent death...
14) The new girl
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Series
English Roses volume 3
Publisher
Puffin/Callaway
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Nicole is excited about her friend from New York, Leslie, joining the English Roses, but once the other girls meet Leslie, they realize she is snooty and everyone but Nicole agrees they don't want to be her friend. Book #3.
The English Roses are very close friends, until Leslie arrives in London and the others feel that she was stealing their friend Nicole from them.
16) New boy
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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"From beloved, bestselling historical novelist Tracy Chevalier, whose mega-hit Girl with a Pearl Earring enchanted readers around the world, comes a poignant, unforgettable adaptation of Othello set in the fierce world of preadolescent children, where the grown-up forces of love and jealousy, and the hurt of being ostracized, can be as real and as devastating as for any adult. "O felt her presence behind him like a fire at his back." Arriving at his...
17) Milo's monster
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Series
Pub. Date
2023
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"Milo loves spending time with his best friend, Jay. But when a new girl named Suzi moves in next door, Milo starts to feel left out. The jealous feeling gets stronger and stronger-until suddenly, a green-eyed monster pops up beside him! Soon, the monster is twisting up all of Milo's thoughts and making him feel sad. It won't leave him alone! Can Milo find a way to free himself from the monster and repair his relationship?"
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Jo Nesbø is known the world over as a consummate mystery/thriller writer. Famed for his deft characterization, hair-raising suspense and shocking twists, Nesbø's dexterity with the dark corners of the human heart is on full display in these inventive and enthralling stories. A detective with a nose for jealousy is on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin, a bereaved father must decide whether vengeance has a place in the new world order...
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Series
Cici a fairy's tale volume 2
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Cuando Cici se pone celosa de su compañera de clase Kendra, ella arruina la muñeca de Kendra. ¡Entonces los cambios aparecen en Kendra! En esta novela gráfica, Cici aprende a ver lo mejor de las personas." -- Amazon.com.
"Cici, a young fairy, is only joking when she uses her powers to play a trick on Kendra, the popular girl at school, but the changes Cici made to her classmate will last forever if she does not learn to see the best in people."--...
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Series
Just Grace volume 9
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When her teacher announces that the class will be putting on a play, Grace hopes she will win the part of the forest fairy queen.
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