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41) The usual rules
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Description
It's a Tuesday morning in Brooklyn---a perfect September day. Wendy is heading to school, eager to make plans with her best friend, worried about how she looks, mad at her mother for not letting her visit her father in California, impatient with her little brother and with the almost too-loving concern of her jazz musician stepfather. She's out the door to catch the bus. An hour later comes the news: A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center---her...
45) Incendiary
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Chris Cleave's debut novel Incendiary-winner of the Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize-is sure to captivate the same people who made Little Bee one of the most talked-about novels of the last decade. Written as an open letter to Osama bin Laden from a distraught woman whose husband and son were killed in a massive suicide bombing, Incendiary was published in the UK on July 7, 2005- eerily, the day of the...
48) We own the sky
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
When a devastating illness takes his beloved family from him, a man who once believed himself incredibly lucky takes solace in photographing the skyscrapers and cliff tops his son and he once visited before embarking on a powerful journey through forgiveness back to life.
Author
Series
Walk volume 4
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
In St. Louis, Alan Christoffersen faces another life-changing crisis, putting his journey to grace in jeopardy.
Alan Christoffersen decided to leave his painful memories behind and walk from Seattle to the farthest point on the map, Key West. In St. Louis, when his severe vertigo is diagnosed as the side effect of a brain tumor, Alan must go to Los Angeles for treatment. He is surrounded by those who care most for him, but one by one he alienates...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Nicole Krauss' first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and her short fiction has been collected in Best American Short Stories. Now The History of Love proves Krauss is among our finest and freshest literary voices. It has been decades since Leo Gursky first surrendered his heart, then wrote a book about it, at the tender age of 10, and he's been in love with the same person ever since. Leo believes...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Best-selling author of The Sunday List of Dreams, journalist and nationally syndicated columnist Kris Radish creates vividly imagined female characters who seem to jump from the pages. In Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral, Katherine Givens befriends the four other women who, through the unexpected circumstance of their recently deceased friend Annie Freeman's last will and testament, are about to share a life-affirming road trip
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008
Description
The sunbaked expanse of Death Valley is a great place to visit but a bad place to die in this breathtaking thriller from acclaimed master of suspense fiction Bill Pronzini Rick Fallon has reached the breaking point. His wife left after their son's tragic death, and Rick finds himself without purpose. He seeks out the peace and tranquility of the desert, setting up camp in Death Valley. On his fourth day there, Rick comes across an abandoned car. Inside...
56) On every side
Author
Formats
Description
Jordan Riley has made it his life's mission to battle public acknowledgement and exercise of religion. However, when he comes back to Bethany to tear down a controversial Jesus statue in a public park, he finds himself reliving his faith-filled past and the childhood trauma that drove him from God. When the leading voice of the opposing townspeople turns out to be his former best friend Faith Evans, Jordan struggles between his current doubts and...
57) Lost & found
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
A young widow abandons her career as a psychologist and becomes an Animal Control Warden on a Maine island. She becomes involved in helping a black Lab shot by an arrow and in finding the person who shot him.
Author
Series
Mercy Street volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
A private investigator and a Pennsylvania police detective team up to solve the shooting deaths of two teenage boys and the two missing teenagers linked to the shooting.
59) Miracle
Author
Formats
Description
A fierce storm brings together three very different people--Quinn Thompson, a widower seeking an escape from his feelings of guilt; his neighbor, Maggie Dartman, grieving over a loss; and Jack Adams, the carpenter brought in to repair both of their homes--in an extraordinary friendship that will transform all of their lives.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Formats
Description
Betta Nolan moves to a small town after the death of her husband to try to begin anew. Pursuing a dream of a different kind of life, she is determined to find pleasure in her simply daily routines. Among those who help her in both expected and unexpected ways are the ten-year-old boy next door, three wild women friends from her college days, a twenty-year-old who is struggling to find his place in the world, and a handsome man who is ready for love....
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