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Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
On a stormy November night in 1848, a ship carrying more than a hundred Irish emigrants ran aground twenty miles off the coast of Maine. Many were saved, but some were not -- including a young girl who died crying out the name of her brother. In the present day, the artist Oisin MacDara lives in self-imposed exile on Tiranogue -- the small island where the shipwrecked Irish settled. The past is Oisin's curse, as memories of the twin sister who died...
24) Covenant child
Author
Series
Publisher
W Pub. Group
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Amanda's heart broke as she watched them drive her beloved twins away. She resolved to hope . . . and to fight for them to her last breath.Kara and Lizzie are heiresses to one of the largest fortunes in the country. But when their father dies suddenly, the toddlers are taken from the arms of Amanda, their loving stepmother, and given to relatives who only want the children's fortune for themselves.Kara and Lizzie grow up questioning their worth ....
Author
Series
(Robert Anson),Works volume 19
Formats
Description
Travel to other planets is now a reality, and with overpopulation stretching the resources of Earth, the necessity of finding habitable worlds is growing ever more urgent. There's a problem though-because the spaceships are slower than light, any communication between the exploring ships and Earth would take years.
Tom and Pat are identical twin teenagers. As twins they've always been close, so close that it seemed like they could read each other's...
31) Break in
Author
Series
Kit Fielding volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam
Pub. Date
c1986
Description
Jockey Kit Fielding has been riding the de Brescou's horses in a succession of triumphs on the race course. But this winning streak is about to end. Kit's twin sister, Holly, has come to him in desperation. Threatened by financial scandal, she and her husband may lose their training stables. Kit soon finds, though, that a greater danger lurks behind the threat-one that could be fatal. Narrator Simon Prebble has received enthusiastic praise for his...
32) Twins
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
A boy who plays everything from leap frog to piano duets with his twin brother loves being a twin, even when they disagree.
34) The grammarians
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins, share an obsession with words. As adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation begins to push them apart. Their fraying twinship finally shreds completely when the sisters go to war over custody of their most prized family heirloom: Merriam Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition.
A comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language...
35) The last child
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
After his twin sister Alyssa disappears, thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon is determined to find her. When a second girl disappears from his rural North Carolina town, Johnny makes a discovery that sends shock waves through the community in this multi-layered tale of broken families and deadly secrets.
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Series
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles—the inspiration for the hit TNT series—continue their bestselling crime-solving streak.
“Crime writing at its unputdownable, nerve-tingling best.”—Harlan Coben
Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the murdered woman looks exactly like her. For Maura, an only child, a DNA test confirms...
“Crime writing at its unputdownable, nerve-tingling best.”—Harlan Coben
Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the murdered woman looks exactly like her. For Maura, an only child, a DNA test confirms...
Author
Publisher
Regan Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 46
Description
With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of...
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