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14781) Better together
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
Jamie's an aspiring stand-up comic in Los Angeles with a growing case of stage anxiety. Siri's a stunning ballerina from New Jersey dealing with a career-changing injury. When the two girls meet at the Rediscover Yourself retreat in Colorado, they discover they are sisters separated as young children by their bitterly divorced parents. With some fortuitous magic, the two change places to confront their pasts.
14782) Anne Frank: a hidden life
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Describes the background in which Anne Frank's life and diary were set as she hid in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
The life and times of a group of midwives working at Nonnatus House--a nursing convent serving the impoverished of East London in the late 1950s and early 1960s--are chronicled in this appealing British series based on true events. The women learn powerful lessons about life's struggles while visiting with expectant mothers and poor children.
14785) The final battle-- for now
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
The Huit octuplets, each of whom has now discovered her power and received her gift, finally learn where their parents are, but before they can attempt a rescue they must face the Other Eights and a very scary aunt.
14786) An American in Scotland
Author
Series
A Scottish Isle mystery volume 1
Formats
Description
The small idyllic town of Sea Isle, Scotland, harbors some dark secrets, and Dr. Emilia McRoy is determined to uncover all of them--no matter what the diagnosis in this charming cozy.
Sea Isle was supposed to be the fresh start Dr. Emilia McRoy dreamed of. Far from the busy emergency room across the Atlantic in Seattle, she hoped to settle down and begin this new chapter as a small-town doctor to the quirky residents who immediately welcomed her....
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Women are making important discoveries on land, under the sea, and in space. Women in Earth and Space Exploration looks at individuals who are making a major difference in these fields. Compelling text, full-color photos, and helpful back matter highlight these women and their work. Features include a table of contents, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library...
14788) Elena Vanishing: A Memoir
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fewer calories. This is the story of a girl whose armor against anxiety becomes artillery against herself as she battles on both sides of a lose-lose war in a struggle with anorexia. Told entirely from Elena's perspective over a five-year period and cowritten with her mother, award-winning author Clare B. Dunkle, Elena's memoir is a fascinating and intimate...
14789) The Bachelor Prince
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Rediscover this classic tale of royal romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. A man who happens to be a prince… Prince Stefano Giorgio Paolo is the kind of man most women only dream of marrying. And now the very handsome-and very eligible-bachelor has arrived in America to search for a bride. Hope Jordan's prince has finally come, but there's no happy ending in sight. Her royal suitor needs a wealthy wife to save his country...
14790) Killman Creek
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Gwen Proctor won the battle to save her kids from her ex-husband, serial killer Melvin Royal, and his league of psychotic accomplices. But the war isn't over. Not since Melvin broke out of prison. Not since she received a chilling text... You're not safe anywhere now. Her refuge at Stillhouse Lake has become a trap. Gwen leaves her children in the protective custody of a fortified, well-armed neighbor. Now, with the help of Sam Cade, brother of one...
14791) Own Your Period
Author
Publisher
words & pictures
Pub. Date
2021
Formats
Description
Having a period is an incredible thing – Own Your Period celebrates what the body can do and provides young people (age 9+) with everything they need to be prepared... and empowered.
This fact-filled guide to periods is bursting with positive, honest advice on managing and understanding menstruation, covering every aspect of periods as well as lots of advice on puberty and growing up in a warm,...
This fact-filled guide to periods is bursting with positive, honest advice on managing and understanding menstruation, covering every aspect of periods as well as lots of advice on puberty and growing up in a warm,...
14792) All that is hidden
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Retired" detective and police captain's wife Molly Murphy Sullivan tangles with Tammany Hall in All That Is Hidden, the latest in Rhys Bowen's New York Times bestselling historical mystery series..."--
New York, Autumn, 1907: Former private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is happy with her place in the world. She and her policeman husband, Daniel, have built quite a life for themselves in Greenwich Village, in their modest-yet-beautiful-home in...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of Lady Bird Johnson who, as the wife of President Lyndon Johnson, reminded citizens about the importance of conserving natural resources and promoted the beautification of cities and highways by planting wildflowers. Bluebonnets and lady's slippers, larkspurs and blazing stars, black-eyed Susans and Granny's nightcaps. From a lonely childhood in the Piney Woods of East Texas to an exciting life in the White House, Lady Bird Johnson loved...
14794) L.A. weather
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
"FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in L.A. Weather, a fun, fast-paced novel of an affluent Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza's Box of Saints. L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life...
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Be a Plant-Based Woman Warrior includes more than 125 recipes made for women on the go, from Apple Flax Flapjacks and Black Ramen Bowls, to Portabella Sliders with Green Goddess Sauce, to Mint Chip Outta Sight Brownies. And it includes big-flavored dinners like Sweet Potato and Cashew Ricotta Lasagna and Plant-Based Pad Thai, sure to tempt even the most reluctant vegetable-focused eaters. Full of life, captivating energy, and delicious food, this...
14796) The Post
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
This historical drama is based on the events surrounding the release of the Pentagon Papers, documents which detailed the history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam. The story centers on Kay Graham, the first female newspaper publisher in the country (specifically of the Washington Post), as well as her tough editor, Ben Bradlee. The two become involved in an unprecedented power struggle between journalists and the...
Author
Series
Daughter of Sherlock Holmes mystery volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Sherlock Holmes' daughter faces a new unsolvable mystery with spies and a threat to the crown. Joanna and the Watsons receive an unexpected visitor to 221b Baker Street during a nocturnal storm. A rain-drenched Dr. Alexander Verner arrives with a most harrowing tale. Verner has just returned from an unsettling trip to see a patient who he believes is being held against his will. Joanna quickly realizes that Verner's patient is a high-ranking Englishman...
14798) Girls of paper and fire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Formats
Description
"When Lei, seventeen, is stolen from her home to become one of nine Paper Girls, the Demon King's concubines, she proves to be more fire than paper." --
Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It's the highest honor they could hope for... and the most cruel. But this year, there's a ninth girl... and she's made of fire. Lei is a member of the lowest and most oppressed class in Ikhara. She's forced to go with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In November 1938, young Ruth Block is a Jewish girl in Frankfurt Germany, trying to cope with the ever tightening noose of Nazi oppression; her father's stationery store has been shut down, and her school closed; then one night her family's apartment is broken into, and her father is dragged out, arrested, and taken to a concentration camp -- and it becomes clear that if Ruth and her best friend Miriam are going to survive they must somehow get out...
14800) Harriet Tubman
Author
Series
Publisher
Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents information about Harriet Tubman, from her childhood in slavery to brave escape to the North and her work to help others escape slavery.
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