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8021) Win or lose
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Devin's team thinks she is taking too much credit for their winning streak and she must keep the team together"--
8022) Home again
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Recently separated from her husband, Alice decides to start over by moving back to her hometown of Los Angeles with her two young daughters. During a night out on her 40th birthday, Alice meets three aspiring filmmakers who happen to be in need of a place to live. Alice agrees to let the guys stay in her guest house temporarily, but the arrangement ends up unfolding in unexpected ways. Alice's unlikely new family and new romance comes to a crashing...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Centers around the rich vineyards and richer people of Northern California's wine country. Winery matriarch Angela Channing lets nothing - not family, honor, or the law - stand between her and power. Murder takes center stage after someone eliminates Carlo Agretti. The trail to the killer winds through a minefield of adultery, divorce, weddings, death threats and battles over control of the wine empire.
Publisher
Gaiam
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An old fashioned Christmas: A sequel to An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving, high-society matron Isabella Caldwell takes her granddaughter Tilly on a tour of Europe, finally arriving in Dublin, Ireland. There, Tilly is romanced by the son of their hosts -- but is it for love or money?
Three Wise Women: Liz is a fiercely ambitious and focused professional with no emotional ties including those to her predictable and practical fiance, Peter. Then one Christmas,...
8025) Petals on the wind
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Carrie, Chris, and Cathy escape from the attic their mother locked them in for years and the effects of this cruel torture on their minds make their plans for revenge easier.
8026) Gun love: a novel
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Pearl's mother took her away from her family just weeks after she was born, and drove off to central Florida determined to begin a new life for herself and her daughter--in the parking lot next to a trailer park. Pearl grew up in the front seat of their '94 Mercury, while her mother lived in the back. Despite their hardships, mother and daughter both adjusted to life, making friends with the residents of the trailers and creating a deep connection...
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Films Inc
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
On Golden Pond: Shows the conflicts between three generations as the Thayers, a crotchety old professor and his wife, spend their summer together on a lake in New England. The couple agrees to mind their estranged daughter's boyfriend's child, while daughter and boyfriend go on a trip. The boy bonds with the old man in a way his daughter never did. Shows the terrors and graces of aging.
Away from her: Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have...
8028) To the end of the land
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. she sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the "notifiers" who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband, Ilan, she drags along their former best friend and her former lover Avram. Avram served in the army alongside...
Author
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Our favorite troublemaker is back in this graphic novel collection of wild childhood adventures set on the Ivory Coast! Akissi and her posse are still wreaking havoc wherever they go. Join her as she tackles skeletons, plays matchmaker with mixed results, dreads moving to the wolf-infested wilds of Paris, and writes poetry, which stinks."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After a long pestering campaign, nine-year-old Anna and her younger brother Tom finally get a pair of hamsters, but when the pets are found mysteriously dead, the siblings and neighbor Suzanne launch an investigation throughout their neighborhood.
8031) Where there was fire
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In John Manuel Arias's lush and lyrical debut, a Costa Rican family wrestles with the aftermath of neocolonialism, a deadly secret, and an all-consuming fire. Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company's most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, the future of Teresa Cepeda Valverde's family is changed forever. Now, twenty-seven years later, Teresa and her daughter Lyra are still picking...
8033) Prairie Evers
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old Prairie is happy being home-schooled and raising her flock of chickens, so transferring to regular school is a big change, but fortunately she meets a wonderful friend"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"On September 11, 2001, Joe Maio went to work in the north tower of the World Trade Center. He never returned, leaving behind a wife, Sharri, and 15-month old son, Devon. Five years later, Sharri remarried, and Devon welcomed a new dad into his life. For thousands, the whole country really, 9/11 is a day of grief. For Adam and Sharri Maio Schefter and their family it's not just a day of grief, but also hope. This is a story of 9/11, but it's also...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eagerly anticipating her Quinceanera, the fifteenth birthday celebration that will signify her adulthood, Marisol is troubled by a lack of money, her mother's new boyfriend, changes in her best friend, and the absence of the father she never knew.
8037) Mercury
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1990 and seventeen-year-old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual loner, she seeks a place at someone's table and a family of her own. The first thing she sees when she arrives in town is three men standing on a rooftop. Their silhouettes blot out the sun. The Joseph brothers become Marley's whole world before she can blink. Soon, she is young wife to one, The One Who Got Away to another, and...
8038) Reckless, glorious, girl
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Beatrice Miller copes with the ups and downs of friendships, puberty, and identity, guided by the wisdom and love of her beloved Mamaw and mom, the summer before seventh grade..
Author
Publisher
Street Noise Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A celebration of the wacky and wonderful Jewish grandmothers who nurtured the author as she grew from a kid struggling with anxiety and insecurity to a teen finding her own voice. Danny Noble's mother insisted that they celebrate all types of religious holidays with fun and fireworks, but they wouldn't bother with the fasting ones as long as they were kind. Grandma would pinch her cheeks and say "shayne punim" which in Yiddish means pretty face,...
Author
Series
My Fox volume 3
Publisher
[David Blaze]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"My name is Jonah Johnson, and I'm in the 6th grade-- but please call me Joe. My whole world was made better when I met a talking fox. I'm about to find out how Fox got the ability to walk and talk like humans. But before I can, we have to avoid a whole new enemy that wants to take Fox away. Oh, and Fox teaches a squirrel, opossum, rabbit, and raccoon how to fart!"--Page 4 of cover.
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