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The Goodbye Summer is an unforgettable novel about daring to love, braving a loss, and setting yourself free, byPatricia Gaffney, the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, The Saving Graces. Poignantly exploring one woman's inner growth and self discovery over the course of a season of profound change, The Goodbye Summer is women's fiction at its finest-heartbreaking, healing, emotional, and real. As Nora Roberts so aptly puts it, Patricia...
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A woman of relentless passion and legendary allure, Katharine Tempest rises from obscurity to become one of the most sought-after actresses of her time. She has two great loves, and one great friendship, with a woman who trusts her with her life. But not even the deepest friendship or most undying love can compete with Katherine's career. And when the choices she makes change the lives of those closest to her, Katherine must live with her mistakes....
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Winds of War and The Caine Mutiny, this saga spans from 1948 to 1967, the early decades of the state of Israel as it fights for its life, outmatched and surrounded by enemies-the first of the two-part epic that concludes with The Glory.
Zev Barak, Sam Pasternak, Don Kishote, and Benny Luria are all officers in the Israeli army, caught up in the sweep of history, fighting the desperate desert battles...
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"Frances Mae Livingston's firm grip of her family's destructive history makes her hold her husband and four children even closer. But she's losing bits of herself while proving to everybody and her mama that she's enough. There's no way she'll repeat her mama's mistakes, even if it kills her. Annabelle McMillan didn't have trouble kicking the Eastern North Carolina dust off her feet. The tough part was replanting herself in familiar soil. Now she's...
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An award-winning, internationally bestselling author makes her American debut with this taut, riveting domestic drama with the compulsive intensity of The Good Girl, The Pocket Wife, and The Stranger, about a long-lost brother convicted of a horrifying crime and a sister's fight to clear his name.
A single mother and lawyer, Iris has a colorful caseload, a young son with behavior issues, and a judgmental mother.
She also has a brother-shocking news...
7) McMummy
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
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Looking after an eccentric scientist's greenhouse doesn't seem any stranger than the other odd jobs taken by Mozie and his partner Battie--until Mozie discovers a large, mummy-shaped pod on one of the plants.
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A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year: It is a midsummer's evening in the English countryside, and the three grown Palmer children are coming to the end of an enjoyable meal in the company of their partners and offspring. From this pleasant vantage point they play a dinner-party game: What kind of society would you be willing to accept if you didn't know your place in it? But the abstract question of justice, like all their family conversations,...
10) Kid power
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Eleven-year-old Janie advertises to do odd jobs in her neighborhood and receives so much business, she hires her friends and becomes manager of the Kid Power Agency.
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Wealthy recluse Quentin Fears meets the woman of his dreams on a rare outing to a party and the relationship seems perfect until he learns she holds the key to a dirty family secret and only he can stop her from unleashing an ageless malevolence upon the world.
14) To be a logger
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Joel, son of an Oregon logger, grows up in a family that sees the forest as a thing to be cut down; but as he watches fire, flood, and cutting damage the forests he loves, and realizes the dangers of his father's profession, he is better able to select the right future for himself.
15) Karen's movie
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Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 63
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IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!
Take five!Karen's grandad is sick. Karen wants to do something nice to cheer him up. So, she makes a movie for him. All Karen's friends are going to star in her movie. But uh-oh. Karen's having problems on her set. And now her friends are mad at her. Making a movie isn't as easy as she thought! Ann M. Martin is the creator...
16) Reproduction
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"Felicia, a nineteen-year-old student from a Caribbean family, and Edgar, the lazy-minded and impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet by chance when their ailing mothers are assigned the same hospital room. After the death of Felicia's mother and the recovery of Edgar's, Felicia drops out of high school and takes a job as caregiver to Edgar's mother. The odd-couple relationship between Edgar and Felicia, ripe with miscommunications, misundertandings,...
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Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 64
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IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!
When live gives you lemons...Karen sets up a lemonade stand in front of her house. But she has only a few customers. So Karen sells lemonade at a Krushers practice. Now business is booming. Karen is spending more time selling lemonade and less time playing softball. Kristy is mad at Karen. Uh-oh. Can Karen play softball and sell...
19) Cat running
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IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
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When eleven-year-old Cat Kinsey builds a secret hideout to escape her unhappy homelife, she slowly gets to know a poor family who have come to California after losing their Texas home to the dust storms of the 1930s.
20) Karen's toys
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Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 65
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IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!
No guns allowed. Karen and Andrew love the action movie Space Game. Now they want the movie toys. But, Mommy won't let Karen and Andrew have any. She does not approve of toy guns. Boo. Then Karen comes up with a sneaky plan. Will Karen and Andrew get their toys after all?
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