Karissa Vacker
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This family-saga series, set in a small Idaho town near a big lake and mountains, features a loving family and tightly connected stories. In the first book, Ryder Revisited, Chef Bethany Davis needs a job, and Ryder Quinn needs a Chef. But neither of them think she'll make his short list. He's wary of getting burned by his former lover again. In the second book, Calling Charlie, Maggie Quinn loves her role as bartender and co-owner of Quinn's... and...
82) Calling Charlie
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Maggie Quinn loves her role as bartender and co-owner of Quinn's. Calling Charlie Keane to place her weekly order is something she looks forward to. It's no secret to her friends and family that Maggie has a crush on Charlie's voice. She's eager to meet him in-person-but Charlie keeps rescheduling their business lunch. He enjoys their weekly calls too, but he's afraid that, when they meet, Maggie will be disappointed. But he may have waited too long-Maggie...
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After surviving the crash of a private jet that killed her fiancé, Allison struggles across the Colorado Rockies to make it home while, in Maine, her estranged mother tries to locate her.
When her fiancé's private plane crashes in the Colorado Rockies, Allison Carpenter survives-- but the fight for her life is just beginning. Allison knows secrets that powerful men will kill to keep buried. If they know she's alive, they will come for her. In Owl...
84) The heat is on
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Next Best Junior Chef volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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The second week of Next Best Junior Chef features family and traditions, as Caroline, Oliver, and Rae, ages eleven to twelve, face more challenges and another elimination.
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Winning the crown was only the beginning.
Jacs, now the rightful Queen of Frea, seems to be Queen in title alone. She scrambles to learn the customs and traditions of a Realm she had only read about in books. The Council of Four have her firmly under their thumb, and their ideas for the Queendom are oppressive and outdated. Their knowledge of her mother and Master Leschi's whereabouts is the only leverage they need to make the new Queen dance to...
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The never tilting world volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
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"After an ancient prophecy is betrayed, a world ruled by a long line of goddesses is split in two--one half in perpetual day, and the other in an endless night--and two young twin goddesses set out on separate and equally dangerous journeys to the Breach that divides them, hoping to save their broken world"--
Generations of twin goddesses ruled Aeon-- until one sister's betrayal defied an ancient prophecy and split their world in two. The planet...
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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"A year after the Bayview four were cleared of Simon Kelleher's death, a new mystery has cropped up--a game with dangerous consequences that's targeting students at Bayview again. And if the creator isn't found soon, dangerous could prove deadly"--
88) Finding Peace
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Stephanie Ketterman has been doing her level-best to find a new normal since her beloved husband's tragic death two years ago, but it's been a real struggle. After nearly three decades of wedded bliss with Paul, filling the gaping hole he left behind seems impossible. How can she look forward to her future when her heart is firmly stuck in the past? But when she begins to find evidence of secret trysts and cryptic notes written shortly before his...
89) Finding Home
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Anna Sullivan has spent the last thirty years traveling solo around the world as a nature photographer, and she's loved every minute of it. But suddenly, the nights seem long and lonely, and she looks forward to her trips away from Bluebird, Maine and her sisters, Cee-cee and Steph, less and less. When a cruel twist of fate brings her back home, Anna reevaluates everything in her life. Can she find happiness in the town she's spent a lifetime running...
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Next Best Junior Chef volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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Follows Tate, Rae, Caroline, and Oliver, ages nine to eleven, both on and off-camera as they compete in a televised cooking competition. Includes cooking tips.
91) Light years
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Light years (Kass Morgan) volume 1
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
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After centuries of exclusivity, the Quatra Fleet Academy finally accepts students from the settler planets, forcing four teenagers from different backgrounds, with different ambitions, motives, and missions, to work together to outmaneuver a mysterious alien enemy.
92) Can't look away
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"From the author of Tell Me Lies and Too Good to Be True comes Carola Lovering's Can't Look Away, a sexy suspense novel about the kind of addictive, obsessive love that keeps you coming back--no matter how hard you try to look away. In 2013, twenty-three-year old Molly Diamond is a barista, dreaming of becoming a writer. One night at a concert in East Williamsburg, she locks eyes with the lead singer, Jake Danner, and can't look away. Molly and Jake...
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hoopla Book Club – Spotlight Selection!
Visit theclub.hoopladigital.com for a discussion guide, exclusive author interview, meeting planner, and more.
Blending past and present, and told through three unique interwoven narratives that build on one another, a daring and brilliant debut novel that reimagines a chapter in the life of Sylvia Plath, telling the story behind the creation of her classic semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar.
A seductive...
94) UnBound
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Find out what happens to Connor, Risa, and Lev now that they've finally destroyed the Proactive Citizenry in this collection of short stories set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Unwind Dystology by Neal Shusterman.
Connor Lassiter's fight to bring down Proactive Citizenry and find a suitable alternative to unwinding concluded in UnDivided. Now Connor, Risa, and Lev are free to live in a peaceful future-or are they? Neal Shusterman...
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Feminine traits that were once disparaged as weaknesses -- such as sensitivity, intuition, and feeling emotional -- are reclaimed as powerful strengths that can be embraced as the keys to a happier life for everyone
Challenging old and outdated perceptions that feminine traits are weaknesses, The Feminine Revolution revisits those characteristics to show how they are powerful assets that should be embraced rather than maligned. It argues that feminine...
96) Nearlyweds
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Everyone says the first year of marriage is the hardest…but what would you do if you found out that you were never really married in the first place?
An irresistible, romantic comedy from award-winning author Beth Kendrick – three wildly different women form an unlikely friendship as they try to decide whether they'd re-do their I Do's. They've had the white dresses and the fancy receptions. But now that the honeymoon's over, Stella, Casey, and...
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Have you ever wondered how to measure your pizza, or how much ice cream is in your ice-cream cone? Basic principles of geometry, including measuring two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes, attributes of various shapes, and formulas for finding area and volume, are explored through informative and engaging text in this newest addition to the How Do series.
The How Do series is a great introduction to various STEM topics, each written in a format...
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An entertaining and timely exploration of how our food - from where it's grown to how we buy it - is in the midst of a transformation, showing how this is our chance to do better, for us, for our children, and for our planet, from a global expert on consumer behavior.
Our food system - how we produce, process, distribute, and consume food - is broken. But we have the opportunity to do better. Paco Underhill sets out to solve these problems and show...
99) The winner is
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Next Best Junior Chef volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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The finalists face surprises as they find their culinary knowledge, ingenuity, and friendship tested in the final week of competition that will determine who earns the title of Next Best Junior Chef. Includes facts about foods' flavors and textures and how they can be combined.
100) Finding tomorrow
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Bluebird Bay volume 1
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Celia Burrows thought she had it all - a handsome husband, two successful children, and a gorgeous beach house on the Northern coast of Maine. But her perfect life cracks apart when her husband of thirty years informs her that he's leaving. In a note. And since problems come in threes, her adult children reveal they've both been struggling with issues of their own. --