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1) Skim
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"Skim" is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school in the early '90s. When her classmate Katie Matthews is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself, the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. Suicide, depression, love, homosexuality, crushes, cliques of popular, manipulative peers-- the whole gamut of teen life is explored in this poignant glimpse into the heartache of being 16.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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"Bob Comet is a retired librarian, isolated but not lonely, living out his quiet days in a mint-colored house in Oregon, surrounded by his books and small comforts. One morning, out on his daily walk, he performs an act of kindness that brings him into contact with a nearby senior center, where he soon begins volunteering. Here, as a community of peers and friends gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from...
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Pub. Date
2017
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"A jaw-dropping novel of psychological suspense that asks, If the love of your life disappeared without a trace, how far would you go to find out why? Hannah Monroe's boyfriend, Matt, is gone. His belongings have disappeared from their house. Every call she ever made to him, every text she ever sent, every photo of him and any sign of him on social media have vanished. It's as though their last four years together never happened. As Hannah struggles...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Hollis Shaw's life seems picture-perfect. She's the star of the popular food blog, Hungry with Hollis, and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, Matthew leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis's perfect life-her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her daughter, Caroline-grow deeper. When Hollis hears about something...
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Britt-Marie can’t stand mess. A disorganized cutlery drawer ranks high on her list of unforgivable sins. She begins her day at 6 a.m., because only lunatics wake up later than that. And she is not passive-aggressive. Not in the least. It's just that sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms, which is certainly not her intention. She is not one to judge others—no matter how ill-mannered, unkempt, or morally suspect they might...
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Series
Rotten School volume 9
Pub. Date
2011, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Jennifer Ecch is determined to go out with Bernie Bridges, but when they're both invited to the All-Night party Bernie comes up with a plan that will finally make her stop pursuing him.
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
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"Ava can't see or touch him, unless she's dreaming. She can't hear his voice, except for the faint whispers in her mind. Most would think she's crazy, but she knows he's here. Jackson. The boy Ava thought she'd spend the rest of her life with. He's back from the dead, as proof that love truly knows no bounds"--Cover, P. [4].
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Highland grooms volume 2
Pub. Date
2017
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Widowed and forced to remarry in three years' time or forfeit her son's inheritance, Daisy Bristol, Lady Chatwick, has plenty of suitors vying for her hand and her fortune. But a letter from a long-lost love sends Daisy and her young son to her Scottish Highland estate to buy time for his return. Along the way she encounters the powerful Cailean Mackenzie, laird of Arrandale and a notorious smuggler, and she is utterly and unwillingly bewitched. Cailean...
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Pretty little liars volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
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When one of their tightly-knitted group mysteriously disappears, four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who knows their secrets.
10) Making faces
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Pub. Date
2015.
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Five young men went off to war, and only one came back. Ambrose Young had been beautiful-- but as a wounded warrior, he faced a loss of identity. To Fern Taylor, he had been so beautiful that he was someone she could never have. Can friendship overcome heartache? There is a little beauty and a little beast in all of us.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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Frankie Landau-Banks attempts to take over a secret, all-male society at her exclusive prep school, and her antics with the group soon draw some unlikely attention and have unexpected consequences that could change her life forever.
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"Four young women's lives intersect in the apartment they've shared in Hell's Kitchen: Claire, a shoe designer; Abby, an aspiring novelist; Morgan, a successful financial consultant; and Sasha, a resident in obstetrics. As different as they are from one another, the women had become a family by choice. But while their lives had proceeded smoothly in the years they'd lived together, new relationships, job opportunities, and surprising circumstances...
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Bregdan Chronicles volume 11
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Carrie, Moses and Rose, Jeremy and Marietta, Thomas and Abby, and Janie continue to struggle to rebuild their lives as the nation struggles with post-Civil War realities.
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Pub. Date
2024.
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This is a collection of "six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages. In Towles’s novel Rules of Civility, the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves New York City in September 1938 with the intention...
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Deep freeze volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Description
The earth has frozen. Governments have fallen apart. Infrastructure has crumbled. What is left of San Diego struggles to survive. The kids of Samuel S. Fornland Boardinghouse have nothing holding them back now, except that they have nowhere to run, and no way to get there. In a last-ditch effort to escape the city, fifteen-year-old James Rives and sixteen-year-old Abe Williams find an abandoned cruise ship in the harbor. They believe they have what...
17) Breaking free
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Pub. Date
2014
Description
Most of us would do anything to love and be loved; we can't deny it. But what if this desire was so strong it single-handedly led us into a destructive trap that seemed impossible to break free from? When twenty-four-year-old college graduate, Peri Jones, finds herself falling in love and into a trap, she has to learn, through many of life's trials and victories, how to untangle the mess she is left with. Is it possible to deceive our way into love?...
18) Season of love
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"A witty, glittering rom-com about finding the courage to face your past and learning what it truly means to return home, perfect for fans of Jenny Bayliss and Alexandra Bellefleur. Artist Miriam Blum has her decoupaged glitter ducks perfectly lined up. Only for one phone call to bring her whole life all crashing down. Her beloved and eccentric great-aunt has just died-leaving her part-owner of the only Jewish-owned Christmas tree farm in the country....
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
This is the classic tale of boy meets girl: Girl...goes home with someone else. Meet Eve. Shes a dreamer, a feeler, a careening well of sensitivities who cant quite keep her feet on the ground, or steer clear of trouble. Shes a laugher, a crier, a quirky and quick-witted bleeding-heart-worrier. Meet Ben. Hes an engineer, an expert at leveling floors who likes order, structure, and straight lines. He doesnt opine, he doesnt ruminate, he doesnt simmer...
20) Story Ave
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
South Bronx teen Kadir is a gifted visual artist who loses his way following the death of his younger brother. Overcome with grief and struggling with the pressures of school and family, he escapes into the thrilling yet dangerous world of graffiti gangs, seeking an outlet for the creative force threatening to explode out of him. To prove himself and join his neighborhood's ruling gang, Kadir tries to rob no-nonsense MTA conductor Luis on the Story...
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