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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns iut into a place to bury her untold stories -- literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried but failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a nysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--Provided...
3) Heartless
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In this prequel to Alice in Wonderland, Cath would rather open a bakery and marry for love than accept a proposal from the King of Hearts, especially after meeting the handsome and mysterious court jester.
4) Hooked
Author
Series
Never after novels (McIntire) volume 1
Language
English
Description
"James has always had one agenda: destroy his enemy, Peter Michaels. When Peter's twenty-year-old daughter Wendy shows up in James's bar, he sees his way in. Seduce the girl and use her for his revenge. It's the perfect plan, until things in James's organization begin to crumble. Suddenly, he has to find the traitor in his midst, and his plan for revenge gets murkier as James starts to see Wendy as more than just a pawn in his game. Wendy has been...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
There's nothing worse than peaking in high school. Nobody knows that better than Josie Pie. She was kind of a big deal. She dropped out of high school to be a star! But the bigger she was, the harder she fell.. And Josie fell. Hard. Ouch. Broadway dream: dead. Meanwhile, her life keeps imploding. Best friend: distant. Boyfriend: busy. Mom: not playing with a full deck? Desperate to escape, Josie gets into reading. Literally. She reads a book and suddenly...
Author
Series
Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, twins Alex and Conner leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about"--
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