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Troubleshooters volume 5
Language
English
Description
White House staffer Joan DaCosta finds herself drawn to her Navy SEAL liason, Lt. Mike Muldoon. As tension mounts between them, a far more sinister danger is lurking. Now, to protect their commander in chief, Joan and Muldoon must not only risk their hearts, but their very lives.
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Language
English
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"In a twisting, mesmerizing story that is as beautifully written as it is utterly propulsive, Goodman keeps us breathlessly turning the pages right to the shocking and poignant end. I absolutely loved this layered and moving novel!" --Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Confessions on the 7:45 You're never really alone Journalist Joan Lurie has written a seething article exposing a notorious newspaper tycoon as a sexual predator. But...
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Language
English
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"Joan is a thirtysomething ICU physician at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who moved to America to secure the American dream for their children, Joan is intensely devoted to her work, happily solitary, successful. She does look up sometimes and wonder where her true roots lie: at the hospital, where her white coat makes her feel needed, or with her family, who try to shape her life according to their own cultural and...
Author
Series
Claire Malloy mysteries volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
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Language
English
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Description
"The novel begins with the character of Ethan, a lawyer living in New York City who tells us the story of his family's life just as they learn his father - a textile manufacturer who spent long trips throughout Asia - has fathered a secret family from a woman he met on one of his trips and set up in a house in Queens. From here, we move to different related characters as the novel expands outward to the woman, her sons, a few surprise relations, some...
12) A family apart
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.
Author
Series
Goddess girls. Main series volume 22
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When things start to go wrong after Nyx, goddess of the night, enrolls at Mount Olympus Academy, she has to determine who is responsible for a series of disasters while trying to change the other students' minds about nighttime.
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Series
Goddess girls. Main series volume 14
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After Iris creates rainbow slides that allow her to get to Earth from Mount Olympus quickly, she becomes a courier in high demand.
18) Close to famous
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.
Author
Series
Goddess girls. Main series volume 26
Publisher
Aladdin Quix
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Get to know Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld, in this twenty-sixth Goddess Girls adventure!--
Author
Series
Goddess girls. Main series volume 19
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In order to fit in at Mount Olympus Academy, new girl and forest-mountain nymph Echo copies the mannerisms of all the other students, but instead of ingratiating herself to her classmates, it only seems to grate on them.
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