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Author
Series
Boxcar children volume Prequel
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during ablizzard.
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Nathan Winer is a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter who lost his father years ago to a human evil that is greater and closer at hand than any the boy can imagine - until he learns of it first-hand. Amber Rose is a beautiful young woman forced to live beneath that evil who recognizes even as a child that Nathan is her first and last chance at escape. And it is the story of William Tell Oliver, a solitary old man who watches the growing evil...
Author
Publisher
Dundurn
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A tale of one man's shipwrecked life and an unlikely crew of rescuers. Having lost his long-time journalism job and been swindled out of his life savings, fifty-five-year-old Charles Howard is standing by the edge of Halifax Harbour on a foggy morning contemplating his dismal future when Ramona Danforth interrupts his ritual of self-pity. And so begins a most interesting relationship. Charles and Ramona decide to travel to his childhood home, Stewart...
46) Unsettled ground
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. To an outsider, it looks like poverty; to them, it is home. But when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they've...
47) Wonderland
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"One mother's love may be all that stands between her family, an enigmatic presence--and madness. After years of city life, Orla and Shaw Bennett are ready for the quiet of New York's Adirondack mountains--or at least, they think they are. Settling into the perfect farmhouse with their two children, they are both charmed and unsettled by the expanse of their land, the privacy of their individual bedrooms, and the isolation of life a mile from any...
Author
Series
Lone Star Ridge volume 1
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Their past never faded -- and neither did their passion. Between running his family ranch and dealing with far too many needy relatives, Shaw Jameson doesn't have time for more trouble. But when his first love, former-child-star-turned-businesswoman Sunny Dalton, returns to Lone Star Ridge, Shaw senses things are about to get a whole lot more interesting. Shaw isn't prepared for the memories that come flooding back now...or the reignited spark between...
49) Expiación
Author
Series
Colección compactos volume 553
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
En un día de verano en 1935, Briony Tallis, de trece años, es testigo del coqueteo entre su hermana mayor, Cecilia, y Robbie Turner, el hijo de un sirviente. Pero la comprensión incompleta de Briony de los motivos adultos y su imaginación precoz provocan un crimen que cambiará todas sus vidas, un crimen cuyas repercusiones La expiación sigue a través del caos y la carnicería de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y hasta el final del siglo XX.
On a...
50) The lost man
Author
Language
English
Description
Two brothers meet at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. In an isolated belt of Western Australia, they are each other's nearest neighbor, their homes four hours' drive apart. The third brother lies dead at their feet. Something caused Cam, the middle child who had been in charge of the family homestead, to die alone in the middle of nowhere. So the eldest brother returns with his younger sibling to the family...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Fans of Taylor's bestselling Irish Country novels know Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly as the irascible senior partner of a general practice in the colorful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. Newly married to his once long-lost sweetheart, he's ready to settle into domestic bliss, but there's always something requiring his attention, be it a riding accident, a difficult patient with a worrisome heart condition, a spot of grouse-hunting, or even some tricky...
Author
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In rural Kentucky, back in 1933, Carol's daddy lost his 13-year-old daughter in a game of cards. Award-winning author Simon Van Booy's spellbinding novel spans decades as he tells the story of Carol and the people in her life. Incidents intersect and lives unexpectedly change course in this masterfully interwoven story of chance and choice that leads home again to a night blessed with light. "What you give in this world," an old man tells his grandson,...
53) The hole
Author
Series
Publisher
New Directions Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Asa's husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family's home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best to quickly adjust to their new rural lives, to their remoteness, to the constant presence of her in-laws and the incessant buzz of cicadas. While her husband is consumed with his job, Asa is left to explore her surroundings on her own: she makes trips...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Buffalo Valley: The town of Buffalo Valley, North Dakota--a community in farm country--is undergoing a revival. Vaughn Kyle, who's just out of the army, is looking for a place to live, a life to live. While he's waiting for his ambitious fiancee to make up her mind, he visits Buffalo Valley one snowy day and meets a young woman named Carrie Hendrickson. As they grow close, Vaughn has to question his feelings for the woman he thought he loved. He knows...
Author
Series
My neighbor Totoro volume 4
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
When the news comes that Mei and Satsuki's mother will have to stay in the hospital longer, Mei decides to take her some corn to make her better. When her little sister disappears, Satsuki enlists Totoro's help in finding her.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It's September 1999 and the world is on the cusp of a new millennium. In rural Maine, Gordon St. Onge, known as "The Prophet," presides over his controversial Settlement, a place rumored to be a cult, where his many wives and children live off the grid and off the land. Out in greater America, Bruce Hummer, the aging CEO of multinational corporation Duotron Lindsey, lays off workers by the thousands. Meanwhile, the newest member of the Settlement,...
Author
Series
My neighbor Totoro volume 2
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Four-year-old Mei, adjusting to life in a new home and learning to get along without her mother, who has been hospitalized, follows a funny-looking creature to the trunk of an ancient camphor tree one afternoon while her sister is at school, and enters the whimsical world of Totoro.
Author
Series
My neighbor Totoro volume 3
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Mei and Satsuki continue to adjust to their new country home. They've made friends with the neighbor boy Kanta and have Granny to look after them. And, Totori, who watches over them too, shows them a strange Cat Bus, helps them with their new garden, and takes them on a forest adventure.
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A beautiful and faithful graphic novel adaptation of Richard Adams's beloved story of a group of rabbits on an epic journey in search of home."Every rabbit that stays behind is in great danger. We will welcome any rabbit who joins us." Watership Down is a classic tale of survival, hope, courage, and friendship that has delighted and inspired readers around the world for more than fifty years. Masterfully adapted by award-winning author James Sturm...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When her business partner is accused of serious financial crimes, superstar influencer Cat Cranwell -- an engineered marvel of beauty, energy, and fun -- falls from her penthouse perch. Desperate to get away from the online trolls and paparazzi documenting her disgrace, Cat accepts her uncle's offer to work with him in Kannery National Park, Montana. About as far as possible from life as she's known it. Cat's world shifts from the swirling haze of...
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