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Mindy Kaling lived many years as the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike. She became an off-Broadway performer and playwright, an impersonator, comedy writer and actress. A tour of the author's life and her unscientific observations on romance, friendship, and Hollywood.
22) Season of love
Author
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Christmas masquerade: Jo Marie meets her dream man at Mardi Gras, but by Christmas he's someone else's fiance. Or is he?
Thanksgiving prayer: Claudia Masters knows that Seth Lessinger is the ONE. Yet, for the love that will last a lifetime, is she willing to give up all she has worked for to be with him?
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 66
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In Milan to attend the unveiling of a parchment that contains the original recipe for a traditional holiday bread, Geronimo Stilton is shocked when a thief posing as him steals the recipe, forcing him to catch the culprit and clear his name.
Author
Series
Missing Clarissa volume 2
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Despite their resolution to avoid mysteries and podcasts, Cam and Blair re-enter investigative mode when Mattie Brosillard seeks their help, convinced that someone is impersonating her sister Lola, who disappeared five years ago.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Anne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather's stories of Ireland. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. There, overcome with memories of the man she adored and consumed by a history she never knew, she is pulled into another time. The Ireland of 1921, teetering on the edge of war, is a dangerous place in which to awaken. But there Anne finds herself, hurt, disoriented, and under the care of Dr. Thomas...
26) Shatter city
Author
Series
Impostors (Scott Westerfeld) volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Assuming her twin's identity, Frey works to destroy her father, but when a rebel uprising strands her in a city that comes under attack, Frey must step out of the shadows to find her missing sister and take action against her tyrant father.
27) Genuine fraud
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat. Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete. An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe two. A bad romance, or maybe three.
28) Impostors
Author
Series
Impostors (Scott Westerfeld) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In a world that is rapidly descending into chaos, Frey and Rafi are twin sisters, but few people know of Frey's existence, because she has been raised to be her sister's body double and lethal bodyguard, while Rafi has been raised to further the family's political power--but when their father sends Frey in her sister's place as collateral in a tricky deal, Col, the son of a rival leader, gets close enough to begin to suspect something, and Frey must...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Gemma's favorite kind of beach is an empty one. Social interactions are too much for her to handle. She always says the wrong thing--if she manages to say anything at all. She can't even bring herself to speak to her longtime crush, Beau Booker, without losing sleep over her own awkwardness. During a solo outing to her favorite beach, Gemma realizes--to her horror--that the popular kids from school have shown up to throw a party....
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Juliette loves Nate. She will follow him anywhere. She's even become a flight attendant for his airline so she can keep a closer eye on him. They are meant to be. The fact that Nate broke up with her six months ago means nothing. Because Juliette has a plan to win him back. She is the perfect girlfriend. And she'll make sure no one stops her from getting exactly what she wants. True love hurts, but Juliette knows it's worth all the pain.."Dust jacket...
31) Never evers
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Mayhem and romance ensue when tweens Mouse and Jack meet on the slopes during a school ski trip"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Miranda's life and career have been a roller-coaster ride. Her successful rise to the top of the booming lifestyle industry led to a humiliating fall after a product she endorsed flopped. When she's desperate to get away from it all, she suddenly receives a mysterious letter from a young cousin in England, a member of the infamous Summer family. Curious about this legendary clan she has never met, Miranda arrives at the renowned Barnsley Estate, posing...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This second volume of That's So Raven contains three of her funniest episodes featuring some of her best impersonations, a never-before-seen episode, and a behind-the-scenes feature that demonstrates how they create the 'many faces of Raven.'
34) Dave
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Kevin Kline stars as an off-the-wall, temporary replacement for the missing president. His unusual style of governing and decision making tip off the opposition that something is definitely "out-of-order" in Washington.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A laugh-out-loud funny and whip-smart romantic comedy from the author of The Shaadi Set-Up, about a young woman who takes the place of her celebrity doppelgänger, and must fake-date the actress's sexy costar boyfriend"--
Writer Freya Lal has a huge secret: she's a dead ringer for It-girl actress Mandi Roy. Her second novel is due in a month, but inspiration is nowhere to be found. Desperate to shake off her writer's block, Freya leans into her...
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Series
Publisher
Hardie Grant Egmont
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ottilie Colter and her brother, Gully, have always fended for themselves. So when Gully goes missing one night, Ottilie sets out to find him -- and soon makes a horrible discovery; Gully has been forcibly recruited by the Narroway Hunt, a secretive male-only organisation that hunts savage, blight-spreading monsters called "dredretches". Disguising herself as a boy, Ottilie infiltrates the Hunt -- but quickly realises that taking her brother home won't...
37) Pretty revenge
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Kerrie O'Malley, jobless and in an unfulfilling relationship, can isolate the singular moment in her life when things veered off course--the night she was irrevocably wronged by someone she looked up to. Eighteen years later, when Kerrie sees the very woman who destroyed her life on television, a fire ignites inside her. The stakes are high. The risks are perilous. But she'll stop at nothing to achieve the retribution she deserves. Jordana Pierson...
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Language
English
Description
"Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom had experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Devastatingly, her father was in charge of the plant, and the meltdown may have been his fault. Was he drunk when it happened? Thousands of people are forced...
39) I love my dad
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Blocked on social media and concerned for his son's life, Chuck impersonates a waitress online and starts checking in with Franklin. But things begin to spiral when Franklin falls for this imaginary girl and wants nothing more than to meet her in person, as Chuck has inadvertently catfished his own son.
Author
Series
The Bolds volume 2
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"The Bolds are a family of hyenas living as humans in a suburban house. But now their kindness to animal waifs and strays has become legendary, and more and more animals keep turning up to stay!"--
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