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62) Taken
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
"In the isolated town of Claysoot, every male is mysteriously "Heisted" on his eighteenth birthday, and seventeen-year-old Gray Weathersby is determined to figure out why"--
65) 99 days
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Molly Barlow is facing one long, hot summer--99 days--with the boy whose heart she broke and the boy she broke it for-- his brother.
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Language
English
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Description
In her newest well-tuned, witty, and altogether wonderful novel, bestselling author Elinor Lipman dares to ask: Can an upper-middle-class doctor find love with a shady, fast-talking salesman?
Meet Alice Thrift, surgical intern in a Boston hospital, high of I.Q. but low in social graces. She doesn’t mean to be acerbic, clinical, or blunt, but where was she the day they taught Bedside Manner 101? Into Alice’s workaholic and wallflower...
Meet Alice Thrift, surgical intern in a Boston hospital, high of I.Q. but low in social graces. She doesn’t mean to be acerbic, clinical, or blunt, but where was she the day they taught Bedside Manner 101? Into Alice’s workaholic and wallflower...
67) Country bride
Author
Series
Hope's Crossing volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Country bride: Kate Logan is devastated when Clay Franklin, her former fiancé and the man she's always loved, marries Rorie Campbell instead. But at the wedding and after a glass of champagne too many Kate proposes to her long-time friend, rancher Luke Rivers. Luke accepts her proposal and refuses to renege on his promise.
Woodrose Mountain: Hoping for a quieter life in Hope's Crossing, physical therapist Evie Blanchard instead finds herself, despite...
68) Dreamology
Author
Language
English
Description
Experiencing dreams about her soulmate all of her life, Alice meets the real boy, Max, when she moves to a new school and finds that their real relationship is more complicated than their dream one.
69) Noah's wife
Author
Language
English
Description
Moving to a small coastal community where she plans to revive its congregation at the side of her minister husband, Noah's wife is challenged by the resistance of eccentric new neighbors, her husband's internal crisis, and flooding rains that drive out scores of wild animals from the local zoo.
71) Bone Gap
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A 38-year-old American interior designer based in London and her independent-minded 74-year-old architect mother; a British investment banker in New York to see his ex-wife and young children; a resident ER doctor who experienced Hurricane Sandy when she was a medical student; two young men, 21-year-old NYU students; their friends; and others are thrust together when a major hurricane descends upon New York City and wreaks unimaginable chaos and...
73) Every day
Author
Series
Every day volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.
74) Bruiser
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Brontë befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
From National Book Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author Louise Erdrich, a profound and enchanting new novel: a richly imagined world "where butchers sing like angels."
Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for America. In Argus,
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Falling in love with her paramour but unable to divorce because of societal conventions, married Jazz Age socialite Theresa Marshall tries to make the best of the situation but reconsiders her values when her lover falls for her soon-to-be sister-in-law.
79) Yes no maybe so
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Jamie Goldberg, who chokes when speaking to strangers, and Maya Rehrman, who is having the worst Ramadan ever, are paired to knock on doors and ask for votes for the local state senate candidate.
80) Magic: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling contemporary novel that vividly portrays the glamorous White Dinners that occur annually in Paris, and the ups and downs of three interconnected couples for whom the dinners have become a tradition. The White Dinner is a love poem to friendship, joy, elegance, and the monuments of Paris. And each year it is an unforgettable summer night, especially for Jean-Philippe Dumas, a longtime participant, and the three couples he's carefully selected...
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