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Daisy Spencer's name is on everyone's lips. How could the sensible daughter of Trinity Harbor's self-proclaimed patriarch take in the boy caught hot-wiring her car? Whether he's a modern-day Huck Finn or not, the town is in an uproar. Daisy can ignore their nay-saying. Her real obstacle is ... that man. That man is the boy's uncle, tough D.C. cop Walker Ames, who sees his nephew as his last chance at redemption. Soon he's commuting to the charming...
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2023.
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Charlie Fitzer is working as a substitute teacher, trying to get his life back on track after a divorce, being laid off, and caring for his recently passed father. The death of his Uncle Jake, who he has not had contact with in decades, makes the financial news for the fortune he made owning and managing a parking empire. Charlie receives a request from a representative of Uncle Jake's: represent Jake at the memorial service. It's an offer Charlie...
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2023.
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"From dystopian visionary and bestselling phenomenon Veronica Roth comes a razor-sharp reimagining of Antigone. In Arch-Conspirator, Roth reaches back to the root of legend and delivers a world of tomorrow both timeless and unexpected. "A gut punch of a story. Roth takes everything fragile about love, everything powerful about certain doom, and blooms with it. You'll be holding your breath until the very last word."-Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling...
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1160L
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"In the spirit of The Bartender's Tale, a lively and poignant coming-of-age story about a boy and his great-uncle on a cross-country odyssey. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she...
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2024.
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"With his brother getting remarried in Italy, Patrick takes his niece and nephew back under his wing, and as they travel through Europe, he tries his best to help them understand love, while dealing with a groom with cold feet, his over-flirtatious sister and other disasters"--
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Way of the warrior kid volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
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IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
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610L
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English
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Marc has to spend every day of his summer at camp with Nathan James, a bully. When Uncle Jake comes back into town, Marc realizes that being a Warrior Kid isn't just about being strong on the outside; it's also about being strong on the inside. Can Marc learn how to control his temper, get himself the bik he wants, and get Nathan off his back?
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"Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence-until the day her boyfriend Hideaki, the man she expected to wed, casually announces he's been cheating on her and is marrying the other woman. Suddenly, Takako's life is in freefall. She loses her job, her friends, and her acquaintances, and spirals into a deep depression. In the depths of her despair, she receives a call from her distant uncle Satoru. An unusual man who has always...
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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740L
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Kate's humdrum life is transformed when her eccentric Uncle Herbert brings her a colossal locomotive train, the Silver Arrow, as her eleventh birthday gift, leading her and her younger brother on a mysterious quest.
11) My apron
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Philomel Books
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1994.
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IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A child helps Uncle Adam plaster the chimney.
12) Mansfield Park
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IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 35
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1180L
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English
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New chronology and further reading; Tony Tanner's original introduction reinstated Edited with an introduction by Kathryn Sutherland.
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"Growing up outside a US military base in South Korea in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Insu--the son of a Korean mother and a German father enlisted in the US Army--spends his days with his "half and half" friends skipping school, selling scavenged Western goods on the black market, watching Hollywood movies, and testing the boundaries between childhood and adulthood. When he hears a legend that water collected in a human skull will cure any sickness,...
17) Seconds away
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IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
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HL 550L
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Mickey and his new friends find themselves at the center of a murder investigation involving their friend Rachel.
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Is he ready to be a father to this little girl? Learning he's guardian to his orphaned niece sends child-averse architect Michael O'Connell's life into a tailspin. He's floored by the responsibility, so when child life specialist Mariah Anderson agrees to pitch in at home, Michael thinks she's heaven-sent. Michael is shocked at the depth of his own connection to Mariah, and when she moves in, he opens his heart to her in ways he never could have imagined....
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