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7841) Eight keys
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Elise, orphaned since age three, becomes disheartened by middle school, with its bullies, changing relationships, and higher expectations, keys to long-locked rooms and messages from her late father help hercope.
Author
Series
Isadora Moon volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Half-fairy, half-vampire Isadora Moon goes on a family camping trip to the beach and loses her father's heirloom comb.
7843) Flash burnout: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In this debut novel, Madigan captures her photo-prone protagonist with balanced wit and seriousness as he navigates crucial moments in his adolescence. In a tangle of life and death, love and loyalty, 15-year-old Blake emerges with a more sharply defined snapshot of himself.
"Telephoto lens. Zoom. In a shutter release millisecond, Blake's world turns upside down. The nameless woman with the snake tattoo is not just another assignment. 'That's my...
7844) Man at the helm: a novel
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Born into a posh family, ten-year old Lizzie Vogel has lived a charmed life thus far, with a big sister who knows everything, a cute baby brother, and a full-time housekeeper who bakes jam tarts. But when, in 1970, Lizzie's father abandons her mother and packs his ex-family off to the tiny village of Flatstone, life for the Vogels veers catastrophically off-course. The new neighbors disapprove of divorcees and fatherless children, and Lizzie's theatrical...
7845) My Father's House
Author
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
Non Fiction A memoir of incest and of healing. 4
7846) Bellfield Hall
Author
Series
Dido Kent mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Richard Montague rushes off from his engagement party, never to be seen again. Distraught with worry, his fiance, Catherine, sends for her spinster aunt, Miss Dido Kent, to discover the truth behind his disappearance.
7847) The star maker
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
With the help of his popular Uncle Chester, a young Chinese American boy tries hard to fulfill a promise to have firecrackers for everyone on the Chinese New Year in 1954. Includes an afterword with information about the Chinese customs portrayed in the story.
7849) The last chance matinee
Author
Series
Hudson sisters novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The first in an "all-new series, The Hudson Sisters, following a trio of reluctant sisters as they set out to fulfill their father's dying wish. In the process, they find not only themselves, but the father they only thought they knew. When celebrated and respected agent Fritz Hudson passes away, he leaves a trail of Hollywood glory in his wake--and two separate families who never knew the other existed. Allie and Des Hudson are products of Fritz's...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Jordyn's autistic brother joins her at her elite school her junior year, she is determined not to let anyone know they are related, even if that means closing herself off to her closest friends Erin, Tanu, and Alex, the football captain she secretly loves.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Maverick Falconer is just starting middle school and he wishes he were a hero like his father because maybe then he could deal with his mother's drinking and series of abusive boyfriends, not to mention the kids who bully him in middle school (pretty much the same ones who bullied him in elementary school)--but as the year passes he begins to realize that other kids have problems too, and maybe if they can all survive sixth-grade things will get better....
7852) Missing pieces
Author
Series
Red Rock mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Red Rock suffers a spate of "mailbox baseball" vandalism and twins Bryce and Ashley become witnesses.
Author
Series
And then I turned into a mermaid volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Half-mermaid Molly Seabrook's usual woes--an embarrassing family, lying to her best friend, keeping her nemesis quiet--are compounded when twin merfolk arrive from Meire with an agenda.
7854) Sweet home Alaska
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
7855) A story that grows
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text demonstrate that bedtime stories are as unique as the parents and children who share them.
7856) Elmet: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Cathy and Daniel live in the remote woods of Yorkshire with their gentle brute of a father, a former enforcer who now wants only to be left alone to raise his children. But when a powerful landowner shows up on their doorstep, a chain of violent events is set in motion"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Mathews County, Virginia, is a remote outpost on the Chesapeake Bay with little to offer except unspoiled scenery -- but it sent one of the largest concentrations of sea captains and U.S. merchant mariners of any community in America to fight in World War II. The Mathews Men tells that heroic story through the experiences of one family whose seven sons (and their neighbors), U.S. merchant mariners all, suddenly found themselves squarely in the cross-hairs...
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