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Author
Series
Gabriel Allon volume 22
Language
English
Description
"Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place where he has ever truly known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over the day-to-day management of the Tiepolo Restoration Company, and their two young children are discreetly enrolled in a neighborhood scuola elementare. For his part, Gabriel spends his days wandering the streets and canals...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
"Truluv is a moving novel about three people who have lost the person they love most, and must find their way back to happiness. Arthur, a widower, meets Maddy, an angry and friendless teenage girl, while visiting his late wife at the cemetary, where he goes every day for lunch. Against all odds, the two strike up a friendship that pulls them out of a serious rut. They band together with Arthur's nosy neighbor Lucille, to create lives that are truly...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Having followed her new husband to his native home in rustic Tuscany, Ellana distracts herself from her marital disappointments by caring for her asthmatic son, and reevaluates her life when she meets American art lover Ross Story.
5) The walk
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After advertising executive Alan Christoffersen loses everything he holds dear, he embarks on a walk across America, a journey where he will meet people, form relationships, and learn important lessons as he walks to a new life.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father--a former concert pianist and teacher--moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father ... until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. An unforgettable story of love...
Author
Language
English
Description
Seldom do a husband and wife have the same primary emotional love language. We tend to speak our primary love language, and we become confused when our spouse does not understand what we are communicating. Included is an assessment tool in order for the reader to identify his own and his spouse's love language.
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogot�a, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she misses her flight, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family in the north. How this...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Charlie Thorne must search for Charles Darwin's hidden treasure in South America--with plenty of enemies hot on her trail"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened.
Author
Series
Dog Man volume 8
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Petey the Cat is out of jail, and he has a brand-new lease on life. While Petey's reevaluated what matters most, Li'l Petey is struggling to find the good in the world. Can Petey and Dog Man stop fighting like cats and dogs long enough to put their paws together and work as a team? They need each other now more than ever, Li'l Petey--and the world--is counting on them!"--OCLC.
16) Popcorn
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st Green Light Readers ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 vol. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and rhythmic, rhyming text show what happens when popping popcorn gets out of hand.
Author
Publisher
The Press of the Readers Club
Pub. Date
c1942
Physical Desc
xiv, 361 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
First published in 1927, this is the acclaimed biography of Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), the American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer and speaker best known for his support of the abolition of slavery. It was written by former American diplomat, journalist, author and humanitarian Paxton Hibben (1880-1928).
18) Daniel's duck
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1979
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
60 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Level 4 beginning reader. A novice wood carver is momentarily defeated when people laugh at the result of a winter of work.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Penny comes home from school eager to share her very own song, but must wait until the time is right to teach it to her parents and the babies.
20) Silent bite
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, are finding that all is not calm or bright in Silent Bite, the latest Christmas mystery in this heartwarming series from bestselling author David Rosenfelt. Lawyer Andy Carpenter can finally take a breath; he's back on dry land after a family Caribbean cruise forced on him by his wife, Laurie, to get into the Christmas spirit. Of course the family's first stop is to the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue...