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Cody Gunner series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Cody Gunner is the ruggedly handsome outdoorsman with a painful past and Ali Daniels is the daintily beautiful yet doggedly determined young cowgirl who wins his heart. Cody has suffered from besetting anger at both of his parents since the day his father left the family because he was unable to handle Cody's brother's Down syndrome. Ali, on the other hand, secretly has cystic fibrosis, and she rides in horse races despite the dust, hay and allergens...
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Series
Hollows novels (Lisa Unger) volume 4
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"Darkness has a way of creeping up when Ian is with Priss. Even when they were kids, playing in the woods of their small upstate New York town, The Hollows, he could feel it. Still, Priss was his best friend, his salvation from the bullies who called him "loser" and "fatboy"... and from his family's deadly secrets. Now that they've both escaped to New York City, Ian no longer inhabits the tortured shell of his childhood. He is a talented and successful...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when he starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.
5) Catalina
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"A novel about a young woman who loses her job and her boyfriend and spirals down a dark path of self-destruction that threatens to harm anyone close to her."--
Elsa Fisher is headed for rock bottom-- fired from MoMA on the heels of an affair with her married boss, she retreats to Los Angeles to blow her severance package on whatever it takes to numb the pain. Her abandoned crew of college friends think she's on vacation, and are celebrating the...
Author
Series
Diasporic Vietnamese artists network volume 01
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Eve is a reluctant mother; Eve is a famous phenomenon; Eve is a quiet country teacher. Liam is a successful artist; Liam is a scheming husband; Liam is a gentle partner. Pari is a leading scientific researcher; Pari is a recognized model; Pari is a picture of declining mental states. Three deviations of one love story : each reality allows Eve another chance at finding her true destiny and personal and professional fulfilment—but can she get it...
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 26
Description
"Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves behind her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school's glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on pristinely mown athletic fields, and everyone sings...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Helen, a jittery attorney with a self-destructive streak, is secretly reeling from a disturbing crime of neglect that her parents recently committed. Historically happy to compartmentalize—distracting herself by hooking up with lesbian couples, doting on her grandmother, and flirting with a young administrative assistant—Helen finally meets her match with Catherine and Katrina, a married couple who startle and intrigue her with their ever-increasing...
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Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
"Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. On this day he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town." "His journey to the barbershop is a contemporary odyssey, funny and fast-moving. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol's funeral and a violent...
Author
Series
Cody Gunner series volume 1
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
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"After another all-night bender, one more failed stint at rehab, and a parole violation, self-destructive actress Chase London has to deal with her demons. She's been written off as a Hollywood casualty by almost everyone, including her own mother. But handsome superstar Spencer Rome has her back. So does an uncompromising stranger determined to start Chase at square one and help her pull her future into focus. If Chase is willing. Life coach Olivia...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2020].
Description
Joey Diamonds is on the verge of being a "Made" man, with ice cold blue eyes that pierce through the hearts of women...and men. After being disowned by his mafia family, losing the love of his life, and realizing the world at large is his enemy, Joey throws extreme caution to the wind on his journey of self-debauchery in the name of fame and fortune.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Publisher Annotation: Tender, searing, and unforgettable, The Distance Home is a profoundly American story spanning decades?a tale of haves and have-nots, of how our ideas of winning and losing, success and failure, lead us inevitably into various problems with empathy and caring for one another. It?s a portrait of beauty and brutality in which the author?s compassionate narration allows us to sympathize, in turn, with everyone involved.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
This book forms part of our 'Pook Press' imprint, celebrating the golden age of illustration in children's literature. 'The Wind in the Willows' is a true classic of Children's literature, penned by Kenneth Grahame and first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a traditional bucolic version of the English Thames valley - a novel notable for its adventure, mysticism, morality...
16) In the key of us
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
While twelve-year-old Andi has suffered from anxiety attacks ever since her mother died ten months ago, Zora starting hurting herself whenever she feels out of control; they are both at Camp Harmony, an elite summer music camp, trying to deal with their problems and also the stress of competition--but as the summer passes they find themselves increasingly drawn to each other, and maybe not just as friends.
17) Ripple
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Trapped in difficult circumstances beyond their control, Tessa and Jack try to maintain a sense of control through self-destructive activities, until they meet and feel a connection that could bind them together, if they can overcome their own urges.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
After her final year in college, a young writer begins working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator in Sydney. Over the course of an eight-hour shift, she is dropped into hundreds of crises, hearing only pieces of each. The work itself becomes monotonous. And yet the stress of listening to far-off disasters seeps into her personal life, and she begins drinking heavily, sleeping with strangers, having an affair with an ex-lover. Interwoven with...
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Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
"Gleeson and Farrell revive their mesmerizing interplay, surrounded by breathtaking Irish scenery and a brilliant ensemble cast."--Richard Roeper.
20) Belly: A novel
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Description
"Belly O'Leary? Tough guy, lives hard. Holds his liquor well. Won't back down from a fight. Three grown daughters, one ex-wife, a mistress. Returning home to Saratoga Springs after four years away." "But what the hell happened to his town? The bar he used to own is gone. Wal-Mart and Starbucks stand in the place of familiar landmarks. His daughters treat him like an afterthought. No one laughs at his jokes. No one remembers his bar.".
"Belly is the...