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17261) Balm: A Novel
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Description
The New York Times bestselling author of Wench returns to the Civil War era to explore the next chapter of history-the trauma of the War and the end of slavery-in this powerful story of love and healing about three people who struggle to overcome the pain of the past and define their own future.
The Civil War has ended, and Madge, Sadie, and Hemp have each come to Chicago in search of a new life.
Born with magical hands, Madge has the power to discern...
17263) If I tell
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Raised by her grandparents, seventeen-year-old Jasmine, the result of a biracial one night stand, has never met her father but has a good relationship with her mother until she sees her mother's boyfriend kissing Jaz's best friend.
17264) The Beverly Malibu
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1991.
Description
On Thanksgiving Day, LAPD homicide detective Kate Delafield and her partner, Ed Taylor, are called to an apartment building on the edge of Beverly Hills to investigate a premeditated and pitiless murder.
No one appears particularly grieved by the shocking end to old-time Hollywood director Owen Sinclair. Surely not three other tenants of the Beverly Malibu, who worked in the motion picture industry during the blacklist years and loathed Sinclair.
Nor...
17265) The twilight saga: New moon
Series
Twilight volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Bella Swan is devastated by the abrupt departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, but her spirit is rekindled by her growing friendship with the irresistible Jacob Black. Suddenly she is drawn into the world of the werewolves, ancestral enemies of the vampires, and finds her loyalties tested.
17266) Gimme everything you got
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
1979. Susan Klintock is a junior in high school with a lot of sexual fantasies-- but not a lot of sexual experience. No boy she knows has been worth taking a shot on. That is, until Bobby McMann arrives. Bobby is foxy, charming-- and the coach of the brand-new girls' soccer team. Sure, he's off limits. But that doesn't mean Susan can't try out for the team to get closer to him. And she's always liked a challenge. Between the endless drills and grueling...
17267) Cry of metal & bone
Author
Series
Earthsinger chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"In the vein of K. Arsenault Rivera and V.E. Schwab comes the newest epic fantasy book in L. Penelope's stunning Earthsinger Chronicles, Cry of Metal & Bone. Six weeks after the fall of the Mantle, centuries-old enemies Elsira and Lagrimar struggle to unite. The will of the goddess is that the two nations become one, but while the war may be over, peace is still elusive. As desperate Lagrimari flee their barren land for a chance at a better life in...
17268) Sworn to raise
Author
Series
Courtlight volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ciardis has grown up in poverty, a cleaner in a small vale on the outskirts of the empire. But beneath her empire's seemingly idyllic surface lies a hidden secret. Whispers of an inept crown Prince are growing ever louder--intensified by the five year anniversary of the soulbond initiations. But she must master those skills quickly. If the legends are true, only Ciardis can harness the power to raise a Prince in an Imperial Court...
17269) Blood and chocolate
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.
17270) The essence
Author
Series
Pledge trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Seventeen-year-old Charlaina "Charlie" Hart has defeated the tyrant Queen Sabara and taken control of Ludania, only to have Sabara's soul fuse itself with her own.
Author
Series
Cape Light novels volume 13
Description
So often we hold back and fail to express our feelings of love and joy to the ones we hold dear. This year, the residents of Cape Light and Angel Island will learn to speak what's in their hearts... After a serious medical scare, Adele realizes that her greatest regret is that she sat idly by while a petty dispute tore her family apart. She has returned to Cape Light determined to mend the relationship between her feuding sons and bring everyone...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
La gran depression ha convertido el sueño americano en una amarga tragedia y es aquí donde empieza la épica Aventura de Elsie y Homer. Un viaje de casi dos mil kilómetros con un caiman en el asiento de atrás y con John Steinbeck de pasajero.
"Si recibieras una llamada inesperada para hacer una película sobre tu vida, ¿sería una película cautivadora, llena de riesgo, batalla y victoria? ¿O sería una de esas películas en las que...
17273) The last daughter of York
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
When her twin sister's bones are discovered interred in a vault that has not been opened since the 18th century, Serena uncovers a secret family history pointing to an impossible story that connects her to the 15th century mystery of the young Duke of York.
17274) The lady is tempted
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
"Marry the local vicar--a stodgy man with six impossible children--never! Pretty Deborah Percival is determined to discover passion in a man's arms, not duty in a dull marriage. And when she becomes stranded at a countryside inn while on the road to London, tantalizing Anthony Aldercy, the earl of Burnell, offers her the chance to fulfill her dreams. Deborah knows she should say no--but how can she resist? The earl is determined to repair his reputation...
17275) The Nakano thrift shop
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Hitomi, the inexperienced young woman who works the register at Mr. Nakano's thrift shop, has fallen for her coworker, the oddly reserved Takeo. Unsure of how to attract his attention, she seeks advice from her employer's sister Masayo, whose sentimental entanglements make her a somewhat unconventional guide. But thanks in part to Masayo, Hitomi will come to realize that love, desire, and intimacy require acceptance not only of idiosyncrasies but...
17277) Alex & Eliza: a love story
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Witches of East End and the Descendants series comes the love story of young Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler.
1777. Albany, New York.
As battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance, servants flutter about preparing for one of New York society’s biggest events: the Schuylers’ grand ball. Descended from two...
1777. Albany, New York.
As battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance, servants flutter about preparing for one of New York society’s biggest events: the Schuylers’ grand ball. Descended from two...
17278) Hit me with your best Scot
Author
Series
Wild wicked Highlanders volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Coll MacTaggert, Viscount Glendarril, is a big, brawny Highlander who doesn't like being told what to do - not even by his exasperated English mother, who is determined to see her eldest son wedded and bedded. However, when he comes to the rescue of an irresistibly beautiful woman, Coll discovers that he may have found his perfect match. The challenge isn't that Persephone Jones is famous, wealthy, independent, and smarter than anyone he knows. The...
Author
Series
Wish volume 4
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Growing up, I believed in infinite possibilities. I wished on stars and let my imagination prepare me for the unknown. The older you get the more you realize that you have power. You have been given the free will to control your own path. Jump into your destiny feet first. And I knew for certain that no matter how much power I had, time was a luxury that would never be mine. Unlike my mother and father, who were happy to live out their days on a Native...
17280) Otherwise engaged
Author
Series
Sunrise Key trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
The local tycoon, Preston Seaholm, rescues pretty widow Molly Cassidy from a treacherous fall and decides she will make the perfect alibi to fend off unwanted advances from fortune seekers, only to find himself falling in love.
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