Kate Rudd
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
2) If I'm found
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Casey Cox is still on the run, fleeing prosecution for a murder she didn't commit. Dylan Roberts--her most relentless pursuer--is still on her trail, but his secret emails insist that he knows the truth and wants to help her. As Casey works to collect evidence about the real murderers, she stumbles on another unbearable injustice: an abused child and a suicidal man who's also been falsely accused. Casey risks her own safety to right this wrong and...
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When Stevie Bell is finally able to return to Ellingham Academy after identifying the culprit in the murder of a classmate, she begins to wonder if the case was really resolved and attempts to uncover the truth about the school's founder.
Stevie Bell seemed to be on the cusp of the decades-old kidnapping and murder of Albert Ellingham's family. But a classmate's murder-- which Stevie solved-- convinced her parents to pull her out of Ellingham Academy....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.
5) Wonder
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
6) If I live
Author
Series
If I run novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Blackstock's stirring conclusion to her faith-based If I Run trilogy (after 2017's If I'm Found), series heroine Casey Cox, who's been indicted for the murder of her best friend, Brent, continues to flee crooked Louisiana cops Gordon Keegan and Sy Rollins, who want to kill her before she can implicate them in Brent's murder. Meanwhile, PI Dylan Roberts, who knows the cops are guilty, is keen to prove Casey's innocence. Blackstock raises the tension...
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Planning the wedding will be the easy part!
If Hallie McCarthy is going to get married and start a family the way she wants to, she's going to need a plan. And a man. Since Hallie is an organized, goal-setting kind of person, she gives herself a year to meet Mr. Knight in Shining Armor. But all her dates are absolute disasters. Aren't there any nice, normal guys out there?
Too bad she can't just fall for her good-looking neighbor, Steve Marris....
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English
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"In downtown Chicago, a young woman named Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A haunting letter addressed to My Dearest is the only clue, leaving her friend and roommate Quinn to wonder, who is Esther really? And where did she go? Meanwhile, in a small lake town an hour outside of the city, a mysterious woman appears in the quiet coffee shop where eighteen-year-old Alex Gallo works as a dish washer. He is immediately drawn...
9) Sleepwalker
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Language
English
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While house-sitting for her Uncle Nicco, policewoman Micayla Lange catches Jason Davis in the act of stealing money from her uncle's locked safe. When they find incriminating photos that implicate Nicco in the murder of a city councilman, Mick and Jason hurtle into a race for their lives.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Mathilda (Tilly), fourteen, and Ruth Anne (Roo), sixteen, are sisters and best friends in Connecticut, but when Roo crashes her car while texting she is confined to a hospital bed with "locked-in syndrome," aware of her surroundings, but apparently comatose--and Tilly must find a way to communicate with her sister, while dealing with her own sense of guilt.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Maggie and Emily meet as girls on the Nantucket beach, they are instant best friends--even though Emily's mother would much prefer she play with the daughters of senators and statesmen than a seamstress's kid like Maggie. But after many golden summers spent building sandcastles and sharing their dreams for the future, Emily and Maggie grow apart. In her twenties, beautiful and spirited Emily worries she'll never amount to more than the glittering...
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English
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"From star-crossed matches to unexpected love triangles, summer on Nantucket always holds the promise of romance in this sensational novel from New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer. Lisa Hudson feels more alive than she has in a long time after hiring hunky carpenter Mack Whitney to renovate her old Nantucket home. There's no denying the spark growing between them--despite the fact that Mack is ten years her junior. But her twentysomething...
13) Little mercies
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Veteran social worker Ellen Moore is a fiercely dedicated children's advocate and a devoted mother and wife. But one blistering summer day, a simple moment of distraction will have repercussions that Ellen could never have imagined, threatening to shatter everything she holds dear, and trapping her between the gears of the system she works for. Meanwhile, ten-year-old Jenny Briard suddenly finds herself on her own, forced to survive with nothing but...
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English
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A very special wedding gown leads two women to find their perfect match in these two classic stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber
The dress was made many years ago, and it came with a promise:
The First Man You Meet...
Shelly Hansen was horrified when her great-aunt's wedding dress arrived-because, according to family legend, she was destined to marry the next man she met. So when she tripped on an escalator and fell...
15) I left my heart
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English
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A Friend or two: Elizabeth Wainwright, an East Coast heiress in disguise, takes a job waitressing at a Fisherman's Wharf cafe, eager to live a simpler life. One day Andrew Breed--handsome, mysterious and charismatic--walks in. He says he's a longshoreman, but his words and actions don't quite add up. Is Elizabeth falling in love with someone who's pretending to be something other than he claims? Is Andrew?
No competition: Local architect Shayne Reynolds...
16) Torn
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Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy mixes business with pleasure in the enemies-to-lovers, second installment of her sexy Billionaire Bachelors Club series …
Marina Knight came to this party for one thing only: to slap Gage Emerson in the face. Poised to snatch up her family's real estate empire, the sexy tycoon is on the verge of making an enemy for life-even if he can make her melt with a single kiss …
When Gage discovers that...
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English
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"Brooke is a divorced single mom, financially strapped, living with her mother, and holding tight to the one thing that matters most: her two-year-old daughter Etta. Then, in a matter of seconds, Brooke's life is shattered when she's carjacked. Helpless and terrified, all Brooke can do is watch as Etta, still strapped in her seat, disappears into the Los Angeles night. Miles away, Etta is found by Molly, a homeless teen who is all too used to darkness...
18) Brandon's bride
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English
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While training as a seasonal wildland firefighter, Brandon Ferringer rents a room at a local ranch and falls in love with its owner, Victoria Meese, whose safety is threatened by his investigation into his father's disappearance.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When Chandra Hill is awakened by a cry in the night, she is shocked to discover an abandoned newborn in her barn. Emergency room doctor Dallas O'Rourke finds himself bonding instantly with the baby and the intriguing woman who brought him in. And when the baby's adoption becomes national news, he's stunned to realize he wants a life with them both.
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Series
Calhoun women volume 5
Language
English
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Description
Two classic tales, centering around the Calhoun family, feature "Suzanna's Surrender," in which an ex-cop falls for a beautiful single mother, and "Megan's Mate," in which Megan O'Riley finds herself falling for ship captain Nate Fury.