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English
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In the summer of 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanished from her family's vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. The loss devastated the family. Sixty-four years later, Emily's sister Lucy writes the story of that harrowing summer in a notebook that she bequeaths, along with the lake house and a hefty investment portfolio, to her grandniece, Justine. For Justine, the lake house offers a chance to give her own daughters a stable home she never...
4) The homesman
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Four women in the isolated frontier territory go mad, and it is up to the unlikely combination of homesteader Mary Bee Cuddy and ne'er-do-well Briggs to escort them east to safety.
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Language
English
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A con artist and seductress, Meredith Spooner lived fast—and died young. But her final scam—embezzling more than a million dollars from a college endowment fund—is coming back to haunt Leonora Hutton. The tainted money is stashed away in an offshore account for Leonora. And while she wants nothing to do with the cash, she discovers two other items in the safe-deposit box: a book about Mirror House—the place where Meredith engineered...
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English
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings and The Female Persuasion, a funny, provocative, revealing novel about female desire.
When the elliptical new drama teacher at Stellar Plains High School chooses for the school play Lysistrata-the comedy by Aristophanes in which women stop having sex with men in order to end a war-a strange spell seems to be cast over the school. Or, at least,...
When the elliptical new drama teacher at Stellar Plains High School chooses for the school play Lysistrata-the comedy by Aristophanes in which women stop having sex with men in order to end a war-a strange spell seems to be cast over the school. Or, at least,...
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Series
Mrs. Parrish volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Some women get everything. Some women get everything they deserve. Amber Patterson is fed up. She's tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more--a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne--a socialite and philanthropist--and her real-estate mogul husband, Jackson,...
9) Crabby Pants
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Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Roger gets CRABBY. A LOT. He is crabby about running out of his favorite food, not being able to go to the zoo, and missing his favorite TV shows. Sometimes he ends up in the naughty chair. Can Roger figure out how to stop being such a crabby pants? This humorous and lighthearted board book delivers an important message about growing up and managing feelings.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Jake Buchanan is a successful writer with an eight-year-old daughter and an imploding marriage. When he gets on a plane and discovers an instant connection with seatmate Clara Stowe, he's delighted. But when Clara confesses that she's going to Colorado to kill herself, Jake searches frantically for a way to convince her not to go through with her plan. The Dead Girl in 2A is the story of what happens to Jake and Clara after they get off that plane...
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Series
Cody Gunner volume 1
Publisher
Center Street
Language
English
Description
"A young couple faces the challenge of falling in love, while seemingly doomed to repeat the negative patterns they have established for most of their lives"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Series
Mrs. Parrish volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Daphne and Amber Parrish are thrust back into one another's lives upon the resurgence of a long-forgotten threat, forcing a vicious game of cat and mouse where everything is on the line, in this thrilling sequel to the million-copy-bestselling Reese's Book Club Pick The Last Mrs. Parrish. Amber Patterson Parrish has come a long way from being an invisible wallflower. Her hard work and immaculate planning have paid off now that she's a prominent socialite,...
13) Me first
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Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pinkerton the pig always manages to be first until he rushes for a sandwich and it turns out to be not the edible kind.
14) Olivia
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Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
[34] p. : ill. (some color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Whether at home getting ready for the day, enjoying the beach, or at bedtime, Olivia is a feisty pig who has too much energy for her own good.
16) Me before you
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Series
Me before you volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life--steady boyfriend, close family--who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident. Will has always lived a huge life--big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel--and now...
18) Barn 8
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Publisher
Graywolf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two auditors for the U.S. egg industry go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night - an entire egg farm's worth of animals. Janey and Cleveland - a spirited former runaway and the officious head of audit - assemble a precarious, quarrelsome team and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. A series of catastrophes ensues."--Publisher.
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Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
90 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Perfect Peter's tooth falls out, Henry gets a great idea. He will steal the tooth and put it under his own pillow so that the tooth fairy gives him the reward instead of Peter. Will the tooth fairy fall for it?"--P. [4] of cover.