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Author
Series
Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
438 pages : illustrations, color map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
""Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, twins Alex and Conner leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about""--
Author
Series
Pain and the Great One volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
More adventures at school and at home with Jake, a first-grader, and his older sister Abigail, known to each other as the Pain and the Great One.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When her mother has a new little cow, Raisin hates the changes his arrival creates, but when she sees how scared the new baby is during a thunderstorm, she offers comfort and even inspired to give him a name as sweet as her own.
Author
Series
Pain and the Great One volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
First-grader Jake "The Pain" and his sister, third-grader Abigail "The Great One" have more adventures, including visiting their cousins in New York and celebrating their cat Fluzzy's birthday.
Author
Language
English
Description
Dr. David Henry, forced to deliver his own twins during a snowstorm in 1964 with only a nurse to help him, makes a decision that has far-reaching effects on his life, and the lives of his wife and son, when his infant daughter is born with Down Syndrome, and in a vain attempt to protect his wife, he orders the nurse to take the baby to an institution.
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1990, c1984
Edition
1st Vintage International ed.
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Retells the tragic times of the Compson family, including beautiful, rebellious Caddy; manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their Black servant.
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawaiian gods into an engrossing family saga; a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation"--
In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
91) Summer of '69
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed, in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much...
93) Hoot and Peep
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hoot the owl is excited to teach his younger sister all of his wisdom--but much to his annoyance, Peep is more interested in capturing the magic of the world around her than in listening to his advice"--
94) The medusa plot
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cahills are being kidnapped by a shadowy group known only as the Vespers. Now Amy and Dan have only days to fulfill a bizarre ransom request or their captured friends will start dying. Amy and Dan don't know what the Vespers want or how to stop them. Only one thing is clear. The Vespers are playing to win, and if they get their hands on the Clues ... the world will be their next hostage.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
344 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On the occasion of her 46th birthday, Caroline Wimbley Levine is concerned about filling the large shoes of her late, force-of-nature mother, Miss Lavinia, the former Queen of Tall Pines Plantation. Still, Caroline loves a challenge - and she simply will not be fazed by the myriad family catastrophes surrounding her. She'll deal with brother Trip's tricky romantic entanglements, son Eric and his mysterious girlfriend, and go toe-to-toe with alcoholic...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is...
97) The Graces
Author
Series
Graces volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A secretive loner discovers her own hidden powers when she's taken under the wings of three glamorous witches"--
98) Any day now
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For Sierra Jones, Sullivan's Crossing is meant to be a brief stopover. She's put her troubled past behind her but the path forward isn't yet clear. A visit with her big brother Cal and his new bride, Maggie, seems to be the best option to help her get back on her feet. Not wanting to burden or depend on anyone, Sierra is surprised to find the Crossing offers so much more than a place to rest her head. Cal and Maggie welcome her into their busy lives...
Author
Series
The war that saved my life volume 01
Language
English
Description
A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
100) Silent thunder
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
415 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Marine architect Hannah Bryson, working with her brother Connor to inspect the decommissioned Soviet submarine "Silent Thunder" and ready it to be used as a maritime museum, sets her sights on revenge when Connor is killed and she learns they have been used as bait by the CIA and former Russian crew member Nicholas Kirov to trap a Soviet crime lord who believes the vessel holds the secret to the whereabouts of a priceless artifact.
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