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"Emilia has a dream life. But someone knows the truth... Emilia Ward lives in suburban London with her husband, their young son, and a teenager from her first marriage. Emilia is an ordinary mom - and she's also the bestselling author of the Miranda Moody detective novels. But when writing her tenth - and most difficult - book, life takes a disturbing an incident mimicking the plot of one of her novels occurs in real life. Just an unsettling coincidence,...
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam "West" Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she'd signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways. Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the...
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"A sharply plotted, emotionally intense novel of family secrets, fresh starts and community" —Jayne Ann Krentz
She left her hometown following a scandal—but family loyalty is dragging her back...
Despite their strained relationship, when Gia Rossi's sister, Margot, begs her to come home to Wakefield, Iowa, to help with their ailing mother, Gia knows she has no choice. After her rebellious and at-times-tumultuous...
She left her hometown following a scandal—but family loyalty is dragging her back...
Despite their strained relationship, when Gia Rossi's sister, Margot, begs her to come home to Wakefield, Iowa, to help with their ailing mother, Gia knows she has no choice. After her rebellious and at-times-tumultuous...
4) The suitcase
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"When a weary stranger arrives one day with nothing but a suitcase, his new neighbors ask nervous questions about who he is and where he comes from before they are challenged to decide between trusting the newcomer or taking the risk of not believing him"-- Provided by publisher
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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Having become a proficient liar in order to keep everyone happy, rising high school senior Katie Ellison is stunned when her old middle school friend and local pariah Tommy Sullivan returns to town, and suddenly things start looking a lot different to her.
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Everybody is talking about "energy independence." But is it really achievable-or even desirable? In this controversial, meticulously researched book, Robert Bryce exposes the false promises and political posturing behind the rhetoric. Gusher of Lies explains why the idea of energy independence appeals to voters while also showing that renewable sources like wind and solar cannot meet America's growing energy demand. Along the way, Bryce exposes the...
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"In December 2003, Luke Ryder, the stepfather of acclaimed filmmaker Guy Howard, was found dead in the garden of their suburban family home. Guy was only a child, asleep upstairs at the time of the murder. His mother and two half sisters were also in the house that night -- but all swear they saw nothing. Despite a high-profile police investigation and endless media attention, no suspect was ever charged, and Guy's family has been haunted ever since....
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Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading towards "the east" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the...
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"Misinformation is threatening medicine, science, politics, social justice, and international relations, in problems such as vaccine hesitancy, climate change denial, conspiracy theories, claims of racial inferiority, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Barack Obama has described disinformation--defined as misinformation that is spread deliberately by people who know it is false--as the single biggest threat to democracy. Dealing with misinformation...
12) Liar liar
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Whatever after volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
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Answering the plea of the fairy Celeste, Abby and her brother Jonah enter the world of Pinocchio to try and help Gepetto convince his wooden puppet son to straighten out his life and go to school--but things get complicated when Pinocchio sneaks into the real world.
13) The nurse's lie
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Bookouture
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Darcy hopes to keep her past transgressions while working as a hospital nurse a secret, but when a former coworker appears seemingly bent on revenge, Darcy finds she is willing to do anything to protect herself and her family.
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