Various Readers
1) Empty vows
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Popular, generous, forty-something widow Jessie Tucker decides to make herself indispensable to recently widowed Hubert Wiggins but is disappointed when he is not everything she dreamed he would be and instead turns her attentions to a much younger man.
2) The House
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! The old, abandoned house at the end of Grace's street is a local legend. All the neighbors say it's haunted, but every Halloween someone leaves candy on the front porch. Grace and her friends decide to investigate, hoping to find out once and for all if someone-or something-really is haunting the place. But what if there is more to the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Crack, crack...animal babies are hatched all over the place. Can you figure out who's who? Watercolor and collage illustrations depict close-up scenes of an egg or eggs about to hatch. The text hints at what the eggs contain: "Hidden in a rock cave/ Deep beneath the ocean waves/ Their mother wraps her long arms around/ To keep these eggs safe...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Hannah's sister, Alexis, has been acting different lately. For one thing, she's constantly on her phone when she never used to care that much about it. But after Hannah discovers that Alexis has developed a relationship with a boy she met online, her strange behavior starts to make sense. What's worse, Alexis plans to skip out on college...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Considered the first true detective story Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone (1868) is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. Originally serialized in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round, it introduced many hallmarks of detective fiction, including an English country house setting, bungling local policemen, and a large number of false suspects. In it, Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After moving cross-country with her son and accepting a filmmaker's mentorship, Val Locklier is caught between her insecurities and new possibilities. Miles McKenzie returns home to find a new tenant is living upstairs and he's been banished to a ministry on life support. As sparks fly, they discover that authentic love and sacrifice must go hand in hand"--
Author
Series
Heirloom secrets volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"More than a century apart, two women search for the lost. Despite her family's confederate leanings, Clara is determined to help an enslaved woman reunite with her daughter; Alice can't stop wondering what happened to her mother in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Faced with the unknown, both women will have to dig deep to let their courage bloom"--
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Give-a-Damn Jones, an itinerant typographer, arrives in the small Montana town of Box Elder. The town is rife with tensions related to a convict's efforts to prove his innocence, a cattleman's demand for respect, a snooping editor, and a feud between a dentist and a blacksmith. Jones keeps finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time-- but this time, he may be the hero that this town needs.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
12) The green road
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When Christmas day reunites the Madigan children under one roof in County Clare, Ireland, years after leaving their mother Rosaleen behind to follow their dreams, they each must confront the terrible weight of family ties and the journey that brought them home.
13) Building bridges
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uses engaging nonfiction text and hands-on projects to help young readers explore real-life bridge engineering projects, including the science behind how these structures are planned and built.
14) Dancing queen
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
103 p. : some col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kylie Jean Carter gets a part in the local ballet recital of Swan Lake, but when the boy dancing the part of the prince breaks his ankle the show will have to be cancelled--unless she can persuade her brother to try out.
15) Shapes around us
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Uses photographs to demonstrate how shapes can be found in everyday objects, including windows, cakes, and buttons.
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Raintree, a Capstone Imprint an imprint of Capstone Global Library, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uses engaging nonfiction text and hands-on projects to help young readers explore real-life structure and tower engineering projects, including the science behind how these buildings are planned and built.
Author
Publisher
Heinemann Raintree, a Capstone Imprint an imprint of Capstone Global Library, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uses engaging nonfiction text and hands-on projects to help young readers explore real-life rolling vehicle engineering projects, including the science behind how these vehicles are planned and built.
Author
Publisher
Heinemann Raintree, a Capstone Imprint an imprint of Capstone Global Library, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uses engaging nonfiction text and hands-on projects to help young readers explore real-life flying vehicle engineering projects, including the science behind how these vehicles are planned and built.