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"The discovery of a hidden label on a famous gown unearths the story of a talented young seamstress in this glittering novel of family, love, ambition, and self discovery by the USA Today bestselling author of The Flight Girls. 2023, The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History: A costume conservator is preparing an exhibition featuring movie costumes from the 1920s to present day. As she gingerly places a gown once worn by Greta Garbo on...
9462) Some kind of courage
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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In 1890 Washington the only family Joseph Johnson has left is his half-wild Indian pony, Sarah, so when she is sold by a man who has no right to do so, he sets out to get her back--and he plans to let nothing stop him in his quest
9463) Sunny makes her case
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Sunny side up volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Sunny is starting to understand the ins and outs of middle school... but she still feels more out than in. It's about classes or homework, really. No, it's the fact that most kids have a thing they do outside of class. Like football or track or cheerleading. Sunny isn't quarterback material, and her cheer attempts are... not the best. So what can she do? When Sunny's friend Arun says he wants to start a debate club, she's not really sure what he...
9464) Where The Lost Wander
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both. But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts...
9465) The Kingdom of Back
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"Desperate to be forever remembered for her music, Nannerl Mozart makes a dangerous pact with a mysterious stranger from a magical land, which may cost her everything"--
Born with a gift for music, Nannerl Mozart has just one wish: to be remembered forever. She delights audiences with her masterful playing, but has little hope she'll ever become the acclaimed composer she longs to be. She is a young woman in 18th century Europe, and that means composing...
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Soldier dogs volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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The paw-biting start to a thrilling new adventure series perfect for fans of Max and the I Survived books, inspired by the brave military dogs who helped our troops win World War II. When Matt's older brother enlisted in the army, he left Matt his German Shepherd, Chief, a retired fire dog and the best pet EVER. So Matt isn't happy when Chief starts paying attention to his foster sister Rachel instead of him. But when Nazi planes begin bombing the...
9467) The wide world: a novel
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"The Pelletiers are a prominent French family living in 1948 Beirut. The patriarch, Louis, has built a successful business that he hopes to pass on to his eldest son. With no head for management, Jean nearly sinks the company, then marries a materialistic young woman who insists they emigrate to Paris and join high society. But there is another reason Jean must leave--he has committed a terrible crime. Youngest son Etienne is sent to make his fortune...
9468) Town is by the sea
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Throughout his day, a young boy thinks of his father who is working in the coal mine that is located underneath the ocean
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Series
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Since earning his sergeant's stripes at the bloody siege of Seringapatam, Richard Sharpe has led a peaceful existence. But his easy life meets a brutal end when he is the sole survivor of a murderous attack by a cold-blooded English officer who has defected to join the mercenary forces of the Mahratta confederation in India.
Sharpe vows to avenge his comrades, even if he must pursue the turncoat to the ends of the continent. His quest takes
...9470) Freya & Zoose
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Fans of Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Ivan will treasure this timeless tale about a magnificent adventure to the North Pole and the even more astounding feat of true friendship. A perfect audiobook for animal and adventure lovers alike.
Freya has always craved—and feared—adventure. Traipsing all over the world is simply not what dignified rockhopper penguins do. But when she hears about Captain Salomon August...
Freya has always craved—and feared—adventure. Traipsing all over the world is simply not what dignified rockhopper penguins do. But when she hears about Captain Salomon August...
9471) Riding Freedom
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Parkhurst was raised in an orphanage for boys, which suited her just fine. She didn't like playing with dolls, she could hold her own in a fight, and she loved to work in the stable. Charlotte had a special way with horses and wanted to spend her life training and riding them on a ranch of her own. The problem was, as a girl in the mid-1800s, Charlotte was expected to live a much different life—one without the freedoms she dreamed...
9472) An Uncommon Protector
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Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Overwhelmed by the responsibilities of running a ranch on her own, Laurel Tracey decides to hire a convict—a man who's just scary enough to take care of squatters and just desperate enough to agree to a one year post.
The years following the war have been hard on Laurel Tracey. Both her brother and her father died in battle, and her mother passed away shortly after receiving word of their demise. Laurel has been trying
...9473) It had to be a duke
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Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
Description
"Verity Hartley always tells the truth. Well, mostly. However, when her snooty neighbor returns to their small hamlet to brag about having a grand Season, a plethora of ballgowns, and so many suitors that she cannot possibly decide which one to marry, Verity tells a lie. She claims to be betrothed. To a duke. Who happens to be her family's sworn enemy. But what are the odds that he would ever learn of this one, little, harmless falsehood? Magnus Warring,...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril--the Kansas Indian Territory. The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for comfort or help. The burden of work must be shouldered alone,...
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Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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In the 1940s, remote Les Lauzes, France, houses Jews, unregistered foreigners, forgers, and others who take great risks to shelter refugees and smuggle them to safety in Switzerland
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, taking a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there
9477) Clockwork Princess
Author
Series
Infernal devices volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Danger, betrayal, and enchantment abound in the "exhilarating" (Booklist) conclusion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy—now with a gorgeous new cover, a new foreword, and exclusive bonus content! Clockwork Princess is a Shadowhunters novel.
THE INFERNAL DEVICES WILL NEVER STOP COMING
A net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute. Mortmain...
THE INFERNAL DEVICES WILL NEVER STOP COMING
A net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute. Mortmain...
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Series
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 1908. In Chinatown, the most dangerous beat in Los Angeles, police matron Anna Blanc and her former boyfriend, Detective Joe Singer, discover the body of a white missionary woman, stuffed in a trunk in the apartment of her Chinese lover. Her lover has fled. If news gets out that a white woman was murdered in Chinatown, there will be a violent backlash against the Chinese. Joe and Anna plan to solve the crime quietly and keep the death...
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Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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Lucy has lived with her grandparents at Pheasant Cottage since she was a little girl, but she has dim memories of someone else. Who was it? What are her grandparents hiding from her? Lucy is determined to find the answers, but it turns out to be harder than she expected.
From Patricia St. John—nurse, missionary, relief worker, and writer of many books for children.
9480) His Enemy's Daughter
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Series
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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USA Today–Bestselling Author: In eleventh-century England, a marriage born of vengeance may transform a scarred warrior's angry heart . . .
Once overwhelmingly irresistible to women, Soren Fitzrobert suffered a brutal wound at the Battle of Hastings that changed his life forever. Now Soren has come to wreak revenge by claiming his enemy's daughter.
Left temporarily blind by his invasion, innocent Sybilla trembles before...
Once overwhelmingly irresistible to women, Soren Fitzrobert suffered a brutal wound at the Battle of Hastings that changed his life forever. Now Soren has come to wreak revenge by claiming his enemy's daughter.
Left temporarily blind by his invasion, innocent Sybilla trembles before...
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