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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A foster child named Angel and twelve-year-old Stella, who are living with Stella's great-aunt Louise at the Linger Longer Cottage Colony on Cape Cod, secretly assume responsibility for the vacation rentals when Louise unexpectedly dies and the girls are afraid of being returned to the foster care system.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Supplementing her modest income by stealing small valuables from her gated-community clients, a broke dog-walker endeavors to win the heart of a wealthy bachelor before learning his late wife's own rags-to-riches story in a contemporary reimagining of Jane Eyre.
90) Phantom limbs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Still reeling from the death of his little brother and the sudden departure of his first love Meg, Otis throws himself into swim training with Dara, until Meg returns for the summer and Otis tries to rekindle their relationship.
91) Death and dying
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Presents differing views on the various social aspects surrounding death and dying worldwide. Causes of death are examined, including increases in mortality due to AIDS in Africa, drug abuse in Scotland, and suicide in Ireland. Chapters discuss access to palliative end-of-life care and assisted suicide; influences of the world's major religions and their beliefs, traditions and rituals surrounding death; and funeral practices around the world.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Language
English
Description
In an alternate history world in which the population of Europe is almost completely wiped out by the Black Death during the fourteenth century, three superpowers--China, India, and the nations of Islam--battle for supremacy in a World War destined to create a new world order.
96) Take me apart
Author
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A young archivist's obsession with her subject's mysterious death threatens to destroy her fragile grasp on sanity.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finding herself the leader of a nightmarish realm populated by the awful beasts she read about as a child, Princess Sophia must unlock an ancient secret if she is to save her people from the great army marching on her castle.
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