Jodi Picoult
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Language
English
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Description
"Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher-was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she...
2) House rules
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
A teenager with Asperger's syndrome--smart, quirky, with a passion for crime scene analysis--winds up on trial for murder.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Working with the Search and Rescue bloodhound team to find missing people, single mother Delia Hopkins anticipates her upcoming nuptials, until a series of unsettling flashbacks threatens to devastate her life and the lives of those she loves.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Jodi Picoult is a author whose books have been adapted for both the small and silver screen. In Perfect Match, she spins a story of a mother who does the unthinkable to protect her child. Lines blur when assistant DA Nina Frost learns that her five-year-old son Nathaniel was sexually abused by a priest. She takes the law into her own hands, killing the man accused. But then details surface clearing the priest and putting Nina's future in jeopardy....
6) Lone wolf
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
A regular at the #1 spot on the New York Times best-seller list, Jodi Picoult crafts stories about family, love, and redemption. Here Picoult tells the tale of Edward Warren, an estranged son who faces a monumental decision when his father is left comatose after a terrible car accident. Edward wants to terminate life support, but his sister Cara wouldn't think of it. As the dilemma tears the family apart, Edward must examine whether his decision is...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
Ponyboy can count on his brothers, and on his friends, but not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time is beating up "greasers". Then one night, someone takes things too far.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a volatile argument, a woman leaves her husband in San Diego and takes her daughter on a cross-country odyssey to her brother's farm in Massachusetts, where self-discovery awaits. Meanwhile, as her husband searches the continent for her, he finds a new way of seeing the world, his family, and himself.
11) Salem Falls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
Jack St. Bride was a popular teacher and soccer coach at a girls' prep school when he was falsely accused of statutory rape. Released after eight months behind bars, he arrives in Salem Falls hoping to start fresh. He lands a job washing dishes at the local diner and even falls in love with the owner, Addie. But then a spoiled local girl accuses Jack of assault, forcing his past into the open and turning the town against him.
16) Już czas
Author
Publisher
Prószyński i S-ka
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Polish
Description
For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice’s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to...
Author
Publisher
Umbriel Editores
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Ruth Jefferson es enfermera en la sala de partos de un hospital de Connecticut, una profesional con mas de veinte anos de experiencia. Ruth empieza su turno con el reconocimiento rutinario de un recien nacido, pero unos minutos despues le comunican que el nino tiene otra enfermera. Los padres son supremacistas blancos y no quieren que Ruth, que es de origen africano, toque a su pequeno. El hospital satisface sus deseos, pero al dia siguiente el nino...
20) Iskra światła
Author
Publisher
Prószyński Media
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Polish
Description
The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center, a women's reproductive health services clinic, its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with...