Shaina Summerville
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English
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Lily Rosewood has lived with her grandmother since her dad's death a year ago. She and Gram have always been close--Gram's role as chair of their family's luxury coat business has inspired Lily's love of fashion, and Lily hopes to follow in Gram's footsteps one day. Then Gram dies suddenly, and Lily's world is upended. Gram's quarter of a billion dollar fortune is missing, and Lily has been banned from the manor she and Gram shared. But Gram has always...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"Berkeley and her best friend, Garth, live on an old cruise ship, scavenging for supplies from the drowned cities left behind on the ocean floor after the sea swallowed up all the land. They think they've seen every kind of aquatic creature, but they never expected to find sea monsters... After awakening a Hydra, Berkeley and Garth are sent to live on a submarine, where they study and hunt sea monsters. But the Hydra wants revenge on their home ship--and...
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English
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Lily Roberts pores over the clues in a piping hot new case when a confrontational celebrity chef is murdered at her Cape Cod tearoom during the filming of a popular baking show in the latest Tea by the Sea mystery from national bestselling author Vicki Delany. The country's hottest TV cooking show is coming to Cape Cod. And against her better judgment, Lily Roberts is entering America Bakes! with her charming tearoom, Tea by the Sea! Filming is already...
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English
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"The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate is an enjoyable, humorous, encouraging, easy to understand guidebook for being an ally to the LGBTQ+ communities. It is chock full of practical and useful tools for LGBTQ+ advocacy, including: Current and relevant information on identities and LGBTQ+ language, tips for what to say and what not to say when someone comes out to you, LGBTQ+ etiquette and techniques for respectful conversations,...
5) Promchanted
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Stella is obsessed with logistics and problem solving, and does not have time for fairy tales, but on a pre-prom visit to Disneyland she and Reece (a boy she accidentally got fired) get swept up in the world of Sleeping Beauty, and the girl who believes in logic, not fantasy, finds herself in a very illogical situation"--
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English
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"While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora's father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way. Then Nora discovers one of her young female...
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4kids5cats Editions
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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She's loved him from afar. He thinks of her as his best friend's little sister. Will these forbidden lovers find their way before they lose each other forever?
As a child Adelaide Barnes felt sure she wouldn't live to be an adult. However, she was wrong. She's grown into a beautiful and ambitious young woman. What began as journal writing became a fictionalized manuscript about her family. Will she have the courage to pursue
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Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Olive Moore has been avoiding her hometown for three years now. But a phone call with her mom has her agreeing to spend the holidays back home with her family, she lets it slip she will be bringing a boyfriend with her. The only problem with that is she has no boyfriend. That is until she meets a handsome-albeit annoying-stranger on the plane who makes her an offer she can't refuse.
Finn Beckett has always had good luck, as demonstrated by the gorgeous...
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Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
If you're like many teens, you probably feel pressured to live up to the impossible standards set by our culture, the media, and even by your peers. After all, everyone wants perfect hair, a perfect body, cool friends, and good grades. But while it's okay to strive to be your best, it's also easy to get caught up in a never-ending comparison game that can feed your inner critic and rob you of your happiness. So, how can you break free from negative...
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English
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"Lily has her work cut out for her when a visit from her grandmother Rose's dear friend, Sandra McHenry turns into an unexpected-- and unpleasant-- McHenry family reunion. Somehow, Lily and her tearoom survive the storm, but later that evening a member of their party-- harmless Ed French-- dies from an apparent poisoning. Mercifully none of the other guests fall ill. They all ate the same food, but Ed insisted on bringing his own special blend of...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Afternoon tea isn't just about flavorful brews and delicious treats. It's also about presentation--fine china teacups with coordinated saucers and plates. With her stock running low, Lily visits an antiques fair for replacements. She snaps up a charming Peter Rabbit-themed tea set in a wicker basket, but later a woman named Kimberly demands to buy it back--then removes an envelope hidden in the basket's lining. An acquaintance of Lily's is on the...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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"But when Madi and her two best friends, Aaron and Jack, rescue beaver kits whose mother was killed, they find themselves at the center of a local conspiracy that's putting the beavers and their habitats in danger. As Madi and her friends race to uncover the threat targeting the beavers, Madi must put her animal whisperer skills to the test in both raising the orphaned beaver kits and staying out of trouble long enough"--
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Publisher
Monkfish Book Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"This beautiful work of historical fiction was inspired by the diary of an actual 18th-century Roman Jewish girl, imprisoned by the Catholic Church because someone with a grudge offered her to the Church. Anything But Yes is the true story of a young woman's struggle to defend her identity in the face of relentless attempts to destroy it. In 1749, 18-year-old Anna del Monte was seized at gunpoint from her home in Rome's Jewish ghetto and thrown into...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Brinkley Saunders has a secret. To everyone in the academic world she left behind, she lost it all when she dropped out of grad school. Once a rising star following in her mother's footsteps, she's now an administrative assistant at an insurance agency-or so they think. In reality, Brinkley works at Heartbreak for Hire, a secret service that specializes in revenge for jilted lovers, frenemies, and long-suffering coworkers with a little cash to spare...
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Cinders and Sparks volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Cinders isn't supposed to know how to do magic. Her dog, Sparks, isn't supposed to talk. And they're definitely not supposed to go to the fancy palace ball. But with a fairy godmother named Brian, do we really think that's going to stop them?
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Series
Cinders and Sparks volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Cinders, her talking dog Sparks, and the hapless Hansel are on their way to Fairyland--but first they'll have to make it through the Deep Dark Forest, where they'll meet three bears, a multitude of adventures, and one woman called Rapunzel. Will Hansel eat the three bears' porridge? Will Sparks offer useless advice at every turn? Will Brian the fairy godmother appear and actually help for once? The answers are: yes, yes, and no."--Provided by publisher....
17) Goblins and gold
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Series
Cinders and Sparks volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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This is a fresh, funny and fabulous take on Cinderella, for everyone who loved Frozen and Shrek. A magic girl. A talking dog. Let's get this party started . . . Cinders lives a boring life with her selfish stepsisters and mean stepmother. So when her wishes start magically coming true it's a surprise to say the least. Then Cinders meets her fairy godmother: she's magic, she can fly, and she's called . . . Brian. Soon, Cinders finds herself heading...
18) Big sky country
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1988, c1977
Language
English
Description
Every novel in this collection is your passport to a romantic tour of the United States through time-honored favorites by America's First Lady of romance fiction. Each of the fifty novels is set in a different state, researched by Janet and her husband, Bill. For the Daileys it was an odyssey of discovery. For you, it's the journey of a lifetime. Your tour of desire begins with this story set in Montana. "Don't be a fool and marry her!" That had been...
19) Enemy in camp
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Every novel in this collection is your passport to a romantic tour of the United States through time-honored favorites by America's First Lady of romance fiction. Each of the fifty novels is set in a different state, researched by Janet and her husband, Bill. For the Daileys it was an odyssey of discovery. For you, it's the journey of a lifetime. Your tour of desire begins with this story set in Michigan. Victoria Beaumont is looking forward to relaxing...
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Daylight Falls duology volume 1
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Spencer Hill Press
Pub. Date
c2014
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English
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Ally Duncan gets a job as an on-set assistant on her best friend Vanessa's hit show, but when Ally falls for Vanessa's co-star Liam and his publicist arranges a fake romance between Vanessa and Liam, Ally may lose her best friend.