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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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"Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, with the woman sitting inside--the woman who was killed. She's been trying to put the crime out of her mind; what could she have done, really? It's a dangerous road to be on in the middle of a storm. Her husband would be furious if he knew she'd broken her promise not to take that shortcut home. And she probably would only...
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"FEATURING THREE CHARACTERS FROM THE BESTSELLING BOOK-CLUB FAVORITE THE LIFE WE BURY, THIS NOVEL EXPLORES A RIVETING MURDER CASE TOLD FROM TWO OPPOSING PERSPECTIVES. Detective Max Rupert and attorney Boady Sanden's friendship is being pushed to the breaking point. Max is convinced that Jennavieve Pruitt was killed by her husband, Ben. Boady is equally convinced that Ben, his client, is innocent. As the case unfolds, the two are forced to confront...
3) Remarkables
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Marin and her neighbor Charley hope that by preventing a disaster that occurred twenty years ago, they can save Charley's dad from a future of guilt and self-destructive behavior.
5) Atonement
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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On the hottest day in 1935, and on the brink of a world war, three children lose their innocence as the sweltering summer heat bears down and their lives are changed forever. Cecilia Tallis is of England's privileged class; Robbie Turner is the housekeeper's son. In their moment of intimate surrender, they are interrupted by Cecilia's hyper-imaginative and scheming 13-year-old sister, Briony. As chaos consumes the family, Briony commits a crime, the...
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world (1990) volume 52
Language
English
Description
What is free will? Is redemption possible? Can logic help us answer moral questions? Renowned Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky tackles all of these topics and many more in this remarkable novel, widely regarded as one of the classic masterpieces of literature. Follow the Karamazov family through the travails that transpire after the murder of their father, and expand your intellectual horizons with a work that celebrated thinkers such as Einstein,
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"From a master of the short story, a collection that includes stories never before in print, never published in America, never collected and brand new- with the magnificent bones of interstitial autobiographical comments on when, why and how Stephen King came to write each story"-- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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"Biblical fiction inspired by the woman who was healed when she touched the hem of Christ's garment"-- Provided by publisher.
Elianna, daughter of a weaver of fine linen and wool, is betrothed to Ethan. After her only brother dies while in her care, she tries to earn forgiveness and breaks off her betrothal. Though her talent for design brings success in the textile trade, she longs for absolution. When illness strikes no physician can cure her--...
9) Bang
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Sebastian Cody did something horrible, something no one--not even Sebastian himself--can forgive. At the age of four, he accidentally shot and killed his infant sister with his father's gun.
Now, ten years later, Sebastian has lived with the guilt and horror for his entire life. With his best friend away for the summer, Sebastian has only a new friend--Aneesa--to distract him from his darkest thoughts. But even this relationship cannot blunt the...
10) Chime
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
When Kate, single mother and law firm partner, gets an urgent phone call summoning her to her daughter's exclusive private school, she's shocked. Amelia has been suspended for cheating, something that would be completely out of character for her over-achieving, well-behaved daughter.Kate rushes to Grace Hall, but what she finds when she finally arrives is beyond comprehension.Her daughter Amelia is dead.Despondent over having been caught cheating,...
12) Tangles
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Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
When she takes money from her neighbor's wallet in order to buy a kitten, Sophie finds that she cannot live with the guilt.
13) To the stars
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"He promised to wait for her. She told him he was wasting his time. Not waiting for him ended up being the biggest mistake of her life."Molly McAdams reels you in, one heart-wrenching, nail-biting page at a time."--USA Today bestselling author K.A. Tucker"I was on the edge of my seat in this gripping, emotional page-turner. The characters come to vivid life and you will cry tears of heartbreak and joy as Molly McAdams takes you To the Stars." Tiffany...
14) Chasing Redbird
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in Kentucky.
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Keith Weston nearly lost his life in an act of arson. He survived--but with devastating physical and emotional scars. Without his mother, he has no one to help him heal, no money, nothing to live for but the medications that numb his pain. Isolated and angry, his hatred has one tight focus: his half-sister, Maggie Lockwood. Nineteen-year-old Maggie spent a year in prison for the acts that led up to the fire. Now she's back home. But her release cannot...
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Series
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old Hazel takes her three-year-old sister to pick berries in a blackberry thicket in 1943, and only one of them comes home again. Young Hazel's world crumbles, the weight of the guilt from that colors every relationship in her life for the next seventy years. But now Hazel's granddaughter Meghan is a cold case agent and has an opportunity to investigate this very personal family mystery. What she uncovers could provide healing for three...
17) Lost in the sun
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"As Trent Zimmerman struggles to move past a traumatic event that took place several months earlier, he befriends class outcast Fallon Little, who helps him understand that he can move on"-- Provided by publisher.
18) The reader
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The former lover of a German attorney refuses to defend herself when she is accused of a hideous crime. The attorney gradually realizes that the woman may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Tetsu and his family are sent to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona where a fellow prisoner starts a baseball team, but when Tetsu's sister becomes ill and he feels responsible, he stops playing.
20) Paranoid
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Twenty years ago, Rachel Gaston accidently shot and killed her brother in a teenage game that went horribly wrong. Today, Rachel is moving on and trying to put the guilt of what happened behind her. But then she receives a text on the anniversary of her brother's death: I forgive you. This text is the first of many, all seemingly from the beyond the grave, and at the same time she is receiving midnight phone calls from a blocked number. Are these...
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