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English
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It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children--four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness--sneak out to hear their fortunes. Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under--but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewelry on eBay, while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way through her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Is there really such thing as a lucky charm? The hero of Nicholas Sparks's new novel believes he's found one in the form of a photograph of a smiling woman he's never met, but who he comes to believe holds the key to his destiny. The chain of events that leads to him possessing the photograph and finding the woman pictured in it is the stuff of love stories.
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious soldier appears at the door, hands Gabriel a tarnished horn, and disappears. As the years go by, Gabriel's family prospers and they, in turn, help their neighbors. Could their good luck have something to do with the horn?"--
Author
Series
Magical Animal Adoption Agency volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clover, who wants to change her bad luck, accepts a volunteer position at a pet adoption agency unlike any other and soon finds herself in a world of fairy horses, dragons with temperamental snouts, wizards, princesses, and, unfortunately, witches.
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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"The lucky penny in Judy Moody's pocket sure does seem to be working. She can't stop winning-at bowling, spelling, the unbeatable Prize Claw, everything! For sure and absolute positive, she'll ride that wave of good fortune all the way to Washington, D.C."-- provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Unhappy over what he considers his bad luck, Tooley ignores his cat's warnings and invites a greedy little man into his home in the mistaken hope of improving his fortunes.
13) Phantom
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Flicker Alley, in partnership with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation is proud to present, Phantom, which marked a major turning point in the influential career and the groundbreaking style of cinema poet F.W. Murnau. In this beautifully reconstructed and restored edition from an amazingly detailed, original 1922 negative, Alfred Abel (Metropolis, Dr. Mabuse) plays Lorenz Lubota, a man obsessed with his own desires to achieve fame and wealth,...
Author
Series
Da shi xi lie volume 1
Publisher
Zhi qing pin dao chu ban you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2007
Language
中文(繁體)
16) The wagers
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Theo Potiris performed his stand-up comedy act on Conan at thirty, he thought he'd hit it big. But six years later, he's still spending his days working at his parents' grocery store, bicycling to the local open mic, and writing letters to a girlfriend who lives halfway around the world. Theo's desperate for a break. But when he brings his thirteen-year-old niece to the horse track to place a birthday bet--a Potiris family tradition--the goddess...
17) Lost in Ireland
Author
Series
Lost in-- volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin M!x
Pub. Date
[2016].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When superstitious Meghan receives a chain letter from Ireland, she takes a shortcut in its directions, and soon finds herself in a streak of bad luck that she must travel to Ireland to break.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
©1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In early fourteenth-century China, Oyuna tells her granddaughter of her girlhood in Mongolia and how love for her horse enabled her to win an important race and bring good luck to her family. This adventure story set in medieval China tells the story of Oyuna & her adventures delivering a package to the court of the great Kublai Khan.
Author
Series
Classroom 13 volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
"Unlucky teacher Ms. Linda LaCrosse wins the lottery and shares her winnings with her class. The students fulfill their dreams with their newfound wealth, but they soon learn that winning the lottery is not all that lucky"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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After a young Chinese American girl opens fortune cookies with her family, she notices that the fortunes seem to come true. Includes brief notes on the history of the fortune cookie.
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