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English
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Catalyzed by a nephew's thoughtless prank, a pair of brothers confront painful psychological issues surrounding the freak accident that killed their father when they were boys, a loss linked to a heartbreaking deception that shaped their personal and professional lives.
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English
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Harris and Warren present a practical guide to meditation that debunks the myths, misconceptions, and self-deceptions that make many people reluctant to try it. They suggest a range of meditation practices that may lower your blood pressure, mitigate depression and anxiety, and literally rewire key parts of your brain.
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English
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Celia and Djuna ruled their clique of friends with dual iron fists. But when Djuna disappeared while the duo was walking home together, Celia buried the terrible truth of that day deep down inside. Now, twenty years later, Celia is unable to consciously keep her secret any longer. Despite her success, her personal life has fallen stagnant, and, buried under the weight of her awful past, Celia returns to her hometown to confess her sins.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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The story of a young woman whose diabolical smarts are her ticket into a charmed life. But how many times can someone reinvent themselves? You be the judge. Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat. Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete. An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe two. A bad romance, or maybe three. Blunt objects, disguises, blood, and chocolate. The American dream, superheroes, spies,...
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Hathaways volume 5
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English
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A lover of animals and nature, Beatrix Hathaway has always been more comfortable outdoors than in the ballroom. She has never been in love or seriously courted. Captain Christopher Phelan is a handsome soldier who plans to marry Beatrix's friend, Prudence, when he returns from abroad. When Beatrix begins to help Pru write letters to Christopher, an innocent deception becomes a passion that can't be denied.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"After Caroline's dear friend is kidnapped ... she has no choice but to work with Lord Valentine Thorn, the same man who broke her heart. Worse, when her actions put her father's business at risk, a marriage of convenience may be her only solution ... Val, the new Viscount Wrackham is in an untenable position: His father is demanding he find a respectable bride to secure the succession. Yet the only woman he's ever loved, Miss Caroline Hardcastle,...
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Princesses of myth volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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In Iron Age Ireland, Maeve, the fierce, willful youngest daughter of King Eochu of Connacht, is caught in a web of lies after rebelling to avoid fosterage with another highborn family and an arranged marriage.
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Scholomance volume 1
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English
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"Enter a school of magic unlike any you have ever encountered: There are no teachers, no holidays, and no friendships save strategic ones. Survival is more important than any letter grade, for the school won't allow its students to leave until they graduate . . . or die. The rules are deceptively simple: Don't walk the halls alone. And beware of the monsters who lurk everywhere. El is uniquely prepared for the school's dangers. She may be without...
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Club CSI volume 5
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
Description
The members of Club CSI must use their digital forensics skills to discover who ran up a credit card bill on Whitney's account by playing an online game without her consent.
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English
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"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
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Series
(Mary E.)Remnant chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The Kingdom of Morrighan is steeped in tradition and the stories of a bygone world, but some traditions seventeen-year-old Princess Lia can't abide. Like having to marry someone she's never met to secure a political alliance. Fed up and ready for a new life, Lia steals ancient documents and flees to a distant village on the morning of her wedding. She settles in among the common folk, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive, unaware...
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 22
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English
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Restorer and spy Gabriel Allon embarks on a dangerous hunt across Europe for the secret behind the forgery of a seventeenth-century masterpiece, attributed to Sir Anthony van Dyck, that has fooled experts and exchanged hands for millions. He is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse where nothing is as it seems. -- adapted from back cover
15) Belle epoque
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Maude Pichon, a plain, impoverished girl in Belle Epoque Paris, is hired by Countess Dubern to make her headstrong daughter, Isabelle, look more beautiful by comparison but soon Maude is enmeshed in a tangle of love, friendship, and deception.
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Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Three Chicago students, Melissa, Wilf, and Bondi, are unlikely participants in a competition for a ten thousand-dollar scholarship, unaware that there is much more at stake.
Author
Series
Wolves Chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Surrounded by villains of the first order, brave Bonnie and gentle cousin Sylvia conquer all obstacles in this Victorian melodrama.
Author
Series
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
2005, ©2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grade sleuth Sammy Keyes investigates mysterious happenings at a local art gallery.
19) Deception's pawn
Author
Series
Princesses of myth volume 8
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Maeve begins her royal fosterage but her new companions are full of secrets and jealousy, her only friends are an elderly lady-in-waiting and Kian, the prince who rescued her kestrel, Ea, and her future promises only household management and childbearing until someone from her past brings a message about her true love.
20) Dark parties
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Neva, born and raised under the electrified Protectosphere that was built when civilization collapsed in violent warfare, puts her friends, family, and life at risk when she tries to find out if their world is built on a complex series of lies and deceptions.
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