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Series
Language
English
Description
On a deceptively quiet Minneapolis evening, Detective Lucas Davenport is summoned to one of the most heinous homicide scenes he's ever encountered. Two elderly women have been brutally bludgeoned inside their home, with only a few valuable yet common stolen items indicating the killer's sinister motives.
Author
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and...
3) The BFG
Author
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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Description
The Big Friendly Giant is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and it's lucky for Sophie that he is. If she had been carried off by any of the other giants, she would have been breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are headed to England to steal some little children, she and the BFG decide they must stop them once and for all.
4) Fox in socks
Author
Lexile measure
AD 420L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The smart Fox uses difficult tongue twisters to get the confused Mr. Knox in trouble with his tongue.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jenny Blake has a theory about life: big decisions often don't amount to much, but little decisions sometimes transform everything. Her theory proves true the summer of 1955, when 14-year-old Jenny makes the decision to pick up a penny imbedded in asphalt, and consequently ends up stopping a robbery, getting a job, and meeting a friend who changes her life forever.
Jenny and Miss Shaw form a friendship that dares both of them to confront secrets in...
Author
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
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Description
'Oh, it seems so wonderful that I'm going to live with you and belong to you. I've never belonged to anybody--not really' When a scrawny, freckled girl with bright red hair arrives on Prince Edward Island, Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are taken by surprise; they'd asked the orphanage for a quiet boy to help with the farmwork at Green Gables. But how can you reject a child like an unwanted parcel, especially when she tells you her life so far has been...
Author
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
"The story follows Hetty 'Handful' Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. 'The Invention of Wings' follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go...
9) Superfudge
Author
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother, Fudge.
10) The mermaid and the whale =: La sirène et la baleine = Lasirèn ak Labalen = La sirena y la ballena
Author
Publisher
[Imprimerie Brutus]
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 audio disc ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (1 volume (38 pages) : color illustrations, color map)
Language
English
Description
A story inspired by the Haitian folk song of "Lasirèn ak Labalèn" (the Mermaid and the Whale)--translated on each page into Kreyòl, English, Français, and Español. Includes a CD with the book read aloud in each language as well as a recording of the song the story is based on
12) Beyond reach
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the charred body of a woman is found and a detective is charged with homicide, medical examiner/pediatrician Sara Linton joins forces with her husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, to uncover the truth about a case that is poisoning a small town with hatred.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Somewhere near Palm Springs, California, Ali Reynolds' husband, Paul Grayson, is killed on the eve of their divorce by a train that hits the car where he's tied up in the trunk Ali, Paul's legal beneficiary, becomes the chief murder suspect. A popular blogger and former Los Angeles TV news anchor who's suing the station where she used to work for wrongful dismissal, Ali initiates her own investigation, enlisting the help of her mother, grown son Chris...
15) Icebound
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
A secret Arctic experiment turns into a frozen nightmare when a team of scientists, stranded on a drifting iceberg with a massive explosive charge, battle the elements for survival, only to discover that one of them is a murderer.
16) Alice the fairy
Author
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alice, who claims to be a Temporary Fairy, still has a lot to learn, such as how to make her clothes put themselves away in the closet.
Author
Publisher
Song Wizard Records
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (38 min., 37 sec.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"What do you get when two hit songwriters collude? A stampede of clever, cheeky songs that are laugh-out-loud funny. You have to hear this to believe it."--Container.