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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and...
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2014.
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English
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"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue-in Marilyn's case that her daughter become...
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"On a dark midwinter's night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, the regulars are telling stories when a wounded stranger enters carrying the lifeless body of a small child. Hours later, the girl stirs, takes a breath and returns to life. Many secretsmust be revealed before the girl's identity can be known"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When New York law student Jack Mullen learns that his brother has drowned, he knows it can't be an accident . . .
Jack Mullen is in law school in New York City when the shocking news comes that his brother Peter has drowned in the ocean off East Hampton. Jack knows his brother and knows this couldn't be an accident; someone must have wanted his brother dead. But the powers that be say otherwise. As Jack tries to uncover details of his brothers...
Jack Mullen is in law school in New York City when the shocking news comes that his brother Peter has drowned in the ocean off East Hampton. Jack knows his brother and knows this couldn't be an accident; someone must have wanted his brother dead. But the powers that be say otherwise. As Jack tries to uncover details of his brothers...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 26
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English
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Pen /Hemingway Award-winning novelist Jane Hamilton follows up her first success, The Book Of Ruth, with this spectacularly haunting drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives. Praised by reviewers for its intimate portrayal of the minds of its characters, a novel by the author of The Book of Ruth chronicles one family's decay through guilt and betrayal. Reprint. K. PW.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Deftly written and emotionally powerful, Drowning Ruth is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart, of the dangers of keeping secrets and the explosive repercussions when they are exposed. A mesmerizing and achingly beautiful debut.
Winter, 1919. Amanda Starkey spends her days nursing soldiers wounded in the Great War. Finding herself suddenly overwhelmed, she flees Milwaukee and retreats to...
Winter, 1919. Amanda Starkey spends her days nursing soldiers wounded in the Great War. Finding herself suddenly overwhelmed, she flees Milwaukee and retreats to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Stu gets lost in the woods just as night closes in, he know he should just sit still and wait for morning because there is a flooded quarry nearby--but when he hears a boy calling for help he follows the sound, ignoring the dog that is trying to steer him in the opposite direction.
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When Hollywood moguls and stars want privacy, they head to an idyllic small town on the coast, where the exclusive Burning Cove Hotel caters to their every need. It's where reporter Irene Glasson finds herself staring down at a beautiful actress at the bottom of a pool. The dead woman had a red-hot secret about up-and-coming leading man Nick Tremayne, a scoop that Irene couldn't resist, especially since she's just a rookie at a third-rate gossip rag....
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Butternut Lake volume 6
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English
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Readers who love Susan Wiggs and Susan Mallery will adore New York Times bestselling author Mary McNear newest novel. A young woman travels home to Butternut Lake, confronting her past and the tragedy she and her friends have silently carried with them for over a decade while also facing an unknown future. Butternut Lake is an idyllic place-but for one woman, her return to the lake town she once called home is bittersweet…Sometimes life changes...
11) The night mark
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English
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From the bestselling author of The Bourbon Thief comes a sweeping tale of loss and courage, where one woman discovers that her destiny is written in sand, not carved in stone.Faye Barlow is drowning. After the death of her beloved husband, Will, she cannot escape her grief and most days can barely get out of bed. But when she's offered a job photographing South Carolina's storied coast, she accepts. Photography, after all, is the only passion she...
12) Sea witch
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Sea witch volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Ever since her best friend, Anna, drowned, Evie has been an outcast in her small fishing town. Hiding her talents, mourning her loss, drowning in her guilt. Then a girl with an uncanny resemblance to Anna appears offshore and, though the girl denies it, Evie is convinced that her best friend actually survived. That her own magic wasn't so powerless after all ... The rise of Hans Christian Andersen's iconic villainess is a heart-wrenching story of...
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Naomi's dog Diesel returns from the afterlife with one mission - can he save her?
It's Naomi's worst summer ever. Her dog, Diesel, died. Dad lost his job. Mom and Dad split up. The family is broke, and Naomi is stuck babysitting when she planned to take swimming lessons. Then Naomi's sometime-friend Morgan convinces her to jump off a dock. On July 1 at precisely 4:30, when Naomi drowns, destiny shifts.
Naomi awakes a week earlier to Diesel talking...
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Covenant Communications
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English
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Following a fatal automobile accident, Marni's handicapped cousin, Sammy, comes to live with her family--and she lands the job of "babysitting" him. As Marni's feelings turn from resentment to affection and surprising protectiveness, tragedy strikes and she makes an important decision.
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"A new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author and "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark. After a party when her parents are away, eighteen-year-old Kerry Dowling is found fully dressed at the bottom of the family pool. The immediate suspectis her boyfriend who had a bitter argument with her at the party. Then there is a twenty-year-old neighbor who was angry because she didn't invite him to the party. Or is there someone else who has...
16) Lifesaving
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Boy Scouts of America
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
95 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Outlines requirements for pursuing a merit badge in lifesaving.
17) The guardian
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An aging United States Coast Guard rescue swimmer's team is killed in a horrific rescue mission. Just prior to this same mission his wife announces that she cannot take anymore. This leaves him an emotional wreck. His commander gives him a choice - quit or take a position as an instructor at the USCG training facility in Louisiana. Reluctantly he takes the position and moves into the school. Once there he immediately increases the 18 week curriculum...
18) Secrets so deep
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Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Avril Vincent returns to an exclusive theater camp to uncover the truth of what happened when her mother drowned there twelve years ago.
19) The invitation
Author
Series
Stephanie King novels volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Grand Central Publishing edition.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"The first time Jemma and Matt were invited to Polskirrin -- the palatial ocean-view home belonging to Matt's old friend Lucas Jarrett -- it was for an intimate wedding that ended in tragedy. Jemma will never forget the sight of the girl's pale, doll-like body bobbing listlessly toward the rocky shore. Now, exactly one year later, Jemma and her husband have reluctantly returned at Lucas's request to honor an anniversary they would do anything to forget....
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