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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
252 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book's characters seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
Author
Series
Walk novels volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Embarking on a walking tour from Seattle to Key West after the losses of his beloved wife and business, Alan Christoffersen meets a series of people on his journey who impart lessons in love, sacrifice, and forgiveness until a crisis in St. Louis threatens his healing progress.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
81 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1764, still grieving over the death of her hero, and missing her stolen horse and kidnapped younger sister, Kaya tries to earn the trust of a lone and starving dog who is about to have puppies. Includes historical notes on Nez Perce? children.
Author
Series
Walk novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shattered by the sudden loss of his wife, home, and business, once-successful advertising executive Alan Christoffersen embarks on a cross-country backpacking journey during which he meets people who help him to gain profound spiritual understandings.
88) The other Emily
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A decade ago, Emily Carlino vanished after her car broke down on a California highway. She was presumed to be one of serial killer Ronny Lee Jessup's victims whose remains were never found. Writer David Thorne still hasn't recovered from losing the love of his life, or from the guilt of not being there to save her. Since then, he's sought closure any way he can. He even visits regularly with Jessup in prison, desperate for answers about Emily's final...
89) Ordinary wolves
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
90) Sacred
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2012, ©2012
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since her older brother died Scarlett has felt emotionally cut off from everyone on Catalina Island except for her horse, and she has become anorexic--but when she meets a strange boy named Will Cohen she begins to rediscover herself.
92) Ransom
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2010], c2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
224 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
358 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unable to forget a first love she lost twenty years earlier after an unforgiveable mistake, Erin considers a marriage proposal by her current boyfriend and wonders what may have happened if the earlier relationship had not ended.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
233 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of his father's sudden death, twelve-year-old Finn feels he is becoming invisible as his hair and skin become whiter by the day, and so he writes and illustrates a book to try to understand what is happening and to hold on to himself and his father.
96) Ida, always
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A polar bear grieves over the loss of his companion, based on the real-life Gus and Ida of New York's Central Park Zoo.
98) Thanks to Nicki
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
102 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a busy summer training Sprocket, the service dog she has been raising, Nicki's school year gets off to a rough start as she works on reconciling her two best friends, accepting that Sprocket will soon leave for placement with someone who needs him, and awaiting the birth of the twins her mother is expecting. Includes essay on service dogs.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Having stolen a million-dollar Marc Chagall masterpiece, thirty-year-old quiz-show writer Benjamin Ziskind and his twin sister work to evade the police and evaluate the eighty-year-old link between their family and the famous painting.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
358 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Working as a quality control inspector at a toy factory in Rhode Island, friendless alcoholic Smithy Ide considers himself a loser until a tragic event prompts him to set off on an epic cross-country bicycle journey.
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