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Pub. Date
2013
Description
"With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, An oversimplification of her beauty utilizes a mix of live action and animation to capture the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic"--Container.
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"Detective Conk Adams is haunted by past military experiences and his role as guardian for his mother who is hospitalized on life-support. Conk teams up with a young archaeologist, Catherine, who is hiding a critical condition that haunts her as well. The unlikely pair soon develop a bond as they attempt to unravel the mysterious death of a 'bog body' found in a native swamp rumored to have curative powers." --Container.
48) American dreamer
Pub. Date
2005
Description
A housewife wins a trip to Paris as a prize from a mystery writing contest. Silly from a blow on the head, she begins living the fictional life of her favorite literary adventure.
50) Beautiful Girls
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A group of high school friends gather for a class reunion and review the state of their relationships with girlfriends and wives.
Pub. Date
2018
Description
After a snafu at the airport, Ashley is forced to rent a car in order to make it home to Seattle by Christmas. She ends up sharing the last car on the lot with Dash, a handsome stranger, who also needs to get to Seattle. Little does Ashley know that the snafu is because she is on the FBI's no fly list, and Dash is an undercover agent assigned to trail her.
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Some six months after they first crossed verbal swords at a Washington D.C. dog show, schoolteacher Elizabeth Scott and businessman/philanthropist Donovan Darcy are blissfully in love and newly engaged. After Donovan's previously scornful Aunt Violet makes a heartfelt apology for her past behavior, Elizabeth is glad to include her in the planning process. As the arrangements for the wedding grow more elaborate, Elizabeth feels the burden of expectations...
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Lucinda and Rob live together happily with their 117 cows on a dairy farm until Rob proposes. Then Lucinda starts to worry that the sparkle may be fading from their love and she decides to put Rob's love through a series of tests. When she trades Rob's precious cows for a quilt from a mystical old Maori woman, Lucinda realizes that, silly games aside, she must get Rob's cows back before she loses her one true love. Ultimately she must learn the price...
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Description
In Japan in 1861, Lord Genji, a young nobleman with a gift for prophecy, joins forces with two Christian missionaries, a mysterious geisha, and a legendary swordsman to embark on a harrowing odyssey toward an ultimate battle.
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
A Woman of substance: the story of Emma Harte, a bright and ambitious servant girl who overcomes her impoverished Yorkshire beginnings in her quest to become an international retailing magnate and one of the richest women in the world.
Hold the dream: continues the saga of Emma Harte, who rose from servant girl to head of an international retail dynasty. At 80, Emma passes control of the Harte-McGill empire to her beloved granddaughter Paula.
To...
58) Evening
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A star-studded cast brings richness and texture to Evening, a lyrical tale of regret, unrequited love, and hope, written by novelists Susan Minot (Rapture) and Michael Cunningham (The Hours), based on Minot's book. Ann (Vanessa Redgrave) lies ill, deliriously remembering when she came to the summer home of her best friend Lila to be Lila's maid of honor (her younger self is played by Claire Danes). But the young Ann is soon caught between the hungry...
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