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"Gus Hollister owes all his success to his feisty grandmother, Rose, and her two sisters, Iris and Violet. They raised him, sent him to the best schools, and helped him start his own accounting business. Rose even bought the house Gus lives in with his wife, Elaine. Now, Gus stands to lose everything--his home, his car, and his business. Worse, he's alienated his beloved grandma, who tried to warn him about Elaine's greedy ways. Heartsick and remorseful,...
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In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted, however, when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. As Percy sees his rural refuge overrun by children, parents, and teachers, he must reexamine the solitary life he has made in the three decades since the sudden...
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New Americana volume 4
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From the moment Kristen Daniels arrives at Hart's Hollow, something about the place speaks to her soul. So when 73-year-old Emmy Hart asks Kristen to help return the farm to its former glory, Kristen accepts, despite her fears about getting involved with Emmy or the two kids in Emmy's care. Then there's the matter of Emmy's ruggedly handsome grandson, who stirs feelings Kristen believed were long gone. When Mitch Hart left Hart's Hollow at age eighteen,...
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Seven volume 5
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
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At the request of his late grandfather, Rennie goes to Iceland to right an old wrong, and gets drawn into investigating a murder.
6) Jump cut
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Series
Seven volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Spencer travels to Buffalo to get a kiss from an ancient movie star...the task his late grandfather wants him to undertake...and he's supposed to film it. Gloria Lorraine, star of the silver screen back in the day has big plans--plans that involve her granddaughter AmberLea, a gun, a baker who might be a gangster, some real gangsters and a road trip to Nowheresville, Ontario. After being shot at, jumping into an icy lake and confronting some angry...
7) Ink me
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Series
Seven volume 4
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Bunny doesn't understand why his late grandfather wants him to get a tattoo. Actually, Bunny doesn't understand a lot of things, so it's good that his older brother, Spencer, is happy to explain things to him. But this is a task Bunny is supposed to do on his own, and nobody is more surprised than Bunny when, after he gets tattooed, he is befriended by a kid named Jaden and adopted into Jaden's gang.