Shaina Summerville
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"Every afternoon on her walk home from school, Brianna hears footsteps following her -- footsteps that belong to no one. Then there's the car that races along the narrow country road with blinding lights and almost runs her over! That's when Brianna realizes ... there's no one driving. As Brianna investigates what happened on Shadowrun Road, she discovers a town tragedy that has never been resolved"--Provided by publisher
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Some doors are locked for a reason… While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora's father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way. Then...
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
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The country’s hottest TV cooking show is coming to Cape Cod. And against her better judgment, Lily Roberts is entering America Bakes! with her charming tearoom, Tea by the Sea! Filming is already proving disruptive, closing the tearoom during Lily’s busiest season. But tensions really bubble over when infamous bad-boy chef and celebrity judge, Tommy Greene, loses his temper with Lily’s staff, resulting in an on-camera blowout with Cheryl Wainwright....
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Lily has her work cut out for her when a visit from her grandmother Rose's dear friend, Sandra McHenry, turns into an unexpected--and unpleasant--McHenry family reunion. The squabbling boils over and soon Tea by the Sea's serene afternoon service resembles the proverbial tempest in a teapot. Somehow, Lily and her tearoom survive the storm, and Sandra's bickering brethren finally retreat to Rose's B & B. But later that evening, a member of their party--harmless...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Tearoom proprietress Lily Roberts, after buying a Peter Rabbit-themed tea set at an antiques fair, finds trouble brewing when two sisters want the set back and one winds up dead, making Lily wonder if this is a simple case of greed boiling over or something else entirely.
Author
Pub. Date
c2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Berkeley and her best friend, Garth, live on an old cruise ship, scavenging for supplies from the drowned cities left behind on the ocean floor after the sea swallowed up all the land. They think they've seen every kind of aquatic creature, but they never expected to find sea monsters... After awakening a Hydra, Berkeley and Garth are sent to live on a submarine, where they study and hunt sea monsters. But the Hydra wants revenge on their home ship--and...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Description
The massive labyrinth was built to protect Zadie Kalvers' isolated desert town. Unfortunately, living in the maze's shadow makes her feel anything but safe. Even without its enchanted deathtraps and illusions, a notorious killer named Dex lurks in its corridors, terrorizing anyone in his path.
But when Zadie's best friend vanishes into the labyrinth-and everyone mysteriously forgets he exists- completing the maze becomes her only hope of saving him....
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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
When Naomi's daughter, Perle, starts to have nightmares about smokestacks and creepy doctors, Naomi is struck with terror - the terror of a mother who fears her daughter is in mortal danger. Naomi believes dreams are glimpses into the future. She, too, has had dreams of foreign soldiers with a strange flag invading her tiny village. She knows in her heart that evil is brewing. Real-life has already been a living hell for Noami. She must navigate the...
10) The spinster
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Series
Emerson Pass volume 02
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Colorado, 1920. Josephine Barnes wrote every day to her beloved fiancé battling in the trenches of the Great War. Devastated when he's killed in action, she vows never to marry and buries her grief in the construction of the town's first library. But she's left breathless when she receives a request from a gracious gentleman to visit and return the letters containing her declarations of desire. Philip Baker survived the war but returned home burdened...
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Series
Auschwitz twins volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
As the Nazi shadow of death falls across Europe, one man's wickedness looms out of the darkness. Mengele, the Angel of Death. When the Aizenberg family is forced into the crowded Warsaw ghetto, they must share a small apartment with a secular Jewish family. This living arrangement will be a test for young Shoshana Aizenberg as she enters adulthood. Meanwhile, fast-rising doctor Ernst saves a man's life on the Russian front. For his heroism, Ernst...
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Series
Pub. Date
2014
Description
When Paige MacKenzie arrives in Jackson Hole, her only goal is to complete a simple newspaper assignment about the Old West. However, it's not long before her instincts tell her there's more than a basic story to be found in the popular, northwestern Wyoming mountain area. A chance encounter with attractive cowboy Jake Norris soon has Paige chasing a legend of buried treasure, passed down through generations.
From the torn edge of a water-damaged...
Author
Series
Auschwitz twins volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"A bloodcurdling drama unravels in the shadow of Mengele's dark, twisted obsession. Ernst must face his nemesis as he battles to save Shoshana, Bluma, Perle, and ultimately, his heart. Marcel Petoit has weaponized Gisele's dark secrets. Will she escape his evil grip? Will Herschel and Naomi ever see their girls again?" --
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Colorado, 1910. Quinn Cooper can’t help feeling uneasy. But securing a job as a schoolmarm in a tiny frontier town was the only way to save her family from starvation back in Boston. And her nerves aren’t eased by a stray gunshot that spooks the sleigh horses, casting her into the snow… until she’s rescued by a handsome stranger.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Brinkley Saunders has a secret. To everyone in the academic world she left behind, she lost it all when she dropped out of grad school. Once a rising star following in her mother's footsteps, she's now an administrative assistant at an insurance agency-or so they think. In reality, Brinkley works at Heartbreak for Hire, a secret service that specializes in revenge for jilted lovers, frenemies, and long-suffering coworkers with a little cash to spare...
16) A Lyon's share
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Pub. Date
c2000, c1976
Description
In the New York Times-bestselling author's Americana series, a secretary and her boss cozy up while stuck in a Chicago blizzard-"Dailey remains the best!" (Affaire de Coeur).
Discover romance across America with Janet Dailey's classic series featuring a love story set in each of the fifty states. With A Lyon's Share, the New York Times-bestselling legend-with more than 300 million copies of her novels sold-brings us to Illinois, where passion comes...