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"Annie Hebden is stuck. Stuck in her boring job, with her irritating roommate, in a life no thirty-five-year-old would want. But deep down, Annie is still mourning the terrible loss that tore a hole through the perfect existence she'd once taken for granted--and hiding away is safer than remembering what used to be. Until she meets the eccentric Polly Leonard"--Amazon.com.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister, Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forests, where they encounter giant ants, flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
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Horrified at the thought of caring for talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca, the spinster aunts nevertheless spend seven difficult years raising their niece, rewarding years for all three inhabitants of the little brick house in a small New England town.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Annie and Apple are two very cute hamsters from the animal shelter who are being fostered by eight-year-old Kaita Takano and her family. Kaita can't wait to find forever homes for the inquisitive furballs--but first, she has to find them!
46) The magic half
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Eleven-year-old Miri Gill feels left out in her family, which has two sets of twins and her, until she travels back in time to 1935 and discovers Molly, her own lost twin, and brings her back to the present day.
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She ran from their wedding... Now the Italian has found her! After years of searching, Cesare Brunetti finds his wife Ida cleaning homes to make ends meet. The Cinderella heiress fled mere hours after their vows, even though he was the one blackmailed into their convenient union! Cesare intends to finalise their divorce. But he hasn't counted on discovering Ida's total innocence in their marriage sham. Or on the attraction that rises swift and hot...
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"For half a century, the French writer Annie Ernaux has transgressed the boundaries of what stories are considered worth telling, what subjects worth exploring. In this probing meditation, Ernaux turns her attention to the phenomenon of the big-box superstore, a ubiquitous feature of modern life that has received scant attention in literature. Recording her visits to a store near Paris for over a year, she captures the world that exists within its...
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Nashville ER volume 1
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From a midnight kiss... to a reunion in ER! In this Nashville ER story, when Dr Carter Booth shares a New Year's kiss with a captivating stranger he doesn't expect a reunion. Until he walks into Saint Dolores' ER the very next day and discovers she's his new colleague! Awkwardly, their smoking-hot attraction hasn't gone away! Carter's life means he simply can't lay down roots - and yet there's something about nurse Avery and Nashville that's starting...
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Movie "Colette" coming in September starring Keira Knightley! From her marriage at the age of 20, until her divorce, this snapshot of Colette's life focuses on her formative years. Incredibly complex, powerfully determined, truly gifted, Colette challenged herself to reinvent her life and assert herself as a free woman. In her day, her behavior scandalized and vexed the establishment. But in the end, she helped to free women in their thinking and...
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Celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II marks 60 years as Canada's monarch in 2012. This fully up-to-date book captures the excitement, the majesty, and the pageantry of the spectacular events that have allowed her subjects to celebrate and share their admiration for their Queen in her Diamond Jubilee year. This book recalls the many key moments of Jubilee year, including The Queen and Prince Philip's nationwide...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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"In this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream, a twelve-year-old Japanese American girl grapples with, and ultimately rises above, the racism and trials of middle school she experiences while chasing her dreams. As the daughter of immigrants who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to dream big. And at the start of seventh grade, she's channeling that irrepressible hope into becoming the lead in her school...
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Annie and Snowball volume 3
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IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Annie forms a club for girls who love teacups and other dainty things, but she will always love her cousin Henry and his big drooly dog too.
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At a swim meet in their quiet New England town, Annie watches as her daughters glide through the water. Her thoughts drift lazily from whether she fed her daughters enough carbs that morning to why her husband doesn't kiss her anymore, to Paul, a swim-team parent, who's taken notice of her and seems to embody everything she's beginning to think her life is missing. When a girl on the team is murdered at a nearby highway rest stop--the same spot where...
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Christmas has finally come and gone but the holiday rush isn't through. A florist's work is never done as Quincy McKay can attest to. She's juggling responsibilities last minute brides, her future mother-in-law, her handsome fiancés job and a new pup who might have gulped down her engagement ring. And now she's judging the New Year's Jubilee cook off contest.
After contestants start having "accidents" that knock them out of the running, Quincy becomes...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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At age twenty-one, partially-blind, lonely but spirited Annie Sullivan travels from Massachusetts to Alabama to try and teach six-year-old Helen Keller, deaf and blind since age two, self-discipline and communication skills. Includes historical notes and timeline.
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Until 1894 there were no female sport stars, no product endorsement deals, and no young mothers with the chutzpah to circle the globe on a bicycle. Annie Kopchovsky changed all of that.Annie was a Jewish immigrant and working mother of three living in a Boston tenement with her husband, a peddler. This was as close to the American dream as she was likely to get-until she became part of what one newspaper called "one of the most novel wagers ever made":...
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2021.
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IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
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According to eleven-year-old Annie, luck is never on her side causing her to be somewhat of a loner, but after some prodding by her social studies teacher Annie relunctantly tries her fortune at making friends.
59) On mystic lake
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Annie Colwater's only child has just left home for school abroad. On that same day, her husband of twenty years confesses that he's in love with a younger woman. Alone in the house that is no longer a home, Annie comes to the painful realization that for years she has been slowly disappearing. Lonely and afraid, she retreats to Mystic, the small Washington town where she grew up, hoping that there she can reclaim the woman she once was--the woman...
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Royal watchers rejoice! Three indispensable books from distinguished royal journalists Annie Bullen and Brian Hoey have been gathered into this special bundle covering three historic milestones of the British Crown. Includes: The Coronation: A Royal History The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Year: A Royal Souvenir William & Catherine: A Royal Wedding Souvenir