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61) Crystal gardens
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Ladies of Lantern Street volume 1
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English
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Moving to a country cottage where she seeks refuge in a paranormally charged garden, Evangeline Ames is rescued from a would-be assassin by the garden's owner, Lucas Sebastian, who taps Evangeline's detective skills to solve a buried-treasure mystery and stop a common enemy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Louisa May Alcott has problems--her mother is taking a job over a hundred miles away to earn some money, leaving to it to Louisa to care for the family, her father refuses to work for money, a fugitive slave is seeking refuge in their house, and a slave catcher has been murdered, making the Underground Railroad much more dangerous.
63) The Rover
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English
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A novel of naval life in Napoleonic France. After forty years of piracy on Eastern seas, Citizen Peyrol returns to his native France, a country now ravaged and scarred by revolution and war. Looking for peace in which to end his days, he withdraws to a safe harbor in a remote farmhouse on Escampobar Peninsula, which looks out to the distant Mediterranean, where the lovely Arlette lives with her aunt and the revolutionary Scevola. But the arrival of...
65) Watchtower
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2014], 2013
Language
Türkçe
Description
A man and a woman seeking refuge from the world: Nihat at a remote forest fire tower, Seher in her room at a rural bus station. When their lives collide, each now has to fight their battle of conscience before the other.
66) The beet queen
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, they seek refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt and her husband. So begins an exhilarating forty-year saga brimming with colorful, unforgettable characters: ordinary Mary, who will cause a miracle; seductive Karl, who lacks his sister's gift for survival; Sita, their lovely but disturbed cousin; and the half-Native...
67) The seal garden
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Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publisher
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This nonfiction picture book is illustrated with stunning wildlife photographs and tells the story of harbor seals and other marine mammals seeking refuge in a seal garden in the Great Bear Sea.
68) Aerie
Author
Series
Dragon jousters volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Kiron has secretly gathered an army of dragon riders to seek refuge in the abandoned desert city they have named Sanctuary, where they join with other dragon riders to rid their world of both war and magical domination. But now it is time to build a new society in Aerie: an ancient city that seems to have been designed for dragon riders and their dragons.
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English
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After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust-in ghettos, on death marches, and in concentration camps-a young couple seeks refuge in Canada. They settle into a new life, certain that the terrors of their past are behind them. They build themselves a cozy little cottage on a lake in Muskoka, a cottage that becomes emblematic of their victory over the Nazis. The charming retreat is a safe haven, a refuge from haunted memories. That is, until a single...
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English
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"A marriage of convenience between a Mexican heiress and a shrewd London politician makes for a scandalous Victorian bargain--and a love that will eclipse the burdens of ambition and duty. Ana María Luna Valdés has strived to be the perfect daughter, the perfect niece, and the perfect representative of the powerful Luna familia. So, when Ana María is secretly sent to London with her sisters to seek refuge during the French occupation of Mexico,...
71) Post captain
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Series
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English
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"We've beat them before and we'll beat them again."
In 1803, Napoleon smashes the Peace of Amiens, going to war once again. This is doubly alarming news for Captain Jack Aubrey, who is taking refuge in France from his creditors. He is interned but soon escapes from his French debtor's prison, fleeing across the French countryside to lead a ship into battle. After managing to avert a possible mutiny, he pursues his quarry straight into the
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Seeking refuge in Amish country... in order to stay alive. Fleeing to her uncle's home is Shauna McKay's only option after her mother's brutally murdered and the killer's sights set on her. Local sheriff Liam Harland's convinced hiding Shauna in his cousin's Amish community will shield her. But when an Amish woman who looks like Shauna is attacked, it's clear nobody in this peaceful community is safe ... unless Liam and Shauna can stop the culprit's...
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English
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She can't remember who she's running from.
Is she safe with the Amish?
Someone wants Becca Troyer dead, but who or why is a mystery to her. Seeking refuge at the home of Amish farmer Zeke Hochstetler is her only hope to stay one step ahead of the killer. With every clue she finds about her past leading to more confusion, Becca and Zeke must untangle the truth before her pursuer discovers where she's been hiding.
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English
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Seventy-year-old Goldie Sparrows faces declining finances, questionable health, and a late husband who torments her from the beyond. She seeks refuge in her butterfly garden, which is filled with voices and memories from long ago. Jocelyn Anderson is a struggling writer who finds escape from her custody battle in the journal of her late mother-in-law. As she gets pulled through the pages of time, Jocelyn discovers her own husband has a hidden history...
75) Sweet Sanctuary
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Series
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English
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When the paths of a mother seeking sanctuary for her son Nicky and a doctor serving the immigrant population in Queens cross, the two suddenly become wrapped up in each other's callings, seeking a refuge of safety--for Nicky, for themselves, and for the needy people God unexpectedly puts in their lives.
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English
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"As the social and political turbulence of the Franco-Prussian War roils [1870 Paris], workers starve to death while aristocrats seek refuge in orgies and séances. The Parisians are trapped like rats in their beautiful city but a series of gruesome murders captures their fascination and distracts them from the realities of war. The killer leaves lines from the recently deceased Charles Baudelaire's controversial anthology Les fleurs du mal on each...
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English
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STARRED REVIEW! "Precise, subtle details and complete emotional honesty bring these characters to life from the first page."—Kirkus Reviews starred review
"A charming entry in the crowded middle grade contemporary field."—School Library Journal
The unforgettable tale of a girl, her maybe-criminal mom, her babysitting business, and her pet pineapple.
When FBI agents swarm twelve-year-old
...78) Primal bonds
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Series
Shifters unbound volume 2
Language
English
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Description
When a female Shifter comes to town seeking refuge, FelineShifter Sean Morrissey claims the new arrival and finds a beautiful woman wholooks him straight in the eye without fear, stirring the mating frenzy withinhim.To relocate to a new Shiftertown, half-Fae, half-Shifter Andrea Gray mustaccept a new mate. But Andrea's intense attraction to Sean is something shenever expected-a perilous complication for a woman with a troubled past.
80) PARIS NOTEBOOK
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English
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When Katja Heinz secures a job as a typist at Doctor Viktor's clinic, she doesn't expect to be copying top secret medical records from a notebook. At the end of the first world war, Doctor Viktor treated soldiers for psychological disorders. One of the patients was none other than Adolf Hitler. The notes in his possession declare Hitler unfit for office -- a secret that could destroy the F©ơhrer's reputation, and change the course of the war if...