Caroline Leavitt
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Isabelle, on the run from her marriage, has a deadly collision with April, a woman of similar aims, on a foggy highway, but as Isabelle struggles to reassemble her own life, she becomes involved with April's husband and son, who want to determine where April was running to and why.
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English
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In 1956, Ava Lark rents a house with her twelve-year-old son, Lewis, in a desirable Boston suburb. Ava is beautiful, divorced, Jewish, and a working mom. She finds her neighbors less than welcoming. Lewis yearns for his absent father, befriending the only other fatherless kids: Jimmy and Rose. One afternoon, Jimmy goes missing. The neighborhood—in the throes of Cold War paranoia—seizes the opportunity to further ostracize Ava and her
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English
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Joe Talbot thinks that coaching is easy. Then he fills in as coach for the toughest bunch of players he's ever seen-a group of five-year-old girls! T-ball will never be the same. This predicament reminds Wishbone of Mark Twain's tale, The Prince and the Pauper. Leaping into the story, Wishbone imagines himself doing double duty-as a poor English lad who yearns for the easy life of a prince, and as the crown prince of England who yearns for the...
4) Samurai
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Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
This book describes the Samurai, the professional warriors of Japan, including their history, weapons, and way of life.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by her boyfriend and at odds with her parents for choosing open adoption, Sara, a sixteen-year-old honor student, is sustained by her relationship with her daughter's adoptive parents until they become threatened by her increasing obsession with the baby and make a decision that has devastating consequences for everyone.
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