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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue-in Marilyn's case that her daughter become...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace.
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to
3) Beloved
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Series
Language
English
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author.
This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.
Sethe was born a slave and escaped...
This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.
Sethe was born a slave and escaped...
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Lorien Legacies volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.
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Amos Decker novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Detective Amos Decker discovers that a mistake he made as a rookie detective may have led to deadly consequences in this compelling Memory Man thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.
Decker is visiting his hometown of Burlington, Ohio, when he's approached by a man named Meryl Hawkins. Hawkins is a convicted murderer. In fact, he's the very first killer Decker ever put behind bars. But he's innocent, he claims....
Decker is visiting his hometown of Burlington, Ohio, when he's approached by a man named Meryl Hawkins. Hawkins is a convicted murderer. In fact, he's the very first killer Decker ever put behind bars. But he's innocent, he claims....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
On her eighteenth birthday, Cleo is given clues for a mysterious scavenger hunt that sends her around Columbus, Ohio, and through her past relationship with Declan, who drowned on a group rafting trip the previous year.
8) Betty Zane
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English
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Zane Grey's debut novel, which he self-published in 1905, "Betty Zane" is the first book in Grey's "Frontier Trilogy" and tells the true biographical story of Elizabeth "Betty" Zane, a hero of the American Revolutionary War and direct ancestor of the author. While under siege at Fort Henry by American Indian allies of the British Army and faced with dwindling supplies, the lovely and sixteen-year-old Betty bravely volunteers to venture out of the...
9) Twisted
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Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.
10) Pray for silence
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Series
Kate Burkholder thrillers volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Investigating the brutal murders of an Amish family in quiet Painters Mill, Chief of Police and former Amish citizen Kate Burkholder teams up with state agent John Tomassetti and discovers a diary with a haunting personal connection.
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Series
Hollows (Kim Harrison) volume 12
Language
English
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Description
A malicious coven accuses witch detective Rachel Morgan of consorting with demons, which could mean imprisonment--or death.
12) Sworn to silence
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Series
Kate Burkholder thrillers volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
Now the subject of the Lifetime original movie An Amish Murder
Sworn to Silence is the first in Linda Castillo's New York Times bestselling Kate Burkholder series.
A killer is preying on sacred ground....
In the sleepy rural town of Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish and "English" residents have lived side by side for two centuries. But sixteen years ago, a series of brutal murders shattered the peaceful
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Series
Kate Burkholder thrillers volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Investigating the disappearance of an Amish teenager, chief of police Kate Burkholder and state agent John Tomasetti stumble on a dead body at the same time another girl goes missing, and later discover sinister links to numerous cold cases.
14) Breaking silence
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Series
Language
English
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Police Chief Kate Burkholder is drawn by her Amish upbringing to investigate three deaths in an Amish family--the parents and uncle of the four Slabaugh children--and teams up with Agent John Tomasettito determine whether their deaths are linked to a recent string of hate crimes against Amish communities and whether something more sinister could be hiding within the seemingly idyllic community.
15) The English son
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Amish millionaire volume 1
Language
English
Description
Join authors Wanda E. Brunstetter and Jean Brunstetter in Holmes County for a dramatic new 6-part serial novel set in Holmes County, Ohio.
16) The last runaway
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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
An English Quaker woman immigrates to Ohio in the 1840s and ends up working on the Underground Railroad, helping runaway slaves escape to Canada.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Sent with her mother to the safety of a relative's home in Cincinnati when her Syrian hometown is overshadowed by violence, Jude worries for the family members who were left behind as she adjusts to a new life with unexpected surprises.
18) Lydia's Charm
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Language
English
Description
After losing her husband, Lydia King attempts to make Charm, Ohio, feel like home, but when gifts appear on her porch from a mystery source, Lydia isn't sure if she is ready to open her heart back up to love.
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Series
Cincinnati novels (Karen Rose) volume 3
Language
English
Description
In this nerve-shattering novel in New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose's Cincinnati series, two FBI Special Agents are on the trail of a depraved criminal...
When FBI Special Agent Griffin "Decker" Davenport opens his eyes after several days in a coma, there is unfinished business still on his mind. Decker's on the cusp of discovering the mastermind behind a human trafficking case, and he and his partner, Special Agent Kate...
When FBI Special Agent Griffin "Decker" Davenport opens his eyes after several days in a coma, there is unfinished business still on his mind. Decker's on the cusp of discovering the mastermind behind a human trafficking case, and he and his partner, Special Agent Kate...
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Series
Hollows (Kim Harrison) volume 7
Language
English
Description
Witch detective Rachel Morgan attempts to solve the mysterious death of her boyfriend by an emotion-sucking banshee. To exact her revenge on the killer, she brings in her PI partners--Ivy, a bisexual vampire, and Jenks, a pixie in existential crisis--along with empathic psychiatrist Ford and the banshee victim's father, Federal Inderland Bureau captain Edden.
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