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The closer

young readers edition
Presents a young readers adaptation of the life and professional baseball career of Mariano Rivera, who played nineteen seasons in the major leagues.

Stowaway

A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the "Endeavor" which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.

Maisie Dobbs

2004
Maisie Dobbs, a one-time maid who was encouraged by her employer to seek an education, becomes a private investigator after serving at the front as a nurse during World War I, but her first case brings back disturbing memories of the war when her inquiries lead her to The Retreat, a convalescent refuge for ex-soldiers from which no one ever seems to emerge.

Tales from a not-so-popular party girl

2020
Nikki's diary describes a frightful Halloween, on which she helps with her sister's ballet class party at the same time she is Brandon's date for their middle school Halloween dance, where she has promised to spend the evening with her two best friends.

The edge

1989
Tor, undercover security operative for the British Jockey Club, masquerades as a waiter on a horse-racing junket called the Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train.

Morning is a long time coming

2004
En route to Germany in search of the maternal love she never had, eighteen-year-old Patty Bergen lingers in Paris and experiences her first love affair.

Ozma of Oz

2003
When a storm blows Dorothy to the land of Ev where lunches grow on trees, she helps Princess Ozma rescue the Queen of Ev and her ten children imprisoned by the Nome King.

The big game

"Danny Owens is dedicating his seventh-grade season to his Super Bowl champion father, who recently passed away. Danny promises everyone that, just like his dad, he'll dominate the big game at the end of the season and earn a spot on the high school varsity team. Then his English teacher catches him cheating on a test. Even though Danny can retake it, he knows there's no point. He can't read. And if Danny can't pass this class, he won't be eligible to play in the championship game that could unlock his future. While his resentment rises against the only person willing to help him win off the field, the pressure to succeed begins to weigh heavily on Danny's shoulders. Danny is being tested on every level now, and to pass, he may very well have to choose a different path from his father's"--Provided by publisher.

A reliable wife

2010
Wealthy businessman Ralph Truitt advertises for a reliable wife to make a home for him on his estate in rural Wisconsin in the early twentieth century and although he knows immediately that Catherine Land is not the woman she presented herself to be, he decides to marry her anyway in what becomes a risky arrangement for them both.

The kitchen house

2013
After seven-year-old Lavinia is orphaned on the journey from Ireland to the United States, she begins work in the kitchen house of a tobacco plantation and bonds with the slaves who become her adopted family, but when Lavinia is accepted into the big house, her loyalties are challenged.

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