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The best-selling author of Alice's Tulips and other popular novels, Sandra Dallas exhibits a well-honed talent for evoking the past. In The Persian Pickle Club, Dallas transports listeners to 1930s Kansas, where a club of quilters welcomes a new member-and then must turn to each other for support when a startling secret comes to light.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
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Follows the adventures of Kristy and the other members of the Baby-sitters Club as they deal with crank calls, uncontrollable two-year-olds, wild pets, and parents who do not always tell the truth. A graphic novel based on the 1988 book by the same name.
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"It's rarely a quiet day for the Thursday Murder Club. Shocking news reaches them: an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, where the tricks of the trade are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online fraudsters--as well as heartache close to home--Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim have no idea...
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Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 1
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Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When the mothers of four sixth-grade girls with very different personalities pressure them into forming a book club, they find, as they read and discuss "Little Women," that they have much more in common than they could have imagined.
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"Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim - the Thursday Murder Club - are still riding high off their recent real-life murder case and are looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet at Cooper's Chase, their posh retirement village. But they are out of luck. An unexpected visitor - an old pal of Elizabeth's (or perhaps more than just a pal?) - arrives, desperate for her help. He has been accused of stealing diamonds worth millions from the wrong men, and...
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Point
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2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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A follow-up to The Lonely Hearts Club finds Penny Lane Bloom struggling to balance the needs of a new romantic relationship with those of her club friendships, family and senior year.
"When Penny Lane started The Lonely Hearts Club, the goal was simple: to show that girls didn't need to define themselves by how guys looked at them, and didn't have to value boyfriends over everything else. Penny thought she'd be an outcast for life... but then the...
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. It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A local news legend is on the hunt for a sensational headline, and soon the gang are hot on the trail of two murders, ten years apart. To make matters worse, a new nemesis pays Elizabeth a visit, presenting her with a deadly mission: kill or be killed. While Elizabeth grapples with her conscience...
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Baby-sitters Club (Graphic novels) volume 2
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Graphix
Pub. Date
2006.
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IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Stacey, a member of the Baby-sitters Club, learns to cope with her diabetes and her overprotective parents. A graphic novel based on the 1988 book by the same name.
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Door County quilts volume 5
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C & T Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
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"Claire and the Quilters of the Door start the fall and Christmas season with apple picking at Marta's farm in Baileys Harbor. Claire is enjoying having Grayson all to herself now that his daughter Kelly is away at college. As the Christmas season nears, Claire meets new acquaintances from Missouri and some other folks you'll know. One surprise after another will keep you engaged as you celebrate a glorious Christmas season in Door County."--Amazon.com...
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"In Miami, Cuban-American cooking show star Miriam Quiñones-Smith wakes up to find a corpse in her yard. The body is the woman that was kicked out of the school's Fall Festival the day before. Miriam's luck does not improve. Her mother-in-law puts her in charge of the Women's Club gala. While making plans at the country club, she hears an argument between the head chef and the club's manager. Not long after, the chef dives to his death at the bottom...
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"Food anthropologist Miriam Quinones-Smith's move from New York to Coral Shores, Miami, puts her academic career on hold to stay at home with her young son. Adding to her funk is an opinionated mother-in-law and a husband rekindling a friendship with his ex. Gracias to her best friend, Alma, she gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning TV show. But when the newly minted star attends a Women's Club luncheon,...
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Door County quilts volume 2
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C & T Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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The second novel in Ann Hazelwood's Door County Quilts Series. Claire Stewart loves her little hometown of Fish Creek and has settled happily in Door County, Wisconsin.
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"A cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable--and unsettling--friendship, with blood-chilling twists, crackling wit, and a thrumming pulse in its veins--from the nationally bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song. What if the coolest girl you've ever met decided to be your friend? Art Barbara was so not cool. He was a seventeen-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair metal,...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 10
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English
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"It used to be that Mary Anne's dad was really strict, but not anymore. Mary Anne's been growing up...but that's not the only big news for the Baby-sitters Club. There's a new boy in school named Logan Bruno, and he likes Mary Anne! He has a dreamy Southern accent, he's awfully cute--and he wants to join the Baby-sitters Club. The Baby-sitters aren't sure Logan will make a good club member. And Mary Anne thinks she's too shy for Logan. Life in the...
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Baby-sitters Club (revised editions) volume 7
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English
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Claudia's participation in the Baby-sitters Club is curtailed when Grandmother Mimi suffers a stroke and Claudia finds herself "Mimi-sitting" and fighting more frequently with her sister.
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Mason novels volume 3
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English
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When a group of friends in Mason, Missouri decide to start a monthly supper club, they get more than they bargained for. Instead of sharing recipes, they begin sharing secrets. When Iris Winters and Maddy Harris are invited to the club, they find that it's just what each of them needs. Iris hasn't yet told anyone about the unlikely man who has captured her attention, and Maddy has come back home to escape a problem too big for her to confront.
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