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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Discovering a tattered letter that says she is to open it only in the event of her husband's death, Cecelia, a successful family woman, is unable to resist reading the letter and discovers a secret that shatters her life and the lives of two other women. By the author of What Alice Forgot.
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Series
Noel collection volume 4
Language
English
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"After nearly two decades, Noel Post, an editor for a major New York publishing house, returns to her childhood home in Salt Lake City to see her estranged, dying father. What she believed would be a brief visit turns into something more as she inherits the bookstore her father fought to keep alive. Reeling from loneliness, a recent divorce, and unanticipated upheavals in her world, Noel begins receiving letters from an anonymous source, each one...
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English
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"Summer is a busy season at the inn, so proprietor Jo Marie Rose and handyman Mark Taylor have spent a lot of time together keeping the property running. Despite some folks' good-natured claims to the contrary, Jo Marie insists that Mark is only a friend. However, she seems to be thinking about this particular friend a great deal lately. Jo Marie knows surprisingly little about Mark's life, due in no small part to his refusal to discuss it. She's...
Author
Series
Can I be your dog? volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A dog looking for a home sends letters to prospective owners on Butternut Street, with surprising results.
Author
Series
Stink Moody volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Seven-year-old Stink Moody discovers that he can get free samples by writing letters to candy companies and plans a surprise for his best friend's birthday.
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English
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In the newest edition of his classic cover letter guide, job search expert Martin Yate shows you how to dramatically increase your chance of landing an interview. The key, as Yate explains, is to use language drawn from the job posting itself, words that will send your application to the top of database searches. In this completely updated guide, you'll find numerous sample cover letters, along with Yate's tried and proven methods to: Determine relevant...
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English
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"Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and...
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Series
Mysteries of trash and treasure volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"When Colin finds a shoebox full of letters hidden in a stranger's attic, he knows he's supposed to throw them away. That's his summer job, getting rid of junk. But Colin wants to rescue the letters--and find out what really happened to best friends Rosemary and Toby way back in the 1970s. Meanwhile, across town, Nevaeh also finds a mysterious letter. But this one reads like a confession to a crime. And Nevaeh knows her father, the 'Junk King,' expects...
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Series
Anastasia Krupnik volume 8
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1991.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ready for romance, thirteen-year-old Anastasia answers an ad in the personals with an exaggerated description of herself but soon runs into trouble when the unknown man turns up at a friend's wedding.
10) The love letters
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Language
English
Description
"Marlena Wenger, a young aunt from the Beachy Amish caring for her infant niece, finds comfort and hope from an Old Order Amish mother and her family who extend friendship to a homeless man, whose few possessions include a collection of love letters"--
11) Love, Stargirl
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
12) Dear Mr. Henshaw
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A young woman discovers a delicious cache of heirlooms in an abandoned safe deposit box: bundles of handwritten letters, photographs, expired passports, both American and Italian, and twenty-two leather boxes, each holding a priceless piece of jewelry. Drawn to the mysterious woman in the photographs, Jane digs deeper into the woman's luxurious, golden life and the older, dashing man who occupies her pictures and letters. The details are both glamorous...
14) Extra credit
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.
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Series
Amish letters novels volume 3
Language
English
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Her fingertips brushed against something else in the box of doilies. She lifted a bundle of letters, neatly tied with a thin red ribbon. Ivy Yoder hasn't heard from John King in over a year. She knows it's time to let go of the idea that they will one day marry, but she's humiliated to be one of the oldest single women in her Amish community of Birch Creek. When quirky Cevilla Schlabach asks her to help clean out an attic, Ivy is grateful for the...
16) Love, Mouserella
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Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This is my letter I wrote to Grandmouse because I miss her. She went back to the country and I'm in the city. Mama said why don't I write her a letter, so I did."--Dust jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Now that they live in different cities, thirteen-year-old Tara and Elizabeth use email to "talk" about everything that is occuring in their lives and to try to maintain their closeness as they face big changes.
18) Letters of trust
Author
Series
Friendship letters volume 1
Language
English
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"Friendship Letters Series - Doretta Schwartz has always enjoyed writing letters and feels her letters can be a bit of a ministry to her friends. In this series, exchanging letters that contain open and honest feeling and struggles helps Doretta and two of her best friends through the darkest challenges of their lives. A Simple Letter Carries Inspiration for Healing. Life is good on their Pennsylvania Amish farm for newlyweds Vic and Eleanor Lapp-until...
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Series
Can I be your dog? volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Arfy the letter writing dog helps Hidey, a pet turtle on the loose, get back to her classroom.
20) Lucy and Linh
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
In Australia, Lucy tries to balance her life at home surrounded by her Chinese immigrant family, with her life at a pretentious private school.
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