Nicole Poole
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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A memoir of a father obsessed with control and the daughter who fights his suffocating grasp, House Rules explores the complexities of their compelling and destructive relationship as Rachel fights to escape, and, later, to make sense of what remains of her family.
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Series
Josie Gray mysteries volume 2
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"It was pure luck that Josie Gray spotted Cassidy Harper's car, abandoned on the side of the road. If she hadn't, then she'd never have found Cassidy, lying nearly dead of heatstroke on the desert sand beside the body of a Mexican immigrant. But Cassidy can't explain why she was out for a walk in the midday desert heat, let alone how she happened upon the corpse. And once Josie sees the ominous wounds on the man's body, she knows she needs to find...
23) Stung
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Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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When a vaccine to save endangered bees causes their sting to turn children into ferocious killer beasts, the uninfected build a wall to keep the beasts out, but Fiona wakes up on the wrong side of the wall.
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Series
Josie Gray mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
When her longtime boyfriend, Dillon, is accused of murdering his secretary, police officer Josie Gray struggles with precinct disputes and memories of the last time she saw Dillon only to discover that she was the actual target in a multimillion-dollar con game.
25) The drummers
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Series
Josie Gray mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"The residents of the small town of Artemis are suspicious when a community called The Drummers moves into a local abandoned church. Their leader, Gideon, claims their aim is simple: to live peacefully off the grid without government interference. But when local power substations are sabotaged and the whole of West Texas loses electricity, all fingers point to them. Forced to intervene, Police Chief Josie Gray and her team try to enter the church...
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"What you see is what you get with Melissa Gorga. On Real Housewives of New Jersey, viewers love her persona as a beautiful, ambitious woman who has a successful career but also puts family first. In fact, her stable yet sexy marriage to loveable Joe is a welcome antidote to the constant fighting and backbiting on the tv show. Despite the pressure of life in the spotlight, she makes marriage look easy. How does she do it? Melissa's overriding principle:...
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Series
Dark Ones volume 8
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
When Francesca arrives at GothFaire to save her mother from the trickster god Loki, things go from bad to worse. Her immortal ex Benedikt is there, full of secrets and with a new girlfriend. Now Fran must battle a power-hungry group who wishes to dominate both the immortal and mortal worlds.
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Series
Dark Ones volume 7
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Pia Thomason is torn between two Dark Ones, Alex and his best friend Kristoff. She goes back to her dumdrum Seattle life, determined to forget Kristoff. Then something truly evil threatens her ghostly charges and the vampire community and she realizes that she and Kristoff are together for better or for worse and she may as well enjoy it.
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After enduring a chaotic childhood, Emily yearns for a drama-free life, complete with a white picket fence. Her dreams are about to come true, but as friends and family arrive in picturesque Valentine, Vermont, for her wedding, an uninvited guest shows up. Ryan is Emily's first husband from a disastrous starter marriage. He's now a successful film producer who just happens to be scouting a resort in Valentine with his adorable retriever in tow. Emily...
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The Gilford family's yearly reunion encompasses the lives of matriarch Marty Gilford and her four daughters, especially youngest daughter, Emma, 43, who has spent a good part of her life doing whatever her mother and sisters want without really thinking of herself. Then Samuel, a voice from her past, calls up to rekindle their romance and throws Emma's well-ordered life into turmoil. Emma is forced to do some tough self-examination and to embrace...
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Pub. Date
©2006
Description
In this memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. Beginning in the 1950s in the wilds of the Texas Panhandle, she grew up surrounded by dust storms and cattle ranches and summer lightning, and took refuge from the vastness of the land and the ever-present wind by retreating into books. What she found there, from renegade women to men who...
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Series
Dark Ones volume 10
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
While spending the summer in Austria, Iolanthe Tennyson is transported back in time to the eighteenth century, where she comes to the aid of vampire Nikola Czerny, a cursed man who is forced to live forever as a Dark One.
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Series
Dark Ones volume 6
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
"Pia Thomason doesn't have a typical life, but she wants one. The husband, the kids, the house in the suburbs. With her fortieth birthday looming, she decides to do something drastic, and takes off on a singles' tour through romantic Europe. But the few guys on the trip leave much to be desired, unlike the two men Pia sees in a small Icelandic town. Handsome, mysterious, and very dangerous. Just the sight of them puts her in a dither. When their paths...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Nobody in the family, except Aunt Ruth, talks about Ellen's grandmother Lola, who had been swallowed up by the circus then spit out as a woman who tamed tigers and got away scot free for killing her husband. Just as no one talks about the bruises Ellen can't hide"--
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
A childless couple. An adoption specialist. A little girl with a secret. A young boy with unimaginable powers. A scientist with an over-inflated ago. And an elderly psychic who knows the truth. In the fall of 2002, in Seattle, Claire and Logan Keller adopt five-year-old Samantha Jennings and welcome her into their home. But then strange, bizarre, and incredible things begin to happen. The Kellers are unwittingly pulled into an unfathomable world of...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Set within a system of decaying world-ships travelling through deep space, this breakout novel of epic science fiction follows a pair of sisters who must wrest control of their war-torn legion of worlds--and may have to destroy everything they know in order to survive. On the outer rim of the universe, a galactic war has been waged for centuries upon hundreds of world-ships. But these worlds will continue to die through decay and constant war unless...
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Series
Dragoneer Academy volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"As a young dragoneer moves through the ranks of a prestigious dragonriding academy, her challenges grow greater and her time grows short to draw out a series of deadly threats, in the second installment of this thrilling coming-of-age fantasy series. Fifteen-year-old Ileth is now an Apprentice Dragoneer, with all of the benefits and pitfalls that her elevation in rank entails. She has survived many challenges to achieve the next step in her training,...