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3) Prodigal son
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Language
English
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"Twin boys grow up in the same family, in the same town. Dramatically different, they become bitter enemies, even as children: one good, one bad. One leaves his peaceful hometown, but when all else fails, the prodigal son returns, twenty years later. The reunion of brothers, sweet and healing at first, exposes shattering revelations of good and evil. #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel tells a brilliant, suspenseful story of suspicion,...
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English
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"A novel that looks at marriage, sibling rivalry, and the lies we tell others and ourselves"-- Stan and Joy Delaney are killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. But after fifty years of marriage, they've finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. The four Delaney children-- Amy, Logan, Troy, and Brooke-- were tennis stars in their own right. None of them...
6) East of Eden
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
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Description
The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900's in Northern California.
East of Eden is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. Adapted for the 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan introducing James Dean and read by thousands as the book that brought...
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Series
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English
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"The Palmer sisters couldn't be more different. Karen, the eldest, is the responsible one, the one who got the grades, married the perfect guy, and has two wonderful, high-achieving children. Cassie is the rebellious one who got pregnant right after high school and married the wrong man, despite her family's misgivings. And Nicole is a free, creative spirit who's always been indulged and pampered as the baby of the family who could do no wrong. These...
12) Dance of death
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Series
Pendergast novel volume 6
Language
English
Description
"FBI Special Agent Pendergast is pitted against his most personal foe: His brother, Diogenes, has planned a horrendous crime and is framing Pendergast for a series of terrible murders."--Provided by the publisher.
13) Undertow
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
John Munn and his two sons live on a solitary farm in rural Georgia. When John's brother arrives, fresh from prison and with a sea of rage and envy simmering beneath his skin, their isolated world becomes one marked by violence, greed and murder.
14) The identicals
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Harper Frost is laid-back, easygoing. She doesn't care what anyone thinks of her. She likes a beer and a shot and wouldn't be caught dead wearing anything fashionable. She's inherited her father's rundown house on Martha's Vineyard, but she can't hold down a job, and her latest romantic disaster has the entire island talking. Tabitha Frost is dignified, refined. She prefers a fine wine and has inherited the impeccable taste of her mother, the iconic...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Cal has always lived in the shadow of his brother, Frank, a complicated narcissist who was doted upon by their mother and beloved by the girls in their hometown-including Cal's own girlfriends. In an attempt to escape Frank's insidious presence, Cal pursues a different kind of freedom in the world's wild spaces, prospecting for gold and precious minerals everywhere from the heat of the desert at the Mexican border to the Alaskan chill to the suffocating...
Author
Series
Goosebumps volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
After Kris gets a mannequin of her own because she is jealous of all the attention which a ventriloquist's dummy brings to her twin sister, horrible happenings seem to double.
17) Stairs of sand
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Language
English
Description
Stairs of Sand is the saga of two brothers who were willing to kill each other for pride and the love of a woman.
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Series
Pendergast novel volume 7
Language
English
Description
The New York Museum of Natural History receives their pilfered gem collection back ... ground down to dust. Diogenes, the psychotic killer who stole them in Dance of Death, is throwing down the gauntlet to both the city and to his brother, FBI Agent Pendergast, who is currently incarcerated in a maximum security prison. To quell the PR nightmare of the gem fiasco, the museum decides to reopen the Tomb of Senef. An astounding Egyptian temple, it was...
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Series
Publisher
Barron's Educational Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
This delightful picture book explores the dynamics of sibling realtionships in simple, reassuring terms. The difficulties, worries, and questions that may arise from life with brothers and sisters are made accessible to young children.