Jacquelyn Mitchard
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Beth Cappadora finds herself in the midst of every parent's nightmare when her three-year-old son vanishes without a trace from a Chicago hotel lobby, throwing Beth, her husband Pat, and their son Vincent into a turmoil that ravages their lives.
Author
Language
English
Description
In a six-figure, world rights acquisition, Mira's Kathy Sagan won My Only by Jacquelyn Mitchard (The Deep End of the Ocean). Jeff Kleinman at Folio Literary Management represented the bestselling author. Mira said My Only, set for 2021, follows a mother who learns the truth about the murder conviction that her college-age son is facing.
Author
Language
English
Description
It is True Dickinson's birthday and her best friends have gathered on this snowy night to celebrate-yet True has never felt more alone. Though her small business is thriving and her young son is happy, the death of her husband eight years ago has left an empty space in her life that friends and family cannot fill. Suddenly it seems that youth and beauty are slipping away while True is busily taking care of everyone else.
But on this night, an accident...
Author
Language
English
Description
Bridget Flannery and Maureen O'Malley have been BFFs since forever. Then a brief moment of inattention on an icy road leaves one girl dead and the other in a coma, battered beyond recognition. Family and friends mourn one friend's loss and pray for the other's recovery. Then the doctors discover they have made a terrible mistake. The girl who lived is the one who everyone thought had died. Based on a true case of mistaken identity, All We Know of...
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard comes a page-turning family drama that explores the emotional consequences of loyalty, deception and jealousy.
Stunned by her recently widowed father’s reckless behavior, a young woman must learn to navigate a new world—where the people she should trust the most have become strangers she cannot trust at all....
Stunned by her recently widowed father’s reckless behavior, a young woman must learn to navigate a new world—where the people she should trust the most have become strangers she cannot trust at all....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Twenty-two years after her three-year-old son, Ben, was abducted and eleven years after he returned home, Beth Cappadora and her family must relive the horror of their experience when her other son Vincent's documentary about kidnapped children brings old memories to the surface and sets in motion a series of events that could tear the family apart forever.
10) Cage of stars
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Just hours after his wife and her entire family perish in the Christmas Eve tsunami in Brisbane, American expat and former police officer Frank Mercy goes out to join his volunteer rescue unit and pulls a little boy from a submerged car, saving the child's life with only seconds to spare. In that moment, Frank's own life is transformed. Not quite knowing why, Frank sidesteps the law, when, instead of turning Ian over to the Red Cross, he takes the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Twelve years after the fire that killed her father and left her horrible disfigured, Sicily Coyne is offered a chance at a normal life in the form of a revolutionary surgery that gives her a new face, and, with her beauty and courage restored, Sicily seeks new experiences and adventures, until she is forced to confront a moral and medical crisis that changes everything.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In a small hospital town, a trio of teens rebel against their fatal diagnosis of XP (an allergy to sunlight) with late night Parkour, an extreme sport of daredevil risks. On a random summer night, while scaling a building like any other, the three happen to peer into an empty apartment and glimpse an older man with what looks like a dead girl. A game of cat-and-mouse ensues that escalates through the underground world of hospital confinement, off-the-grid...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Allie Kim's deathly allergy to sunlight, XP, still confines her to the night. Now that she's lost her best friend Juliet to an apparent suicide, the night has never felt darker-even with Rob at her side.Allie knows why Juliet killed herself: to escape the clutches of Garrett Tabor, whom the trio saw committing an unspeakable crime. Garrett is untouchable; the Tabors founded the world-famous XP clinic that keeps Allie and Rob alive and their small...