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Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
As a foster kid, Jacaranda has learned the hard way that the less she talks about her mother and why she's in jail, the better. But when a video of Jacaranda singing goes viral, a mysterious benefactor offers her a life-changing opportunity: a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school for performing arts, and she eagerly accepts. Pouring her heart out to her sponsor despite having never met them, Jackie (to her new friends) tries to navigate this...
3) Seven pounds
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Seeking to redeem himself, an IRS agent attempts to change the lives of seven people for the better, but complicates his plan when he falls in love with one of the seven.
4) Mrs. God
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Peter Straub, the tale of a literary sojourn that turns into something far more sinister.
Esswood House. Home and estate of the Seneschal family, aristocratic patrons of the literary arts for well over a hundred years. D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, and Henry James were privileged to call themselves guests. There was always talk of a hidden secret in Esswood's past, and the Seneschal children...
Author
Series
Annie's Attic Mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Annie Dawson has had many mysteries thrown at her since moving to Stony Point, Maine, but nothing has matched this one. A mysterious benefactor is leaving generous gifts for various Stony Point residents, each one accompanied by a handwritten note saying, "Early Merry Christmas, from Stony Point's Santa." Annie would leave the philanthropist alone to do his or her good deeds, if it weren't for the fact that more and more people from the small seaside...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Feeling guilty for the car accident that claimed the lives of his close friends, an old philanthropist devotes himself to helping and supporting their daughter and her newlywed husband, but as it turns out, his help comes at a price.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The author's grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfather's hidden past as well as the suffering and triumphs of strangers...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999, 1998]
Language
English
Description
Dickens' tale of an apprentice given the chance to become a gentleman is now that of a young Florida artist named Finn, given the chance to become a success in 1990s New York. First, a mysterious convict bullies Finn into saving his life. Next, Finn is summoned to an overgrown Gothic palazzo where Nora Dinsmoor lives in the past, attended by beautiful blonde Estella, who will haunt him through the rest of the story. Last, there is secret benefactor...
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