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1) Jessie
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As a single mom and the sole proprietor of Token Creek's general store, Jessie lives day to day with her hands full and her heart broken. When the husband who abandoned her returns to town claiming he's a man changed by faith, he sets out to prove his commitment and his love.
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In 1942, German subs are dispatched to the Gulf of Mexico to sink U.S. vessels carrying goods and fuel. While taking a late-night walk, Helen Mason--widowed by the war--discovers the near-lifeless body of a German sailor. Enraged at the site of Josef Landermann's uniform, Helen is prepared to leave him to die . . . until an unusual phrase, faintly uttered, changes her mind. In The Heart Mender, as a small town prepares itself for the worst the world...
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Laura Bartone, now in her fifties, is forced to face unpleasant truths from the past when her troubled sister Caroline calls on the eve of a family reunion and asks to meet with her and their brother to discuss the abuses she believes she suffered at their hands of their emotionally distant mother.
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A holiday tale inspired by the biblical story of Joseph and the coat of many colors follows the modern story of Joe, who after being forced out of the family business by jealous siblings becomes the chief advisor to the CEO of another company and his own family's savior in the face of a troubled economy.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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From the last time Linda and Thomas meet, at a charmless hotel in a distant city, to the moment, thirty-five years earlier, when a chance encounter on a rocky beach binds them fatefully together, this hypnotically compelling novel unfolds a tale of intense passion, drama, and suspense. The Last Time They Met is a singularly ambitious and accomplished work by one of today's most widely celebrated novelists.
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When the will of a recently deceased ladies' man mandates a summer-long reunion for his daughters from different marriages at his posh Nantucket house, the three sisters are forced to confront long-festering resentments and misunderstandings as well as challenges in their private and professional lives, a situation that is complicated by a shocking revelation and the arrival of their mothers.
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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In March of 1941, when a severe blizzard suddenly hits Bismarck, North Dakota, a girl trying to save her stranded father and brother inadvertently helps the man who killed her mother four years before.
10) Anna's return
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Pleasant Valley volume 3
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English
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After spending three years in the English world, Anna Beiler returns to the Pleasant Valley Amish with a baby girl, which will surely cause a stir since Anna is unmarried. What they don't know is that the baby is adopted, and Anna desperately needs to protect it from its violent father. Anna finds it reassuring to reconnect with family and old friends. But she hasn't fully faced the consequences of her irresponsible youth. And now she may be endangering...
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Looking back on her life, Olivia Grayson wishes she had spent as much time with her family as she had building a successful business life. Now she hoped to correct that as she plans to do whatever it takes to help her children struggle through mid-life crises. Before all is said and done, they'll all learn the importance of family and the ties that bind.
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" In 1910 Minnesota, Nilda Carlson's dreams are coming true. Though her first few months in America were difficult, her life now resembles the images that filled her daydreams in Norway. She and her younger brother Ivar live in their own house, just a short distance from her older brother and his family. Together they work the farm and fell trees for lumber. They plan to grow a dairy herd, weave rugs out of their own wool, and make skis to sell. Everything...
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Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Florrie Butterfield--eighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful disposition--believes there can't be any more surprises in life. Yet one evening, there's an accident at Babbington Hall--the adult residence where she lives--so shocking and strange that Florrie is suspicious; is this really an accident? Or is she being lied to? Is she living alongside a potential murderer? In her efforts to learn the truth, Florrie is forced to look back on her own life,...
14) Accident
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When a clumsy armadillo named Lola knocks over a glass pitcher, she sets off a silly chain of events, encountering chaos wherever she goes.
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HarperCollins
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[1997]
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English
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Successful jeweler Stephanie Jardine, widowed with three sons at the age of twenty-three, has made a good life for herself and her children, including a fourth, illegimate child Chloe, but when an act of violence almost claims the life of her daughter, Stephanie must find the courage to confront her past.
16) Sweet as honey
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Smart, kind, and good-hearted, the three Christner girls are affectionately known as The Honeybee Sisters in the beloved Wisconsin Amish community where, under the care of their aunt, they've grown into skilled beekeepers--and lovely, sought-after young women.
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"Jessica was pregnant and facing divorce when her husband and daughter were killed in a car accident months ago. Left to endure the tragedy and her pregnancy alone, she pulls away from her friends and community instead of leaning on them for care and support. She feels far away from God, lost and floating without an anchor. Then at her grandmother's funeral, Jessica receives a gift--her great-grandfather's Bible--which she relegates to a shelf in...
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"More than two decades ago, Ashley Baxter Blake made her most grievous mistake in Paris. New information about that terrible time causes Ashley to see that experience in a new light. Now, Ashley and her husband are about to take a trip to Paris. In Paris, Alice Michel is having dinner with her son Gabe and his new friend, Jessie Taylor. As the dinner conversation goes on, Alice tells the young couple that her life was saved by a conversation with...
19) Calico Joe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
20) Long way gone
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"At the age of eighteen, musician and songwriter Cooper O'Connor took everything his father held dear and drove 1,200 miles from home to Nashville, his life riding on a six-string guitar and the bold wager that he had talent. But his wager soon proved foolish. Five years after losing everything, he falls in love with Daley Cross, an angelic voice in need of a song. But just as he realizes his love for Daley, Cooper faces a tragedy that threatens his...