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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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The world of Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher in a small coastal town in Maine, is revealed in stories that explore her diverse roles in many lives, including a lounge singer haunted by a past love, her stoic husband, and her own resentful son.
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[2015]
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English
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Fern Michaels brings together the beloved heroines from two celebrated series --the Sisterhood and the Godmothers -- for a holiday to remember forever...With the holidays approaching Sisterhood member Maggie Spitzer wants to bring joy to a teacher from her past, while Toots and the Godmothers investigate a mystery surrounding a designer at an exclusive Charleston firm -- Publisher.
5) One wish
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Thunder Point novels volume 7
Language
English
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Grace Dillon was a champion figure skater until she moved to Thunder Point to escape the ruthless world of fame and competition. And though she's proud of the self-sufficient life she's created running a flower shop, she could use a little excitement. High school teach Troy Headly appoints himself Grace's fun coach. When he suggests a little companionship with no strings attached, Grace is eager to take him up on his offer. But things get complicated...
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English
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After two back-to-back life-changing events, first grade teacher Katie McGrath left Albuquerque for a fresh start in Borden's Gap, Tennessee. She is finally back in the classroom where she belongs, but it will take a little while for her to heal and feel truly like herself. She'll need to dig deep to find the courage it takes to try again - in life and in love - but with some help from her neighbour Sam Youngblood and his adorable daughters who bring...
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
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New York Times–bestselling author: A woman with MS has built a full life-but is still unsure about love-in this novel. Once a dedicated athlete, Anna Bolles saw her life change radically after a multiple sclerosis diagnosis five years ago. Now she fills her days with the vibrancy of life in New York City, teaching at a private school, but shutting the door on any possible romance. Until Joe Malone enters her life. A businessman, pilot, and amateur...
9) Julip
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
A trio of novellas. In "Julip" a woman attempts to free a brother who has been jailed for shooting her three lovers. In "The Beige Dolorosa" a professor is excommunicated from academia for not being politically correct.
10) Men and angels
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Anne's job prevents her from accompanying her husband on his sabbatical and necessitates engaging live-in help for the children. Anne's discovery of the sitter's unstable condition results in learning a lesson about love.
11) The Night Child
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl's face appears above the students' desks -- ''a wild numinous face with startling blue eyes, a face floating on top of shapeless drapes of purples and blues where arms and legs should have been. Terror rushes through Nora's body -- the kind of raw terror you feel when...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The drawback to having a picture-perfect life is that there's nowhere to go but down--and Annalise Haverford is falling fast. Once, she was the self-proclaimed queen bee of Magnolia, North Carolina. Now her husband has been arrested for fraud, and she's become an outcast in the shallow circles she used to rule. There's only one affordable rental in town, and it's owned by the woman Annalise got fired from a lucrative job. Much as single mother Shauna...
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Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After single college professor Joy Harkness takes a position at Amherst College, she begins to restore the old Victorian home she lives in, meets a friendly handyman and embraces the close-knit community, all of which gives her a new lease on life.
14) Name dropping
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Preschool teacher Jane Heller's life changes dramatically when a very glamorous woman with the same name moves into her apartment building, and, on a whim, Jane accepts a blind date with a man who's called, thinking he's talking to the Jane Heller who lives in the penthouse
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Zondervan
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Seeking an identity outside of her role as pastor's wife, introverted Shiloh Griffin takes a job as a music teacher and befriends pregnant teen Monica, and Shiloh must confront her own darkest secret to save Monica's life and soul.
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English
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This is a story of a boy and a woman: sixteen-year-old Zach Patterson, uprooted and struggling to reconcile his knowledge of his mother's extramarital affair, and Judy McFarland, a kindergarten teacher watching her family unravel before her eyes. Thrown together to organize a fundraiser for their failing private school and bonded by loneliness, they begin an affair that at first thrills, then corrupts each of them. Judy sees in Zach the elements of...
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Publisher
New American Library
Language
English
Description
When her friend Georgia Hallerbee asks Phyllis to have her house featured in the annual Christmas Jingle Bell Tour of Homes, Phyllis is equally flattered and flustered. She already has a bridal shower on Christmas Eve and a wedding on New Year's Eve to prepare for, and she's been baking gingerbread cookies as if they're going out of style. But like her tasty treats, she rises to the occasion. Before the tour can even get under way, Phyllis hears a...
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Series
Little school by the sea volume 1
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The first book of Jenny Colgan's delightful new four-part series, set at a charming English boarding school on the sea.
Maggie went to the window and opened it wide, inhaling the lovely salt air off the sea. Why had she never lived by the sea before? Why had she always looked out on housing estates and not the little white hulls of trawlers bobbing off in the distance?
It's gloriously sunny in Cornwall as the school year starts at the little boarding...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season after the sacrifice of war, a glamorous new figure moves into the guest cottage at Summerly, the idyllic seaside estate of the wealthy Peabody family. To Emilia Winthrop, daughter of Summerly's year-round caretaker and a descendant of the island's settlers, Olive Rainsford opens a window into a world of shining possibility. While Emilia spent the war years caring for her incapacitated...