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Ballantine Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 31
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English
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A biography of one of the most influential women of the Middle Ages discusses her marriages to Louis VII of France and Henry II of England, and her later efforts to secure the throne of England for her sons.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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A woman who has everything going for her gives in to adultery. The heroine is Jo Becker of Massachusetts, a well-off veterinarian with grown children and a husband she loves. One day she meets a man from her past and it happens. The novel analyzes why.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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In the winter of 1919, a young mother named Mathilda Neumann drowns beneath the ice of a rural Wisconsin lake. The shock of her death dramatically changes the lives of her daughter, troubled sister, and husband. Told in the voices of several of the main characters and skipping back and forth in time, the narrative gradually and tantalizingly reveals the dark family secrets and the unsettling discoveries that lead to the truth of what actually happened...
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Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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A biography of one of the most influential women of the Middle Ages discusses her marriages to Louis VII of France and Henry II of England, and her later efforts to secure the throne of England for her sons.
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English
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Book two in the Santee Series picks up with Baxter Richardson's recovery from a near-fatal fall from a cliff. Married to Rena, a suspicious and highly unstable woman, Baxter is faced with a choice of staggering ramifications. While Rena Richardson is desperately trying to conceal her crime, her attorney, Alexia Lindale, struggles to put the pieces of the case, as well as her own life, back together. As the mysterious circumstances surrounding Baxter's...
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English
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The Yada Yada Prayer Group seems invincible--until tension and distrust shake its very foundation. Jodi Baxter is slowly recuperating from a horrific car accident, but before she's fully recovered, other problems arise within the Yada Yada Prayer Group--big problems. The turmoil starts when a heroin-addicted woman charges into a prayer meeting with a knife and isn't afraid to use it. Things really take a turn for the worse when grim accusations are...
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English
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"After her hippie British parents are murdered, Lilly is raised at a Sufi shrine in Morocco. As a young woman she goes on pilgrimage to Harar, Ethiopia, where she teaches Qur'an to children and falls in love with an idealistic doctor. But even swathed in a traditional headscarf, Lilly can't escape being marked as a foreigner. Forced to flee Ethiopia for England, she must once again confront the riddle of who she is and where she belongs"--Provided...
9) Widdershins
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Language
English
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A work that brings readers back into the bohemian fairy courts of "Timeskip's" Jilly Coppercorn and Geordie Riddell finds Jilly's sister taken captive and Geordie, in his attempts to help, plunged into an even more dire situation.
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Series
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
There were never such devoted sisters, or ones so hilariously and heartbreakingly conflicted about loyalty... Thoughtful, married-mom Georgie Peachy Archer and big-city-girl Beth, her older sister, grow up on a Canadian farm with their hairdressing, Vietnam draft-dodging dad, Lou, and share the pain of their mom's suicide. But that's where the similarities end---until the sisters swap lives for a weekend.
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English
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Invites mothers to rediscover the joys of everyday family life and the challenges of letting go of grown children, in a personal account that describes the author's older son's departure for college and her memories of shared times in their small New England community.
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Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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Why do you feel close to God one minute and so far away the next? Why does your faith seem empty? Why is it so easy to compromise with the world? Perhaps it's because we have merely inherited someone else's Jesus, relying on what we've seen and heard from family, friends, or pastors. You need to discover your own Jesus. The one who is waiting to have a relationship with you.
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"Onstage, the singing duo of Gabe and Mitzi Steiner captured America's heart for more than two decades. Offstage, their own hearts have throbbed as one for sixty years. Only now, Gabe has retreated into the tangles of Alzheimer's, leaving Mitzi to ponder her future alone. On the other side of Tulsa, everyone believes Brooke Woodson has found the perfect man--a handsome lawyer with sights on becoming Tulsa's next District Attorney. If only Brooke felt...
14) A marriage carol
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Series
Publisher
Moody
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
On their way to end their marriage on Christmas Eve, their twentieth anniversary, Marlee and Jacob get into an accident on a snowy road and Marlee finds herself reliving her past, present, and future