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When Nöel learns that his former flame is terminally ill and pregnant with a child she claims is his, he agrees to take care of the baby girl once she's born. But as a recovering alcoholic whose demons are barely under control, he can't do it alone. Luckily, he has an amazing network of family and friends who are ready to help. A tale of joy, heartbreak and hope in a close-knit Dublin community.
2) Ellen Foster
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 17
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Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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After a childhood friend is shot down while attempting to atone for past sins, Scudder is drawn into a murder investigation that threatens to upset his path toward recovery--and get him killed in the process.
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2018.
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English
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The newshound in Geneva Chase spurs her to bad if not downright dangerous choices as two unrelated crimes unexpectedly collide. A fifteen-year-old girl at her ward's high school has vanished along with her English teacher. Ant then there's the abused woman who torched her sadistic husband, and how to keep her out of the clutches of powerful mobsters and thus, out of the news. Out on the crime beat, Geneva works to unravel the connection, if any, between...
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Lou Welcome novels volume 2
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English
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Dr. Lou Welcome has been supervising Dr. Gary McHugh's recovery from alcoholism. Though McHugh hasn't been taking his AA program seriously, Lou sees progress and the two have become friends. After visiting a patient of his, Congressmen Elias Colston, McHugh is found unconscious in his wrecked car. Colston has been shot dead, and McHugh is the prime suspect, though he insists the congressman was dead when he got there. Lou investigates the murder and...
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Route 66 novels (Dorothy Garlock) volume 3
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Set in the heady Jazz Age of New York, The Beautiful and Damned chronicles the relationship between Anthony Patch, a Harvard-educated aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful trophy wife, Gloria, as they wait to inherit his grandfather's fortune. Anticipating easy millions, they embrace the glittering, hedonistic lifestyle of the pretentious nouveaux riches but find that they are living a dream that is all too fleeting.
A devastating satire of
...11) Paula Spencer
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Series
Paula Spencer novels volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
12) Purgatory chasm
Author
Series
Conway Sax novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
16) Borderline
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
18) Back of beyond
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English
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Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody...
19) A house divided
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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A longtime legal champion for the downtrodden who is slowly drinking himself into the grave takes on a high-stakes tort case on behalf of two boys who have contracted non-Hodgkin's lymphoma due to an alleged chemical exposure -- Back cover.
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