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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
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An Artist's Life: Historical Fiction about Art
Art & Artist Fiction
Coming of Age Stories
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Art & Artist Fiction
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"A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld. Composed with the skills...
2) One summer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Frannys mother, Beverlythus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia,...
4) After you
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Series
Me before you volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A sequel to "Me Before You" continues the stories of Lou, her family, and the Traynors as they confront new challenges.
After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor. Louisa Clark is struggling without him. When an accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she cannot help but feel she is right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life.
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English
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One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. Halfway across the country, the plane crashes. Edward...
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English
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"Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. A young woman lives there, tucked among the sprawling tunnels of the Underthing, snug in the heart of this forgotten place. Her name is Auri, and she is full of mysteries. The Slow Regard of Silent Things is a brief, bittersweet glimpse of Auri’s life, a small adventure all her own. At once joyous and haunting, this...
7) Stay with me
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"A novel about a married Nigerian couple who must grapple with staggering levels of loss and betrayal in their quest to create a family for themselves"--
Yejide and Akin fell in love and married while at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide agreed polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage-- after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures-- Yejide is still...
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English
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A girl vanishes "on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning" and thus begins a "family's harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths, until all that continues to bind them to each other are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point does a girl stop fighting for her life?"--
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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A wise and lyrical debut novel about a new widower confronting the truth about his long marriage. "The Dependents is a big book, one that grapples with important questions through generations...Dion's intelligence and ambition truly shine through sentence after sentence." --Kate Walbert, National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History of Women. After the sudden death of his wife, Maida, Gene is haunted by the fear that their marriage was...
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Language
English
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"An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve. When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Three people each coping with the loss of someone close to them in a close-knit Pennsylvania suburb learn that there is wisdom in their grief.--
"Set in a close-knit Pennsylvania suburb in the grip of winter, A Quiet Life follows three people grappling with loss and finding a tender wisdom in their grief. Chuck Ayers used to look forward to nothing so much as his annual trip to Hilton Head with his wife, Cat—that yearly taste of relaxation they’d...
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