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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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"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.
3) 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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Series
2021 Book Club volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
A curmudgeon hides a terrible personal loss beneath a cranky and short-tempered exterior while clashing with new neighbors, a boisterous family whose chattiness and habits lead to unexpected friendship.
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'....
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Language
English
Description
Josie and her husband have split up, she's been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she's grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancée's family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation:...
Author
Series
Jackson Brodie mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
Private detective Jackson Brodie finds his own need for resolution sparked by three investigations, including that of two sisters who discover a shocking clue to the disappearance of their third sister thirty years earlier.
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Language
English
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Description
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?"--
11) Safe harbour
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Pip Mackenzie doesn't think her lovely mother, Ophelie, will ever smile again. Overcome by grief at the loss of her husband and son in a plane crash, she spends most of her days asleep in a rented summer cottage near San Francisco. Pip, a child wise beyond her years, cares for Ophelie the best she can, but she is lonely, walking the beach, daydreaming of life before the accident, day after day, all by herself. Then one chilly July...
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Description
Every parent's nightmare becomes reality for Kara Marshall when her daughter vanishes from her bedroom.
When her teenage daughter vanishes shortly after Kara Marshall and her husband put their Long Island home on the market, Kara fears the worst despite the suspicions of police that the girl is a runaway.
14) Twenty wishes
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Anne Marie Roche, owner of a bookstore on Seattle's Blossom Street, marks Valentine's Day by making a wish list with other widows. Following her wish list, Anne Marie begins volunteering and meets Ellen. Together, they work to complete Anne Marie's wish list.
Author
Series
Walk novels volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When the long walk from Seattle to Key West finally nears an end, Alan Christoffersen must return to the west and face yet another crisis just as he has begun to heal from so much loss.
Author
Series
Walk novels volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In St. Louis, Alan Christoffersen faces another life-changing crisis, putting his journey to grace in jeopardy.
18) A single man
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of his longtime lover, George must adjust to life on his own as a professor in Southern California in the early 1960s. During the course of an ordinary day, George is haunted by memories as he seeks connections with the world around him--Publisher's description.
Author
Series
Blossom street novels volume 5
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After she and several other widows each begin a list of 20 wishes, knitter Anne Marie Roche, while volunteering at a local school, meets an 8-year-old girl named Ellen who helps her realize that wishes can come true but not in the way you'd expect, in a collection that includes the sequel.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Unable to process the grief of losing his parents and brothers in a tragic ferry accident, Arvid Jansen, now divorced and living dangerously, is forced to come to terms with the fact that someone still needs him when his daughter reaches out to him for help.
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