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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, she finds a picture from at least twenty years ago. In the photo are five people: four that she has never seen before and one who very much resembles her husband. Though he denies that he is the man in the photo, Jack drives away later on that night without an explanation, taking the photograph with him. In the days that follow, Grace tries to keep her family together, yet, each...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
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Humorous Family Fiction
National Book Award for Fiction Winners
Oprah's Book Club
Humorous Family Fiction
National Book Award for Fiction Winners
Oprah's Book Club
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"After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Convicted and imprisoned because she was unwilling to name her partner in adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on the breast of her gown for the remainder of her life. This unending public reminder of sin torments her days and haunts her soul. Four people will be destroyed by a complex web of guilt and secrets, unless one of them will reveal the truth behind the scarlet letter. This is a masterful exploration of man's unending struggle...
6) Rejoice
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Brooke and Peter are struggling in their marriage when they're faced with a tragedy. As three-year-old Hayley fights for her life, the Baxter family draws together, not sure how to pray. Peter distances himself and finds illegal ways to ease his pain that could destroy his marriage and his life. A Baxter wedding takes place that gives all of them a reason to smile again. What will it take for Brooke and Peter and all of the Baxter's to move past the...
Author
Series
Prairie Legacy volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Through the years, Virginia Simpson has learned that Grandma Marty's wisdom was right. When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better. The long-awaited return of Jonathan and their renewed courtship, with a wedding soon to follow, are proof of God's loving ways. But the inner strength that God has been forming in Virginia's life through trials and disappointments is far from completion.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"When her husband of a year disappears, Hannah quickly learns he is not who he said he was and is left to sort out the truth with just one ally- her husband's teenage daughter, who hates her"--
"Perfect summer reading! Don’t miss the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick that’s sold over 2 million copies–now an Apple TV+ limited series starring Jennifer Garner! The “page-turning, exhilarating” (PopSugar)...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Cassie Barrett, a world-renowned anthropologist, wakes up in a graveyard and doesn't know who she is. Taken in for a few days by William Flying Horse, a Native American police officer, she waits for her life to reappear. When Hollywood heartthrob Alex Rivers shows up to claim her as his wife, she is stunned but still doesn't remember anything
To the outside world, they seem to have it all. Cassie Barrett, a renowned anthropologist, and Alex Rivers,...
10) Sweet boundless
Author
Series
Diamond of the Rockies volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
11) The virgin blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin-two women born centuries apart, yet tied together by a haunting family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start working on a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a strange series of events propels her on a quest to uncover her family's French ancestry....
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Series
Big Stone Gap novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Eight years after her marriage Ave Maria Mulligan Mac discovers that the mountains she has dug roots into cannot shelter her from painful lessons of the heart. Almost everyone in the town has advice for her, but when she takes her daughter to Italy for the summer, her passion and a seductive stranger will test her marriage and push her to choose the man who is truly her destiny.
13) The Great Gatsby
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back
"Gatsby embodies the naive American notion that it is possible to invent oneself and persuade the world to accept that definition. Gatsby's youthful neighbor, Nick Carraway, fascinated by both the display of enormous wealth and the essential integrity that he perceives in Gatsby's vision,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan's conventional life has been "molded to the smallest space possible." So when she is called home to cope with her mother's startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself...
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Growing up under an assumed identity after accidentally shooting her mother and escaping her abusive father, Liza Barton, still fearful that her past will reclaim her, is shocked when her husband inadvertently buys her childhood home.
16) Back roads
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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17) Vinegar Hill
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
The unforgettable story of a mother's struggle to find the courage to save her children from cruelty and unhappiness.
The unforgettable story of a mother's struggle to find the courage to save her children from cruelty and unhappiness. When Ellen Grier's husband loses his job, she has little choice but to agree to his suggestion that they and their children move in with his parents on Vinegar Hill. Their new home is more stifling than she feared...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 66
Language
English
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Description
Set in the years before and after Waterloo, the novel tells the parallel stories of two schoolfriends - the quiet, long-suffering Amelia and her brilliant, scheming friend, Becky Sharp. The novel portrays all the corruption and decadence of 19th-century England.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
An evocative story of friendship set against the backdrop of a nineteenth-century China in which women suffered from foot binding, isolation, and illiteracy follows an elderly woman and her companion as they communicate their hopes, dreams, joys, and tragedies through a unique secret language. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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"Haunted by her dreams, Mary Russell arrives in San Francisco in 1924 to settle her parents' estate. But she quickly encounters a few surprises and learns there may be a great deal more to her childhood in this city than she ever knew. As Mary tries to cobble the pieces of her shadowy past together, her husband Holmes wonders if she may be repressing vital memories. And one thing seems certain--someone wants Mary's remembrances to stay buried."
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