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In her fifty-second bestselling novel, Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of the power of lies, the misuse of trust — and of one woman's triumph over a devastating betrayal.
Marie-Ange Hawkins has the kind of childhood that most people dream of. Freedom, love, security in a beautiful old French château. But when Marie-Ange is just eleven, a tragic accident marks the end of her idyllic life. Orphaned and alone, she is sent to America,...
Marie-Ange Hawkins has the kind of childhood that most people dream of. Freedom, love, security in a beautiful old French château. But when Marie-Ange is just eleven, a tragic accident marks the end of her idyllic life. Orphaned and alone, she is sent to America,...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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In her most ambitious, moving, and provocative novel to date, Sarah Bird makes a stunning departure. Above the East China Sea tells the entwined stories of two teenaged girls, an American and an Okinawan, whose lives are connected across seventy years by the shared experience of profound loss, the enduring strength of an ancient culture, and the redeeming power of family love.
Luz James, a contemporary U.S. Air Force brat, lives with her...
Luz James, a contemporary U.S. Air Force brat, lives with her...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 26
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English
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At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins a mysterious girl named Claire. As Will's destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians,...
5) Ash
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Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
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English
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It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a 3-year-old native-American little girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Tucson, Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West. Written with humor and pathos, this highly praised novel focuses on love and friendship, abandonment...
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Orphan train novels (Jody Hedlund) volume 3
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English
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"In 1850, Sophie Neumann flees New York with her two young charges after witnessing a crime. Reinhold Weiss has finally purchased his own small farm when an old friend shows up, pleading for help. But how can he help her when mounting debts and past scars still haunt him?"--
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Sisterhood series volume 29
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English
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Learning that a deceased former client's son is being subjected to danger by his greedy caregivers, Isabelle summons the Sisterhood to protect the boy, while they search for one of their own who has gone missing.
10) The wolf road
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2016.
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English
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Taught to hunt, shoot and survive in the remote wilds of a ravaged land by the man who adopted her after finding her wandering in the woods as a young child, Elka reflects on the catastrophic events that destroyed civilization more than a century earlier before gradually realizing that her father may be a serial killer.
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Who needs a knight in shining armor when there's an earl at your side...? Gwendeline Gregory doesn't know what to think when she encounters the dashing Alex St. Audley, Earl of Merryn. She's in over her head in London Society, trying to fend off a scoundrel who will stop at nothing to ruin her. On the brink of a devastating scandal, the earl arrives just when she needs him most. But are his motivations trustworthy? And can he avert ruin for both of...
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English
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"Immersive and stunning! Reminiscent of This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger, and The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline. For readers who loved Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens and Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate. In 1925 MONTANA, three mysterious orphans show up on a cattle ranch, and after the family takes them in, the oldest orphan is jailed for freeing wild horses bound for slaughter, exposing his dark secret from Hell's Kitchen."--...
13) The innocents
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English
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"A novel about an orphaned brother and sister who must fend for themselves on a remote fishing outpost in the late 1800s"--
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Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Sarah's Amish sister dies and Sarah must care for her children. But Sarah is not Amish and has her own life in Portland, so it is a case of finding an Amish family to adopt them. But Lyddie, the oldest child, has other plans.
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English
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"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
17) Crow Lake
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Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
19) Dentro de casa
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
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"Ten cuidado a quién dejas entrar. Hay personas que nunca se irán. En una majestuosa casa del elegante barrio de Chelsea, la policía encuentra a una bebé en su cuna. Bien alimentada, cuidada y feliz, espera a que la cojan en brazos. En la cocina de esa misma casa hay tres cadáveres en estado de descomposición. Junto a ellos, una nota escrita con urgencia. Veinticinco años después Libby, esa bebé a quien encontraron con vida, regresa a una...
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Bachelors of Battle Creek volume 2
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English
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Left with emotional scars from his time in an orphanage, Rand Sinclair has vowed never to marry. But when he discovers Callie Quinn and a small orphan boy hiding on his ranch, he can't help but open his home to the desperate runaways. Callie has been betrayed by every man she's ever known. While she's grateful for Rand's incredible kindness, she knows it's only a matter of time before he shows his true colors. But she needs this safe haven-maybe the...
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