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"Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes-and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains. Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a new landscape, making her first true friend, and experiencing adventures tragic, comic, and audacious. When a dark, destructive force encroaches...
2) Crossroads
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Language
English
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The owner of a New England glassworks company, widow Cassie Wright struggles to raise her surviving child, Gwen, in the face of unbearable tragedy, but as Gwen blossoms into an independent young woman, dissention drives the two apart, until Gwen has her own child, a little girl who reunites the estranged family.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Devastated by the death of his wife in a hit-and-run accident, Miles, deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, discovers new meaning in his life when he meets Sarah Andrews, a woman struggling to rebuild her own life.
Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to...
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Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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A novel set in the vineyards of Northern California that tells the story of a young girl who, in the wake of a tragic accident, seeks solace in a damaging love affair with a much older man. Eva, a divorced and happily remarried mother of three, runs a small bookstore in a town north of San Francisco. When her second husband, John, is killed in a car accident, her family's fragile peace is once again overtaken by loss. Emily, the eldest, must grapple...
7) God Jr
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Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
God Jr. is the haunting story of Jim, a father who survived the car crash that killed his teenage son, Tommy.Tommy had been distant, transfixed by video games, a mystery to the man who raised him. Now, disabled by the accident, yearning to absolve his own guilt, Jim becomes obsessed with a mysterious building Tommy drew repetitively in a notebook before he died. As Jim and his wife love, flail, screw up, and search in the most unlikely places for...
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