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81) Red at the bone
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English
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"Two familes from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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When the moon's gravitational pull increases, causing massive natural disasters on earth, Miranda and her family struggle to survive in a world without cities or sunlight, and wonder if anyone else in still alive.
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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In the mellow stone house of his childhood, Roly Carradine has found refuge in the stream running past the garden where a heron makes his nest. A broken marriage and a terrible burden of guilt made Roly remove himself from his busy London life; here in Cornwall he welcomes Kate, who also seeks refuge from the grief of losing her husband, and young Daisy Quin, a dancer recovering from a back injury.
Roly's son Nat, a garden designer with his own secret,...
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"In 1969 Alabama, eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree learns that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures and records everything in her diary in this coming-of-age story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was...
88) Sleep no more
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English
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Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is called on by her mother, Sandra, for help in finding a missing friend named Beth Avery. The fact that Sandra adamantly refuses to go to the police for help leads Eve to suspect that something is very wrong. Eve learns that Beth has been locked away in a mental hospital for years, which makes it even harder to understand how she could have disappeared. Eve enlists a secret weapon: rogue profiler, Kendra Michaels. With...
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English
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least...
90) Villa Mirabella
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Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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After settling into his role as caretaker of his family's Rhode Island bed and breakfast, Jason Mirabella begins to carve out a place for himself among family, old friends and a new love, until he is tested by a sudden change in circumstance.
91) A breath of hope
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Under Northern skies volume 2
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English
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Nilda Carlson and her younger brother Ivar come to America to join her older brother Rune and his family on the Strand farm in Minnesota. Uncle Einar Strand refuses to help Rune build a house for his family and forbids the community to come onto his land. Can the tragedy that reveals Einar's anger and isolation bring the Carlsons and Strands together into a true family?
92) The wind harp
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The mountain song legacy trilogy volume 2
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English
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B.J. Hoff's unforgettable characters from A Distant Music reunite for an even more gripping, dramatic episode in The Mountain Song Legacy.
When Maggie MacAuley returns to the small coal town of her childhood, she has no intention of staying. Her life is in Chicago now. There's nothing to keep her in Skingle Creek...
...nothing but the discovery that a man who has lived most of his life for the children of Skingle Creek is no longer the hero of Maggie's...
93) Geek love
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Knopf
Pub. Date
1989.
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English
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Nominated for the National Book Award, Geek Love is mesmerizing, daring, and unconventional. Award-winning novelist Katherine Dunn fascinates and amazes much the same way tornados, earthquakes, and volcanos do. No one wants to be a victim, but most find the event too hypnotic to ignore. In order to save their traveling carnival from bankruptcy, the Binewskis are creating their own brood of sideshow freaks. Under Al's careful direction, the pregnant...
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Truth in lies volume 7
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Mary Campisi
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Heartache. Betrayal. Forgiveness. Redemption... It's time to head back to Magdalena, New York, and spend a little time with the people we love to love and even a few we love to hate.
A lot has happened since readers left town in A Family Affair: Winter!
Bree Kinkaid is dealing with heartache and betrayal the only way she can--denial. Her friends can't help her, she won't listen to her parents, and she rejects offerings of support and sympathy from...
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Mr. Terupt volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Seven fifth-graders at Snow Hill School in Connecticut relate how their lives are changed for the better by "rookie teacher" Mr. Terupt.
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English
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In the universally-praised Returning to Earth, Jim Harrison has delivered a masterpiece a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and the possibility of finding redemption in unlikely places. Donald is a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man slowly dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. His condition deteriorating, he realizes no one will be able to pass on to his children their family history once he is gone. He begins dictating to his wife,...
99) Daybreak
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Avon Inspire
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Viola Keim starts working at a Mennonite retirement home and soon finds herself torn between her attraction to Ed, missionary son of a resident, and her Amish values that require her to remain near home to care for her needy family members. Can she leave them behind to begin a new life abroad with Ed?
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