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1) Ethan Frome
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Contains the story of Ethan Frome, a New England farmer who is married to a hypochondriac, but in love with his wife's lively cousin, Mattie.
2) Jo's boys
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
1983.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Recounts the further adventures, successes, and failures of the numerous young men of Plumfield school. Sequel to "Little Men."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
With compassion, humor, and striking insight, Amy and Isabelle explores the secrets of sexuality that jeopardize the love between a mother and her daughter. Amy Goodrow, a shy high school student in a small mill town, falls in love with her math teacher, and together they cross the line between understandable fantasy and disturbing reality. When discovered, this emotional and physical trespass brings...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 46
Language
English
Formats
Description
Oprah's latest book club selection! New York Times Best Seller At 40, Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear: by the schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and polish ex-Navy man and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid, self-conscious woman. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Alice Hoffman’s most magical novel to date—three generations of extraordinary women are driven to unite in crisis and discover the rewards of reconciliation and love.
Women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts. Elinor can detect falsehood. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people’s dreams when they sleep. Granddaughter Stella has a mental window on the future—a future that she might not want to see.
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Women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts. Elinor can detect falsehood. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people’s dreams when they sleep. Granddaughter Stella has a mental window on the future—a future that she might not want to see.
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9) Crossroads
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two women, Gwen, an orphan raised in privilege by her relative Cassie Wright, and Jewel, a receptionist employed by Cassie's New England company, find reasons to envy one another, with Gwen coveting Jewel's husband, Jeff, and Jewel desiring Gwen's life of wealth and opportunity; and the situation becomes explosive when Gwen's husband Stan, who is employed by Jeff, uncovers questionable practices at work.
10) The painted drum
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Faye Travers, a middle-aged divorcee and specialist in Native American antiquities, discovers a rare ceremonial drum while assessing the estate of a New Hampshire man descended from an Indian agent, and, when she hears the sound of the drum without even touching the instrument, she feels compelled to steal it and return it to a North Dakota reservation where its remarkable history is revealed.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
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Lemaster Carlyle, the president of the country's most prestigious university, and his wife, Julie, the divinity school's deputy dean, are America's most prominent and powerful African American couple. Driving home through a swirling blizzard late one night, the couple skids off the road. Near the sight of their accident they discover a dead body. To her horror, Julia recognizes the body as a prominent academic and
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up.
Author
Series
Angel Island volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inn owner Liza Martin is determined to make sure her first major event, a wedding, goes perfectly, but tension between the bride and groom, a storm, and the discovery that the groom is missing has Liza praying for a miracle, but Angel Island is a place where miracles happen.
15) Sorceress
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England English healer who fled charges of witchcraft to make her life with the local Indians.
16) The evil inside
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Jenna Duffy, a member of a nationally recognized paranormal forensic team, is sent to the New England coast where she teams up with attorney Samuel Hall to investigate Lexington House, which has a history fraught with murder, when a new string of deaths begin after years of silence.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
This adaptation of the original story follows the activities of seven in children nineteenth-century New England as they prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday while Mother is away caring for Grandmother.
18) Born wicked
Author
Series
Cahill witch chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an alternate New England of 1900, where the Brotherhood dominates and controls society, sixteen-year-old Cate Cahill has struggled since her mother's death to keep secret that she and her younger sisters are witches, but when a governess arrives from the Sisterhood, everything changes.
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