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Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Beloved author Lori Wick presents a new standalone in the tradition of her bestselling Sophie's Heart.
After losing her parents, Arcineh Bryant lives with her grandfather as a girl. But growing up without her family causes her to hold resentment toward the man who took her in. Years later, when she meets a man she thinks she may love, she doubts whether she can trust her own heart.
A character-rich journey leads Arcineh back to her grandfather's home...
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Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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One of America's most acclaimed writers returns to the land on which he has staked a literary claim to paint an indelible portrait of a family in a time of unprecedented change. In a compelling weaving of fact and fiction, Robert Morgan introduces a family's captivating story, set during World War II and the Great Depression. Driven by the uncertainties of the future, the family struggles to define itself against the vivid Appalachian landscape. The...
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Language
English
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The Story of an African Farm (1883) is a novel by South African political activist and writer Olive Schreiner. Her first published novel, The Story of an African Farm was a bestseller upon its release despite being criticized for its portrayal of controversial social, religious, and political themes. Part Bildungsroman, part philosophical fiction, the novel is recognized as a groundbreaking work for its exploration of feminism, atheism, and the influence...
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Series
Bride series (Catherine Coulter) volume 10
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
The next title in New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter's Bride series.
With characters from the Sherbrooke novels and a paranormal twist, Catherine Coulter delivers a “beguiling” (Midwest Book Review) novel of a woman at the center of a centuries-old mystery and the man who will help her unravel the secrets of her heart.
With characters from the Sherbrooke novels and a paranormal twist, Catherine Coulter delivers a “beguiling” (Midwest Book Review) novel of a woman at the center of a centuries-old mystery and the man who will help her unravel the secrets of her heart.
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Friday night knitting club volume 3
Language
English
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Dakota Walker--along with her father, her grandparents, and her mother's best friend, Catherine--visits her Gran for the Christmas holidays in Scotland, where the family members reminisce about Dakota's mother, Georgia.
46) Summer
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Language
English
Description
Can't you see that I don't care what anybody says?' Charity Royall lives in the small New England village of North Dormer. Born among outcasts from the Mountain beyond, she is rescued by lawyer Royall and lives with him as his ward. Never allowed to forget her disreputable origins Charity despises North Dormer and rebels against the stifling dullness of the tight-knit community surrounding her. Her boring job in the local library is interrupted
...47) Fireweed
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English
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Lisel Span has dreamed only of wonderful things in her future. Living with her father, sister, and brother in a cramped apartment in Berlin, the small family shares what seems to be an unbreakable spirit of love and security. However, with the rise of the Nazi party and approaching dark clouds of war, any kind of future grows increasingly uncertain. Knowing little of hate and destruction, Lisel is ill prepared as the storms of battle erupt in full
...48) Sin killer
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Tasmin Berrybender, daughter of an aristocratic Englishman, meets and falls in love with American frontiersman, Jim Snow, an Indian fighter and minister known as the "Sin Killer."
49) Ink and bone
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Language
English
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In this explosive psychological thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger, a young woman's mysterious gift lands her in the middle of a dangerous investigation of a little girl's disappearance.
For as long as she can remember, twenty-year-old Finley Montgomery has been able to see into the future: dream about things before they happen, see beyond the physical world, and unconsciously make supernatural things happen....
For as long as she can remember, twenty-year-old Finley Montgomery has been able to see into the future: dream about things before they happen, see beyond the physical world, and unconsciously make supernatural things happen....
50) Perla
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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A tale set in post-dictatorship Buenos Aires finds privileged Correa safeguarding the interests of her family by hiding her father's military past from others until an uninvited visitor forces her to confront the unease she has suppressed her entire life.
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Series
Carolina cousins volume 1
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Young former slave Jake Patterson heads north after the Civil War in search of the father he has long resented, meets two young women--one white and one also a former slave--trying to keep a plantation alive, and finds love, but a dangerous secret catches up to him.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Ellie Cavanaugh was only seven years old when her fifteen-year-old sister, Andrea, was murdered near their home in a rural village in New York's Westchester County. There were three suspects: Rob Westerfield, nineteen-year-old scion of a wealthy, prominent family whom Andrea has been secretly dating; Paul Stroebel, a sixteen-year-old schoolmate, who had a crush on Andrea, and Will Nebels, a local handyman in his 40s.
It was Ellie who had led her...
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Catherine Madison left her small town in Nebraska after her husband deserted her. She's also left behind her most shameful secrets-of a family and a marriage that have plagued her with self-doubt. On the road, she's trying to become a new person. But running away from the past isn't as easy as she'd hoped. Her journey leads her to Las Vegas, where she forms surprising new friendships that compel her to reveal what she'd sworn she'd keep hidden, and...
54) North and South
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Language
English
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When her father has a crisis of conscious, Margaret Hale's life is turned upside down. Because her parents decide to move away from southern London, Margaret must leave behind the tranquil, rural life she's always known to settle in an industrial town called Milton. Though she does her best to assimilate, Margaret cannot help but feel trapped and hopeless in Milton, as she witnesses the brutal effects industrialization has on the environment and the...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Peyton is not ready to share her widowed father with anyone, let alone a barely remembered cousin who just rolled into town. However, her father seems to like Nora well enough, and prim Aunt Augusta hates her, which raises Nora slightly in Peyton's esteem. Maybe Nora is just what quiet Lytton, Georgia needs this summer. The whole household is revitalized by Nora's energy, and it looks like she might stay on forever. But soon it becomes clear that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 1
The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy—just ask his mother.
Welcome to 44 Scotland Street, home to some of Edinburgh's most colorful characters. There's Pat, a twenty-year-old who has recently moved
57) Dragonspell
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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One Dragon Egg Holds the Key to the Future.
When Kale, a slave girl, finds a dragon egg, she is given the unexpected opportunity to become a servant to Paladin. But on her way to The Hall, where she was to be trained, Kale runs into danger. Rescued by a small band of Paladin’s servants, Kale is turned from her destination.
Feeling afraid and unprepared, Kale embarks on a perilous quest to find the meech dragon egg stolen by the...
When Kale, a slave girl, finds a dragon egg, she is given the unexpected opportunity to become a servant to Paladin. But on her way to The Hall, where she was to be trained, Kale runs into danger. Rescued by a small band of Paladin’s servants, Kale is turned from her destination.
Feeling afraid and unprepared, Kale embarks on a perilous quest to find the meech dragon egg stolen by the...
Author
Series
Whispers on the moors novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
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Description
When the master of Rosemere School returns to protect his birthright, putting Patience Creighton's job as headmistress in jeopardy, Patience must seek God's plans for her future--especially when the master's past is brought to light.
60) Never too late
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Series
Carolina cousins volume 3
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
Fire. It had ripped Seffie from her family and stolen her dearest friend. Will she allow it to destroy her one chance at happiness? Growing up a slave, Seffie served as companion to a sickly white girl and learned to read and write and even speak French. But her life of relative comfort soon comes to an end. When loss and tragedy drive the joy from her life, Seffie quickly learns to guard her heart and hide her past. Secretly, Seffie nurtures a new...
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