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A compelling tale of edgy, small-town emotions, lingering obsession, and romantic salvation from acclaimed novelist Anita Shreve.
Andrew, after many years, returns to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral. Planning to remain only a few days, he is drawn into the tragic legacy of his childhood friend and beautiful girl next door, Eden Close. An adopted child, Eden had learned to avoid the mother who did not want her and to please the father...
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The Goodbye Summer is an unforgettable novel about daring to love, braving a loss, and setting yourself free, byPatricia Gaffney, the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, The Saving Graces. Poignantly exploring one woman's inner growth and self discovery over the course of a season of profound change, The Goodbye Summer is women's fiction at its finest-heartbreaking, healing, emotional, and real. As Nora Roberts so aptly puts it, Patricia...
3) I did it!
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Holiday House
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A girl tries and tries again to learn to ride a bicycle and all her friends provide words of encouragement.
4) Two together
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In rhyming text, Cat and Dog experience many unexpected twists and adventures on their journey home.
5) After birth
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In snowy upstate New York, Ari, a struggling mother of a one-year-old, and Mina, a nine-months-pregnant woman who is new to town, become comrades-in-arms.
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Grace Soudley's life is coming apart at the seams. Recently divorced, she is still living in the beautiful yet crumbling old house her godmother left her, but unless she can find a fortune, the house will disintegrate around her.
Artist Ellie Summers' life is unraveling too. She's pregnant, but her boyfriend is less than enthusiastic about parenthood, and her parents are not exactly inviting her to move back home. She has to come up with a new...
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Friendship letters volume 3
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When she becomes physically and emotionally abusive to her own children, Irma Miller, struggling with her own childhood trauma, reaches out to her friend Doretta for prayer and wisdom, learning that to save her family, she must admit she needs professional help.
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The Reading Group follows the trials and tribulations of a group of women who meet regularly to read and discuss books.Over the course of a year, each of these women become intertwined, both in the books they read and within each other's lives.
Inspired by a shared desire for conversation, a good book and a glass of wine-Clare, Harriet, Nicole, Polly, and Susan undergo startling revelations and transformations despite their differences in background,...
9) For Rouenna
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From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, one of the most celebrated novelists of her generation, the story of a woman's experiences in the Vietnam War
"After my first book was published, I received some letters." So begins Sigrid Nunez's haunting novel about the poignant and unusual friendship between a writer and a retired army nurse who seeks her out decades after their childhood in the same housing project. Among the letters...
10) From this moment
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Moment of truth volume 3
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Determined to do the thing she fears most before graduation, Aven Shepard wants to tell her best friend, Liam, that she is in love with him, even though both Aven and Liam have significant others of their own.
11) The chosen one
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Revenge of magic volume 5
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IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
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Fort and his friends face more perilous ancient magic as they prepare for the final battle to prevent the Old Ones from returning and destroying humanity.
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Stella Diaz volume 5
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When fifth-grader Stella Díaz considers going to a different school than her closest friends, sees her big brother Nick receiving mail from colleges far away, and is forced to work on a project with her former bully, she suddenly realizes growing up is not quite as fun as she first thought.
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Investigators of the unknown volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
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When nine-year-old Angela and her friends begin investigating the letters she has received from her fairy godmother, it helps take Angela's mind off her strained relationship with her father.
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Blackthorn key volume 5
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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In 1666, after four months away, friends Christopher Rowe, Tom, and Sally return to London triumphantly but, guided by coded riddles, face a conspiracy that threatens Christopher, as well as the King himself.
18) Effortless
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Thoughtless novels volume 2
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"After being caught in the middle of a love triangle which led to a devastating betrayal, Kiera pledged to learn from the mistakes she'd made. She was determined to never again inflict that kind of pain on anyone, especially the soulful, talented man who held her heart. But life offers new challenges for every relationship, and when Kiera's love is put to the ultimate test, will it survive? Love is easy-- trust is hard."--P. [4] of cover.
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Olivia Donatelli's dream of a "normal" life shattered when her son, Anthony, was diagnosed with autism at age three. Understanding the world from his perspective felt bewildering. And just as Olivia began to realize that happiness and autism could coexist, Anthony died. Now Olivia is alone in a cottage on Nantucket, separated from her husband, desperate to understand the meaning of her son's short life, when a chance encounter with another woman facing...
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