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Amgash novels volume 1
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"Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, [and] her love for...
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Handsome, widowed, sophisticated, utterly charming, Paul Parker won the heart of a wealthy young Frenchwoman--the daughter of an American financier, the granddaughter of a major French art dealer--as his second wife. In two marriages, he fathered a challenging son and three very different daughters. But as irresponsible as he was irresistible, he ultimately shrugged off the demands of marriage and parenting to pursue life as an international bon vivant....
3) Fly away
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Return to the world of FIREFLY LANE—now a Netflix series—from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah.
Once, a long time ago, I walked down a night-darkened road called Firefly Lane, all alone, on the worst night of my life, and I found a kindred spirit. That was our beginning. More than thirty years ago. TullyandKate. You and me against the world. Best friends forever. But stories end, don't they? You
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Inn Boonsboro trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Avery MacTavish runs the pizza place right across the street from the Inn BoonsBoro that Owen Montgomery is renovating, and as the two of them cautiously extend their relationship Owen must work at getting her to realize that her first boyfriend is going to be her last.
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A battle of wills between mother and daughter reveals the frailty and falsehood of familial bonds in award-winning playwright and filmmaker Zoje Stage's tense audiobook of psychological suspense, Baby Teeth.
Afflicted with a chronic debilitating condition, Suzette Jensen knew having children would wreak havoc on her already fragile body. Nevertheless, she brought Hanna into the world, pleased and proud to start a family with her
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Amgash novels volume 2
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"Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love...
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Prairie Legacy volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Virginia is not prepared to face the decline of her grandparents' health and her adopted daughter's questions about her birth mother.
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"DIANE CHAMBERLAIN is the international bestselling author of twenty-three novels. She lives in North Carolina with her partner, photographer John Pagliuca, and her shelties, Keeper and Cole."--
"From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. When Caroline Sears receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and there seems to be little that can be done. But her brother-in-law,...
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Marta's legacy volume 1
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English
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Marta Schneider, hoping to prove her father wrong in his prediction that she will never be more than a servant, leavesher home in Switzerland to pursue her dream of owning an inn, but she must make many sacrifices when she marries Niclas Waltert in Canada and begins her own family, and in her efforts to make her children strong, finds herself behaving more like her abusive father than her loving mother, especially with her daughter, Hildemara Rose....
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2015
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Sweetness, a light-skinned African American, never gave her dark-skinned daughter, Bride, her full love because of the hue of her skin. As an adult, Bride is beautiful and successful, but she has never overcome that childhood rejection, something Sweetness is only now coming to understand.
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Sophie Trace trilogy volume 2
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Police Chief Brill Jessup is shocked when her daughter, Vanessa, returns from college pregnant by one of her professors, who has refused to support Vanessa or his child, and when the other officers on her team become the target of a killer Brill fears she will be the next victim.
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Marta's legacy volume 2
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English
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Carolyn, having had her freedom as a college student ruined by a family tragedy and disappeared for two years in San Francisco during the 1960s, reemerges as the mother of a daughter and moves in with her grandmother, and years later, Carolyn's daughter, May Flower Dawn, tries not to repeat the familial past which has been causing hurt among her relatives for generations.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Sarah Perry, hoping to provide her daughter with opportunities for a better life, sends Rebecca east to boarding school while she stays behind to run her late husband's freight-hauling business, but over the years the gulf between mother and daughter widens, and when Rebecca does finally come home, Sarah struggles to bridge the gap.
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"Each year, on her daughter's birthday, she adds a new book to her shelves--with a note in the front dedicated to her own greatest work. But Ella--Sally's only child--fled to Australia twenty-one years ago after a heated exchange, and never looked back. And though Sally still dutifully adds a new paperback to the shelves every time the clock strikes midnight on July 11th, her hopes of her daughter ever thumbing through the pages are starting to dwindle....
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
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"Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife, and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants. Yet it's been a decade since she disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind her small daughter, husband, and the animals to which she devoted her life. All signs point to abandonment... or worse. Still Jenna--now thirteen years old and truly orphaned by a father maddened by grief--steadfastly refuses to believe in her mother's...
19) Tear me apart
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"Competitive skier Mindy Wright is a superstar in the making until a spectacular downhill crash threatens not just her racing career but her life. During surgery, doctors discover she's suffering from a severe form of leukemia, and a stem cell transplant is her only hope. But when her parents are tested, a frightening truth emerges. Mindy is not their daughter"--Inside front cover.
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Blackberry Island novels volume 4
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English
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"After her cat toy empire goes up in flames, Sophie Lane returns to Blackberry Island, determined to rebuild. Until small-town life reveals a big problem: she can't grow unless she learns to let go. If Sophie relaxes her grip even a little, she might lose everything. Or she might finally be free to reach for the happiness and love that have eluded her for so long"--
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