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81) O pioneers!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
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John Bergson, a Swedish farmer, struggles desperately with the soil but dies unsatisfied. His daughter Alexandra resolves to vindicate his faith, and her strong character carries her weak older brothers and her mother along to a new zest for life. Years of privation are rewarded on the farm. But when Alexandra falls in love with Carl Linstrum, and her family objects because he is poor, he leaves to seek a different career. After Alexandra's younger...
82) One Summer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront.
83) Two By Two
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
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"At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive and an expansive home in Raleigh. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is the center of that. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear...and no one is more surprised than Russ when he finds every aspect of the life he took for granted...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
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It is 1970 in a small town in California. "Bean" Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their mother, Charlotte, takes off, leaving her girls enough money to last a month or two. One day Bean sees a police car outside the house, and she and Liz decide to take the bus to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives. Bean soon discovers who her father was, and hears many stories about why their mother left Virginia. Bean adores her whip-smart...
86) To a God unknown
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Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
On his new ranch in California, Joseph Wayne sees a huge tree as the symbol of his father's spirit. But then one of his brothers, terrified by Joseph's pagan beliefs, kills the tree...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 29
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This is a tale "told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
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Dr. David Henry delivers his own twins on a stormy night in 1964. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down's syndrome. For motives he tells himself are good, he makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution. Instead, she disappears in to another city to raise the child as her own.
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Unlucky in work, love, and life, the Andreas sisters return to their childhood home. Each has a secret she's unwilling to share - each has come home to lick her own wounds. The Andreas family is an eccentric one. Books are their passion, TV something other families watched. Their father, a renowned professor of Shakespeare who communicates almost exclusively in verse, named all three girls for great Shakespearean women - Rose (Rosalind), Bean (Bianca),...
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Series
Mitford years volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Description
In the gentle tradition of James Herriot, Bailey White, Ferrol Sams, and Garrison Keillor, Karon continues the fresh and beautifully written story of a small mountain town in the South. The village rector, Father Tim, can no longer deny his feeling for his neighbor. But what about the wealthy widow who has been wooing him with casseroles? It's clear that Father Tim is in need of divine intervention.
93) Baby proof
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Is there ever a deal-breaker when it comes to true love? What happens to the perfect couple when they suddenly want different things? First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes--a baby carriage. Isn't that what all women want? Not so for Claudia Parr. And just as she gives up on finding a man who feels the same way, she meets warm, wonderful Ben. Things seem too good to be true when they fall in love and agree to buck tradition with a satisfying,...
95) A man of honor
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"The prequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's New York Times bestselling and dazzling saga A Woman of Substance. Opening five years before the start of A Woman of Substance, A Man of Honor begins with 13-year-old Blackie O'Neill facing an uncertain future in rural County Kerry. Orphaned and alone, he has just buried his sister, Bronagh, and must leave his home to set sail for England, in search of a better life with his mother's brother in Leeds. There,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 24
Description
Pearl Louie Brandt has a terrible secret which she tries desperate- ly to keep from her mother, Winnie Louie. And Winnie has long kept her own secrets - about her past and the confusing circumstances of Pearl's birth. Fate intervenes in the form of Helen Kwong, Winnie's so-called sister-in-law, who believes she is dying and must unburden herself of all falsehoods before she flies off to heaven. But, unfortunately, the truth comes in many guises, depending...
97) Rushing Waters
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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"A 38-year-old American interior designer based in London and her independent-minded 74-year-old architect mother; a British investment banker in New York to see his ex-wife and young children; a resident ER doctor who experienced Hurricane Sandy when she was a medical student; two young men, 21-year-old NYU students; their friends; and others are thrust together when a major hurricane descends upon New York City and wreaks unimaginable chaos and...
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Camille Lammenais has grown up in the beauty of the Napa Valley, surrounded by acres of her family's vineyards. Her parents, Christophe and Joy, still deeply in love after two decades of marriage, have built a renowned winery and cha^teau modeled after Christophe's ancient family estate in his native Bordeaux. Camille has had a perfect childhood, safe in her parents' love. After graduating from Stanford, she returns to help manage Cha^teau Joy, her...
99) Her own rules
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A woman's search for her roots after she was illegally sold as a baby to another family. She is Meredith Stratton, now owner of a chain of international inns, and she is dying to know who she really is. Her search takes her to England and France where she meets a man who will change her future. By the author of Dangerous to Know.
100) Still Me
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Series
Me before you volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 22
Description
Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. She is thrown into the world of the super rich Gopniks: Leonard and his much younger second wife, Agnes, and a never-ending array of household staff and hangers-on. Lou is determined to get the most out of the experience and throws herself into her job and New...