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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
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Ira Levinson is in trouble. At ninety-one years old, he finds himself stranded on an embankment after a car crash. Suffering multiple injuries, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes and comes into focus beside him: his beloved wife, Ruth, who passed away nine years ago. A few miles away, at a local bull-riding event, Sophia Danko meets a young cowboy named Luke. Through Luke, Sophia is introduced to a world in which...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 29
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The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. But Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing...
3) Cannery Row
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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Recounts the adventures and misadventures of cannery workers living in the run-down waterfront section of Monterey, California.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
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In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths. Now, twenty-five years later,...
5) Dear John
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
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John, a high school dropout, enlists in the Army not knowing what else to do with his life. While in the Army he meets Savannah, they fall in love and she awaits his return from the Army. After 9/11 John feels it's his duty to re-enlist. During their long separation Savannah falls in love and marries someone else.
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Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town they naturally have long been aware of each other, if not exactly friends; in fact, Addie was quite fond of Louiss wife. His daughter, Holly, lives hours away in Colorado Springs; her son, Gene, even farther away in Grand Junction. What Addie has come to ask--since she and Louis have been living alone for so long...
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Mother-to-be Mary Jo Wyse arrives in Cedar Cove on Christmas Eve, searching for her baby's father. David Rhodes had said he'd be there, but he isn't. Which leaves Mary Jo stranded, pregnant and alone. Grace Harding brings Mary Jo home to her ranch and offers her a room over the stable. When Mary Jo goes into labor, Mack McAfee, a paramedic, comes to her rescue, just as her brothers--the three Wyse men--show up in town. The people of Cedar Cove join...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
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The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it, no paper notices plastered on lampposts. It is simply there. Within these nocturnal black-and-white-striped tents awaits an utterly unique experience, a feast for the senses. Beyond the smoke and mirrors, however, a fierce competition is under way, a contest between two young illusionists.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
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Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
10) Tribute
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Child star Cilla McGowan rehabs her famous grandmother's long-neglected farm. Cilla's movie-star grandmother, the Marilyn Monroe like Janet Hardy, who died mysteriously on the farm at age 39, haunts Cilla as she transforms the former hideaway of the rich and famous into habitable living space and tries to resolve whether Janet committed suicide or was murdered. While cleaning out the attic, Cilla unearths a collection of unsigned love letters to Janet...
11) Sabrina
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Sabrina Matthews, rescued from a life of prostitution in 1880 by police officer Danny Barshaw and his wife Callie, who lead her to belief in Christ, decides to leave Denver behind and make a new start in Montana Territory, and although she soon finds work and friends in the church family, she is unable to turn her back on women still trapped in the sex trade, and unsure about trusting her newfound faith when she finds herself falling in love.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
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Forty-five-year-old Adrienne Willis, heartbroken after her husband abandons her, takes refuge for a weekend at a small North Carolina inn, where a storm puts her in close quarters with Paul Flanner, another soul running from his past.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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A woman is summoned back to the town where she grew up. And in the house where she spent her most magical years she finds a series of letters addressed to her. Each of those letters is a piece of a story that will upend completely the world she thought she knew - and throw her into a love more powerful than she ever imagined could be possible. Two extraordinary love stories are entwined here, full of hope and pain and emotions that never die down....
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Quiet, unassuming, and overweight Lillian Manville did anything to please her husband, the illustrious self-made billionaire James Manville. Until he dies suddenly in a plane crash, bequeathing most of his riches to his devious siblings, Atlanta and Ray. Lillian is devastated but soon discovers a well of secrets connected to Jimmie's past.
15) Still Me
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Me before you volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 22
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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...
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When the spirit of Lara's great-aunt Sadie-a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance-mysteriously appears, she has one last request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie's possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest without it. Never mind that Lara has her own problems--which Sadie could care less about. Will this sparring duo ever find what they're after?
17) The chance
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
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The day before a teenage Ellie moved from Georgia to California, she and her best friend Nolan sat beneath the Spanish moss of an ancient oak tree where they wrote letters to each other and buried them in a rusty old metal box. The plan was to return eleven years later, dig the box up, and read the letters. But now, as that date approaches, much has changed. Ellie has abandoned the faith she grew up with, her days consumed with loving her little girl...
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Life was good for Liz and Jack Sutherland. In 18 years of marriage, they had built a family, a successful law practice, and a warm, happy home near San Francisco, in a house on Hope Street. Then, in an instant, it all fell apart. It began like any other Christmas morning, with joy and children's laughter. But for Jack Sutherland, a five-minute errand ends in tragedy. And suddenly, Liz is alone, facing painful questions in the wake of an unbearable...
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Coco Barrington is a young and beautiful daughter of privilege. Much to her domineering mother's shock, Coco not only drops out of law school but also rejects her family's wealthy LA lifestyle. She chooses, instead, to pursue a semi-hippie existence in an artsy Northern California beach town. After her equally footloose boyfriend dies in a hang-gliding accident, she finds herself bereft but still choosing to live apart from her family, existing on...
20) The Fountainhead
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 53
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The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of...