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In the spirit of How to Make an American Quilt and The Joy Luck Club comes this novel about friendship and redemption. After the sudden loss of Stella, her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island. Seeking a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days, she little realizes that the circle will change her life. Alice, Scarlet, Lulu, Beth, Harriet, and Ellen welcome Mary into their circle despite her reluctance to open...
3) 1st to die
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Four friends--homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer, medical examiner Claire Washburn, assistant district attorney Jill Bernhardt, and crime reporter Cindy Thomas--team up to track down a killer who has been stalking newlyweds in San Francisco, but their investigation goes terribly wrong.
4) Ghost world
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
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English
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Two recent high school graduates wreak havoc on all who cross their path, until an oddball loner looking for Miss Right comes into their lives. These social misfits learn the hard way that life after high school gets even weirder than they thought it would.
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The story of a remarkable friendship-told in a remarkable way. A story in which every woman will recognize herself…and her best friend
Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski. Two girls from very different backgrounds become best friends in the turbulent 1960s, but their circumstances and choices-and their mistakes-take them in opposite directions. Lesley stays in their hometown. She marries young, living a life defined by the demands of small children,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer calls upon the members of the Women's Murder Club for help when a series of violent incidents put police on the trail of a killer or killers intent on murdering someone every three days. The investigation becomes urgent when Boxer learns that one of her friends is a target.
8) The scoop
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Godmothers volume 1
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English
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In this first book of a new series, Michaels introduces The Godmothers, four unforgettable women who are about to get a whole new lease on life.
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Thursday, 8: 00 a.m. Mocha Moments, Breakfast Club! Every week, these words appear in the calendars of four women. Every week, they meet for breakfast-and to talk, to share the truths they've discovered about their lives. To tell their stories. To offer each other encouragement and unfailing support. Clare has just been through a devastating and unexpected divorce. She's driven by anger and revenge-until she learns something about her ex-husband that...
11) Exclusive
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Toots Loudenberry moves to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Abby, who is attempting to makeover a struggling tabloid. Toots brings along her best friends, Ida, Sophie, and Mavis, who expect fun times but instead find a haunted Malibu beach house, career problems for Abby, and Ida's budding romance with the suspicious Dr. Sameer.
12) Emma
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Emma Woodhouse's charitable intentions toward others are increasingly undermined by her supreme narcissism. Bent on improving the looks, manners, and marital prospects of the parentless Harriet Smith, a young boarder at a neighborhood school, Emma must suffer through a series of mortifying misunderstandings before she learns to stop meddling in the lives of others.
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Distributed by Acorn Media U.S
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Master of the moor: As a boy, Stephen Whalby took to his beloved moor to escape trouble at home. Trouble follows him there as an adult, however, when women's bodies begin turning up among the rocks, heather, and bogs. Stephen finds no refuge when D.I. Manciple--a rude outsider, unwelcome in the village of Vangmoor--targets him as the prime suspect.
Vanity dies hard: In the town of Salstead, the lives of two friends seem to take different trajectories....
15) Vision in white
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Wedding photographer Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is most at home behind the camera, but her focus is shattered moments before an important wedding rehearsal when she bumps into the bride-to-be's brother...an encounter that has them both seeing stars. A stable, safe English teacher, Carter Maguire is definitely not Mac's type. But a casual fling might be just what she needs to take her mind off bridezillas. Of course, casual flings can turn into something...
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Betta Nolan moves to a small town after the death of her husband to try to begin anew. Pursuing a dream of a different kind of life, she is determined to find pleasure in her simply daily routines. Among those who help her in both expected and unexpected ways are the ten-year-old boy next door, three wild women friends from her college days, a twenty-year-old who is struggling to find his place in the world, and a handsome man who is ready for love....
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"Cecilia Ross is looking for a change. She has decided to take time off from her job as a successful motivational speaker and sell her home. She moves in to a beautiful old house in St. Paul, Minnesota, complete with a big front porch, a wild garden, a chef's kitchen--and three roommates. The four women are different ages, but all are feeling restless, and want to take a roadtrip to find again the people and things they miss. One woman wants to connect...
20) Safe haven
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Katie arrives in the small town of Southport, North Carolina, hoping to hide from her past and avoid raising suspicions, but when she reluctantly begins a relationship with Alex, a widowed store owner with two young children, and befriends her neighbor Jo, Katie is forced to confront the dark secret she is hiding so that she can put down roots and find true love.
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