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An emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep listeners guessing until the end. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being lured down a darker path by one...
2) Plainsong
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Guthrie, a high school teacher left alone to raise his two young sons, becomes involved in the lives of Victoria, a homeless, pregnant teenager, and two elderly bachelors.
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Miramax Films
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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After his wife's death, Joe Warr attempts to raise his young son, Artie, alone and adopts a parenting style that abandons rules, a situation which is further complicated by the arrival of Joe's estranged teenage son from a previous marriage.
5) Porch lights
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William Morrow
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English
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"New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank is back home in the Carolina lowcountry, spinning a tale that brims with the warmth, charm, heart, and humor that has become her trademark. Porch Lights is a stirring, emotionally rich multigenerational story--a poignant tale of life, love, and transformation--as a nurse, returning to Sullivans Island from the Afghanistan War, finds her life has been irrevocably altered by tragedy".and now must...
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"A murder... . . . a tragic accident... . . . or just parents behaving badly? What's indisputable is that someone is dead. But who did what? Big Little Lies follows three women, each at a crossroads: Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She's funny and biting, passionate, she remembers everything and forgives no one. Her ex-husband and his yogi new wife have moved into her beloved beachside community, and their daughter is in the same kindergarten...
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Josie and her children's father have split up, she's been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she's grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fianc�ee's family, Josie makes a run for it to Alaska with her kids, Paul and Ana. At first their trip feels like a vacation: They see bears and bison, they eat hot dogs cooked on a bonfire, and they spend nights parked...
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After the sudden death of her husband, Danny, Libby went to stay with her hypercritical mother. Now her crazy Aunt Jean has offered Libby an escape: a job and a place to live on her farm in the Texas Hill Country. Before she can talk herself out of it, Libby is packing the minivan, grabbing the kids, and hitting the road. Beyond the animals and the strenuous work, there is a deep, country quiet. But there is also a shaggy, gruff (though purportedly...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son. Xavier is headed to college in the fall, and after years of single parenting, Valerie is facing the prospect of an empty nest. All is well until the Whitmans move in next door - an apparently traditional family with new money, ambition, and a secretly troubled teenaged daughter. Thanks...
10) Sweet love
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Forty-something single mother Julie Mueller signs up for a dessert cooking class unaware that her mother is trying to reunite her with an old flame who is also in the class and finds herself falling for him all over again.
11) Sticky fingers
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Roxy Abruzzo decides to solve her money problems by working for her uncle, one of the last mob bosses in Pittsburgh, but when one of her targets is murdered, Roxy becomes the prime suspect and must clear her name before it is too late.
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Thirty-nine-year-old film director and single mother Tallie Jones, having experienced a large amount of success in her career and recently undertaken her most ambitious project yet, finds her ordered life is chaos after an audit reveals someone close to her is embezzling large sums of money from her and she must take it upon herself to trap the person responsible.
14) First Comes Baby
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Her to-do list was slightly out of order in New York Times bestselling author Christine Rimmer's second book in the Wild Rose Sisters miniseries!
"Will you marry me?"
When Josie LeClaire went into labor alone on her farm, the single almost-mother had no one to turn to but her neighbor, Miles Halstead. Fortunately, the widowed single father was more than up to the task. And as he found himself unable to stay away from the lovely Josie-and her adorable...
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Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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THE DADDY MAKEOVER Eben Spencer learned long ago to keep his eye on the ball and his emotions under wraps. This philosophy has taken him to the pinnacle of success in business. But in his personal life, it led to a shattered marriage. So it's just him and his little girl ... until he meets Sage Benedetto. She's warm, emotional, open -- everything Eben is not. Sage's bewitching nature soon has this tycoon rethinking his future ... HIS SECOND-CHANCE...
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Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Daddy Surprise Since the loss of his wife, Alex Ryan has been living a half-life. But with one phone call, Alex discovers he's the biological father of a four-year-old girl ... and everything changes. Single mom Paige Kenner preferred to have a family without the man. Now suddenly there's Alex, who desperately wants to be a father to her little girl. A gorgeous, kind and committed father. Letting a stranger into their lives is far too dangerous...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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When timid Elizabeth's father takes her and her fearless friend, Zenobia, to his family home, Zenobia becomes obsessed with finding a ghost there, and then Elizabeth learns she had an aunt who disappeared from the house years ago.
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Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Sometimes "good friends"
Just isn't enough…
Bachelor paramedic Mason Ruddick doesn't know what he'd do without Lindsay Hudson. The widowed mom is his sounding board, his neighbor and, since the death of her husband and his best friend, his lifeline. Only lately, Mason can't stop noticing just how beautiful and special Lindsay is. Or how often he thinks about her. Now Mason's heart is caught between the best friend he lost…and the one he's...
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Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Unstoppable attraction meets immovable hearts Duty or Desire by New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson Sheriff Pete Higgins is an honorary Westmoreland, a man of his word -- of course he'll put duty to his orphaned niece first. Too bad the temporary nanny is tempting him with every look. Myra Hollister captivates him. But she's keeping dangerous secrets, the kind that remind Pete of all he's lost before and what he can't afford to lose...
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