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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...
3) 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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English
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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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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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English
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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...
7) Sweet love
Author
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.
9) Porch lights
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Publisher
William Morrow
Language
English
Description
"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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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
At 28, Stephanie Land's plans to attend a university and become a writer were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet and provide her daughter the very best life possible. Stephanie worked days, took classes online to earn a college degree, and began to write relentlessly. She wrote the true stories that weren't being told: the stories of overworked and underpaid Americans. She...
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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.
12) Chasing Lucky
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Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Budding photographer Josie Saint-Martin has spent half her life with her single mother, moving from city to city. When they return to her historical New England hometown years later to run the family bookstore, Josie knows it's not forever. Her dreams are on the opposite coast, and she has a plan to get there. What she doesn't plan for is a run-in with the town bad boy, Lucky Karras. Outsider, rebel...and her former childhood best friend. Lucky makes...
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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...
14) Small fry
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English
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"A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in her, ushering her into a new world of mansions, vacations,...
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