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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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Paige has only a few memories of her mother who left when she was five. Now, having left her father behind for dreams of an art school and marriage to an ambitious doctor, she finds herself with a child of her own. She struggles with shameful memories of her past and doubts her own maternal ability and self-worth.
62) Promises
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Language
English
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Margaret Crane's life falls apart when she learns that Adam, her husband of almost twenty years, is having an extra-marital affair, and her misery is compounded by the rift that occurs between her and Nina, an orphaned cousin raised by the Cranes, over Nina's relationship with a married man.
64) City of thieves
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Description
Harry Bosch, newly transferred to the Homicide Special Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, is faced with the task of breaking in a rookie partner while investigating the murder of a physicist who had access to radioactive cesium, a substance coveted by terrorists.
66) One true thing
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Language
English
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Description
The life choices of a mother and daughter are reassessed as the mother lies dying of cancer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Father Tim, a bachelor rector living in a small town, gets more than he bargained for when he finds himself dealing with a very attractive neighbor, a wealthy widow, and his uninvited cousin.
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Language
English
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Description
Jenny Edin enlists the help of her former lover and news photographer John Rane to help her uncover the truth about her husband's death, which happened during a Civil War reenactment when a hidden sniper aiming for police officer Kenny Beeman missed his mark and killed Paul instead.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Inspired by actual events, this novel offers a fascinating account of a crucial but little-remembered moment in American history that follows three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote.
Alice Paul returns to New Jersey after several years on the front lines of the suffrage movement in Great Britain, determined to invigorate the stagnant suffrage movement in her homeland. Nine states have already...
74) A step of faith
Author
Series
Walk volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Alan Christoffersen continues his cross country walk and the people he meets and the places he visits offer him hope, inspiration, and refuge.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home."-- Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
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Mallory Keswick leads a near-perfect life, until a cruel act of random violence tears apart the fabric of her happiness. With the help of a close friend and a loving mother-in-law, she finds hidden reserves of strength that enable her to rebuild her life and overcome her grief.
77) A case of need
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1993, c1968
Language
English
Description
Lee, a brilliant physician, is accused of murdering the beautiful daughter of an important medical family on the operating table. Only John Berry is willing to dig deeper into the seemingly open-and-shut case to save Lee.
78) A free life
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Language
English
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In the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Nan Wu, who had studied in the U.S. in the mid-1980s, leaves China with his wife and son to seek the freedom of the West, embarking on a migration that takes them through the heart of contemporary America.
79) Tiger's claw
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Series
Language
English
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After he and his team refurbish America's aging weapon systems, Patrick McLanahan heads to Guam to oversee strategy, which causes the Chinese to take the offensive, launching a preemptive strike on a small American fleet that ignites a battle for the Pacific.
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