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In this reader-favorite tale, #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs captures the heartache of long-held regrets as one young woman comes to terms with her past...and reveals devastating secrets.
As an irresponsible young mother, Jessie Ryder knew she'd never be able to give her newborn the stable family that her older sister could, and the security her child deserved. So Luz and her husband adopted little Lila and told her Jessie was...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Tells the stories of eight female photographers during the twentieth century who seek extraordinary lives through their work, describing the conflict these women face and choices they make.
5) Fool me once
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English
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With a spark of romance and a bevy of chaotic canines (Romantic Times), #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels delivers a wonderfully entertaining novel about the things we do to protect the ones we love and the happiness life can bring when we least expect it...
Olivia Lowell always believed her father's claim that her mother died in childbirth, until the shocking day a lawyer informs her that her mother has just passed away, leaving...
8) The fall
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English
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How far would you go to save your life and your world? After a nasty divorce, single mother Joanne Lessing finally has her life together, and she's made a name for herself as a photographer. Then, while on assignment, she witnesses a hit and run. Property damage only. No big deal, she thinks. So she does the right thing-calls the cops. Joanne is dismayed when FBI agents arrive with the local detective. They admit the hit and run driver was a mob killer...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Twenty-three-year-old photojournalist Molly Drake arrives in Cambodia to cover the U.S. military search for the remains of an American pilot shot down during the Vietnam War, but the search is soon forgotten in the face of a deadly typhoon and the discovery of an ancient city where more than thirty GIs disappeared during the war.
10) Where you belong
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English
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American war photographer Valentine Denning, stunned to learn that her lover, Tony, who was killed while taking pictures in Kosovo, was still married and not divorced as he had told her, soon realizes that the true love of her life is her best friend, Jake.
12) Dead aim
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English
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Photojournalist Alex Graham bears witness to disasters that we should never forget. So when a dam breaks in Colorado, she goes on site, not only snapping pictures but also digging for survivors. Drawn off to a remote part of the site, she stumbles onto something nobody was meant to see : a man with a rifle, a helicopter crash, and an avalanche she believes buried evidence that the tragedy was far from natural.--Container
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Mara Dunn travels to Dordogne in southwestern France to investigate the disappearance twenty years earlier of her sister Bedie, and enlists the help of Julian Wood, an English expert on orchids, to help her after Bedie's camera with photographs of a rare orchid turns up in a junk shop.
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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In this spellbinding blend of suspense and human drama, top photographer Hope Dunne fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath who holds her in his thrall after she accepts a last-minute assignment to fly to London at Christmas and photograph one of the world's most celebrated writers--an Irish-American author known for novels of thrilling literary darkness.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Maggie Holloway arrives at the home of her long-lost stepmother Nuala, only to the find the older woman dead. During a visit to the cemetery, Maggie, a professional photographer, notices something is amiss and finds herself the target of a sinister money-bilking plot.
16) Feast your eyes
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English
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"After discovering photography as a teenager through her high school's photo club, Lillian rejects her parents' expectations of college and marriage and moves to New York City in 1955. When a small gallery exhibits partially nude photographs of Lillian and her daughter, Samantha, Lillian is arrested, thrust into the national spotlight, and targeted with an obscenity charge. Mother and daughter's sudden notoriety changes the course of both of their...
17) Sweet ember
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English
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A classic love story by New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky, back in print for the first time in years and guaranteed to delight her fans, old and new. Stephanie Wright was just 19 the first time she ran, heartbroken and angry, out of Douglas Weston's life. She and Douglas, a devastatingly handsome tennis camp instructor, shared a summer marked by a gentle love, capped by one night of sensuous passion -- followed by a terrible, unforgivable...
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Publisher
Scribern
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Lu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer struggling to make ends meet. Working three jobs, responsible for her aging father, and worrying that the crumbling warehouse she lives in is being sold to developers, she is at a point of desperation. One day, in the background of a self-portrait, Lu accidentally captures on film a boy falling past her window to his death. The photograph turns out to be startlingly gorgeous, the best work of art...
19) The wish
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"1996 was the year that changed everything for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at sixteen to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina's Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind . . . until she meets Bryce Trickett, one of the few teenagers on the island. Handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce gradually shows her how much there is to love about the wind-swept beach...
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English
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"In The Lightkeepers, we follow Miranda, a nature photographer who travels to the Farallon Islands, an exotic and dangerous archipelago off the coast of California, for a one-year residency capturing the landscape. Her only companions are the scientists studying there, odd and quirky refugees from the mainland living in rustic conditions; they document the fish populations around the island, the bold trio of sharks called the Sisters that hunt the...
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