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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
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Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God."
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New York Times Bestseller Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan-first introduced in the classic Baltimore Blues- must track down a missing wife and unravel the secrets in her marriage that led her to flee. "A hair raising ride."- Boston Globe Mark Rubin's family is missing-and the police won't get involved because all the evidence indicates that his wife left willingly. So the successful Baltimore furrier...
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The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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When Sarah Crawford Brighton turns forty, she buys a horse and heads west with her veterinarian. A year later and a thousand miles from her Carolina home, she still isn't sure why. Neither is Jack Brighton, her husband. Nor is the Crawford family.
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Harlequin Presents
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Behind the imposing walls of the castle, free-spirited Bethany Vassal discovered that her whirlwind marriage to Prince Leo Di Marco was nothing like the fairy tale she'd imagined. Before long, the forgotten princess ran away, hoping the man she fell in love with would one day see sense and come and find her ... Marrying Bethany is the only reckless thing Leo has ever done, and now he is paying the price. The time has come for him to produce a royal...
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Running away led her right to where she belongs.
A new mom for Christmas?
She's everything they've wished for.
Runaway bride AnnaBeth Cummings needs shelter for the holidays when a blizzard leaves her stranded, and rancher Jonas Stone's happy to help. But his son's been wishing for a mommy for Christmas, and town matchmakers are convinced Annabeth and Jonas are perfect for each other. As the storm clears, city girl AnnaBeth will have to decide:...
6) Palindrome
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English
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Palindrome When both your past and future spell fear. Award-winning author Stuart Woods has crafted a masterful novel no reader will soon forget. For years, Liz Barwick has been battered by her brutal husband, a famous pro football player. This time it takes an emergency room to keep her from death. Now the beautiful and talented photographer retreats to an island paradise off Georgia's coast to find solitude -- and herself. As she becomes increasingly...
7) Enamored
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Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Diego Laremos had never forgotten the last night he'd spent with Melissa Sterling five years before. She'd fled their home after a bitter dispute, hoping to escape their unhappy marriage. He hadn't forgiven her for leaving, though he'd hated himself even more for driving her away. Seeing Melissa again had renewed his hope for a possible future together ... Melissa had felt the same way, but she'd lied to Diego in the past. Now she had to prove to...
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Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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The honeymoon is over-and his nightmare has begun-in this twisted thriller by the author of The Husband Trap . . .
After his wife's suicide, Scott manages to find love again with Casey. For their first anniversary, she has a surprise for him-but it's not a good one . . .
Casey has been collecting photos and videos of Scott that would place his teaching career in serious jeopardy. Holding that over his head, she intends to make him suffer....
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Jane Doe lives in the shadows under an assumed name. A once-promising anthropologist and an expert on shamanism, everyone thinks she's dead. Or so she hopes. Jimmy Paz is a Cuban-American police detective. Straddling two cultures, he understands things others cannot. When the killings start -- a series of ritualistic murders -- all of Miami is terrified. Especially Jane. She knows the dark truth that Jimmy must desperately search to uncover. As their...
10) East Lynne
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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A married aristocratic woman succumbs to desire in this nineteenth-century English novel. Lady Isabel Vane married for all the wrong reasons--only to one day find her lawyer husband neglecting her for another woman. Seething with jealousy, she leaves behind her husband and their child for the flirtatious Francis Levison. It's a risk she takes willingly, but it comes with a heavy price that will lead her to the depths of despair and a quest for redemption....
11) EMPulse 2
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Permuted Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"A trio of survivors journeys across a nuclear-ravaged America in this post-apocalyptic thriller from the author of the popular The Journal series. Adele Michaels had found safe haven from her abusive ex-husband at the Rocky Mountains Geo-Domes resort. But when a nuclear electromagnetic pulse took down the entire power grid, multiple warheads turned the east coast into an unstable hot zone. Adele may be safe at the resort, but she's also stranded...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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"Lynsay Sands writes books that keep readers coming back for more." -- Katie MacAlister, USA Today bestselling author of Sex, Lies, and Vampires Lynsay Sands, the nationally bestselling author of the Argeneau/Rogue Hunter vampire series, is one of the superstars of paranormal romance. Her latest Argeneau novel, Under a Vampire Moon , features a recently single, romantically-wary mortal who encounters a gorgeous vampire male waiting for her on a pristine...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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These two powerful Spanish men are impossible to forget! NAIVE BRIDE, DEFIANT WIFE Alejandro Navarro Vasquez has long desired revenge. His wife betrayed him with an act that, by this proud Spaniard's code, was unforgivable. His opportunity for justice comes when the private detective he's hired finally pinpoints Jemima's whereabouts. And now Alejandro will settle the score with his runaway wife! FLORA'S DEFIANCE Flora Bennett is determined to adopt...
14) EMPulse
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Series
Publisher
Permuted Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"For one woman, a new season of life begins just as a nuclear winter descends. An explosive survival thriller from the author of The Journal series. Adele Michaels is an artist well known for her unusual style of painting, but after her fairytale wedding to multimillionaire Kyle Polez, she stops working on her art. No one knows why. It turns out that broken bones and paint brushes don't mix well. After divorcing her abusive new husband, Adele is still...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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David Tully hunts for a burglar's killer in order to save his wife It's been 3 days since David Tully has seen his wife, and there's a homicide cop waiting at his front door. Someone has been murdered, but it's not Ruth Tully. The dead man is Crandall Cox. The name is unfamiliar, but he was killed with Tully's gun. At the time of the murder, Tully was hard at work at the state capital. His alibi may be airtight, but his wife's is not. There's a warrant...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders, muscled Viking warriors and rugged Wild West cowboys? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! A MARRIAGE DEAL WITH THE VISCOUNT Allied at the Altar by Bronwyn Scott (Victorian) After an abusive marriage, Sofia finally finds true safety in the arms of Viscount Taunton. But to leave her past behind, Sofia must consider his offer of full protection -- in the...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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From "the leading novelist of his generation" (the Daily Telegraph)-a story about marriage, family, and 1 man's 2nd chance At age 47, former playwright Frank Attercliffe lives with 2 of his 5 children in a 4-bedroom apartment on Walton Lane on the outskirts of an English suburb. For the past 3 years, his wife, Sheila, has been living with Maurice, a car dealer who owns a Rolls-Royce, a Bentley, and a Jaguar-a man rumored to have killed 3 people in...
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"A perfect beach or weekend read."- Glitter Guide An addictive second mystery novel about book clubs, murder, and the domestic secrets inside every household from the author of Pretty Guilty Women ! Three beautiful women. Two wedding bands. One dead husband. When Anne Wilkes, Eliza Tate, and Penny Sands arrive at book club bearing bottles of wine, none of them are plotting to kill. But when the subject of a philandering husband arises, revenge is...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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A story of love and romance between two lost people in 1950s Britain, from the author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner Every morning Pam decides to leave George. Somehow she never quite gets around to it. She's flirted with suicide too, but she doesn't see the point. A woman would have to be mad to kill herself for the sake of George. He's a brute, vain and selfish, with a cruel sense of humor and absolutely no regard for his wife....
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"While Quinn writes with spirit on weighty subjects like domestic abuse, polygamy and religious cults, her primary and most poignant theme seems to be female friendship." -- New York Times Book Review "An absolutely thrilling novel. I devoured it over a weekend, unable to put it down. It's a clever and completely original take on a domestic thriller." --Alex Michaelides, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Silent Patient Blake's dead. They...
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