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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Past indiscretions and long-hidden secrets start to rise to the surface when Nate, a former drug addict who gave his daughter Willa up for adoption seventeen years earlier, is hired to teach at the elite Pioneer School in the Berkshires where Willa is a student and her wealthy adoptive father a board member.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now, in this collection of interconnected short stories, Jennifer Haigh returns to the vividly imagined world of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town rocked by decades of painful transition. From its heyday during two World Wars through its slow decline, Bakerton is a town that refuses to give up gracefully, binding--sometimes cruelly - succeeding generations to the place that made them.
83) The prodigal
Author
Series
Abram's daughters volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leah, having taken over the care of her younger siblings following the death of her mother, is also having to deal with the return of her sister who was once shunned by the Amish community and is now in a period of Proving, but her faith is sorely tested when she discovers a past betrayal that has robbed her of the happiness she might have had with Jonas.
84) I loved you all
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Widow Marguerite Daigle loses her grip on her life and her children when she turns to alcohol for relief from the pressures of single motherhood, and her teenage daughter finds refuge with local babysitter and religious right-to-lifer Isabel Flood.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After Senator Richard Woodruff's extramarital affair makes the headlines, his wife, Sylvie, and daughters, Lizzie and Diana, are caught in the national spotlight and begin to reconsider the choices that they have made in life and who they believe they were meant to become.
86) 40 love
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2011, c1995
Language
English
Description
A weekend tennis party becomes a study of modern marriage for four very different couples of varying economic, social, and interest levels as together they encounter two days of anger, shock, revelations, and romance.
88) Time is a river
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Mia Landan, recovering from breast cancer and the shock of discovering her husband's infidelity, leaves her home in Charleston and takes refuge in a long-abandoned fishing cabin in the mountains near Asheville, North Carolina, recently inherited by her fly fishing instructor Belle Carson, and becomes caught up in trying to learn the truth about Belle's grandmother, Kate, a legendary fly fisher and journalist in the 1920s whose life and reputation...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Tom and his wife Ann, having just moved into a large house in Hackney, anticipate the arrival of a baby while Ann persistently cleans and reorganizes the house while complaining about a man that has been following her--someone who many not even exist.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Samantha's delight in her baby daughter does not keep her from feeling she has lost something of herself in giving up her artistic dreams to become a mother, but she is able to come to terms with her doubts, as well as secrets of the past, when a box of her late mother Iris's belongings arrives on her doorstep, containing revelations about Iris, and Sam's grandmother Violet.
91) Eden: a novel
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Becca Meister Fitzpatrick - wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community - is the dutiful steward of her family's iconic summer tradition. That is until she discovers her recently deceased husband squandered their nest egg. As she struggles to accept that this is likely her last season in Long Harbor, Becca is inspired by her granddaughter's boldness in the face of impending single motherhood and summons the courage to reveal a secret she...
92) Arcadia
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The rise and fall of Arcadia, a hippy commune, and its lasting impact on Bit, a gifted young man.
93) Charming Billy
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A young woman, cousin to the late Billy Lynch who has just died of alcoholism, traces the story of his lost love, discovering her own father's role in trying to keep Billy from being hurt by the truth about Eva, and contemplating the effect her father's lie had on the rest of the family.
95) Rescue: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Rookie paramedic Peter Webster begins an intense affair with Sheila, a troubled young woman he pulled from a car wreck, but their love is not enough to keep them together and Peter is raising their daughter alone years later when a phone call from Sheila alters their lives.
96) Evensong
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Margaret Bonner, the young pastor of High Balsam's Episcopal church in the Smoky Mountains, enters a disturbing period of change when her life is invaded by a fiery female evangelist, a mysterious itinerant man, and a troubled boy.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Teenagers Peter, Tilte, and Hans begin looking for their their father a pastor, and their mother an artisan, who have mysteriously disappeared, and their parents will stop at nothing to boost church attendance, even fabricating cheap miracles, and when the children discover that scientific and religious leaders from around the world are assembling in Copenhagen for a conference, they fear the worst.
98) Gilead
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In 1956, toward the end of his life, Reverend John Ames begins a letter to his young son, sharing the story of his life and explaining how his faith influenced his choices and actions.
100) The one-way bridge
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cathie Pelletier draws readers back to the beloved town of Mattagash, a seemingly quiet New England outpost in Maine. Yet Mattagash is anything but tranquil. While its citizens bicker publicly over small-town theft or their neighbors' offensive mailboxes, they privately struggle through deeper life issues: scandal, loss, failed ambitions, and the scars of war.
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