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41) No way out
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English
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"Ellie Bowman barely remembers the incident that put her into a coma. When she awoke, filled with unease, all she knew for certain was that her boyfriend, Rick, was missing. She knew she needed to get away from her old life and recover in safety. With the proceeds of a video game she helped develop, Ellie starts over in rural Missouri, working from her cottage and trusting no one except her friend and business partner. Yet even in this quiet small...
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English
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Sarah Candless, grieving the death of her father, a best-selling novelist, decides to write a biography of her celebrated parent, but her research turns up many revelations that not only shock Sarah, but provide her with answers to some long-standing riddles about her family.
Author
Publisher
Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Penny Alistair dies and her twin brother Hobby is left in a coma from a terrible car crash on the evening of Nantucket High's traditional graduation bonfire on the beach, and Zoe, the twins' mother, is forced to face the truth about what happened to them and her role in the accident.
44) Losing Charlotte
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Knox's sister Charlotte moves away from their family's Kentucky horse farm with her new husband, Bruce, to live in Manhattan's West Village, but when her sister dies while giving birth to twin sons and Knox begins helping Bruce raise the children, only to question the bond she shared with Charlotte and the one forming between her and Bruce.
Author
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Alice Love, having woken up on the gym floor and been rushed to the hospital with a head injury, believes she is twenty-nine, expecting her first baby, and madly in love with her husband, but, after realizing she has forgotten ten years of her life and is actually thirty-nine, she is forced to try and piece together what occurred over the past decade to result in her marriage and life not being as she had hoped it would be.
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Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2007, c1922
Language
English
Description
Four women, all dissatisfied with their everyday lives, are brought together at a castle in Portofino while on holiday, and as they become acquainted with one another they rediscover the joy of life and their true natures.
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English
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College student Laura Moriarty's life takes an unexpected turn when her parents divorce, leaving her longing for a home that no longer exists, and trying to manage her own problems while dealing with the realization that her mother--her rock--has difficulties of her own.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Eliza Naumann is used to being the unremarkable member of her family, but when she wins a series of spelling bees, her once distant family begins to lavish praise on her, bringing about surprising complications.
52) Coming out
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Chaos erupts in the Rubinstein household when Olympia's twin daughters are invited to New York's most exclusive debutante ball--with one twin and Olympia's current husband refusing to attend, and the other young woman and Olympia's snobbish ex-husband already shopping for the event.
53) The Pharmacist
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Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A woman's mind begins to spiral as she tries to sort out truth, lies, and mysteries about her family in a novel by the bestselling author of Abduction. Alice's husband is missing. Has he left her for another woman, or has something more sinister happened? In a world that is becoming increasingly muddled, Alice is unsure whom she can trust. Even her daughter appears to be lying to her. How much heartache can one person endure? As strange things begin...
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Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Beauty. Wealth. Success.
She's got it all.
And it all should've been mine.
When Eleanor Hardwicke's beloved father dies, her world is further shattered by a gut-wrenching secret: the man she's grieving isn't really her dad. Eleanor was the product of an affair and her biological father is still out there, living blissfully with the family he chose. With her personal life spiraling, a desperate Eleanor seeks him out, leading her to uncover another...
56) Emily, alone
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English
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Eighty-year-old Emily Maxwell, having come to rely on her sister-in-law Arlene to chauffeur them to their round of dinners, shows, museums, and funerals, and distanced from her two adult children and four grandchildren, tries to sustain her optimism and energy after Arlene has a stroke, leaving Emily to rediscover her independence.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Reunited with her cousin, Kelsey, when a job offer returns her to the home of her unhappy childhood in Oklahoma, Logan risks everything to secure her cousin's happiness while Kelsey's celebrity and controlling parents threaten her efforts to live a normal life"--Provided by publisher.
60) White guys
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Language
English
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A twenty-year reunion is the catalyst that causes Billy Mogavero to make the social leap to respectability and conformity; but when his new wife, Maureen, and their unborn child are victims of a drive-by shooting, Billy's life takes a sudden turn.
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