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1) The sea
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Irishman Max Morden, grieving the death of his wife, Anna, returns to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child, and finds himself engulfed inthoughts and memories of a momentous summer spent with the vacationing Grace family, his life with Anna, and his relationship with his grown daughter.
2) Great house
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Language
English
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An enormous desk, once the property of a young poet who was kidnapped by Pinochet's secret police, becomes an inspiration and an obsession to the people whose lives it touches.
3) 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.
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.
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Language
English
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Ben Schrank's Love Is a Canoe is a smart, funny, romantic, and hugely satisfying novel about the fragility of human relationships and a heartwarming reminder of what it really means to be good to those we love.
The author of a classic self-help guide to love and relationships, Peter Herman has won the hearts of romantics and cynics alike. But, decades have passed since Marriage Is a Canoe was published and a recently widowed Peter begins to question...
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.
12) Cry no more
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Milla, still searching for her son ten years after he was kidnapped from her arms as an infant, now works through Finders, an agency she started to help find lost and missing children, but her quest puts her in touch with two very different and powerful men, one a generous contributor and one a reputed assassin, and she must decide who to trust and who wants her dead.
14) Losing Charlotte
Author
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.
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English
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Katherine Givens, following the wishes of her friend Annie who has died of ovarian cancer at the age of fifty-six, calls together four other women who have been important in Annie's life, and together they travel across the country sprinking Annie's ashes in designated places, and reevaluating their own lives and choices.
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Language
English
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The first book in Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie mystery series, called "the best mystery of the decade" by Stephen King, finds private investigator Jackson Brodie following three seemingly unconnected family mysteries in Edinburgh Case one: A little girl goes missing in the night. Case two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack. Case three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making...
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Language
English
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In China there is a belief that people who are destined to be together are connected by an invisible red thread. After losing her infant daughter in a freak accident, Maya Lange opens the Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families. Maya finds some comfort in her work, until a group of six couples share their personal stories of desire for a child. Their painful and courageous journey...
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English
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A mesmerizing first novel about a man, a woman, and a disappearance.
"I'm from Chicago originally. I went to New York, married a girl named Anne, and was in the middle of living happily ever after when something happened."
So begins John Haskell's mesmerizing first novel, American Purgatorio, the story of a happily married man who discovers, as he walks out of a convenience store, that his life has suddenly vanished. In cool, precise prose, written...
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