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When Lilia Swallow's husband, Graham, goes into remission after a challenging year of treatment for lymphoma, the home and lifestyle blogger throws a party. Their best friends and colleagues attend to celebrate his recovery, but just as the party is in full swing, a new guest arrives. She presents Lilia with a beautiful baby boy and vanishes.Toby is Graham's darkest secret-his son, conceived in a moment of despair. Lilia is utterly unprepared for...
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What happens when the picture-perfect marriage dissolves? In her unsparing evocation of a family in crisis, Belva Plain goes to the heart of a marriage between a naive young artist and her handsome physician husband. At first, everything is idyllic. Then one terrible night she commits an act she will regret for the rest of her life. An act that gives her husband the ultimate weapon: blackmail. The price of his silence is uncontested custody of their...
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A TarcherPerigee Book
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"In January 2010, founder of ArtLeadHer Mashonda Tifrere and music producer Swizz Beatz finalized their divorce. When Swizz married award-winning singer/songwriter Alicia Keys, a new dynamic was born--three adults who loved and were deeply committed to raising Mashonda and Swizz's four-year old son Kasseem. In Blend, Tifrere draws on the insights they gained from their journey as well as advice from family therapists, parenting experts, and other...
4) Lover's lane
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Twilight Cove trilogy volume 1
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For six years, Carly Nolan has built a secretive life for herself and her son Christopher. Nobody in the quiet little beach community of Twilight Cove, California, suspects she is running from the tragic memory of her fiancé Rick and his unexpected death--and from his rich, powerful parents, who want to take away her child. She has carefully concealed her troubled past from the folks in the isolated cove. Until now.
Private investigator, Jake Montgomery,...
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"Cade Garrett's ordered life is upended when he gets the news that his sister and her husband have been killed in a plane crash. He's ready to step in and take care of their two young children, but he's thrown for a loop when the children's aunt is named guardian in the will and plans to take the children back to her home in Dallas. Sparks fly when he meets Jennifer LaChance, but Cade and Jenn must band together for the well-being of the children--and...
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Millers of Morgan Valley volume 2
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Family, community, hard work. It's what always draws the folks of Morgantown back to the ranch-along with the promise of so much more . . .
Widowed for ten years, now running the family ranch, Adam Miller is no longer the fun-loving guy who married his high school sweetheart the moment they graduated. His bitterness in the aftermath of her death even alienated his closest link to her-Lizzie Taylor, her best friend. But when Adam comes across Lizzie...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
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In a tale spanning twenty-five years, a doctor delivers his newborn twins during a snowstorm and, rashly deciding to protect his wife from their baby daughter's affliction with Down Syndrome, turns her over to a nurse, who secretly raises the child.
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North Winds Press, an imprint of Scholastic Canada Ltd
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IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Kelsey thinks she should live in one house and her mom and dad should visit her. Instead, she puts her books and her unicorn picture and her favourite pillow in her suitcase and takes them with her as she goes back and forth. But what will happen when she decides to pack up the dog? A charming story about a girl making the best of her co-parenting situation, and the mom and dad (and dog!) who love her.
13) Keeping watch
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Allen Carmichael came back from Vietnam a lifetime ago-but only now was he ready to return home. For years, he's lived on the fringes of the law, using a soldier's skills to keep watch over those too young to defend themselves. Some consider him nothing but a kidnapper for hire-the best in the business; others call him a hero. His specialty has been rescuing children from abusive parents and escorting them to loving homes. But after twenty-five years,...
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Alfred A. Knopf
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"The story of an American woman attempting to leave behind her life in Turkey--to leave without her husband. Catherine has been married for many years to Murat, an influential Turkish real estate developer, and they have a young son together, William. But when she decides to leave her marriage and return home to the U.S., with William and her photographer lover, Murat determines to take a stand. He enlists the help of an American diplomat to prevent...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
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In this moving story, Jack and Molly Campbell are enjoying a wonderful life with Joey, their four-year-old adopted son. But their world is soon shattered when they learn Joey's biological father is out of prison and wants to begin a new life with his son. And when a judge orders them to surrender Joey, the Campbells desperately consider taking their son and disappearing-just like dandelion dust.
16) One summer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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A moving family drama about learning to love again after terrible heartbreak and loss.
17) The full Monty
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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"When the steel mills of Sheffield, England are closed, Gaz and thousands of other workers are left unemployed and unsure of their roles as men. Depressed and facing a custody battle for his son, Gaz happens across a show of male strippers ... and the answer to his problems is laid bare! Recruiting a ragtag group of friends into an unsightly stripper group, Gaz is putting on a show of his own to get his life back on track. But to ensure their performance...
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Chestnut Creek novels volume 3
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Forever
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English
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After his twin brother dies in a car accident, Reese is stunned to discover he has a 6-month-old niece named Sawyer and heads to Unforgiven, New Mexico, to bring her home, but is unprepared for Sawyer's guardian Lorelei West, who refuses to let Reese take the baby away.
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Sasquatch Books
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"A practical manual for parents who are transitioning from being a couple with children to being co-parents. This guide helps those parents navigate difficult emotional terrain, create boundaries, and establish guidelines so that together they can be the parents their children deserve"--Publisher.
20) Tune it out
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Twelve-year-old Lou Montgomery's life has been centered on her mother's terrifying plan to make her a singing star, but a crisis reveals Lou's sensory processing disorder and people determined to help her address it.
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