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Author
Series
Amber Brown volume 10
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Amber is nervous and excited about her mother's wedding to Max, but Amber's father makes things complicated.
Author
Language
English
Description
After losing her husband, Derrick, in what appears to have been a random street crime, thirty-something Emma has built a new life with widower Tom, who is kind, and successful. Emma is finally able to feel safe again, both in her relationship with Tom and in the home they've made together on the Connecticut shore. Then one day a homicide detective shows up at Emma and Tom's door asking questions. Though Emma had been cleared of her husband's murder,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
Drawing on personal experience and interviews with other divorced couples. the author describes the trauma of separation and divorce, and identifies ways that people have learned to cope with the emotional strain and accept a new way of life.
4) Dina
Publisher
The Orchard
Language
English
Description
In this 2017 Sundance and IDA award-winning film, Dina, an eccentric and outspoken 49-year-old in suburban Philadelphia, invites her fiance Scott, a Walmart door greeter, to move in with her. Having grown up neurologically diverse in a world blind to the value of their experience, the two are head-over-heels for one another, but shacking up poses a new challenge.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Kristy Thomas' mother decides to get married again, Kristy and her friends in the Baby-sitters Club have to cope with all the small children that her family and friends are bringing to the wedding.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Despite her parents' divorce, her father's coming out as gay, and his plans to marry his boyfriend, ten-year-old Bea is reassured by her parents' unconditional love, excited about getting a stepsister, and haunted by something she did last summer at her father's lake house.
Author
Series
Violet Mackerel books volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Violet finds a special way to cope with moving to a new home after Mama marries Vincent.
Author
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton Canada
Language
English
Description
When Romy, a promising young artist in the male-dominated art scene of 1970s California, dies in suspicious circumstances, it is not long before her famous husband Billy finds a replacement. Paz, fresh out of art school in New York, returns to California and quickly marries Billy. But she is haunted by Romy, who is everywhere: in the photos and notebooks and art strewn around the house, and in the eyes of the baby she left behind, the baby to whom...
11) Lexie
Author
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Lexie goes with her father to the beach for a week, she is surprised to find that he has invited his girlfriend and her two sons to join them for the entire week.
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Language
English
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If happy endings were real, Saoirse's mother would still be able to remember her name and not be in a care home with early onset dementia. And if she inherits the condition, Saoirse doesn't see the point in igniting any romantic sparks when she's bound to burn out. Until Saoirse meets Ruby, a girl with one blue freckle, an irresistible sense of mischief, and a passion for rom-coms. Ruby proposes a loophole: They don't need true love to have one summer...
13) Her turn
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf Canada
Language
English
Description
Liz, a divorced columnist for a national newspaper in Washington, receives an essay written by Nicole, the woman who stole her husband from her. Nicole has no idea she has sent her essay to Liz. The essay destabilizes Liz, and she begins to behave erratically. She ends her affair with her boss, invests in self-help books about forgiveness and makes some questionable romantic decisions. When Liz's deception is exposed she must face the consequences...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Now a NETFLIX feature film starring Haley Lu Richardson!
Timing is everything in this romantic novel about family connections, second chances, and first loves. Set over a twenty-four-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver find that true love can be found in unexpected places.
Today should be one of the worst days of Hadley Sullivan's life. Having just missed her flight, she's stuck at the airport and late to her father's wedding,...
Timing is everything in this romantic novel about family connections, second chances, and first loves. Set over a twenty-four-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver find that true love can be found in unexpected places.
Today should be one of the worst days of Hadley Sullivan's life. Having just missed her flight, she's stuck at the airport and late to her father's wedding,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Writing with both sharp wit and terrific emotional warmth, Phillips delivers another of her supremely satisfying contemporary romances."-Chicago Tribune Perennial New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips is easily one of the most beloved authors of women's fiction in America-and with her wonderfully witty What I Did for Love, she works her magic once again. Turning her satirical eye on Hollywood and the messy love triangles of its...
17) Lost in the sun
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
As Trent Zimmerman struggles to move past a traumatic event that took place several months earlier, he befriends class outcast Fallon Little, who helps him understand that he can move on.
18) Rebecca
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
The tale of the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter, who enters the home of her mysterious and enigmatic new husband and learns the story of the house's first mistress, to whom the sinister housekeeper is unnaturally devoted, is accompanied by selections from "The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories"
19) Violets are blue
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Wren, who is learning special effects makeup, is thrilled to be makeup artist for her new school's production of Wicked, but her parents' divorce is seriously affecting her mother.
20) After Anna
Author
Language
English
Description
"Nobody cuts deeper than family... Noah Alderman, a doctor and a widower, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie, and for the first time in a long time he and his son are happy. But their lives are turned upside down when Maggie's daughter Anna moves in with them. Anna is a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under their rules though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter back, ignores the red flags that hint at the trouble that is brewing....
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