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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
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English
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Two years after losing her husband of twenty-five years, Lisey looks back at the sometimes frightening intimacy that marked their marriage, her husband's successes as a novelist, and his secretive nature that established Lisey's supernatural belief systems.
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When a series of passenger airplanes crashed in Elizabeth, N.J., within a three-month period in 1951-1952, Judy Blume was a teenager. "These events have lingered in my mind ever since," says Blume. Against this background, Blume uses her imagination to bring us the lives of three generations of families, friends, and strangers who will be profoundly affected by these events, either directly or indirectly. This is Blume's first novel for adults since...
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Cowboy brothers in arms volume 1
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English
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Both grieving her husband's loss and feeling betrayed over his secret infidelity, Alana Davidson finds her feelings growing for military hero, and her late husband's best friend, Egan Donnelly despite shared guilt and family pressure.
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English
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"Melissa Henderson is leading a quiet life. Once a bestselling author, she now pours all her energy into renovating a Victorian house nestled in the foothills of rural New England. Six years ago, she lost her young son to cancer, and her marriage dissolved. She stopped writing. It was only when she bought the old house that Melissa found a purpose, and came alive as she made it beautiful again. After a wildfire that threatens her home appears on the...
50) Fray
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"A father who is trying to rescue his lost wife. Their child, desperately searching the wild forests and dangerous mountains of the Scottish Highlands, not knowing what's out there. An abandoned cottage in the remote wilderness, filled with thousands of confusing, terrifying handwritten notes. And a dark, looming voice who threatens to destroy everything..."--Dust jacket.
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Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar-a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised. In this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow-antagonist,...
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"New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a hilarious and terrifying new novel that explores the way your past--and your family--can haunt you like nothing else... Louise's parents have passed away, and she's returning to the small Southern town where she grew up to get their house ready to sell. It means she'll have to spend time with her younger brother--and their old grudges make that a terrifying prospect....
53) Where it hurts
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Gus Murphy novels volume 1
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English
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After losing everything in a single moment, former Suffolk County police officer Gus Murphy reluctantly agrees to help solve a murder.
54) Hidden
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English
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While walking home from work one evening, Jeff Manning is struck by a car and killed. Not one but two women fall to pieces at the news: his wife, Claire, and his co-worker Tish. Told through the three voices of Jeff, Tish, and Clair, "Hidden" explores the complexity of relationships, our personal choices, and the responsibilities we have to the ones we love.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • “Make sure you have tissues handy when you read [this] sure-footed tearjerker” (NPR) about a young boy who must learn to go on after surviving tragedy, from the author of the Oprah’s Book Club pick Hello Beautiful.
Now streaming as an Apple TV+ series starring Connie Britton, written and...
Now streaming as an Apple TV+ series starring Connie Britton, written and...
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Small town dreams volume 2
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English
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In Brightwater Valley, New Zealand, wilderness guide Finn Kelly hates interacting with people until he meets cheerful jewelry designer Bethany Grant who, new to town, involves herself in every aspect of his life, making him wonder what would happen if she really was his friend or even something more.
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Series
Dune Island novels volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Language
English
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Escaping to Hope Haven to recover from losing her family in a tragic accident, Emily discovers a devastating truth about her parents that leads her to Dr. Lucas Socorro, but when her family’s secret spreads through the local gossips, she has a difficult decision to make.
58) June: a novel
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Crown Publishers
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English
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Learning that she is the sole heir to the fortune of a legendary Hollywood movie star, Cassie Danvers, mourning the loss of her grandmother, investigates the truth in her prim grandmother's past and discovers secrets involving blackmail, murder, betrayal, and broken hearts.
59) Close my eyes
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St. Martin's Press
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English
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Grieving for eight years after the stillborn birth of her daughter, writer Geniver Loxley is astonished when a stranger claims that the baby was stolen and is still alive, a revelation that strains Geniver's grasp on sanity and her relationship with her husband.
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Sourcebooks Landmark
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English
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Returning home to Alaska, where his family died in a plane crash twenty years earlier, Kachemak Winkel is stunned to discover a young woman living in his abandoned house and finds unexpected love with this damaged woman who has withdrawn from the world.
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