Kate Forbes
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Series
Gap Creek volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Julie Harmond and Hank Richards marry and move to Gap Creek, North Carolina, they must struggle to survive floods, disease, and poverty in late nineteenth century Appalachia.
2) Ginger Pye
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1850s Smoky Mountains, Rivers tells the gripping tale of a girl who's desperate to remove the guilt of her sister's death and anxious to absolve her departed grandmother of sins. While seeking the elusive Sin Eater, she uncovers a hideous secret and finds the truth.
4) Sara's song
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English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels is back with a beautiful, bittersweet tale of two lonely people who find heart-healing love, only to be torn from each other's arms. For everyone who loved Dear Emily, here is another poignant Fern Michaels novels to savor--a story of love, grief, passion, renewal--and incredible second chances. A brilliant career and loving friends weren't enough to heal Dr. Sara Killian's aching heart. For brief, magical...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
When Laurie Kenyon, a twenty-one-year-old student, is accused of murdering her english professor, Allan Grant, she has no memory of the crime. But at the scene of the homicide, her fingerprints are everywhere -- on the door, on the curtain, and on the knife used to stab him to death. Shocked and bewildered, Laurie is arraigned on a murder charge.
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English
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Restaurant owner Whitney Monroe is desperate to save her business from a hostile takeover. The inheritance of a decaying Gilded Age hotel on North Carolina's Outer Banks may provide just the ray of hope she needs. But things at the Excelsior are more complicated than they seem. Whitney's estranged stepfather is entrenched on the third floor, and the downstairs tenants are determined to save the historic building. Searching through years of stored...
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English
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To those who matter in 1950s Hollywood, Lena Scott is the hottest rising star to hit the silver screen since Marilyn Monroe. Few know her real name is Abra. Even fewer know the price she's paid to finally feel like she's somebody. To Pastor Ezekiel Freeman, Abra will always be the little girl who stole his heart the night he found her, a wailing newborn abandoned under a bridge on the outskirts of Haven. Zeke and his son, Joshua--Abra's closest friend--watch...
8) Looking back
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English
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The friendship among Norma, Cecile, and Amanda does not survive the post-college years after Amanda marries Norma's brother to escape a life of poverty, then embarks on an affair with her father-in-law; and Norma undermine's Cecile's husband in an attempt to boost her own husband's career.
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English
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"A delightful new western romance from the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love. New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling...
10) Room for hope
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English
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In 1930s Kansas, after her husband dies, Neva Shilling swallows her pride when she decides to take in the three children from a secret second wife she never knew her husband had.
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English
Description
After tragedy leaves its mark on Rebekah Hardin's family she plans to help her parents and six siblings honor her beloved brother's memory and alleviate their poverty by working as a guide in the dangerous cave system. Kentucky's renowned Mammoth Cave presents profitable opportunities in for hardworking, capable men, but Rebekah is determined to do the job-- even if it means disguising herself. Under the wing of experienced guide Tolly Sanford, "Reb"...
12) Deadly proof
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Series
Atlanta justice novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Tapped as lead counsel in a corporate cover-up lawsuit against Mason Pharmaceutical, Kate Sullivan knows this case could make her career. What really drives her, though, is getting justice for the victims whose lives were ruined by the company's dangerous new drug. But when a whistleblower turns up dead, it paints a target on the back of everyone involved."--
13) Lone witness
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English
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" Prosecutor Sophie Dawson has taken a new role at the Fulton County DA's office, and her first case involves a local bank employee who may be cheating customers. She's determined to bring justice to those who've lost their savings ... but her life is turned upside down when she becomes the only witness to a double homicide involving a vengeful gang." -- back cover.
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English
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As she arrives at Bridal Veil Island with the Bridgeport family, Callie DeBoyer's just received a letter from her parents, missionaries in coastal Africa, stating they are in dire need of more personnel. Should she give up her governess job and join their important work? When she enrolls young Thomas Bridgeport in golf lessons, Callie meets Wesley Townsend, who urges her to take lessons as well. Callie comes to care for Wesley--until she discovers...
16) City of secrets
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Series
Counterfeit lady volume 2
Language
English
Description
"An exciting new book in the series featuring woman-on-the-run Elizabeth Miles--from the beloved national bestselling author of the Gaslight Mysteries. Con artist Elizabeth Miles has determined that Society is the biggest con of all. So far, Elizabeth's only real social success has been with Priscilla Knight. Priscilla is a dedicated suffragist who was recently widowed for the second time in her young life. Her beloved first husband, DeForrest Jenks,...
17) Icy sparks
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Icy Sparks has spent most of her life being ridiculed because she suffers from Tourette Syndrome, but as she grows older, she teaches the people in her town how to accept people for who they are, not what they appear to be.
19) A gift of bones
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Series
Mississippi Delta mysteries volume 19
RB mystery
Sarah Booth Delaney mystery volume 19
Sarah Booth Delaney mystery volume 18
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RB mystery
Sarah Booth Delaney mystery volume 19
Sarah Booth Delaney mystery volume 18
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English
Description
Christmas is just around the corner and Sarah Booth and Tinkie are preparing for a festive holiday season. After a turbulent season of solving cases, they're ready for some holiday cheer. Sarah Booth and Sheriff Coleman Peters have finally gotten together, and this is the first holiday they're celebrating as a couple. Sarah Booth busies herself with decking the halls and daydreaming about romantic Christmas nights with Coleman. Then her friend Cece...
20) Dogwood
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English
Description
Small towns have long memories, and the people of Dogwood, West Virginia, will never forgive Will Hatfield. Still he returns, intent on pursuing the only woman he has ever loved. But there is far more standing in his way than lost years in prison. Karin has buried her shattered dreams by settling for a faithful husband whose emotional distance leaves her isolated. The secrets of Will and Karin's past begin to emerge through Danny Boyd, a young boy...