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1) Secrecy
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English
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Charlotte Dawes, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a distinguished New England couple, has her innocence stripped from her by a violent act, and the family's decision to hide what happened marks the beginning of a cover-up that changes the lives of everyone involved.
2) Blueprints
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"Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work--and what to do when they break. Caroline MacAfee is a skilled carpenter, her daughter Jamie, a talented architect. Together they are the faces of Gut It!, a home renovation series on local public television. Caroline takes pride in her work, and in the way she connects with the show's audience. But when she is told the network wants her daughter to replace her as host--the day after...
3) Homecoming
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English
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On a property in New York State, Annette Byrne, 85, organizes a reunion to bring peace to her warring family. They include two sons who are involved in a court case and do not speak to each other, a granddaughter whose inter-faith marriage is on the skids and another granddaughter who is divorcing.
4) Beach girls
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Nine-year-old Nell Kilvert travels with her father, Jack, to Hubbard's Point, Connecticut, determined to find her late mother's old friends Stevie and Maddie and succeeds in drawing out Stevie Moore, now a successful artist, whose failed attempts at love have driven her to live like a hermit.
5) A new song
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Mitford years volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
870L
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English
Description
Episcopal priest Father Tim Kavanagh, recently retired from service at Lord's Chapel in Mitford, accepts a post as interim priest at a small parish on an island off the Atlantic Coast where he and his wife Cynthia quickly become involved in the lives of a whole new community of people.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
830L
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English
Description
Thirty-two-year-old New Hampshire search-and-rescue worker Delia Hopkins, a soon-to-be-married mother of a five-year-old daughter, begins having strange flashbacks of a forgotten childhood and learns that her father, whom she always believed to be a widower, kidnapped her when she was four--and that her mother is still alive.
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"Toby Fleishman thought he knew what to expect when he and his wife of almost fifteen years separated: weekends and every other holiday with the kids, some residual bitterness, the occasional moment of tension in their co-parenting negotiations. He could not have predicted that one day, in the middle of his summer of sexual emancipation, Rachel would just drop their two children off at his place and simply not return. He had been working so hard to...
8) Daddy
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English
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Three men from three generations of the same family deal with their relationships with women, including Oliver's widowed father who is involved with the woman next door, Oliver who has recently been divorced, and Oliver's teenage son who just had a child with his girlfriend.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
890L
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English
Description
Paige's mother left when she was five. When Paige becomes a mother herself, she is overwhelmed by the demands. Unable to forget her past, Paige struggles with the difficulties of marriage and motherhood.
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Mitford years volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
890L
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English
Description
Father Tim, Mitford's most eligible bachelor, finds himself in need of divine intervention when his attention becomes focused on his attractive neighbor, while at the same time he is being pursued by a wealthy widow, and his cousin Meg moves into the rectory.
11) The Burgess boys
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Catalyzed by a nephew's thoughtless prank, a pair of brothers confront painful psychological issues surrounding the freak accident that killed their father when they were boys, a loss linked to a heartbreaking deception that shaped their personal and professional lives.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother.
"You’ll want to turn back to the first chapter the moment you finish the last.” —PEOPLE
On the surface, Beck, as she is known to the Davitch clan, is outgoing, joyous, a natural celebrator....
"You’ll want to turn back to the first chapter the moment you finish the last.” —PEOPLE
On the surface, Beck, as she is known to the Davitch clan, is outgoing, joyous, a natural celebrator....
14) Sandcastles
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Star of the Sea Academy volume 01
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English
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Honor Sullivan, a painter and art instructor, has made a peaceful life for herself with her three daughters at the Star of the Sea Academy, until the wedding of her eldest daughter brings her former love--and the girl's father--back into her life from his self-imposed exile and sets in motion a life-changing series of events.
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"When the revered children's book author Mort Lear dies accidentally at his Connecticut home, he leaves his property and all its contents to his trusted assistant, Tomasina Daulair, who is moved by his generosity but dismayed by the complicated and defiant directives in his will"--
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"Emma London never thought she had anything in common with her grandmother Genevieve London. The regal old woman came from wealthy and bluest-blood New England stock, but that didn't protect her from life's cruelest blows: the disappearance of Genevieve's young son, followed by the premature death of her husband. But Genevieve rose from those ashes of grief and built a fashion empire that was respected the world over, even when it meant neglecting...
17) Signal fires
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"Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Each of their lives, and that of Ben Wilf, a young doctor who arrives on the scene, is shattered. For the Wilf family, the circumstances of that fatal accident will become the deepest kind of secret, one so dangerous it can never be spoken. On Division Street, time...
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"In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with...
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ER doctor Gemma Jericho is divorced, pushing 40 and not too happy about it. Her mom, Nonna, persuades Gemma and her fourteen-year-old daughter to travel to Italy when Nonna learns she has inherited an old villa. But when they get there, another American, Ben Raphael, has already claimed ownership.
Learning about a mysterious inheritance in Tuscany, New York doctor Gemma, accompanied by her troublesome teen daughter and interfering mother, find...
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Lily Fox, the baby of her family, sends her sister Abbie urgent emails begging her to return home to Nantucket. Their middle sister, Emma, has taken to her bed, emotionally devastated after the loss of her high-powered stockbroker's job and a shockingly unexpected break-up with her fiancé. Also, Lily is deeply worried that Marina, the beautiful, enigmatic woman renting their guesthouse, has set her sights on the sisters' widowed father, Jim.
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