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1) Jack
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Marilynne Robinson's mythical world of Gilead, Iowa -- the setting of her novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack -- and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. Jack is Robinson's fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead's Presbyterian minister, and...
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"'No matter where you go, no matter whether you succeed or fail, stand or fall, no gone is too far gone. You can always come home.' At the age of eighteen, musician and songwriter Cooper O'Connor took everything his father held dear and drove 1,200 miles from home to Nashville, his life riding on a six-string guitar and the bold wager that he had talent. But his wager soon proved foolish. Five years after losing everything, he falls in love with Daley...
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After Brady Collins' ex-wife dies, he receives devastating news--his nine-month-old son Sam isn't his son at all. And Sam's wealthy maternal grandparents want custody of the child. Brady knows he's in for the fight of his life. But regardless of what anyblood test says, Sam is his son, and Brady will go to any lengths to keep him. Brady's attorney tips him off that one major life change would virtually assure him of winning guardianship of baby Sam...
4) Prairie rose
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IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Rosenbloom Cotton Mills, known as Rosie, has spent her entire 19 years in an orphanage in Kansas City, Missouri. Then, in May of 1865, Rosie saves Seth Hunter from an attack by his brother-in-law. Seeing a chance to escape the orphanage, Rosie accompanies Seth and his son, Chipper, out west to act as their housekeeper. Rosie soon falls in love with Seth but feels she can never marry because she was an illegitimate child. Eventually, her Bible reading...
5) Border Son
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"A father reluctantly crosses the Mexican border to rescue his estranged son mixed up in the drug trade. It will take everything they have to make it back alive"--Publisher.
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Piper Cove chronicles volume 2
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Landscaper Ellen Brittingham, having always closely guarded her heart, must turn to God and her dear friends for advice when she falls in love with her neighbor Adrian Sinclair, a successful businessman, and although she quickly bonds with Adrian's troubled son, Pete, she does not know how to go about convincing Adrian--who is engaged to a beautiful woman--that she is the better choice.
7) Home
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Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack--the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years--comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain.
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Modern cowboy Tyler Steele must raise his son, Brodie, save his ranch, and rebuild his life after his wife leaves him for being emotionally distant. Samantha and her daughter, Hope, are on the run from an abusive ex who has the resources and the determination to hunt them down. Tyler knows he can help-- but letting them into his life may cost more than he's willing to pay. He ultimately learns that being a man means confronting your true weaknesses....
10) Gilead
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
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In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.
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"When Cohen Marah steps over the body of his dead father on a cold spring morning in the basement embalming room of the family's funeral home, he steps into a labyrinth of memory. In the week that follows, he must confront his traumatic past, a violent present, and the most frightening question of all--did he kill his father?"--
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Colt Stafford shrugged off his cowboy legacy for shinny Manhattan loafers and a promising career on Wall Street--until stock market manipulations leave him financially strapped. He returns to the sprawling Double S ranch in Gray's glen, Washington, broke but not broken, to check with his ailing father. he doesn't expect to come home to a stranger pointing a loaded gun at his chest! Colt senses there's more to Angelina Morales than meets the eye and...
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Seasons of the tallgrass volume 1
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Mattie Evans, a skilled young veterinarian struggling to gain the confidence of local ranchers in the Flint Hills of Kansas, finds herself caught in the middle of a family conflict when she is called to save an injured horse at the Lightning M Ranch, the home of her friend John McCray, who is longing to reconcile with his estranged son, Gil, a professional football player.
15) The English son
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When Joel Byler turned eighteen he left his Amish roots, but living the good life out in the world requires money and he finds himself going back home to ask his wealthy and eccentric father for a cash loan-again. Joel wonders how many times he will be welcomed back before his father's patience with him wears thin.
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"Join authors Wanda E. Brunstetter and Jean Brunstetter in Holmes County for a dramatic new 6-part serial novel set in Holmes County, Ohio. In Part 2, The Stubborn Father, feel the pain of widower Eustace Byler who stands out in his Amish community for his eccentricity and his wealth and mourns both his deceased wife and living son. Can father and son come to an understanding about their different choices in life before time runs out?" -- Amazon.com....
17) Raising dragons
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Dragons in our midst volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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800L
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Billy thinks he is just a typical teenager until his abnormally hot breath accidentally sets off the fire sprinklers in the school bathroom, prompting his parents to reveal a long-kept secret: Billy is actually part dragon. Shortly after, a new girl, Bonnie, arrives at school with her own secret. Unsure of who else to trust, Billy and Bonnie team up to discover their part in an Arthurian legend that started with their parents over a millennium ago....
18) Wish: a novel
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James McConnell's one wish is that his nine-year-old son will finally be healthy enough to play a game of catch. Then he and his wife, Emily, receive news they've dreaded: Aaron's cancer has relapsed. As the family steels themselves for a draining treatment regimen in yet another hospital, Aaron receives the gift of a lifetime--a personal visit from one of his favorite professional baseball players--and the chance to make a bold request, his wish:...
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Meet businessman Joel Byler who has gotten himself into a financial bind and his eccentric, wealthy Amish father who is done bailing out his spoiled son. When will Joel learn he most pay for his own mistakes--and at what cost to his business, his fiancée, and his Amish siblings?
20) Oceans apart
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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Connor Evans, an airline pilot, tries to decide whether or not to accept into his family his young son from a previous affair with a stewardess.
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