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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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At the heart of this innovative writing venture is the story of two girls growing up in the southern town of Harmony just before World War 1. Jodie and Bethan have different personalities and interests, but their friendship grows strong through shared joys, trials and finally, a devastating loss faced together. But the day comes when faith itself drives a tragic wedge between them-and shatters the love and respect they once shared. When Bethan's brother...
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Seventeen-year-old Penny Carson thought she'd found her Prince Charming in Trent Taylor. With a handsome face and flashy promises, Trent was her escape from an overbearing father and a one-stop-sign town. But Penny's happily-ever-after doesn't outlast their courtship. Out of options, she resigns herself to the fate of a woman controlled by a man with no control..until a welding accident forces Trent to allow Penny to take a job.
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"What do an ex-con, a former drug addict, a real estate broker, a college student and a married mother of two have in common? Nothing, or so I thought. Who would have imagined that God would make a prayer group as mismatched as ours the closest of friends? I almost didn't even go to the Chicago Women's Conference after all, being thrown together with five hundred strangers wasn't exactly my comfort zone. But something happened that weekend to make...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
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Katie Weldon catches more than just the bouquet at her best friend's wedding - she also receives an offer that launches her into a surprising adventure. Katie eagerly accepts the job as resident assistant in the dorms at Rancho Corona University and finds herself right in the middle of conflict. She thought this was where God wanted her, but why is everything falling apart? Especially her relationship with her almost boyfriend, Rick Doyle.
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Free-spirited Penny and cautious Sharon, two Christian best friends in their forties from Washington State, embark on a European adventure and learn lessons about friendship, family, luggage, and chocolate when Penny decides to find her last living relatives in Finland.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 42
Lexile measure
1050L
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I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice-- not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany. In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that...
9) The pursuit
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Sailing from Africa to England, Edward Steele meets these two very different men aboard ship. When his traveling companion becomes seriously ill, Edward abandons his goal of going home and disembarks with the two men in Lisbon, never dreaming that his association with them will lead to the mysterious Nicola Bettencourt, a woman who captivates and confounds him in equal measures.
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Jodi Baxter is slowly recuperating from a horrific car accident, but before she's fully recovered, other problems arise within the Yada Yada Prayer Group-big problems. The turmoil starts when a heroin-addicted woman charges into a prayer meeting with a knife and isn't afraid to use it.Things really take a turn for the worse when grim accusations are made against Jodi's husband. Racial division, pain, and pride are tearing this close-knit group of...
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Kit, Beth, Elaine, and Teza, four women leading vastly different lives, are brought together through a quilting project Kit has started to raise money for breast cancer research, and as the women work on the project, they form an unexpected friendship and help one another cope with their personal tragedies and challenges.
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Yada Yada Prayer Group series volume 4
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"The Yada Yada Prayer Group has been together for a whole year and so many good things are happening. However that's just when the Enemy knows to attack. The Yada Yada sisters realize they need to get tough"--Provided by publisher.
13) Fire by night
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One deceived by a life of wealth and ease. The other desperate to flee her true identity. In a land shattered by war, unlikely heroes test the limits of their strength and discover that love has a meaning far beyond their imagination.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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"Sarah knows the heartache that results from making wrong choices-her own life is proof of that. But will she be able to convince a troubled young woman before time runs out?For when the 12 days of Christmas have passed,it is possible the melody of Sarah's Song might bring out not one, but two miracles." -- Fantastic fiction.
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Other way home volume 4
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Popular fiction author Sally John's first series The Other Way Home (more than 65,000 copies sold) comes to life with a fresh, new cover for a new audience of readers.
In A Winding Road Home, the fourth book of the series, two stories are beautifully woven together. Kate Kilpatrick has only one goal-a byline above the fold in a high profile newspaper. But Tanner Carlucci challenges her determination to put career above everything.
Adele Chandler gave...
16) Forever friends
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Five women brought together by their church face challenges that affect their friendship in unexpected ways: Margaret waits to see if she is cancer-free, Jessie searches for traces of her ancestors in Africa, Charlotte helps a prisoner deal with his past, and one of them finds herself pondering leaving Hope Springs altogether.
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Broken by life's disappointments, four women forge a friendship that leads in unexpected directions. Drawn together at the weekend market held in the shelter's parking lot, the women pool their resources to fend off an unscrupulous conglomerate that threatens to replace the facility with a commercial development. As they fight to retain this haven for women in need, they find their own longings for home answered by the solace of faith and friendship....
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Carrigan, Ella Rae, and Laine have been friends since kindergarten. They all still live in the small town of Bon Dieu Falls, Louisiana, and they've been through everything together, from a State Softball Championship to Carrigan's elopement at seventeen. And Laine is still trying to keep the other two out of trouble. But when cancer threatens to rip the trio apart, their world spins in a way they've never known before. How deep do the bonds of friendship...
19) Friendship cake
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When five women from the Hope Springs Community Church in North Carolina form a committee to create a church cookbook, they embark on a project much more meaningful than they could have ever imagined. As novice pastor Charlotte Stewart, no-nonsense Margaret Peele, maverick Louise Fisher, steadfast Jessie Jenkins, and busybody Beatrice Newgarden meet to share recipes, they begin to open their lives and hearts as well.
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Mulberry Park novels volume 4
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In Fairbrook, a town tailor-made for Christmas, The Diamond Lils, a ladies group who meet weekly to play poker and socialize, decide to do some good deeds and wealthy widow Lynette thinks that a little matchmaking between single mom Carly Westbrook and Grant Barrows is the perfect place to start.
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