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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 25
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Thomas Hardy's classic tale of a woman brave enough to defy convention: Soon to be a major motion picture starring Carey MulliganSpirited, impulsive, and beautiful, Bathsheba Everdene arrives in Wessex to live with her aunt. She strikes up a friendship with a neighbor, Gabriel Oak, and even saves the young shepherd's life. But when he responds by asking for her hand in marriage, she refuses. She cannot sacrifice her independence for a man she does...
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"A woman whose looks have always defined her, who has spent a lifetime trying to prove that she is allowed to exist in her own sphere, tries to be herself even as multiple men try to categorize and own her"--
Edie--smart, self-assured, beautiful--always worked hard. She worked as a teller at a bank, she worked to save her first marriage, and later, she worked to raise her daughter even as her second marriage came apart. Really, Edie just wanted a...
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"Anthony Puckett was a rising literary star. The son of an uber-famous thriller writer, Anthony's debut novel spent two years on the bestseller list and won the adoration of critics. But something went very wrong with his second work. Now Anthony's borrowing an old college's friend's crumbling beach house on Block Island in the hopes that solitude will help him get back to the person he used to be. Joy Sousa owns and runs Block Island's beloved whoopie...
4) Kinfolk
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"When a mysterious teenager shows up in Nub's life in rural Alabama, he learns that family, forgiveness, and kindness can be found in the most unlikely of places." --
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"Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she's been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still...
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"Jenna Jones has been standing on the shore of the Sea of Love for too long. Even with two good men interested in her, she's been afraid to wade in. According to her best friend, Courtney, she should. The water's fine. Life is great! Practically perfect, if you don't count Courtney's problems with her cranky ex-boss. Maybe Courtney's right. It's time to dive in. When tragedy strikes, everything changes and Jenna's more confused than ever. But this...
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Parable, Montana volume 1
Swoon-Worthy Cowboys volume 01
Parable Montana volume 1
Big sky trilogy volume 01
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Swoon-Worthy Cowboys volume 01
Parable Montana volume 1
Big sky trilogy volume 01
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When he inherits half of a ranch, Sheriff Slade Barlow meets resistance from his half-brother Hutch, especially when Hutch's former flame, Josyln Kirk, who is working hard to make up for her stepfather's dishonesty, catches his eye.
9) Sugar Land
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Sugar Land is a postcard of small-town Texas life from Prohibition through civil rights, It's 1923 in Midland, Texas, and Miss Dara falls in love with her best friend--who also happens to be a girl. Terrified, Miss Dara takes a job at the Imperial State Prison Farm for men. Once there, she befriends inmate and soon-to-be legendary blues singer Lead Belly, who sings his way out (true story)--but only after he makes her promise to free herself from...
10) Stairs of sand
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"Ruth Virey, beautiful, young, and headstrong, gets herself in trouble from the get go with her fiery temper and impulsive ways. Willing to risk anything to escape her life at a "barren desert water-hole", she finds herself having jumped from the frying pan into the fire ... that is until Adam Wansfell, her husband's brother and murderer shows up, and professes his love for her. Excitement rises to a smashing climax when, in their fight to retain...
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Shirley Hollister had four weeks to find a place for her mother and little brothers and sisters to live. She asked Sidney Graham, the owner of an old stone barn in the country if she could rent it for the summer. They soon became close friends with him. Then one day Shirley never came home from work.
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Moon apocalyptic novels volume 1
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780L
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"A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadearship loses its...
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Amish legacy volume 2
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"In the second installment of Amy Clipston's Amish Legacy series, Tyler Bontrager is surprised when he finds himself falling in love with the one person he can't have-his brother's girlfriend"--
Michelle Lantz dreams of marrying and starting a family. She has been dating Korey for over a year, but lately he has seemed distant. Michelle begins to question her own feelings as his seem to cool. Tyler Bontrager is focused on expanding his father's roofing...
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Amish bookstore volume 1
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"In the first novel of Beth Wiseman's new Amish Bookstore series, a rare, old book may hold answers to a present-day romance."--
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"Evie Austin, native of Hatteras Island, North Carolina and baddest girl on the planet, has not lived her life in a straight line. There have been several detours - career snafus, bad romantic choices, a loved but unplanned child - not to mention her ill-advised lifelong obsession with boxer Mike Tyson. Evie is not plucky, but when life's changes smash over her like the rough surf of the local shoreline, she muddles through-until that moment of loss...
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Lieutenant Magdalena Cruz is home, but her return hasn't gone the way she envisioned. Grappling with her painful past, she only wants to be left alone, but infuriatingly handsome Dr. Jake Dalton--of the enemy Daltons--won't cooperate. And she needs him to, because the walls around her heart are dangerously close to crumbling every time he comes near. Jake has spent most of his life trying to get closer to Maggie, with little to show for it. But she's...
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A young woman relocates to an outlying community in West Jutland, Denmark, and is forced to find her way, not only in the bewildering environment of the residential Folk High School, where her partner has been hired to teach, but also in the inscrutable conversational forms of the local population. And on top of it all, there's the small matter of juggling her roles as mother to a newborn baby and advice columnist in the local newspaper. In this understated...
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"The Town Crazy is set in the sleepy town of Hanzloo, Pennsylvania, a suburban Catholic community in 1961. A single father moves into town with his young son, which arouses suspicion from the husbands and the interest of the wives, but at the same time, one of the wives seems to be losing her mind, and no one knows what to do. A contemporary, often humorous take on a bygone era, The Town Crazy also delves into the terror and cruelty of childhood,...
20) Our fathers
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Nobody knows why John Baird, a quiet family man, decided one day to pick up a shotgun and murder his wife and children. On the remote Scottish island of Skellag, violent crime is unheard of, and the killings sent shockwaves through this tiny community in which the Bairds were well-known and liked. Tommy, the only survivor of the terrible crime, has returned to Skellag many years later. Faced with this reminder of the horrors that took place amongst...
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