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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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In the wake of personal tragedy, two people meet on a humanitarian mission in Peru. Christine is a shy, unadventurous woman whose fiancé broke off the engagement only a week before the wedding, and Paul is a former emergency room doctor whose glamorous lifestyle, stellar reputation, and beautiful fiancée are cruelly snatched from him one fateful, snowy Christmas Eve. Deep in the Amazon jungle, against a backdrop of poverty and heartbreak, they must...
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Fall away novels volume 4
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English
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"K.C. Carter has always followed the rules--until this year, when a mistake leaves her the talk of her college campus and her carefully arranged life comes crashing to a halt. Now she's stuck in her small hometown for the summer to complete her court-ordered community service, and to make matters worse, trouble is living right next door. Jaxon Trent is the worst kind of temptation and exactly what K.C. was supposed to stay away from in high school....
3) Simple gifts
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Marlene Queens returns to Parnass Springs, Missouri to settle her Aunt Beth's estate, but as she tries to deal with her demanding Aunt Ingrid, a group of citizens who want to honor Marlene's late father with a statue, and her childhood sweetheart, who is now the local vet and acting mayor, she is swept into a controversy that could tear her life apart.
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Driven by dreams of literary success, George Webber has left his provincial hometown to make his name as a writer in New York City. When his first novel is published, it brings him the fame he has sought, but it also brings the censure of his neighbors back home, who are outraged by his depiction of them. Unsettled by their reaction and unsure of himself and his future, Webber begins a search for a greater understanding of his artistic identity that...
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Fall away novels volume 2
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English
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"This explosively romantic series by the New York Times bestselling author of Bully is redefining what it means to fall in love, hard. It can come with quite a rush. This is Until You Have you ever been so angry that hitting things felt good? Or numb to all emotions? The past few years have been like that for me. Traveling between fury and indifference with no stops in between. Some people hate me for it, while others are scared of me. But none of...
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Rachel Beachy desires and hopes for something she can't have -- her sister Anna's boyfriend. Silas Swartley has been in love with spirited Anna since they were children, and Rachel, the tomboy, has loved Silas for nearly as long. Like Job from the Bible, Rachel feels that her swiftly moving days are spent without hope of ever making Silas take notice of her. But when Anna unexpectedly leaves the Amish faith, Rachel's hope is rekindled. She initiates...
7) Pearl Cove
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Donovan Family volume 3
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English
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Young widow Hannah McGarry calls upon Archer Donovan for help when her husband, with whom Donovan was once a partner in a pearl farm business, dies leaving her to face the prospect of bankruptcy and the mystery of a missing three-million dollar fortune in black pearls.
8) Wild orchids
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"Ford Newcombe loved his wife, Pat, more than anyone - and anything - in the world. She came into his life when he was just a college student with big dreams of becoming a published author. With love and humour, she guided him down the path to success. Since Pat's death six years ago, Ford has lived a life of solitude, barely able to put pen to paper. Finally, inspiration comes in the guise of Jackie Maxwell, a smart, sassy university researcher....
9) Celebration
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Heiress Kristine Kelly must struggle to make a new life for herself and her family after her husband of twenty years takes off with her fortune, leaving her to deal with three teenage children who really do not have much love left for either of their parents.
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Belles of Timber Creek volume 2
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English
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Audrey Pride is trapped in Thunder Ridge. The typically dry-as-a-bone small town is deluged with rain for weeks, preventing travel in or out--and the wagon train that gets stranded in town is plagued with a violent illness.
11) Emerald windows
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"Ten years ago, devastated by an ugly scandal, Brooke Martin fled the small town of Hayden to pursue a career as a stained glass artist. Now Brooke has returned on business to discover that some things never change. Her spotted reputation remains. Tongues still wag. And that makes what should be her dream assignment tough." --Book jacket.
12) Patience
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Patience Smith's life takes an unexpected turn when she is kidnapped and taken into the Colorado mountains where she eventually is able to escape her abductors.
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Forty-year-old librarian Johanna Holland has settled into a rut, working all day and caring for her aging parents at night, and she is forced to learn to trust her future to God when her mom and dad announce plans to move to an assisted living facility and Sam Littleton, a widowed doctor with a calling to the mission field, appears in her life.
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Young widow Grace Bagshaw Vance, an ex-beauty queen in Dahlonega, Georgia, decides to take whatever steps are necessary to preserve her late husband's reputation after action-movie superstar Stone Senterra decides to bring Harp's life story to the big screen, but soon finds her efforts complicated by her growing feelings for Boone Noleene, Senterra's bodyguard.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
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Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
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Psychologist Casey Ellis never met her father -- but that didn't stop her from following in his professional footsteps. Now he has died, and Casey is shocked to have inherited his elegant Boston town house, complete with a maid and a handsome, enigmatic gardener. When she finds a manuscript that could be a novel, a journal, or a case study of one of her father's patients in her new home, she becomes engrossed in the story of Jenny, a young woman trying...
17) The lone Texan
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Whispering Mountain novels volume 4
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English
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"Three days after arriving in Galveston, newly widowed Sage McMurray is furious. She's been gone from Texas long enough to forget what it takes to survive on the frontier, and finds herself taken hostage in a robbery. Sage fears if the outlaws discover who she is, she may never see Whispering Mountain again. Her fears are about to come true when the outlaws decide to auction off their pretty captive to the highest bidder, and a tall stranger offers...
19) The gazebo
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The Gazebo is an elegantly written story of enduring love and loyalty, in the popular tradition of The Bridges of Madison County and The Notebook.
Once a year for half a century, a man and a woman have been meeting at the gazebo in the square of a small town in upstate New York. Martin Rayfiel and Claire Swift long ago married other people, yet they have remained faithful to their vow to love each other always. When Martin,
...20) Suddenly
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The apparent suicide of Vermont doctor Mara O'Neill has devastating effects on the lives of her medical partners, especially pediatrician Paige Pfeiffer, whose attempts to care for Mara's newly adopted baby are complicated by a possible romance with Noah Perrine, acting head of the private school where Paige coaches girls' athletics.
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