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When the creative residents of Elm Creek gather the week after Thanksgiving to work on quilts for Project Linus, they respond to Sylvia's provocative questions to alleviate respective personal challenges and learn helpful lessons about the strength of human connections.
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London police detective Alisha Barba, recovering from an injury she received on the job, is drawn into a dangerous international baby-selling ring when she sets out to discover why her estranged friend Cate, who summoned Ali to their high school reunion with an urgent message shortly before being struck and killed by a car, was only pretending to be pregnant.
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Molly Petree, orphaned during the Civil War, is rescued from the neglect of her uncle's greedy wife by a comrade of her father's who sends her to the upper-class Gatewood Academy and then insists that she wed a rich man she does not love, but her life takes a different turn when instead she meets and marries dashing country singer Jacky Jarvis.
4) The weekend
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Reuniting in a secluded country home after decades apart, a group of old friends and lovers exchange clandestine judgments on their divergent paths and celebrate the pardon of one of their number, a convicted murderer and terrorist.
5) Lone wolf
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
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890L
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On an icy winter night, a terrible accident forces a family divided to come together and make a fateful decision. Cara, once protected by her father, Luke, is tormented by a secret that nobody knows. Her brother, Edward, has secrets of his own. He has kept them hidden, but now they may come to light, and if they do, Cara will be devastated. Their mother, Georgie, was never able to compete with her ex-husband's obsessions, and now, his fate hangs...
6) North River
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It is 1934 and Dr. James Delaney deals with the icy grip of the Great Depression in the only way he can. With enormous compassion, he tends to his hurt, sick, and poor neighbors whether they can pay him or not. His patients include New York City's gangsters and Tammany chieftains, vertains and day laborers, prostitutes and housewives. As a doctor, he learns the most difficult secrets about people's lives--secrets he has long since learned to keep...
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A group of actors, authors, and other Hollywood luminaries gather at the Pacific Palisades home of Max, a fifty-eight-year-old director, the day after the 2003 Academy Awards, where they watch films, eat, drink, make love, and ponder life and the war in Iraq from their unique perspective as inhabitants of a make-believe world.
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At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts all struggle to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just survive. Equal parts Nathanael West, Damon Runyon and Eudora Welty, Lord of Misrule follows five characters, scarred and lonely dreamers in the American grain, through a year and four races at Indian Mount Downs,...
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Coughlin novels volume 2
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In 1926, during the Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream. By 1926, Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston...
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"When teenager Allison Glenn is sent to prison for a heinous crime, she leaves behind her reputation as Linden Falls' golden girl forever. Her parents deny the existence of their once-perfect child. Her former friends exult her downfall. Her sister, Brynn, faces whispered rumors every day in the hallways of their small Iowa high school. It's Brynn--shy, quiet Brynn--who carries the burden of what really happened that night. All she wants is to forget...
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With extraordinary emotional power, Linda Olsson's stunningly well-crafted debut novel recounts the unusual and unexpected friendship that develops between two women. Veronika, a young writer from New Zealand, rents a house in a small Swedish village as she tries to come to terms with a recent tragedy while also finishing a novel. Her arrival is silently observed by Astrid, an older, reclusive neighbor who slowly becomes a presence in Veronika's life,...
12) The surrendered
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Thirty years after vying for the attentions of a beautiful but damaged missionary wife at a Korean orphanage, a Korean orphan and a former GI are reunited by a plot that forces them to come to terms with mysterious secrets from their past.
13) Finn
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Relates the story of the life of Huckleberry Finn's father, detailing his relationships with his dad, brother, and son; affair with an African-American woman; problems with money and drinking; and death.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22
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1180L
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Sense and Sensibility is one of the best loved of Jane Austen's novels, populated by great comic creations like Mrs. Jennings, the unscrupulous cad Willoughby, and guileless and artful women. As ever, Austen suffuses her work with great ironic observation and tremendous wit, producing a masterpiece of romantic entanglement that time and a very different set of mores cannot diminish. Sense and Sensibility was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be...
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[2013]
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A very Mary Christmas: A pregnant teen named Mary runs away from her un-supportive mother and finds help along the way from an eccentric cast of characters.
Beyond tomorrow: Three wealthy men decide to share their Christmas with some less fortunate people. They settle on two down-and-outers, a man and a woman who then fall in love.
Angel in the family: Sisters, separated by a lifetime of misunderstanding, find themselves brought back togehter for...
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