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1) Young wives
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Three thirty-something wives, Angela, Michelle, and Jada, band together to transform themselves from victims to victors when their lives and marriages are destroyed by their duplicitous husbands.
3) Home repair
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Abandoned by her husband in the middle of a garage sale, a woman finds herself coping alone with the challenges of raising two growing children and caring for her aging mother, a situation throughout which she finds unexpected community support that both complicates and enriches her life.
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Madeline Dare mysteries volume 4
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Madeline Dare trades New York's gritty streets for the tree-lined avenues of Boulder, Colorado, when her husband Dean lands a promising job. As a freelance journalist in this new town, she closes in on a serial arsonist at large in the city.
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"Matt and Elena Thompson present the picture of perfection. But their enviable life isn't all it seems. Their marriage is on the rocks, and financial disaster looms. Then Matt is killed in a hunting accident, and the questions and accusations begin to mount. Attorney Liz Acosta, newly arrived in the mountains of north Georgia after graduating from law school, plans to get some job experience on her resume before returning home to seek a position with...
6) Snowed in
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Imagine having always lived in Washington, D.C., and suddenly being stuck in Portland, Maine, for a year. With the pipes freezing--inside the house. And a husband who seems to have his eyes on a hiking-booted L.L. Bean femme fatale rather than you. Not to mention the mother-in-law from hell who never fails to let you know that you leave too much to be desired. That's Sophie Quinn's life. Luckily for Sophie (an unassertive type who's always favored...
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"In Holler, Child's eleven brilliant stories, LaToya Watkins presses at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance. Each story introduces us to a character irrevocably shaped by place and reaching toward something--hope, reconciliation, freedom. In "Cutting Horse," the appearance of a horse in a man's suburban backyard places a former horse breeder in trouble with the police. In "Holler, Child," a mother is forced into an impossible position when...
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A young mother fights impossible odds to be reunited with her child in this acutely insightful first novel about an intercultural marriage gone terribly wrong. Jill Parker is an American painter living in Japan. Far from the trendy gaijin neighborhoods of downtown Tokyo, she's settled in a remote seaside village where she makes ends meet as a bar hostess. Her world appears to open when she meets Yusuke, a savvy and sensitive art gallery owner who...
11) Have a nice day
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
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When Anna returns from a three-week stay in a mental hospital she struggles to resume a normal life in the face of her parents' arguments and peers who are afraid to ask her what happened.
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He's beaten the monster. For now. As much as Abram misses having his wife at home, he is scared of losing control. He will never forgive himself if he hurts his wife again, or if his infant daughter grows up to fear him. So he does his best to keep them at arm's length as he faces his own demons. But as Abram grows more confident in his ability to control his temper, will he and Hannah find the faith in each other to live together again as husband...
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Abram broke his promise. Can she trust him again? Abram doesn't want to scare his wife. He never meant to hurt her. And he hates that he lost his temper, causing his wife to flee to her parent's home with their baby. But he knows it is his fault, and he knows he must do better. With the help of his community, a therapist, and God, Abram begins to trace the threads that have led him, in spite of his faith, to violence. But knowledge is nothing without...
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Uncomfortable with the paternalistic dependencies and prudery of New York society, Lucy Carleton, the daughter of one of the oldest and wealthiest families in 1880s New York City and married to the ambitious, nouveau riche William Carlton, yearns to unleash her bohemian soul and escape the confines of her class, gender, and era.
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"Sophomore Kalvin Shmelton has finally perfected his underground candy-selling hustle at school. He keeps his prices reasonable, his inventory fresh, and himself out of the drama. But when a heartbroken Sterling Glistern, Kal's longtime crush, barges into the storage closet where he keeps his candy supply, a new source of income unexpectedly presents itself: relationship therapist. He only meant to help Sterling realize she's dating a jerk, and maybe...
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"Two years together. Twenty years apart. One day to change their story. 2000. Benjamin's world is turned upside down the night he meets Clara. Instinctively, he knows that they are meant for each other, but a devastating mistake on their last night at university will take their lives in very different directions. 20 years later, Clara has a high-profile job and a handsome husband. But despite the trappings of success, she isn't happy, and she knows...
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"Desi is the mastermind behind her dream getaway house. Nestled high into the mountains of North Carolina, it is a sleek place, a luxurious place, a dark place. A place full of secrets. Secrets about the man she longs for, a man who is not her husband. Secrets about the roots of her family that must never, ever, see the light of day. When Desi and her family arrive from Chicago to spend the summer in the mountains, the seeds for the tumultuous months...
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"Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family's farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their neighbor, Christine, an artist. While Patrice plans a surprise for his wife's fortieth birthday, inexplicable events start to disrupt the hamlet's quiet existence: anonymous, menacing letters, an unfamiliar...
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When Susannah Delaney discovers her young son is being bullied and her adolescent daughter is spinning out of control, she moves them to remote, rustic Sounder Island to live for a year. A simple island existence-with no computers or electricity and only a one-room schoolhouse-is just what her over scheduled East Coast kids need to learn what's really important in life. But the move threatens her marriage to the man she's loved since childhood, and...
20) Day: a novel
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"April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel's younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house--and whose departure...
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