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2) Remember me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
A tale of the occult. In her mansion on Cape Cod, Menley Nichols is grieving the death of Bobby, her two-year-old-son killed at a railroad crossing. For company she has her infant daughter, Hannah. Suddenly Menley hears Bobby calling to her.
3) Mercy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
A novel on love whose protagonists are two married couples. In one case, a farmer's love for his sick wife leads him to kill her. In the second, love brings a police chief back to his wife after an affair. The two cases are linked, the setting is Massachusetts. By the author of Picture Perfect.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A man escaping from a hotel fire sees a woman standing beneath a tree. He approaches her and sets in motion a series of events that will change his life forever. Years later, traveling from New England to Florida by train, he reflects back on his obsession with this unknown and ultimately unknowable woman--his courtship of her, his marriage to her, and the unforgivable act that ripped their family apart. Spanning three decades from 1899 to 1933, "All...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 501
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"A Streetcar Named Desire" is one of the most remarkable plays of our time. It created an immortal woman in the character of Blanche DuBois, the haggard and fragile southern beauthy who pathetic last grasp at happiness is cruelly destoryed. It shot Marlon Brando to fame in the role of Stanley Kowalski, a sweat-shirted barbarian, the crudely sensual brother-in-law who precipitated Blanche's tragedy.
6) Landline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble. That it's been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply -- but that almost seems besides the point now. Maybe that was always besides the point. Two days before they're supposed to visit Neal's family in Omaha for Christmas, Georgie tells Neal that she can't go. She's a TV writer, and something's come up on her show; she has to stay in Los Angeles....
7) Redemption
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When Kari Baxter Jacobs discovers that her husband is having an affair, she returns home to the Baxter family to sort things out. But then an old flame turns up, and she is even more confused than ever when her feeling for him are revived. Would a betrayal of her husband ease her pain?
Author
Series
Fortune's rocks quartet volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When Honora and Sexton Beecher are rendered penniless by the crash of the stock market, Sexton is forced to work in a nearby mill that is plagued by violence, and as they try to reconstruct their lives, they are confronted by passions of every kind.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Marrying quickly during World War II after falling in love at first sight, a mismatched couple discovers that their different personalities and approaches to life are taking a toll on their relationship and their family.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
John Wade, a senatorial candidate, is accused of participating in a massacre during the Vietnam War. Hounded by the press, he flees with his wife to a cottage and his wife disappears. Did she desert him, or did he kill her?
11) Ashes and ice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When heartache and loss invade Karen Pierce's carefully ordered workd, she is devastated. Her plans for the future seem distant and she is bound by a promise to care for two young adults who are struggling with a loss of their own.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock. To this isolated island, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries on the wind. A boat has washed up carrying a dead man and a living baby. In M. L. Stedman's mesmerizing novel, we are seduced into accommodating...
13) Raney: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A charming, wise, funny and straightforward story of a marriage between a small-town Baptist and a big-city Episcopalian who share a love of bluegrass music.
14) Angle of repose
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 35
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner's masterpiece. Four generations in the life of an American family are chronicled as retired historian Lyman Ward, confined to a wheelchair, decides...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Favel tells how the darkly handsome Roc Pendorric married her after a whirlwind courtship on Capri, took her to the centuries old Pendorric mansion in Cornwall, and aroused her dark suspicions after she learned of his old loves, of the curse upon the Brides of Pendorric, and of one Bride who still haunted an empty room.
16) My gal Sunday
Author
Series
Henry and Sunday mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
HEnry Parker Britland IV is wealthy and worldly--a beloved former president who, still youthful, is enjoying early retirement. his new wife, Sunday, is beautiful, smart, and seventeen years younger than he, and has just been elected to congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her the darling of the media. Henry and Sundya make a formidable team of sleuths-- and never more so than when they set out to solve crimes occuring among their friends...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
When a short road trip turns into a crazy adventure, Ira and Maggie Moran have a chance to review their lives, renew their love, and reaffirm a marriage that has room enough for realists and dreamers.
18) Picture perfect
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Cassie Barrett, world-renowned anthropologist, wakes up in a Los Angeles graveyard and doesn't know who she is. Taken in for a few days by William Flying Horse, a Native American police officer, she waits for answers and is stunned to discover that she is the wife of Hollywood leading man Alex Rivers. A picture-perfect romance that deteriorates into wife beating. By the author of Harvesting the Heart.
19) Gerald's game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Jessie is trapped: during an ill-fated S&M game, she kicks her husband and induces a fatal coronary. She is handcuffed to the bed in a lakeside cabin in the middle of nowhere, with no means of escape. Voices in her head force her to confront a buried childhood trauma.
20) The tender vine
Author
Series
Diamond of the Rockies volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
An Italian American woman starts new life in the California vineyards of her youth, while trying to open her heart to her rogue husband who brought both pain and passion.
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