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1) Rejoice
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"...the continuing saga of the Baxter family. Brooke Baxter has achieved everything this world has to offer--a prestigious career, a beautiful home, and two wonderful children. Her recent return to her faith is an encouragement to her family. But if she faces tremendous loss, can her fledgling faith and her rocky marriage survive?"--Book description.
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Marie-Ange Hawkins lives an idyllic life in her family's French chateau until a tragic accident leaves her orphaned. Sent to America to work on her great-aunt's farm, she longs for a way home. When a young French widower offers her love and a tremendous gift--her old chateau--her life seems charmed again. But eventually a mysterious woman shows her that her life is not all it seems.
3) Adultery
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"A woman around her thirties begins to question the routine and predictability of her days. In everybody's eyes, she has a perfect life: a solid and stable marriage, a loving husband, sweet and well-behaved children and a job as a journalist she can't complain about. However, she can no longer bear the necessary effort to fake happiness when all she feels in life is an enormous apathy. All that changes when she encounters an ex-boyfriend from her...
5) A lost lady
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"Written from the perspective of a male narrator, Willa Cather's classic novel is an Amercian version of "Madame Bovary". It is a portrait of a talented woman trapped in the conventions and economic restraints of a marriage. It is the story of a woman who defies expectations, and whose personal changes coincide with the transforming American Frontier. In this work, Willa Cather expressed her profoundly modern feminist views in the life of an ordinary...
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Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can't move. She can't speak. She can't open her eyes. Though she can hear everyone around her, no one knows because she's in a coma. But she doesn't remember what happened. And she has a sneaking suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, the narratives build and collide for an...
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Enrolling in a scrap-booking class in the hopes of redeeming himself from his story of dreadful gift-giving to his wife, Sam Gardner inadvertently raises his wife's suspicions with his marked absences from their home, finds himself involved in a series of unfortunate mishaps, and enlists the assistance of his faithful secretary, Frank.
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750L
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English
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Constance Chatterley, married to an aristocrat and mine owner whose war wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent, has an affair with Mellors, a gamekeeper, becomes pregnant, and considers abandoning her husband. One of the seminal class novels of the twentieth century, Lady Chatterley's Lover was considered flagrantly pornographic when it was first published in 1928.
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Shopaholic series volume 4
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English
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Returning to London after her ten-month honeymoon, Becky Bloomwood Brandon finds herself depressed by a lack of money, a search for a job, and her best friend Suze's new best friend, until she discovers that she has a long lost sister.
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1060L
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"When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge." --Amazon
12) Vegas rich
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An illiterate prostitute's rise to fame in the 1920s. She is Sally Coleman who sings in a saloon in Las Vegas and who inherits a fortune from a grateful customer. To gain polish she hires a handsome tutor from Boston, whom she marries, and becomes the town's best known entrepreneur.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
NC 1110L
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English
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The King of France gives Helena the hand of any man she wants in marriage, but the one she chooses, Bertram, flees to Tuscany, and she must use her wits to get him back. Includes an introduction, notes, and discussion of the theatrical world of Shakespeare.
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All through childhood and adolescence, Jane, Cara, and Meg swore their friendship would stand the test of time. But once they hit their twenties, life got more complicated. When Jane eloped with her wealthy new boyfriend and didn't invite them to the wedding, the small cracks and fissures in their once rock-solid relationship became a chasm. Years later, after her husband is arrested and publicly shamed for defrauding his clients, Jane realizes her...
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Jasmine Wainwright is the sheltered daughter of a Mississippi plantation owner; but when her father strikes a deal to sell his cotton to the Lowell mills through businessman Bradley Houston, he throws an arranged marriage with Jasmine into the bargain. Kiara O'Neill and her brother have escaped starvation in Ireland by traveling to America as Bradley Houston's indentured servants--but Bradley has more in mind for Kiara than she wants to imagine. Both...
17) Serendipity
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Six years after the end of a tragic marriage, Jory Ryan Landers returns to Philadelphia to make peace with the past and suddenly finds herself in charge of an empire with connections to the family which she left.
18) Ruth
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Spunky, young Ruth Priggish is on the run from an eighty-year-old suitor. Faced with the prospect of marriage to the persistent old codger, Ruth throws caution to the wind and heads for Wyoming Territory, where freedom and independence await. Her only hope is to seek help from an unwilling protector: Dylan McCall. U.S. Marshall Dylan McCall is trying desperately to get to Wyoming before winter sets in. But when he finds himself saddled with a stubborn...
20) The other woman
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Ellie's mom was an alcoholic who died when Ellie was 13, so it's understandable that she loved being embraced by Dan's entire family. But Ellie never saw the meddlesome Mrs. Cooper coming. Mrs. Cooper calls her three times a day at work, plays devoted son against desperate daughter-in-law, takes control of the wedding plans and then, after the wedding and then birth of Ellie's son, Tom, seems to forget that Ellie even exists.
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