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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
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850L
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When Siddalee Walker, oldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, Ya-Ya extraordinaire, is interviewed in the New York Times about a hit play she's directed, her mother gets described as a 'tap-dancing child abuser'. Enraged, Vivi disowns Sidda. Devastated, Sidda begs forgiveness, and postpones her upcoming wedding. All looks bleak until the Ya-Yas step in and convince Vivi to send Sidda a scrapbook of their girlhood mementos, called Divine Secrets of...
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Yorktide Maine volume 05
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English
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"A picturesque Maine beach town is the setting for Holly Chamberlin s touching and thought-provoking new novel, as a mother struggles to reconnect with her long lost daughter ... Every year on March 26th, Verity Peterson visits Ogunquit Beach, where she puts a handwritten message into a bottle and launches it into the waves. It's a ritual of remembrance for the daughter she hasn't seen in sixteen years--not since her baby's father, Alan, took two-month-old...
3) Lady Anna
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Works volume 34
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"Lady Anna" was written in 1871 and first published in 1874. It tells the story of Lady Lovel, whose ambitious marriage to the ill-reputed Earl Lovel left her with a child of questionable legitimacy. When her daughter, Lady Anna, is nearly twenty one, the Earl dies and his fortune is left to a distant nephew. Lady Anna must now decide to marry the young Frederick Lovel for money, or to disregard her mother's vicious meddling and marry her true love...
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Cedar Key novels (Terri DuLong) volume 1
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English
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Sydney Webster's comfortable New England life comes crashing down when her husband dies suddenly, leaving her penniless and evicted. She had no idea about his huge gambling debts, and is getting no sympathy from her hurt and angry twenty something daughter. With nowhere else to turn, Sydney takes shelter at a college friend's B & B in Cedar key, Florida, where she begins to form a plan. As Syd turns her talent at spinning wool and knitting into a...
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Summer Beach volume 03
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English
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With the high summer season underway at the Seabreeze Inn, Ivy Bay faces new challenges. She has just one season to make the inn a success to pay the tax bill her late husband left behind. And her neighbor's lawsuit could mean an end to the Seabreeze Inn. Yet her daughter Sunny's arrival in Summer Beach is also a chance to renew their strained relationship. While the mayor, Bennett Dylan, develops deeper feelings for Ivy, new trials weigh on their...
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"Three Vietnamese American women mourning the death of the family matriarch recount their lives and childhoods at a crumbling, gothic manor called Banyan House, where the secrets of her grandmother's past come to light."--
"When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she's last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life--a beautiful lake house,...
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"In 1969 Alabama, eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree learns that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures and records everything in her diary in this coming-of-age story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves"--
8) Act of will
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Artistically talented orphan Audra Kenton leaves nursing to serve as nanny to precocious Theo Bell. Soon she meets and weds handsome Vincent Crowther, and they begin a long but unstable life together. Obsessively determined to give her daughter the best art education possible, Audra toils long and hard only to see Christina forsake painting for haute couture as a way to repay her mother's untiring sacrifice. At length Christina must allow her own...
9) Far and away
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Godmothers novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"As Sophie De Luca has learned, many things really are better the second time around, whether that's a wonderful year of marriage with Goebel, her sweet second husband, or strengthening her bonds with childhood friends Toots, Ida, and Mavis. Yet ever since she and Goebel moved into their new home, Sophie has sensed something a little . . . unusual. Old houses often contain items left behind from previous owners, but what remains in this case is a...
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In this classic, a mother's past complicates her daughter's future in 1920s New York.
Trapped in an unhappy marriage with a controlling husband, Kate Clephane began an affair with a wealthy man, only to lose her daughter, Anne, and be exiled from New York society. Years later, after their entanglement has ended, Kate meets Chris Fenno in France. Although he is a much younger man, Chris is the love of Kate's life. However, their difficult circumstances...
11) Breaking news
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Toots has decided to stay in Charleston and care for her ailing housekeeper and help plan her daughter Abby's marriage, but before long, she is distracted by a romance of her own.
12) The dead secret
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Rosamond Treverton lay dying at Porthgenna Tower, the family mansion in Cornwall. Calling her lady's maid to her side she confesses a terrible secret from her past, but dies before she can extract a promise from Sarah to reveal all to her husband. Hiding the written confession in a remote part of the mansion, Sarah carries the burden alone for fifteen years. Worn out by the strain, it is at this point that she is pitched headlong into a chain of events...
13) Classified
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The riches that mean most to Teresa “Toots” Loudenberry are the loving friends and family she's accumulated over the course of a life well lived. And now that her daughter, Abby, has married her beau Chris and settled down near Toots in Charleston, life is even more satisfying than the delicious pralines sold at Toots's bakery, The Sweetest Thing. Abby isn't the only one enjoying a little romance. Toots's friendship with Dr. Phil Becker has grown...
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The Crystals volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Blake Crystal has the best of almost everything. She's at the top of her game at work, she has four wonderful daughters, and at fifty, she's more financially secure than she's ever been. In and out of the bedroom, her new younger lover takes her in breathtaking directions that force her to make decisions she never imagined...
15) A silken thread
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Erica Sanders believes her fiance Brian Lawson is her soul mate, but when her mother, Karen, hires a private detective to investigate Brian, a devastating betrayal is discovered that tears both families apart.
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Aimless and guilt-ridden, [Margaret Neal] decides to get away from the East Coast altogether. For the money to buy a ticket to California she appeals to her aunt Nell Kerwin. ... When Nell replies to Margaret's plea, she encloses a gift-an odd but cherished souvenir ..."--Jacket.
17) Late edition
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Godmothers novels volume 3
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Godmothers series) volume 3
The Godmothers volume 3
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Godmothers series) volume 3
The Godmothers volume 3
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Teresa "Toots" Loudenberry has a knack for finding adventure, even when she's not looking for it. But ever since her friend Sophie convinced her to start holding regular séances, life in Los Angeles is getting a little too dramatic even for Toots's tastes. When their friend Ida receives a message from the beyond suggesting that her late husband was murdered, a spooked Toots decides it's time the Godmothers left LA for her hometown of Charleston......
18) Exclusive
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Godmothers novels volume 2
tGodmothers volume 2
Godmothers series) volume 2
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
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tGodmothers volume 2
Godmothers series) volume 2
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
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When Toots Loudenberry relocated to Los Angeles from South Carolina to be near her daughter, Abby, she expected to bump into the occasional celebrity. She just never expected them to be dead. Meanwhile, Toots, Sophie, and Mavis are concerned that the prestigious Dr. Sameer's budding romance with Ida may have something to do with his ailing bank balance. And Abby's attempted makeover of the celebrity magazine The Informer into the most talked-about...
19) Casting about
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Monica thought she had a well-ordered life. She had married Adam, they owned a home, and she had taken over her mother's knitting shop. She suddenly goes from honeymoon to motherhood when Adam's ex-wife is deemed an unfit mother and custody of their daughter, eight, is transferred to Adam. Soon Monia doubted herself at every turn. Would they ever forge a close-knit family?
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Even with all the distractions in life, Lucy DiCamillo can't stop her thoughts from shifting to memories of her mother, Ruby, but when her grandmother refuses to help her discover the mystery behind Ruby's disappearance, Lucy travels to the Sonoma Valley in search of her mother's love.
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