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St. Elizabeth's, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, usually harbors its residents for only a little while. Not so Rose Clinton, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed, and stays. She plans to give up her child, thinking she cannot be the mother it needs. But when Cecilia is born, Rose makes a place for herself and her daughter amid St. Elizabeth?s extended family of nuns and an ever-changing collection...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
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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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Believe it or not, we have another mystery in Cedar Cove! This one, ironically enough, involves the McAfees and Roy, who's a private investigator, and his wife, Corrie. They've been receiving anonymous postcards and messages asking if they regret the past. Corrie says she has no idea what any of it means...
4) Fool me once
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"Olivia Lowell always believed her father's claim that her mother died in childbirth, until the shocking day a lawyer informs her that her mother has just passed away, leaving her a fortune. The money comes with a caveat--and a confession. In her will, Olivia's mother reveals that she and two college friends committed a crime long ago, and now she wants Olivia to track down her accomplices and convince them to come clean. Feeling betrayed by her father,...
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Jesse Ryder and her sister, Luz, were both on track for promising careers as photographers when, at 21, Jesse became pregnant. When the baby was born prematurely, Jesse fled to New Zealand to become a photojournalist, leaving the baby to be adopted by her sister and brother-in-law, Ian. Now, 16 years later, Jesse is back, wanting to meet the daughter she never knew--especially before the onset of her blindness destroys her chance at happiness forever....
6) Sweetgirl
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Braving a northern Michigan blizzard to search for her missing meth-addicted mother, Percy James stops by the cabin of two drug addicts and flees with their endangered baby, triggering a dangerous race from the elements and a band of desperate criminals.
7) Exclusive
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Godmothers novels volume 2
tGodmothers volume 2
Godmothers series) volume 2
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Godmothers series) volume 2
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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...
8) Wedding ring
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Shenandoah Album novels volume 1
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While helping to restore the family home in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, Tessa MacCrae reevaluates her marriage and discovers an old wedding-ring quilt that holds the key to forgiveness, hope, and healing.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
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Kate is in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter's exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter now. But Kate's stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. By then it's already...
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With her husband of fifty-five years now in the grave, seventy-eight-year-old Harriet Chance impulsviely sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise that he had planned. Her estranged daughter appears midway in the cruise. Harriet is forced to take a long look back. And in the process she discovers that she's been living the better part of her life under entirely false assumptions.
12) Riding lessons
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Twenty years after a tragic accident destroyed her riding career, Olympic aspirations, and beloved horse, Annemarie Zimmer returns to her dying father's New Hampshire horse farm with her troubled teenage daughter and encounters two men who could change her life--the gentle veterinarian she had loved as a girl and the seductive trainer with a gift for working with horses.
13) Spinning forward
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Cedar Key novels (Terri DuLong) volume 1
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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...
14) Silver sparrow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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Chronicles the not-quite-parallel lives of Dana Lynn Yarboro and Bunny Chaurisse Witherspoon in 1980s Atlanta. Both girls-born four months apart-are the daughters of James Witherspoon, a secret bigamist, but only Dana and her mother, Gwen, are aware of his double life. This, Dana surmises, confers "one peculiar advantage" to her and Gwen over James's other family, with whom he lives full time, though such knowledge is small comfort in the face of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 24
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A New Hampshire girl effects miraculous cures, becoming the center of a controversy involving doctors, priests and the media. The divorced father who blames the mother sues for custody and the result is a trial, pitting believers against skeptics.
17) 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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"Three generations of Stewart women with secrets to keep. One unforgettable summer that will change their lives forever. Lauren has the perfect life... if she ignores the fact that it's a fragile house of cards, and that her daughter, Mack, has just had a teenage personality transplant. Jenna is desperate to start a family with her husband, but it's just. Not. Happening. Her heart is breaking, but she's determined to keep her trademark smile on her...
19) About face
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"When Dr. Blake Hunter discovers Casey Edwards wandering along a Sweetwater, Georgia road, she's a woman without a past, her memory stripped of the terrifying events that shattered her innocence a decade ago. The scrap of paper she clutches in her hand bears the address of Swan House, the magnificent mansion where Casey's mother lives with her mysteriously ailing husband. But 'home' turns out to be anything but a safe haven ..."--P. [4] of cover.
20) Even now
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
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College freshman Emily Anderson discovers a love story that ended with her birth. Her revelation forces her to search for the mother and father she never knew.
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