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1) Me & Emma
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English
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Eight-year-old Carrie Parker struggles to protect her younger sister Emma from the harsh realities of the impoverished life in North Carolina, using her imagination to create a fairytale world where they can escape from reality.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 38
Lexile measure
1010L
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English
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The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving are fueled by a prodigious appetite for drink.
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Miss Julia series volume 4
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English
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Miss Julia, the southern spitfire of a certain age, is becoming increasingly concered about her gentleman friend, Sam, who has suddenly started wearing cowboy boots, sending her flowers, and writing bad poetry. When he shows up on a Harley-Davidson Road King and asks her to hop on, she's convinced he's lost his mind.
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Miss Julia series volume 2
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English
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When Miss Julia burst on the scene in her fictional debut, Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind, this proper lady of a certain age found her orderly world turned upside down when Hazel Marie Puckett appeared with her nine-year-old son, Little Lloyd, who looked disturbingly similar to Miss Julia's late husband. Now, in Miss Julia Takes Over, with her sharp tongue and iron backbone intact, Miss Julia must tackle another disruption when Hazel Marie doesn't return...
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English
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Halloween in North Carolina's Outer Banks becomes seriously tricky when librarian Lucy Richardson stumbles across something extra unusual in the rare books section: a dead body.Wealthy businessman Jay Ruddle is considering donating his extensive collection of North Carolina historical documents to the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, but the competition for the collection is fierce. Unfortunately, while the library is hosting a lecture on ghostly...
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English
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Miss Julia is feeling a little wishful when Hazel Marie, once her late husband's paramour and now her best friend, prepares to move out and live in sin with that marriage shy Mr. Pickens. Suddenly, to Miss Julia's delight, a wedding is in the offing. Handsome Deputy Coleman Bates and attorney Binkie Enloe announce their plans to run down to the courthouse and tie the knot. But Miss Julia insists that they have a real wedding ceremony and vows to make...
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If there's no rest for the weary, Miss Julia must be exhausted. She's just learned a secret - Hazel Marie is pregnant with twins and the prospective father has cleared out of town. But good things come in unexpected packages. Abbotsville finds itself the scene of a heist; and Miss Julia knows there's only one man who can solve the crime. It's J.D. Pickens, P.I., renowned investigator and Hazel Marie's wayward love. When he's summoned, one thing becomes...
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English
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"Bestselling author Ann B. Ross cooks up a batch of fun in this latest novel in her popular series With a crisp bite in the air, Miss Julia is enjoying a well-earned respite by her new fireplace. But autumn leaves aren't the only things falling: James,Hazel Marie's housekeeper, has had a nasty tumble down some stairs. How can Hazel Marie feed and take care of him--not to mention a husband and two babies--when she barely knows how to boil water?...
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Miss Julia series volume 5
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English
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In Miss Julia meets her match, our feisty heroine must come to terms with her most ardent admirer of all: longtime beau Sam Murdoch, who wants to tie the knot. While it's hard to resist Sam's charm, Miss Julia isn't about to give up her independence so easily. After all, there are plenty of other matters that require her attention, including a Holy Land theme park to be built on her property, a possible affair between the mayor and the preacher's...
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Miss Julia series volume 7
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English
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Miss Julia's hopes for a peaceful time with her new husband, Sam, are ruined when Hazel Marie's troublemaking uncle comes back to town claiming Little Lloyd is not the son of Miss Julia's late husband, forcing Miss Julia to prove him wrong and save Lloyd's inheritance.
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Miss Julia series volume 9
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English
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Miss Julia devises a plan to expose some of Abbotsville's more eccentric characters in an effort to chase off a developer who wants to tear down the historic courthouse and build some upscale condominiums, while at the same time trying to counsel and console a host of female friends whose husbands all seem to have come down with a bad case of spring fever.
12) Friendship cake
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English
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When five women from the Hope Springs Community Church in North Carolina form a committee to create a church cookbook, they embark on a project much more meaningful than they could have ever imagined. As novice pastor Charlotte Stewart, no-nonsense Margaret Peele, maverick Louise Fisher, steadfast Jessie Jenkins, and busybody Beatrice Newgarden meet to share recipes, they begin to open their lives and hearts as well.
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English
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Blanche White is a plump, feisty, middle-aged African-American housekeeper working for the genteel rich in North Carolina. But when an employer stiffs her, and her checks bounce, she goes on the lam, hiding out as a maid for a wealthy family at their summer home. That plan goes awry when there's a murder and Blanche becomes the prime suspect. So she's forced to use her savvy, her sharp wit, and her old-girl network of domestic workers to discover...
14) The lies we told
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English
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Maya and Rebecca Ward are both accomplished physicians, but that's where the sisters' similarities end. As teenagers, they witnessed their parents' murder, but it was Rebecca who saved Maya from becoming another of the gunman's victims. The tragedy left Maya cautious and timid, settling for a sedate medical practice with her husband, Adam, while Rebecca became the risk taker.
15) The notebook
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
850L
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English
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A man with a faded, well-worn notebook open in his lap. A woman experiencing a morning ritual she doesn't understand. Until he begins to read to her. The Notebook is an achingly tender story about the enduring power of love, a story of miracles that will stay with you forever. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned home from World War II. Noah,...
16) Stolen hearts
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English
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Grieving over his daughter's death and kicked out by his second wife, David starts a private investigation company, moves in with psychic friend Camden, and tackles two cases that may be linked by a notebook of strange musical notation.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
560L
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English
Description
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
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When Hazel Marie's hotheaded private investigator husband, J.D., goes missing during a latest job, Miss Julia and Etta Mae struggle to free a man matching his description from a West Virginia jail, while Agnes Whitman returns to town with a following of misfits who might be members of a zealous cult.
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Applewhites volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
820L
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English
Description
Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.
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