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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 26
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Dane and Mandy, a popular magic act for forty years, are tragically separated by a car wreck that claims Mandy's life-or so everyone thinks. Even as Dane mourns, Mandy awakes in the present as the ninetten-year-old she was in 1970. Distraught and disoriented in what to her is the future, she is confined to a mental ward until she discovers a magical ability to pass invisibly through time and space to escape. Alone in a strange world, she uses her...
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Two broken people come together to make each other whole in 1850s Utah. He is a Presbyterian minister who turned gold prospector after the death of his wife, she is an Irish girl who was sold into slavery to an American during the potato famine. They meet in the wilds, she lying unconscious in the snow, having been abandoned.
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Broken by life's disappointments, four women forge a friendship that leads in unexpected directions. Drawn together at the weekend market held in the shelter's parking lot, the women pool their resources to fend off an unscrupulous conglomerate that threatens to replace the facility with a commercial development. As they fight to retain this haven for women in need, they find their own longings for home answered by the solace of faith and friendship....
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Artist Claire Andrews, looking for solace after losing her husband and young son in tragic accident, flees to a cabin in the Cascade Mountains. Even there, she finds she is too distracted by her sorrow to continue painting. Claire had always been certain God listened to her prayers. That is, up until the accident. As she passes each day alone in the snowy woods, she struggles with grief and her loss of faith. One day she discovers two mysterious sets...
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Second chances volume 03
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Life is rewarding for Samuel Truelove. He's a gifted surgeon, he's married to the love of his life, and he has a beautiful daughter. But when he's called to perform an emergency surgery, a deadly cascade of events is set in motion, and his picture-perfect life begins to unravel.... Annie Truelove, hoping to escape painful reminders of her grief, leaves her beloved home in the mountains of North Carolina and begins a new life in faraway Seattle. But...
8) Miramar Bay
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Miramar Bay novels volume 1
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When Connor Larkin boards a late night bus in downtown L.A., he's not sure where he's going or what he's looking for. Putting his acting career-and his fiancée-on hold, he's searching for a part of himself he lost on the road to success. Now, with his wedding day approaching, Connor finds himself stepping into the sleepy seaside town of Miramar Bay-where one remarkable woman inspires him to rethink all of his choices . . . Unlike the pretentious...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers....
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Awakening volume 01
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When his life is shattered by the tragedy of a stillborn child and wife in a coma, a teacher examines his marriage and faith.
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Down where my love lives is a bittersweet love story of one man's spiritual journey trough the darkness of despair and into the light of hope. The Dead don't dance is the story of summer and a baby about to be born. But in the midst of hope and celebration comes unexpected tragedy, and Dylan Styles must come to terms with both love and loss. Will the music of his heart be stilled forever or will he choose to dance with life once more? Maggie is...
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A local hero, Dr. Wayne Hudson, dies because the equipment that could save him is being used to help Bob Merrick, a spoiled rich man who has wrecked his speed boat. Dr. Hudson gave selflessly and in secret to many people and causes, which Merrick now takes up too. However his efforts end in failure and also alienate Dr. Hudsons' widow, Helen, with whom he is besotted.
13) Vigilante
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Everywhere Nolan looks, society is being destroyed by evil men who don't care who suffers or who they destroy. Crime is rampant. The innocent are scared. Nolan decides to do what no one else can, what no one has ever attempted. He will defend the helpless. He will tear down the lawless. He will wage a one-man war on the heart of man, and he won't stop until the world is the way it should be.
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Anthony and Marty Hirschler are part of an Old Order Mennonite community in Pine Hill, Indiana. The couple has grown apart since a doctor confirmed they would never have children. Marty longs to escape the tight-knit area where large families are valued, and the opportunity to do so arises when her childhood friend, Brooke Spalding, resurfaces with the wild idea of rebuilding a ghost town into a resort community. Brooke hires Anthony to help with...
16) Thr3e
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 14
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Young, innocent Kevin is a seminarian with a dark past. "Slater," a mysterious psycho, calls him on his cell phone and threatens bomb-delivered mayhem unless Kevin confesses to a past sin. But what sin?
17) Not in the heart
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Truman Wiley used to report news from around the world, but now the troubling headlines are his own. He's out of work, out of touch with his family, out of his home, and his son's heart is failing. The situation seems hopeless, until he's given the chance to write the story of a death row inmate who wants to donate his heart to Truman's son. But as the execution clock ticks down, Truman uncovers evidence that may point to the man's innocence.
18) The story keeper
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When successful New York editor Jen Gibbs discovers a decaying slush-pile manuscript on her desk, she has no idea that the story of Sarra, a young mixed-race woman trapped in Appalachia at the turn of the twentieth century, will both take her on a journey and change her forever. Happy with her life in the city, and at the top of her career with a new job at Vida House Publishing, Jen has left her Appalachian past and twisted family ties far behind....
19) Digital winter
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Twenty-two-year-old savant Donny Elton can't tie his shoes, but his computer skills are unsurpassed. Egged on by a shadowy figure only he can see and hear, Donny creates an evolving computer virus that knocks out satellites, power grids, and communication systems. The world is thrown back into a lifestyle it hasn't known for a hundred years. Surgeons find themselves operating without electricity. The military can't use its computers.
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Tending roses volume 5
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours explores the connection between our hearts and our pasts in this emotional novel in the Tending Roses series.... Once trapped in a world of poverty and neglect, Dell Jordan knows she was one of the lucky ones. Adopted at thirteen, she was loved, mentored, and encouraged to pursue her passion for music. By twenty, her future has expanded in exciting new directions--a...
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