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1) The guardian
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
At 29, Julie Barenson is too young to give up on love. Four years after her husband's tragic death, she is finally ready to risk giving her heart again. But to whom? Will it be to the handsome and sophisticated Richard Bonham, a rich engineer who treats her like a queen, or to the less debonair Mike Harris, a humble mechanic who is Julie's best friend in the world? In a decision that should have brought her more happiness than she's had in years,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
"Lisey Landon shared a profound and sometimes frightening intimacy with her husband, Scott, a celebrated bestselling novelist - and a man with many secrets. One was the place where his gifts of imagination came from, a place that could heal or destroy him. Now, two years after his death, it's Lisey's turn to face Scott's demons on a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited..." - from back cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport--the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam's fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian wife. Each couple is awaiting the arrival of an adopted infant daughter from Korea. After the babies from distant Asia are delivered, Bitsy Donaldson impulsively invites the Yazdans to celebrate an "arrival party" that from then on is...
5) Sail
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The Dunnes have set off on a ten day boat trip, a trip that hopefully will bring them closer together, despite the fact that the father, Stuart, is staying behind on land. But only an hour into the trip they're already falling apart. The teenage daughter plans to drown herself, and the teenage boy is high on drugs. Ten-year-old Ernie is near catatonic. But their mother Anne, with the help of her brother-in-law Jeff, is insistent on pulling everyone...
6) The postcard
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Following a terrible accident in which she lost her husband, her son, and her unborn child, Rachel Yoder leads a reclusive life with her young daughter. Her soul is troubled and her eyesight has mysteriously dimmed. But the discovery of an old postcard, hidden for years, changes Rachel's world in this thought-provoking examination of the powers of faith and healing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
three years have passed since the terrorist attacks on New York City. Jamie Bryan, widow of a firefighter who lost his life on that terrible day, has found meaning in her season of loss by volunteering at St. Paul's, the memorial chapel across the street from where the Twin Towers once stood. Here she meets a daily stream of people touched by the tragedy, including two men with whom she feels a connection. One is a firefighter also changed by the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.9 - AR Pts: 71
Lexile measure
1310L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby proves both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, and Nicholas finds himself forced to make his own way in the world. His adventures gave Dickens the opportunity to portray an extraordinary gallery of rogues and eccentrics: Wackford Squeers, the tyrannical headmaster of Dotheboys...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Born into a legendary family of mages known as the Guardians, Gwyneth Owens believes that she has little inherited power. She does, however, have a destiny to fulfill. When the Guardian elders seek to forestall a coming disaster by invoking her Guardian oath and asking her to marry Duncan Macrae, Lord Ballister, the most powerful weather mage in the realm, she cannot honorably refuse. Although they are already attracted to each other, Gwyneth can't...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cowboy drifter Rick Cooper is on the run in the California desert when he meets Gladys Ryan, an eccentric widow who offers him a ride in her classic 1970 Mustang. Before long she convinces him to accompany her to Northern Ontario to help refurbish her hunting lodge, promising him a share of the upcoming season's profits and hinting at more. The offer is too good to pass up. Rick takes to life in the bush, working hard to make the lodge successful....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Eliza, a widowed mother of three, desperately struggling to run the family orchard in the midst of the Great Depression, finds herself drawn to, yet fearful of, the stranger who arrives asking to work for food.
This successful follow-up to Wings of Refuge and Eve's Daughters combines a strong spiritual story line with endearing, believable characters during the Great Depression. "How's a scrawny young thing like you, with three little kids to raise,...
12) Dreadnought
Author
Series
Clockwork century volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Formats
Description
An intimate, well-crafted portrait of a nurse on a mission adds depth to this exceptional Civil War steampunk thriller, the self-contained sequel to 2009's Locus Award-winning Boneshaker. Mercy Lynch, recently widowed and taxed to exhaustion by caring for Confederate wounded in Richmond, must cross the war-torn nation to reach her estranged father, who lies dying in the Washington territories. After her dirigible is shot out of the air, Mercy joins...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a quarrel over her decision to follow in her grandfather's footsteps and run for Congress, Nell MacDermott's husband dies in a boat explosion, and Nell, who has long possessed psychic gifts, must find out who killed him before she becomes the next victim.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
When we first meet Tessie Lockhart in 1958, she is pinning her hair into a French twist, dabbing Jean Naté on her wrists, and getting ready to change her life. This widowed mother of a thirteen-year-old has decided it's time for a fresh start for both of them, time to leave behind Carbondale, Illinois, and the pain of loss. Tessie and her daughter move to Gainesville, Florida, where they discover that they aren't the only ones struggling to move...
15) Silver bells
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
The enchantment of the holidays meets the pure storytelling genius of New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice as she presents readers with a special gift for the season and a Christmas favorite in the making….
On a quaint, snowy Chelsea street, librarian Catherine Tierney and a widowed Christmas tree seller from Nova Scotia will rediscover the magic of the season, in a chance encounter that leads to a holiday...
On a quaint, snowy Chelsea street, librarian Catherine Tierney and a widowed Christmas tree seller from Nova Scotia will rediscover the magic of the season, in a chance encounter that leads to a holiday...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Since her husband died three years ago, Gaby's four children have drifted apart and haven't celebrated Christmas together since their father's death. When Gaby announces that she's getting married--and that the groom will remain a secret until the wedding day--she may finally be able to bring them home for the holidays. But the wedding isn't Gaby's only surprise--she has one more gift for her children, and it could change all their lives forever....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Ancient ruins. Family scandal. Forbidden love. Caroline knows something is wrong. Her sister Roma has gone missing, and no one can tell her why. The only option is to go where Roma was last seen-an estate with a deadly history... The Stacy family has lived off the Dover coast for generations, carefully navigating the treacherous quicksands nearby. But the sands aren't Caroline's biggest threat. Everyone here has a secret, especially enigmatic young...
18) Bag of bones
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 32
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"Set in the Maine territory King has made mythic, Bag of Bones recounts the plight of forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, who is unable to stop grieving following the sudden death of his wife Jo, and who can no longer bear to face the blank screen of his computer. Now his nights are plagued by vivid nightmares, all set at the Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs. Despite these dreams, or perhaps because of them, Mike returns to the...
19) The pilot's wife
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Kathryn Lyon's perfect life takes a jolting nose-dive after news of a fatal mid-air explosion aboard a plane piloted by her husband. The tension increases when the black box is recovered and reveals shocking rumors that the crash may have been caused by her husband. Could her husband have secretly been a terrorist? Was her entire life with him a lie?
20) When I kill you
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gina Lopez is twenty-six, a postal worker during the week, a mud wrestler on weekends. She's also a recent widow, though she is not exactly mourning the death of her abusive husband Chico. Instead, she's anxiously awaiting the life-insurance settlement that will pay off his gambling debts. Then Marcia Beekland enters her life, and all her plans go out the window."--Publisher's description.
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