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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Sparks (A Bend in the Road, etc.) logs more miles on the winding high road of romance with the story of two middle-aged people who meet by chance in the small North Carolina coastal town of Rodanthe. The impassioned but doomed romance seems to owe much to Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County. Once again, a housewife who has focused on everyone but herself indulges in a brief, intense, secret affair with a stranger who changes her life...
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English
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"Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce provides clear answers that can help make divorce simpler and reduce its financial and emotional cost. Readers will learn how to complete their own divorce with minimal help from an attorney. With compassion and understanding, Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce explains what to expect through each stage of divorce. It helps readers: Understand the divorce process ; Learn about different types of divorce, including...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen year-old Veronica “Ronnie” Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father… until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
Karen's world was ending. Her father had moved out of the house weeks before; now3 he was going to Las Vegas to get the divorce and her mother was pleased! Karen is hoping to arrange a meeting so that her parents will forget about the divorce.
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Chesapeake Shores novels volume 5
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English
Description
Single mom Heather Donovan's dreams of home and family are tantalizingly within reach when she settles in Chesapeake Shores. The welcoming arms of the boisterous, loving O'Brien clan embrace her and her son. But accepting their support seems to further alienate her son's father, Connor O'Brien. His parents' divorce and his career as a high-powered divorce attorney have left him jaded about marriage. Then everything changes. Will the possibility of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.
9) Open house
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite...
10) Hatchet
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single-engine plane in which he is flying crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered windbreaker and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present-and the dreadful secret that has been tearing him apart since his parents' divorce. But now Brian has no time for anger, self-pity, or despair-it will take all his know-how...
11) Family Affair
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"When Lacey Lancaster's beautiful and beloved Abyssinian cat is wooed--and won--by the bad-boy cat next door, she's furious. Now, Cleo is going to be a mother and it's all neighbor Jack Walker's fault. He should have kept a better eye on his roving feline Romeo! ..." -- pub.
13) Serendipity
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Six years after the end of a tragic marriage, Jory Ryan Landers returns to Philadelphia to make peace with the past and suddenly finds herself in charge of an empire with connections to the family which she left.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
A new day. A new place. A new life. In the past few years, Mclean has pretended to be so many different people that she hardly remembers who she really is anymore. The adorable guy next door might be able to help her figure it out. But is she ready for it?
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English
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Ephron returns with her first book since the astounding success of "I Feel Bad About My Neck," taking a cold, hard, hilarious look at the past, the present, and the future, bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn't (yet) forgotten. A humorous collection of personal essays discusses the author's career in journalism, divorce, a long-anticipated inheritance with unanticipated...
16) That summer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
During the summer of her divorced father's remarriage and her sister's wedding, fifteen-year-old Haven comes into her own by letting go of the myths of the past.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
ROMANCE. Now with a new look celebrating 20 years of Nicholas Sparks! Divorced and disillusioned about relationships, Theresa Osborne is jogging when she finds a bottle on the beach. Inside is a letter of love and longing to "Catherine," signed simply "Garrett." Challenged by the mystery and pulled by emotions she doesn't fully understand, Theresa begins a search for this man that will change her life. What happens to her is unexpected, perhaps miraculous-an...
18) Shem Creek
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Divorcee Linda Breland packs up her two daughters and moves from New Jersey to her hometown in South Carolina, where she sparks the interest of nearly-divorced Brad Jackson, who hires her to run his restaurant.
19) Stealing home
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"There's nothing like a little serenity . . . Maddie Townsend might live in a town called Serenity, but there's been nothing calm or peaceful about her life since her marriage broke up. This stay-at-home mom has no job skills, an out-of-control sixteen-year-old son, a talkative fourteen-year-old who's suddenly gone silent, a six-year-old daughter whose heart is broken, an ex-husband whose younger girlfriend is expecting their baby and two best friends...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Thirty-two-year-old New Hampshire search-and-rescue worker Delia Hopkins, a soon-to-be-married mother of a five-year-old daughter, begins having strange flashbacks of a forgotten childhood and learns that her father, whom she always believed to be a widower, kidnapped her when she was four--and that her mother is still alive.
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