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Friday night knitting club volume 1
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English
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Georgia Walker has her hands full balancing the demands of her yarn shop and the demands of raising her teen daughter, Dakota, by herself, and relies on the friendship and support of the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club, but when unexpected changes throw the women's lives into disarray, Georgia begins to fear the new changes may be too much to handle.
3) The wish
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Leona Speicher got the "sister" she'd always dreamed of the day Gloria Gingerich and her family moved to Lancaster County Amish farmland. The Arkansas newcomers seem to be everything a devout Plain family should be, and Leona can't help comparing Gloria's engaging young parents to her own. Leona's cousin shows a romantic interest in Gloria around the same time as Gloria's older brother expresses his fondness for Leona -- it seems likely the two young...
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Hot Flash Club volume 2
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English
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Polly, Beth, Carolyn, and Julia depend on friends, wine, and chocolate for support when forced to deal with a wealth of family problems, including Polly's new daughter-in-law, the ever-present ex-girlfriend of Beth's new beau, Carolyn's late-in-life pregnancy and her father's marriage to a younger woman, and the manipulative child of Julia's widowed boyfriend.
5) Emma
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 30
Lexile measure
710L
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English
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"The Marjolein Bastin Classics Series is a chance to rediscover classic literature in collectible, luxuriously illustrated volumes. For the first time ever, the internationally celebrated artwork of Marjolein Bastin graces the pages of the timeless classic, Emma, the story of the well-meaning matchmaker of High bury village. Beyond bringing these stories to life, Bastin's series adds elaborately designed ephemera, such as letters, invitations, and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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When August, an anthropologist who has studied the funeral traditions of different cultures, revisits her old neighborhood after her father's death, her reunion with a brother and a chance encounter with an old friend bring back a flood of childhood memories. Flashbacks depict the isolation she felt moving from rural Tennessee to New York and show how her later years were influenced by the black power movement, nearby street violence, her father's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
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Lily is haunted by memories--of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu shu ("women's writing"). They painted letters...
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Sisterhood series volume 5
Revenge of the Sisterhood volume 5
Revenge of the Sisterhood volume 05
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Revenge of the Sisterhood volume 5
Revenge of the Sisterhood volume 05
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English
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"The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Armed with vast resources, top-notch expertise, and a loyal network of allies around the globe, the Sisterhood will not rest until every wrong is made right. Now, this fifth installment in the iconic series by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Fern Michaels is repackaged and reissued for fans new and old. PULL A FAST ONE? NOT ON THE...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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In the summer of 1977, Victoria Leonard's world changes forever when Caitlin Somers chooses her as a friend. Dazzling, reckless Caitlin welcomes Vix into the heart of her sprawling, eccentric family, opening doors to a world of unimaginable privilege, sweeping her away to vacations on Martha's Vineyard, an enchanting place where the two friends become “summer sisters.” Now, years later, Vix is working in New York City. Caitlin is getting married...
10) Round robin
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A round robin quilt is created by sewing concentric patchwork or appliqu? borders to a central block as it is passed around a circle of friends. We rejoin the Elm Creek Quilters as they embark on just such a project, intended as a gift to their beloved Sylvia. But for each member of the circle, the threads of happiness begin to unravel. As each woman adds a border to the central block, she contributes her story to the ongoing history of Elm Creek...
11) Blindsided
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Ladies On Fire Myra Rutledge isn't ready to mothball the Sisterhood just yet. When Maggie Spitzer, former editor-in-chief of the Post and an honorary member of the Sisterhood, arrives with a new mission in mind, the Vigilantes are soon gathering in their war room once more. While catching up on each other's lives, they plan a brilliant campaign against a duo of corrupt judges running a moneymaking racket that sends young offenders to brutal boot camps,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
930L
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English
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"In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan's debut novel--now widely regarded as a modern classic--examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between these four women and their American-born daughters."--Publisher's description....
13) Home free
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"United by a desire to overcome their personal misfortunes, seven very different women formed an indelible bond and vowed to right wrongs wherever they found them. They've succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. After years known as the Vigilantes, Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle are enjoying their hard-won freedom and the chance at a normal life.As it turns out, once you're a part of the Sisterhood, normal is a relative term....
14) Vision in white
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Wedding photographer Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is most at home behind the camera, but her focus is shattered moments before an important wedding rehearsal when she bumps into the bride-to-be's brother...an encounter that has them both seeing stars. A stable, safe English teacher, Carter Maguire is definitely not Mac's type. But a casual fling might be just what she needs to take her mind off bridezillas. Of course, casual flings can turn into something...
15) Exclusive
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Godmothers novels volume 2
tGodmothers volume 2
Godmothers series) volume 2
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tGodmothers volume 2
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...
17) Three sisters
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After being jilted at the altar, Andi Gordon makes the most impetuous decision of her life -- buying one of the famed Three Sisters Queen Anne houses on Blackberry Island. Now the proud-ish owner of the trio's ugly duckling, she plans to open her own pediatric office on the first floor, just as soon as her hunky contractor completes the work. Andi's new future may be coming together, but the truth is she's just as badly in need of a major renovation...
18) Sanctuary
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English
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A secret past forces Melissa James to flee her marriage and seek refuge with a Pennsylvania Dutch family, while her husband fears his own mistake will prevent their reunion.
19) The scoop
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In this first book of a new series, Michaels introduces The Godmothers, four unforgettable women who are about to get a whole new lease on life. Teresa "Toots" Amelia Loudenberry has crammed a great deal of living, not to mention eight much-loved husbands, into her varied and rewarding life. Newly single, Toots is ready to taste life again, and fate has just handed her the perfect opportunity. When the gossip newspaper where her daughter works is...
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"Three women arrive at the local airport, observed by Josh, a Nantucket native home from college for the summer. Burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues, the women-- two sisters and one friend--make their way to the sisters' tiny cottage, inherited from an aunt. They're all trying to escape from something: Melanie, after seven failed in-vitro attempts, learned her husband was having an affair, and then...
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