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21) We that are left
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Coming of age in the shadow of their adored brother, two women of privilege respectively dream of visiting London and pursuing a university education before their lives are transformed by a physics prodigy during World War I.
22) The sea
Author
Language
English
Description
Irishman Max Morden, grieving the death of his wife, Anna, returns to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child, and finds himself engulfed inthoughts and memories of a momentous summer spent with the vacationing Grace family, his life with Anna, and his relationship with his grown daughter.
Author
Series
Walk novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In this fifth entry in the New York Times bestselling Walk series, Richard Paul Evans's hero Alan Christoffersen must say some painful goodbyes and learn some important lessons as he comes to the end of his cross-country walk to Key West"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Told in the voices of characters of all ages, these tales explore desire and heartache, loss and discovery, jolting violence, and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A bookseller's unspoken love for his employee rises to the surface, a neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students, a girl's loss of innocence at the hand's of her employer's son becomes a catalyst for strength and confidence, and...
27) One summer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront.
Author
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a natural disaster threatens to destroy lives in the small mountain town of Pineville, Minnesota, Doctor Esther Hanson struggles to help her patients without giving in to overwhelming emotions triggered by a long-suppressed memory and U.S. Border Patrol agent Ben James, grieving the tragic loss of his wife, rushes an abandoned baby to Esther's clinic. Brought together by the life of a child, Ben and Esther become each other's reason to change....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Three teengers, Freya, Harun, and Nathaniel feel lost in various ways and when they collide in Central Park, they begin to find purpose in their lives"--
Freya lost her voice while recording her debut album. Harun is making plans to run away from everyone he has ever loved. Nathaniel arrives in New York City with a backpack, a desperate plan, and nothing left to lose. When a fateful accident draws these three strangers together, their secrets start...
30) Stay with me
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A novel about a married Nigerian couple who must grapple with staggering levels of loss and betrayal in their quest to create a family for themselves"--
Yejide and Akin fell in love and married while at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide agreed polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage-- after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures-- Yejide is still...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
A foster child named Angel and twelve-year-old Stella, who are living with Stella's great-aunt Louise at the Linger Longer Cottage Colony on Cape Cod, secretly assume responsibility for the vacation rentals when Louise unexpectedly dies and the girls are afraid of being returned to the foster care system.
32) Dark room
Author
Series
Pete Montgomery thrillers volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
33) The poet's dog
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dog with unusual communication talents loses his poet owner before rescuing two children trapped in a snowstorm and leading them to the poet's cabin, where the children explore the memories that the poet has left behind.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"The fourth novel by Wendy Walker, author of All Is Not Forgotten"--
One night, Molly Clarke walked away from her life. She doesn't want to be found. Or at least, that's the story. The car abandoned miles from home. The note found at a nearby hotel. The shattered family that couldn't be put back together. They called it a 'walk away.' It happens all the time. Women disappear, desperate to leave their lives behind and start over. But is that what...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mississippi plantation mistress Amanda Satterfield loses her daughter to cholera after her husband refuses to treat her for what he considers to be a slave disease. Insane with grief, Amanda takes a newborn slave child as her own and names her Granada, much to the outrage of her husband and the amusement of their white neighbors. Seventy-five years later, Granada, now known as Gran Gran, is still living on the plantation and must revive the buried...
38) Lost & found
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
39) The returned
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harold and Lucille Hargave's lives have been both joyful and sorrowful in the decades since their only son, Jacob, died tragically at his eighth birthday party in 1966. In their old age they've settled comfortably into life without him, their wounds tempered through the grace of time .... Until one day Jacob mysteriously appears on their doorstep -- flesh and blood, their sweet, precocious child, still eight years old. All over the world people's...
40) Letting go
Author
Series
Thatch novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Grey and Ben fell in love at thirteen and believed they{u2019}d be together forever. But three days before their wedding, the twenty-year-old groom-to-be suddenly died from an unknown heart condition, destroying his would-be-bride{u2019}s world. If it hadn{u2019}t been for their best friend, Jagger, Grey never would have made it through those last two years to graduation. He{u2019}s the only one who understands her pain, the only one who knows what...
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