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61) River rising
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Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 4
Pub. Date
[2005]
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Taking a job as nurse to the local town doctor, newcomer April Asbury attracts the attention of Joe Jones, whose family is disrupted by an unstable widow's claims about the paternity of Joe's youngest sister.
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1990.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
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"The tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the characters' voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner's masterpiece"--Amazon.com.
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When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling, book-filled London home, Dinmont House. Rather than sell it, the adult siblings move in together, splitting the numerous bedrooms and studies. The arrangement is unusual, but ideal for the affectionate pair until the day Andrew brings home a new boyfriend. A devilishly handsome novelist, James Derain resembles Cary Grant, but his strident comments about Grace's doctoral thesis...
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"Sarah and Frank Malloy must catch a scheming killer in this latest gripping installment in the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mysteries Former policeman Frank Malloy is frustrated when a woman requests his private detective services to implicate her wealthy husband in adultery, the only legal grounds for divorce in New York state. Although Mrs. Bing seems genuinely distressed about her marriage and desperate to end it, she refuses to tell Frank the...
68) Amy and Isabelle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
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Isabelle Goodrow, horrified and enraged when she discovers her teenage daughter Amy is involved with a math teacher at the high school, comes to realize that her outrage is mostly the result of the secret she has been keeping for most of Amy's life.
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2013.
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No one is more surprised than Sunny Licht when Noah Whitmore proposes. She's a scarlet woman and an unwed mother. But she can't resist Noah's offer of a fresh start in a place where her scandalous past is unknown. In Sunny, the former Union soldier sees a woman whose loneliness matches his own. When they arrive in Wisconsin, he'll see that she and her baby daughter want for nothing except the love that war burned out of him. Yet Sunny makes him hope...
70) Magnolia Creek
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Pub. Date
[2002]
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On the eve of the Civil War, Sara Collier marries Dru Talbot just before he joins the Confederate Army. When Dru dies heroically on the battlefield, Sara rises above her grief. Then, a year after the end of the war, battle-scarred Dru surprises everyone when he returns home, still clinging to the dream of starting over with his bride.
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[2012]
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Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci team up to expose a serial killer when Pope Alexander dispatches a Vatican courtesan to discern the truth about his beloved illegitimate son's murder. Their investigation reveals the secret history behind the controversial political work, "The Prince."
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Tom Rath doesn't want anything extraordinary out of life : just a decent home, enough money to support his family, and a career that won't crush his spirit. After returning from World War II, he takes a PR job at a television network. It is inane, dehumanizing work. But when a series of personal crises forces him to reexamine his priorities -- and take responsibility for his past -- he is finally moved to carve out an identity for himself.
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c2011
Description
The product of a forbidden love affair between a wealthy landowner and a humble fisherman, Juan de Dios is taken away and abandoned by his mother's sister to an orphanage at birth. Reunited with his father as an adult, he swears an oath of revenge on his father's deathbed and changes his name to Juan de Diablo. When he returns to Mexico to fulfill his oath, he is torn between twin sisters, the passionate Aimee and the virtuous Regina who turn out...
75) Lenobia's Vow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
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"A great journey... A new love... A dark secret revealed. Evreux, France, 1788: Before she is Zoey's favorite professor and the House of Night's powerful horse mistress... Lenobia is just a normal 16-year-old girl - with enough problems to last a lifetime. As the illegitimate daughter of a powerful baron, she has never quite belonged, and instead has to watch her spoiled half-sister, Cecile, get anything she wants. As if that's not enough, her remarkable...
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"'Be quiet and listen: He is cheating on you. You will be passed over for the promotion. The winning numbers are 5-8-12-24-39-43. The name of your soulmate is Alistair George Arthur Lennox. And I'm very sorry to tell you this, but you will die next Sunday.' When Lilah Goodluck saves the life of Good Witch Willow as they're crossing a busy L.A. street, the last thing she expects is five unwanted predictions as a reward. Who gives someone the winning...
78) Garden of lies
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Sylvie's abandoned real daughter grows up in genteel poverty, but her illegitimate daughter is raised as her own, and becomes a doctor, only to find the deceptions of her past have caught up.
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A baby is born to an English civil servant and a Hindu bride. When the truth is known about his heritage his father ejects him from his house. He is sold to a pair of eunuchs and taken to a backwater state in the Punjab. He escapes to Bombay and meets a drunken Englishman and reinvents himself as Jonathan Bridgeman
80) A memory of love
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Pub. Date
2000.
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A tale of stunning passion, reckless danger, and the fierce will of a remarkable woman who can wield a sword as powerfully as any man-and who dares to fight for her most uninhibited desires . . .
Spirited, iron-willed Rhonwyn is the bastard child of the Prince of Wales, raised more boy than girl, able to ride and fight with the best. Against her wishes, she is married off to an English lord, Edward de Beaumont, who is stunned to discover that his...