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Kyle Adams novels volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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In the wake of her husband's presumed death, a young war bride makes a desperate choice to give her baby a better life. However, her choice will have unforeseen ramifications for more lives than she ever expected. The baby girl, named Kyle by her adoptive parents, grows up with no knowledge of her humble beginnings. When a heartbreaking loss pits Kyle against her high society mother, secrets from Kyle's past come to light. Suddenly, she finds herself...
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Lonestar (Colleen Coble) volume 3
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English
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For most, it's the safest place on earth. For Gracie, it's the last place she wants to be...and the one place she must return.
With nothing but five dollars and the wedding dress she's wearing, Gracie Lister flees with her daughter by train to West Texas, to the town she ran away from so long ago. There they find refuge in the home of Michael Wayne--devoted single father, seasoned soldier--who gives Gracie a job caring for his two children and the...
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Smoky Mountain dreams volume 2
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English
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Rani Martin, Simon and Anna's only daughter, is a beautiful and spirited young woman living deep in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. She has plenty of ideas about the man she'll marry someday, but none of them could have prepared her for the return of Matthew Jackson. Matthew left Cades Cove as a child after his father's death. Now he's come back to build a new life for himself, and it's his dearest wish that Rani be a part of that life. But the...
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Carter House girls volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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At the Carter boardinghouse for rich teenaged girls who are interested in fashion, the race for high school homecoming queen turns friends and roommates against one another, and as the votes roll in, some of the girls grow smarter and closer to God, while others seem to make the same mistakes over again.
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Joshua series volume 6
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English
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Joshua, a carpenter who visited Auburn nearly two decades earlier, bringing the residents a message of peace and love, returns to the tiny town on the eve of the twenty-first century to remind the people, who have grown fearful of the future, of God's great love for them.
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2010
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English
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1944. After returning from combat in Europe to be with his son and mourn the death of his wife, Shawn Collins is called upon to be a speaker on the war bond tour. He hires a nanny to watch his son, a decision which unexpectedly changes his future.
7) Homecoming
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The sons...two brothers embittered by a breach of ethics, honor and trust. The grandchildren...one young couple on the verge of divorce; another, lovingly united agaist the partens who have tarnished thieir lives. As the ill fated meeting hurtles toward a bitter and abrupt conclusion, not even Annette Byrne's indomitable will can heal the rift-until a shattering event alters the landscape forever.
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Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians -- but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on Westerners for hundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary past as a communal species. The most recent example of that attraction is combat veterans who come home to find themselves missing the...
10) Homecoming
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.
11) Love, Annie
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Annie, who maintains a blog advice column under the name "Professor Love," considers herself an expert on the subject of relationships, until she gets her dream homecoming date and realizes how much more she has to learn about both love and friendship.
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A haunting and luminous novelthat explores the dark secrets lurking beneath the stunning natural beauty of a dying timber town.
A mysterious beachcomber appears one day on the coastal bluffs near Carverville, whose best days are long behind it. Who is he, and why has he returned after nearly forty years?
Carverville's prodigal son, James, serendipitously finds work at the Eden Seaside Resort & Cottages, a gentrified motel, but soon finds his homecoming...
13) Graveminder
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Rebekkah Barrow returns to her childhood hometown of Claysville for her grandmother's funeral and discovers that the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected and that it was her grandmother's responsibility to make sure the dead were properly cared for in order to prevent them from coming back to satiate themselves with food, drink, and stories from the land of the living, and now that her grandmother is gone, it is Rebekkah's responsibility...
14) Cider Brook
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Being rescued by a good looking, bad boy firefighter isn't how Samantha Bennett expected to start her stay in Knights Bridge, Massachusetts. Now she has everyone's attention, especially that of Justin Sloan, her rescuer, who wants to know why she was camped out in an abandoned old New England cider mill. Samantha is a treasure hunter who has returned to Knights Bridge to solve a 300 year old mystery and salvage her good name. Justin remembers her...
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Emma Lord mysteries volume 17
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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Members of the Burl Creek Thimble Club, a quilting circle in small-town Alpine, Washington, are planning a fete to welcome back Genevieve Bayard, who left Alpine, decades ago. But Gen's homecoming is cut decidedly short when she dies at a dinner party. Emma Lord, owner and publisher of the local newspaper, arrives on the scene to report the incident and sleuth her way to the truth.
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When Elm Creek Quilts announces openings for two new teachers, quilters everywhere are vying to land the prestigious post. The impending departure of two founding members means untold changes for the Elm Creek Quilters. As they begin the interview process, a single question emerges: Who can possibly take the place of beloved colleagues and friends? "We must evaluate all of the applicants' qualities," advises Master Quilter Sylvia Compson. "Our choice...
17) The date to save
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Angelica Marie Hutcherson is an aspiring reporter for the San Anselmo Prep's newspaper, The Prepster; sophomore Colin Von Kohorn is its editor, who keeps rejecting her stories because they do not reflect his "vision"; but when Colin suggests she write a story on the upcoming Academic Battle, Angelica senses an opportunity--unfortunately somebody has scheduled the Battle (which their school always wins) on the same day as the homecoming game (which...
19) Dicey's song
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.
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"When Maze returns to Wildstone for the wedding of her estranged bff and the sister of her heart, it’s also a reunion of a once ragtag team of teenagers who had only each other until a tragedy tore them apart and scattered them wide. Now as adults together again in the lake house, there are secrets and resentments mixed up in all the amazing childhood memories. Unexpectedly, they instantly fall back into their roles: Maze their reckless leader,...
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