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2014.
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"An extraordinary novel about a strong-willed woman who disguises herself as a man in order to fight beside her husband in the Civil War, inspired by a real female soldier's letters home Rosetta doesn't want her new husband Jeremiah to enlist, but he joins up, hoping to make enough money that they'll be able to afford their own farm someday. Though she's always worked by her father's side as the son he never had, now that Rosetta is a wife she's told...
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"For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the...
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"A once accomplished concert pianist, Richard now has ALS. As he becomes increasingly paralyzed and is no longer able to live on his own, Karina becomes his reluctant caretaker. As Richard's muscles, voice, and breath fade, both he and Karina try to reconcile their past before it's too late. This is a masterful exploration of redemption and what it means to find peace inside of forgiveness" -- Amazon.com.
84) Breathe
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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The inspiring true love story of Robin and Diana Cavendish, an adventurous couple who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease. Their heartwarming celebration of human possibility marks the directorial debut of Andy Serkis.
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Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp - Camp Sherwood Forest in the North Carolina Mountains. It was there that she came alive and where she met Nick Abrams, her first love...and first heartbreak. Years later, Thayer marries Aengus, an Irish professor, and they move into her deceased grandmother's house in Atlanta, only miles from Camp Edgewood on Burnt Mountain where her father died years ago in a...
86) Illusion
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 26
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English
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A popular magic act for forty years, Dane and Mandy are separated when a car wreck supposedly takes Mandy's life, but instead she is transformed into her nineteen-year-old self in the present, and when the pair reunite, she still mesmerizes Dane--now forty years her elder.
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Columbia Pictures
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English
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In the year 2000, Dick gets a plum promotion as a mega-corporate communications director. His boss is preparing to bail out of the company just before stock prices plummet. Dick's wife Jane has quit her job as a travel agent, so when the corporate stocks hit rock bottom, Dick and Jane are left penniless and desperate. They decide to resort to petty thievery and this eventually gets them plotting high-stakes revenge against the greedy executives who...
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Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Michael and Madison Roland had planned to spend the rest of their lives together, until one day Michael's controlling ways took over their perfect marriage. After adopting a new identity, she meets Alex Stone and learns to love again. All is well, until Michael discovers Madison's whereabouts, and recreates the nightmare she once lived all over again.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door, a new thriller featuring a suspicious accident, a wife who can't account for herself, and unsettling questions that threaten to tear the couple apart You're home making dinner for your husband. You expect him any second. The phone rings--it's the call you hoped you'd never get. You jump in your car and race to a neighborhood you thought you'd never visit. You peer into the dark,...
90) Big eyes
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings.
91) Rutherford Park
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Rutherford Park trilogy volume 1
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English
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"For the Cavendish family, Rutherford Park is much more than a place to call home. It is a way of life marked by rigid rules and lavish rewards, governed by unspoken desires. Lady of the house Octavia Cavendish lives like a bird in a gilded cage. With her family's fortune, her husband, William, has made significant additions to the estate, but he too feels bound--by the obligations of his title as well as his vows. Their son, Harry, is expected to...
93) Premonition
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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A housewife's life is shattered when she finds out that her husband Jim is killed in a gruesome car accident. But when she awakes the next morning, he is still alive and well. She keeps having dreams about his death, and must decide what to do.
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Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[1968]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"Football hero BoJo Jones and his girlfriend, July, are in love. And on the night of the prom, they do what so many couples in love do ... Soon, July finds out that she's pregnant with Bo Jo's baby. Suddenly, the life they once knew--including parties, friends, and even school--is over. Now Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones must come to grips with the very adult decision that they made.. and a situation that holds more possibilities and challenges than they...
95) The whispers
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Publisher
Century
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Anna Robinson hasn't been seen since she went on a night out with her four closest friends. She has a loving husband and a son she adores. Surely she wouldn't abandon them and her perfect life???¿? But what has happened to her? At the school gates, it's not long before the rumours start. Anna's oldest friend Grace is beside herself with worry - desperately searching for answers, and certain that someone is hiding the truth. With each day that passes,...
96) Amour
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Français
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"Georges and Anne are a couple of retired music teachers enjoying life in their eighties. However, Anne suddenly has a stroke at breakfast and their lives are never the same. That incident begins Anne's harrowingly steep physical and mental decline as Georges attempts to care for her at home as she wishes"--IMDb.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Sharron is a workaholic mother and wife set for a huge promotion. When her husband decides the family should take a Christmas vacation, Sharron suffers a nervous breakdown and starts imagining life would be better without having had kids so young. With the help of Kris Kringle, she sees how life would've been without her family's love.
98) Hush
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
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Without a family of her own, Helen is initially charmed by her impressive in-law and the sprawling estate where she lives. But behind the storybook scene lie dangerous secrets and dark motives.
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"At forty-eight, George owns a small print shop, is divorced, and is lonelier than he realizes. But one night he is woken by an astonishing sound from his garden. George finds a great white crane shot through the wind with an arrow. Struggling to remove the arrow from the bird's wing, George saves its life before it flies away. The next morning, a woman walks through the front door of the shop. Dumbstruck by her beauty and enigmatic nature, George...
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A Nora Abbott mystery volume Book 3
Publisher
Severn River Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Nora Abbott's best friend is dead. As Nora investigates the suspicious death in the desert of southern Utah, she uncovers the dark past of a polygamist sect. When Nora's best friend, a film director, dies in a hiking accident, Nora suspects foul play. Could a controversial film project have played a part? Intent on finding out, Nora struggles to piece together the truth. What she finds is shocking. What is the connection between a secretive...
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