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1) East of Eden
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
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This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
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In #1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher's The End of Summer, a woman revisits her home and her heartbreak when she is reunited with the one she loved and lost-and could love again. After years in the United States, Jane returns to the tranquil Scottish estate, Elvie, where she spent a magical childhood. Memories of Elvie had always summoned the image of Sinclair, the rakish man Jane had once dreamed of marrying, but now that she...
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"Vintage Follett . . . This is his most ambitious novel and it succeeds admirably." —USA Today
Ellis, the American. Jean-Pierre, the Frenchman. They were two men on opposite sides of the Cold War, with a woman torn between them. Together, they formed a triangle of passion and deception, racing from terrorist bombs in Paris to the violence and intrigue of Afghanistan—to the moment of truth and deadly decision for all of...
Ellis, the American. Jean-Pierre, the Frenchman. They were two men on opposite sides of the Cold War, with a woman torn between them. Together, they formed a triangle of passion and deception, racing from terrorist bombs in Paris to the violence and intrigue of Afghanistan—to the moment of truth and deadly decision for all of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
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The seventh book in the chronology of the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, although it was the fifth book published. In this book Anne Shirley is married with six children, but the book focuses more on her new neighbor, the new Presbyterian minister John Meredith, as well as the interactions between Anne's and John Meredith's children.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22
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With Mr. Dashwood's death, his wife and two daughters, Elinor and Marianne, must accustom themselves to genteel poverty. When Marianne meets the man of her dreams, everyone expects a marriage; unaccountably, he rejects her, with devastating effect. It falls to Elinor, the sensible elder sister, to pick up the pieces, while harboring a secret longing of her own. In Sense and Sensibility, the warmth between two very different sisters contrasts with...
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Keene believes there is no God. Jane Delaney knows differently, and when the famous opera singer plows into her car, God provides her with the opportunity to share her faith with the great Keene Moray. As his new personal assistant, she knows she can make the most of her proximity and perhaps prove Keene's atheism wrong. When a health issue threatens to cancel the annual Passion play at Jane's church, the Lord makes a way for Keene to become intimately...
9) The jury
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When Paula Woodley has had enough of the broken bones and shattered self-esteem caused by her abusive husband, she turns to the women of the Sisterhood, an organization where women right wrongs and bring about justice, for help.
10) Renegade husband
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When Audra moves to frontier Colorado to marry the local pastor, she is promised a life of adventure. She never realizes how much adventure until her stagecoach is robbed-and she learns it's her future husband's twin brother who committed the crime. Through his life, Caleb Windsor has been blamed for the sins of his brother. But when he tries to stop his twin's outlaw lifestyle by arranging a marriage for him, Caleb doesn't realize how it will affect...
11) The pagan stone
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At ten years of age, Gage Turner and his friends unleash an ancient, powerful force when they spill blood over a pagan stone. Years later, Gabe returns to his hometown to help his childhood friends and the women bound to them by fate halt the demonic forces that have ravaged the town every seven years.
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Upbeat cancer survivor Lydia and her pragmatic sister, Margaret, start a "Knit to Quit" group in their Blossom Street yarn store in Seattle, bringing in a delightful assortment of customers for weekly self-help sessions, including a local baker who wants a baby as much as Lydia does, a super-stressed chocolate magnate who takes the knitting class after his doctor suggests it, and a young woman who is trying to quit obsessing about a broken engagement....
13) Game over
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In an attempt to secure the pardon promised to them by the new president, the women of the Sisterhood make plans to evade the Secret Service and infiltrate the White House.
14) Home free
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The vigilantes of the Sisterhood reorganize as a secret group called the CIC and dedicated to serving their friend, the president of the United States, Martine Connor.
16) Betrayal
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Betrayal is quintessential Fern Michaels; it explores the emotionally-fraught relationships between two copules - one with children, one without. Kate and Alex have a strong marriage and a lovely home. Don and Debbie are their good friends; and the couple has two girls: Sarah and Emily. Everything changes with one phone call ... Sarah accuses Alex of sexual assault, and a vicious rift occurs between the two couples. Kate watches helplessly as her...
17) Devious
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The crime scene at St. Marguerite's cathedral in New Orleans is shocking, even to seasoned detectives like Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya. A novice nun named Sister Camille has been found dressed in a yellowed bridal gown and viciously garroted, her body covered with an altar cloth. Convinced the police aren't doing enough, Camille's sister, Valerie Houston, begins to investigate. But the deeper Val's inquiries go, the more twisted the case becomes....
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Evelyn Hadley-Attwater has it all-- a genteel Victorian life, loving husband, elegant parties. No one, including the man she married, suspects that she was once a spy for England's most enigmatic intelligence agency ... and now she's been summoned for one final assignment. Adrian Hadley-Attwater is a respectable, dignified gentleman. But even the most proper gentlemen have secrets from their wives. Secrets that have a price. Now, as a veil of secrecy...
19) Dead by dusk
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"An incredible storyteller." —Los Angeles Daily News
Buried No More. . .
An Italian getaway was just the cure Stephanie Cahill needed to recover from a painful past. But the picture perfect Bella Vista has been hiding dark secrets of its own. Thought to be eternally damned, a long-dormant vampire has been unleashed by an archeological dig—not the kind of research Grant Peterson signed on for. And it seems he's not the...
Buried No More. . .
An Italian getaway was just the cure Stephanie Cahill needed to recover from a painful past. But the picture perfect Bella Vista has been hiding dark secrets of its own. Thought to be eternally damned, a long-dormant vampire has been unleashed by an archeological dig—not the kind of research Grant Peterson signed on for. And it seems he's not the...
20) Deserves to die
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Along a slow-moving river, he watches as her body drifts below the water's murky surface, forever altered. Before he disposes of each victim, he takes a trophy. It's a sign of his power, and a warning--to the one destined to suffer most of all... In Grizzly Falls, Montana, Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli are struggling with a new commander and a department in the midst of upheaval. It's the worst possible time for a homicide. A body has...
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