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Samantha Bennett's life was a nightmare.
Dealing with the untimely death of her mother and the abuse of her cruel father was too much for teenager Samantha Bennett to handle. But, for the first time in her life, this courageous, rodeo-riding young woman is finally learning what it means to be loved and to be part of a real family. Samantha is more than ready to begin a new chapter of her life. But when her past comes back to haunt her, will anyone...
2) The touch
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2012 Christy Award finalist, Contemporary series category. Andrew Jones was once one of the few surgeons in the world to have that rare, God-given ability called The Touch. But after failing to save his young fiancée, Faith, at the scene of a car accident, Jones abandons his gift and shuns the operating room. Lara Blair owns a Chicago-based biomedical engineering company developing a surgical tool that will duplicate precisely the movement of a surgeon's...
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He was a man who didn't deserve a second chance. But he needed one…
Emily and her husband Sandy Portman seemed to live a gracious if busy life in an old-world, Upper West Side apartment in the famous Dakota building. But one night on the way to meet Emily, Sandy dies in a tragic accident. The funeral isn't even over before Emily learns she is on the verge of being evicted from their apartment. But worse than the possibility of losing her home,...
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Themes of grief, love, and renewed faith intertwine in this winsome novella by best-selling author Melody Carlson. The recently widowed Claire Andrews is mourning the deaths of her husband and young son who were killed in a boating accident. Grief-stricken and angry with God, Claire, a professional artist, finds she is no longer able to paint. In her sorrow, she flees to an isolated cabin in the Cascade Mountains to find solace and healing, and hopefully,...
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During a cold Massachusetts winter, a tragic car accident leaves a mother childless and her daughter-in-law a widow. Naomi and Ruth are now each other's only comfort. Naomi lost her own husband eight years ago, and now she has lost her son. Carrying a deep secret in her soul, Naomi decides to return to her childhood home in coastal South Carolina. When she tells Ruth her plan, she receives an unexpected reply: "Where you go, I will go." So the two...
8) Zombie Tag
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IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
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In the months since Wil Lowenstein's older brother Graham died, Wil has spent most of his time playing a game he invented but when he finds a way to bring Graham and others back from the dead, fighting zombies is suddenly no longer a game.
9) Green angel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
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Haunted by grief and by her past after losing her family in a fire, fifteen-year-old Green retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to survive emotionally and physically on her own.
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In North River, critically acclaimed, best-selling author Pete Hamill whisks listeners back to 1934-when the Great Depression held New York City in its relentless grip-for a story of one remarkable man's perseverance. Haunted by the horrors of World War I, Dr. James Delaney's personal life is a nightmare. But everything changes when he returns home one day to find his three-year-old grandson on his doorstep.
11) Candy bombers
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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In 1948 Berlin, Germany, while trying to survive the Russian blockade of the city and also grieving for his father and sister who were killed in the war, thirteen-year-old Erich is befriended by a United States airman.
12) Poppy and Ereth
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
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After a long, hard winter in Dimwood forest, Poppy the deer mouse finds new adventure thrust upon her while rescuing Ereth the porcupine from the mud.
13) Claim to fame
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Sixteen-year-old Lindsay, a former child star whose career ended when she developed the ability to hear what anyone, anywhere says about her and apparently suffered a nervous breakdown, comes to see this as an asset when, after her father's death, sh
14) Flip-flop girl
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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Uprooted following the death of their father, nine-year-old Vinnie and her five-year-old brother, Mason, cope in different ways--one in silence--but both with the help of Lupe, the flip-flop girl.
15) Green witch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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A year after her world was nearly destroyed, sixteen-year-old Green has become the one villagers turn to for aid, especially to record their stories, but Green will need the help of other women who, like herself, are believed to be witches if she is
16) Pencilvania
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Twelve-year-old Zora finds herself transported into a fantastic world where all of her drawings have come to life.
17) Bitter end
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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When seventeen-year-old Alex starts dating Cole, a new boy at her high school, her two closest friends increasingly mistrust him as the relationship grows more serious.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 23
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After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life.
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Summerhill secrets volume 10
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When the wounds from an old tragedy reopen, Merry gradually learns that storms don't last forever.
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