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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...
7) The touch
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English
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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...
10) Measure of faith
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Series
Stories from Hope Haven volume 8
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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English
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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,...
12) Broken soup
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Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
A photographic negative and two surprising new friends become the catalyst for healing as fifteen-year-old Rowan struggles to keep her family and her life together after her brother's death.
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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...
17) Sing them home
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English
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This novel is a portrait of three siblings who have lived in the shadow of unresolved grief since their mother's disappearance when they were children. Everyone in Emlyn Springs knows the story of Hope Jones, the physician's wife whose big dreams for
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English
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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, Emily is stunned when she discovers that her marriage was made up of...
19) Zombie Tag
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
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.
20) Umbrella summer
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Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After her brother Jared dies, ten-year-old Annie worries about the hidden dangers of everything, from bug bites to bicycle riding, until she is befriended by a new neighbor who is grieving her own loss.
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