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Boy in the striped pajamas volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age 12. She doesn't talk about the grim post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, who was the commandant of one of the Reich's most notorious extermination camps. Then,...
2) Calico Joe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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In the summer of 1973, Joe Castle was the boy wonder of baseball, the greatest rookie anyone had ever seen. The kid from Calico Rock, Arkansas, dazzled Cubs fans as he hit home run after home run, politely tipping his hat to the crowd as he shattered all rookie records. Calico Joe quickly became the idol of every baseball fan in America, including Paul Tracey, the young son of a hard-partying and hard-throwing Mets pitcher. On the day that Warren...
3) Breakdown
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English
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An influenza plague decimates humanity, and former rock star Chris Price leaves the ruins of his life in New York, setting out on a journey home to England. His passage leaves him scarred, in body and mind, by exposure to humankind at its most desperate and dangerous. He meets a woman, Pauline, and together, they undertake the most difficult part of Chris's journey: confronting grief, violence, and the man Chris has become.
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English
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Harry Crane is an analyst for the US Forest Service, until his wife dies suddenly and he is unable to cope. Leaving his job and his old life behind, Harry makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains. Determined to lose himself, he takes up residents in the woods. Oriana and her mother, Amanda, are struggling to pick up the pieces from their own tragedy. Oriana roams the forest searching for answers, and she believes...
6) Beloved
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Series
Where the heart lives volume 3
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English
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With her husband Tyson missing for eight years, Diana Brennan seeks to declare him legally dead in order to remarry, but when Tyson returns as a supposedly changed man, Diana must decide if he has really changed for the better.
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Series
Broken road (Richard Paul Evans) volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Chicago celebrity, Charles James can't shake the nightmare that wakes him each night. He sees himself walking down a long, broken highway the sides of which are lit in flames. Where is he going? Why is he walking? What is the wailing he hears around him? By day, he wonders why he's so haunted and unhappy when he has all he ever wanted-fame, fans and fortune and the lavish lifestyle it affords him. Coming from a childhood of poverty and pain, this...
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Songbird series volume 1
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English
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"Jade Fitzgerald left the pain of her past in the dust when she headed out for college a decade ago. Now she's thriving in her career and glowing in the light of Max Benson's love. But then Jade's hippie mother arrives in Whisper Hollow, Tennessee, for Jade's wedding along with Willow, her wild younger sister. Their arrival forces Jade to throw open the dark closets of her past--the insecurity of living with a restless, wandering mother, the silence...
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English
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Christopher Flynn is trying to get it right. After years of trouble and rebellion that enraged his father and nearly cost him his life, he has a steady job in his father's company, he's seriously dating a woman he respects, and, aside from the distrust that lingers in his father's eyes, his mistakes are firmly in the past. One day on the job, Chris and his partner come across a temptation almost too big to resist. Chris does the right thing, but old...
10) The masterpiece
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English
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"A successful LA artist, Roman Velasco appears to have everything he could possibly want--money, women, fame. Only Grace Moore, his reluctant, newly hired personal assistant, knows how little he truly has. The demons of Roman's past seem to echo through the halls of his empty mansion and out across his breathtaking Topanga Canyon view. But Grace doesn't know how her boss secretly wrestles with those demons: by tagging buildings as the Bird, a notorious...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Sunshine Mackenzie is living the dream, she's a culinary star with millions of fans, a line of #1 bestselling cookbooks, and a devoted husband happy to support her every endeavor. And then she gets hacked. When Sunshine's secrets are revealed, her fall from grace is catastrophic. She loses the husband, her show, the fans, and her apartment. She's forced to return to the childhood home, and the estranged sister, she's tried hard to forget. But what...
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Series
Broken road (Richard Paul Evans) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Chicago celebrity and motivational speaker Charles James is supposed to be dead. Everyone believes he was killed in a fiery plane crash. But thanks to a remarkable twist of fate he's very much alive and well, and ready for a second chance at life. But will he use this opportunity to right some wrongs from his old life and start over the right way this time? The Forgotten Road is the second book in the "thoughtful, well-plotted" (Kirkus Reviews) trilogy...
14) Travelers rest
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English
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A story about faith and prayer centers around a young woman determined to honor her commitment, an injured soldier who is contemplating suicide, and a retired doctor who is certain that it is too late to be forgiven.
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Pub. Date
s202
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English
Description
Crisis! An explosive public meltdown. A violent incident in the psychiatric ward.
Now the Pastor stares into the abyss of his own secret shame. Before he can be free, he must confront his demons and find grace. But will he let go? Will he allow himself to be healed?
The Pastor explores the perilous human journey from self-will and striving through defeat and despair to hope and the redemption found only through surrender.
Trigger Warning: Mature...
Author
Publisher
Waterbrook Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The Janviers have the idyllic life. A beautiful home, great jobs, two wonderful kids. And surrounding it all is the proverbial white picket fence that protects them, offers them a serene sense of security-- and hides all their secrets.
17) Redemption bay
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Haven Point volume 2
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English
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McKenzie Shaw would do anything for her hometown of Haven Point. It may be small, but it's never let her down... unlike gorgeous, infuriating Ben Kilpatrick. He was her childhood hero until he closed his family's factory, leaving the town's economy in shambles. Now his tech firm is considering opening a local facility. For Haven Point's sake, McKenzie has to grit her teeth and play nice. What could a town filled with painful memories ever offer...
18) Once dishonored
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Series
Rogues redeemed volume 5
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English
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London, 1816. A man who has lost his honor has nothing.... As a royal Navy officer, Lucas Mandeville, Lord Foxton, has fought his share of battles on the high seas, followed by long years of imprisonment. But on this night, he'd rather be on the burning deck of a ship than in a ballroom, where it is just a matter of time before someone challenges him because of what happened on the Continent. A woman who has lost her reputation is nothing... When...
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Series
Solitary Tales volume One
Language
English
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His Loneliness Will Soon Turn to Fear…. When Chris Buckley moves to Solitary, North Carolina, he faces the reality of his parents' divorce, a school full of nameless faces-and Jocelyn Evans. Jocelyn is beautiful and mysterious enough to leave Chris speechless. But the more Jocelyn resists him, the more the two are drawn together. Chris soon learns that Jocelyn has secrets as deep as the town itself. Secrets more terrifying than the bullies he faces...
20) Finally a bride
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Series
Texas boardinghouse brides volume 3
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Jacqueline 'Jack' Davis is a reporter for the Lookout Ledger bent on discovering the truth and nabbing her story at any cost. When Noah Jeffers comes to Lookout as a temporary pastor, Jack suspects there may be something hidden beneath his shepherding ways. Soon, though, Jack begins to be attracted to the new pastor despite her initial hesitation. But as she uncovers the truth, will this story cost her too much? Will she reveal what she's uncovered...
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