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1) Passing
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Restless Classics presents the ninetieth anniversary edition of an undersung gem of the Harlem Renaissance: Nella Larsen's Passing, a captivating and prescient exploration of identity, sexuality, self-invention, class, and race set amidst the pealing boisterousness of the Jazz Age.
When childhood friends Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry cross paths at a whites-only restaurant, it's been decades since they last met. Married to a bigoted white man who...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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Alex Craft knows how to kill someone. And she doesn't feel bad about it. When her older sister, Anna, was murdered three years ago and the killer walked free, Alex uncaged the language she knows best. The language of violence.
3) Fly away
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A follow-up to Firefly Lane returns readers to the world of Tully, Kate, and Tully's mother, who explore their understandings about love, family, loss, and redemption while turning to each other in the hopes of salvaging their lives.
4) The wish
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"Leona Speicher got the "sister" she'd always dreamed of the day Gloria Gingerich and her family moved to Lancaster County Amish farmland. The Arkansas newcomers seem to be everything a devout Plain family should be, and Leona can't help comparing Gloria's's engaging young parents to her own. Leona's cousin shows a romantic interest in Gloria around the same time as Gloria's older brother expresses his fondness for Leona--it seems likely the two young...
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By the time she is reunited with her husband, she is a very different woman. Years later, Nerys's granddaughter Mair Ellis clears out her dead father's house and finds an exquisite shawl. Wrapped in its folds is a lock of a child's curly hair. With nothing else to go on, Mair decides to trace her grandparents' roots back to Kashmir, embarking on a quest that will change her own life forever. A sweeping multigenerational tale of marriage, isolation,...
6) The scoop
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South Carolina widow Teresa "Toots" Amelia Loudenberry, still not ready to slow down after eight marriages, enlists her three most trusted friends--Sophie, Mavis, and Ida--in a scheme to keep the Hollywood gossip tabloid her daughter works for from failing, due to the owner's gambling debts.
7) Eyes only
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Sisterhood series volume 24
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Lush, exclusive Spyder Island is home to many of the world's billionaires. Years ago, Gretchen Spyder, daughter of the island's namesake, gave her twin babies up for legal adoption. Now Gretchen and her father are trying to get them back. The twins' adoptive parents are a loving but poor couple, completely outgunned by the Spyders' wealth. Their only hope lies with Myra Rutledge and her formidable Sisterhood, who are as ready as ever to fight the...
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The story of a remarkable friendship-told in a remarkable way. A story in which every woman will recognize herself…and her best friend
Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski. Two girls from very different backgrounds become best friends in the turbulent 1960s, but their circumstances and choices-and their mistakes-take them in opposite directions. Lesley stays in their hometown. She marries young, living a life defined by the demands of small children,...
10) Circle of grace
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A novel about four women, friends since college. According to the "circle journal" they've used to keep in touch, they seem to have the lives they dreamed of. Liz, the hippie activist, fights for justice in Washington, D.C. Tess who always wanted to
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Charming Southern Fiction to Delight Contemporary Readers After returning home from teaching English at a refugee camp in the Philippines, Samantha Bravencourt enjoys her quiet life working at her mother's clothing boutique in Falls Church, Virginia. When she receives an invitation to a wedding in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, she looks forward to reconnecting with her college friend. Instead her life collides with Carson, a fellow teacher and the...
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Yada Yada Prayer Group series volume 6
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A devastating fire wakes up the Yadas to a new reality: God is on the move.
What I'd like to know is, why does God keep rearranging my comfort zone? It could have something to do with my Yada Yada prayer sisters, who aren't afraid to get in each other's faces and tend to expect big things from God.
But to move forward, sometimes we have to let go of what's behind. In spite of the loss of two dear friends. In spite of the breakup of a teenage love....
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DC icons volume 1
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2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
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"Diana, Princess of the Amazons, journeys to the World of Man in this coming-of-age young adult story"--
17) Nantucket nights
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Two women of a friendship trio are shattered when their third companion accidentally drowns, and in the aftermath, they realize that their loss extends beyond grief as their layers of secrets and connections are gradually revealed.
18) Twenty wishes
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Blossom street novels volume 5
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Thirty-eight-year-old widow Anne Marie Roche, the owner of a successful Seattle bookstore, creates a list of twenty wishes, and, while acting upon her wishes, encounters an eight-year-old girl named Ellen who helps her complete her list--with unexpected results.
20) Home free
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Sisterhood series volume 20
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Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle of the Sisterhood welcome a break from their work as vigilantes and attempt to embrace normal lives until they are called in by President Martine Connor, who informs them of her new "unofficial" group of which the Sisterhood is a part of, and the women must take on the assignments no one else will.
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