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1) Fourth Wing
Author
Series
Publisher
Red Tower Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
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Description
A #1 New York Times bestseller
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Ronni Sunshine left London for Hollywood to become a beautiful, charismatic star of the silver screen. But at home, she was a narcissistic, disinterested mother who alienated her three daughters. As soon as possible, tomboy Nell fled her mother's overbearing presence to work on a farm and find her own way in the world as a single mother. The target of her mother's criticism, Meredith never felt good enough, thin enough, pretty enough. Her life took...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife, and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants. Yet it's been a decade since she disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind her small daughter, husband, and the animals to which she devoted her life. All signs point to abandonment . . . or worse. Still Jenna--now thirteen years old and truly orphaned by a father maddened by grief--steadfastly refuses to believe in her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Owen is the organizer of the Montgomery clan, running the familys construction business with an iron fist-and an even less flexible spreadsheet. And though his brothers bust on his compulsive list-making, the Inn BoonsBoro is about to open right on schedule. The only thing Owen didnt plan for was Avery McTavish... Averys popular pizza place is right across the street from the inn, giving her a first-hand look at its amazing renovation-and a newfound...
7) The hero
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In a moment of desperation, Devon McAllister takes her daughter and flees a place where they should have been safe and secure. Her plan is to escape to somewhere she can be invisible. Instead, an offer of assistance leads her to Thunder Point, an Oregon town with a willingness to help someone in need. As the widowed father of a vulnerable young boy, Spencer Lawson knows something about needing friendship. But he's not looking for anything else. Instead,...
8) About face
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington/Zebra
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Her memory stripped of the terrifying events from years ago, Casey Edwards returns home, determined to uncover the secrets that threaten her future. As Dr. Blake Hunter shows her the healing power of love, someone wants Casey out of the way before she remembers too much.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Collins
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Picking up where her modern classic The Bean Trees left off, Barbara Kingsolver's bestselling Pigs in Heaven continues the tale of Turtle and Taylor Greer, a Native American girl and her adoptive mother who have settled in Tucson, Arizona, as they both try to overcome their difficult pasts.
Taking place three years after The Bean Trees, Taylor is now dating a musician named Jax and has officially adopted Turtle. But when a lawyer for the Cherokee...
10) Not my daughter
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Devastated by her teenage daughter's pregnancy, single mother and high school principal Susan Tate is targeted by unfair criticism when the pregnancies of additional teens are rumored to be part of a pact.
Author
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
As her only child Molly readies for college, local fabric shop owner Linda Davis shares one last adventure with her daughter -- a cross-country road trip to move Molly into her dorm. As they make their way through the heart of the country, Linda pieces together the scraps that make up Molly's young life.
12) The sunroom
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
When I was twelve, I made a naïve, yet desperate pact with God to keep my ailing mother alive. It was the first time I'd ventured something so brazen--making a contract with the Almighty... So begins the story of Becky Owens, a talented and passionate young pianist on the verge of adolescence when she learns the devastating news of her mother's critical illness. As the daughter of a country preacher in Lancaster County, Becky knows well the significance...
13) Riding lessons
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2007, c2004
Language
English
Description
As a world-class equestrian and Olympic contender, Annemarie Zimmer lived for the thrill of flight atop a strong, graceful animal. Then, at eighteen, a tragic accident destroyed her riding career and Harry, the beautiful horse she cherished.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Ali spends the summer with her aunt and cousin at the family's vacation home, she stumbles upon a secret that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over thirty years.
16) Hideaway
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Caitlyn Sullivan had come from a long line of Hollywood royalty, stretching back to her Irish immigrant great-grandfather. At nine, she was already a star- yet still an innocent child who loved to play hide and seek with her cousins at the family home in Big Sur. It was during one of those games that she disappeared. Some may have considered her a pampered princess, but Cate was in fact a smart, scrappy fighter, and she managed to escape her abductors....
18) On the run
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
Description
For eight years, single mother Grace Archer has been raising her daughter in Alabama. But when violence threatens to shatter Grace and Frankie's idyllic home, the waiting is over. The ghosts of the past have returned.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Determined to find life on her own terms, Marta leaves Switzerland and lands in the central valley of California with her children and husband in tow, and years later, when Marta's oldest daughter, Hildie, gains her independence by becoming a nurse, marrying and beginning a family of her own, each woman is forced to confront her faulty but well-meaning desire to help her daughter find her God-given place in the world.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Isabelle McAvoy (58), private art consultant in New York City. The first half of the book focuses on her past, having three daughters with three different men and following her through each of those relationships. Her first love was a reclusive American living in France, much older than her, who was always a part of their daughter's life, though they never married. Her second husband went to prison for fraud when Isabelle was pregnant with her second...
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