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1) Emma
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English
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Emma's opening sentence, which describes the titular heroine's many advantages, is loaded with foreboding. Discomfort and vexation lie on the horizon, triggered by her penchant for matchmaking. Emma's latest scheme involves finding a suitable husband for ingenue Harriet Smith, and to that end she persuades the latter to reject good-natured farmer Robert Martin, despite a mutual attraction. Harriet must set her sights higher, she exhorts, fixing on...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Peculiar Treasures follows Katie as she struggles to believe that God can love her, faults and all. Katie turns to the women in her life as she tries to figure out her relationship with her boyfriend, but even their advice can't postpone the decision that will define the woman she's becoming.
3) Happy place
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"A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now-for reasons they're still not discussing-they don't. They broke up...
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To promote her memoir, widow Mia, to find her spark, embarks on a book tour during which she visits her three best friends and discovers if she can rewrite who she is now by revisiting who she was then, maybe she can reignite the spark for all of them.
Three years after the death of her husband, widow Mia is going on a book tour to promote her memoir. Her path will take her to the three friends who have supported her through her darkest hours.
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Women's Murder Club volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When celebrated couple Isa and Ethan Bailey become the victims of a murder in which no evidence is left at the scene, Lindsay Boxer begins an investigation, while reporter Cindy Thomas probes the killing of a preacher who may not have been as saintly as he appeared.
7) Holes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
8) The wish
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English
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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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"The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Mrs. Lincoln's Rival imagines the inner life of Julia Grant, beloved as a Civil War general's wife and the First Lady, yet who grappled with a profound and complex relationship with the slave who was her namesake-until she forged a proud identity of her own. In 1844, Missouri belle Julia Dent met dazzling horseman Lieutenant Ulysses S Grant. Four years passed before their parents...
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Best-selling and award-winning author of the popular Glenbrooke and Christy Miller series, Robin Jones Gunn has sold over 3 million copies of her books worldwide. In Sisterchicks on the Loose!, gal pals Sharon and Penny take off on an adventure. Sharon is not prepared for Penny's latest wild scheme. But this time, Penny won't take no for an answer. Despite initially dragging her feet, Sharon is following Penny-all the way to Finland! The minute they...
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[2022]
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English
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"Two lifelong friends, a bartender and a pastor, decide to trade places the week before Christmas and end up finding love along the way in this delightful novel from the queen of holiday stories, #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Peter Rhinehart and Hank Meyer are best friends, but their lives couldn't be more different. Peter is a local pastor who is dedicated to his community. He spends his time visiting the flock, attending...
15) The rainbow fish
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Rainbow Fish (Picture books) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The most beautiful fish in the entire ocean discovers the real value of personal beauty and friendship.
17) Aftermath
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English
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"Criminal attorney Jamie Powell will accept the consequences for defending her lifelong friend, Dustin, when he's accused of setting the bombs that killed dozens at a local political rally. But she hasn't seen him since he aged out of foster care, and he's always lived on the edge. Can she still trust him? As Jamie investigates his case and the people in his life, she realizes the facts coming to light could be devastating. Someone is setting him...
18) Ominous
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Wyoming Men volume 2
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English
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Three teenaged girls splash in the lake on a sweltering summer evening. Shiloh, Kat, and Ruth are unaware of the man who spies on them from the woods. They have no idea how their lives will be changed by the brutal violence that follows--and the vow of secrecy they take. Fifteen years later, Ruth and Shiloh have both returned to Prairie Creek, Wyoming, where Kat is deputy sheriff. Though they've tried to leave their shared past behind, each has the...
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" A heartwarming story that celebrates how life-changing friendships can be found in all seasons of life. The sprawling lake home Lynn Lundberg built with her husband has been an epicenter of joyful family life, from summer holidays spent around the water, to cookies baked in the kitchen with grandchildren in the fall. But since her husband's sudden passing two years ago, Lynn has been lost in the grief and solitude she feels without him at home....
20) Rick is sick
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Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Jack, the rabbit, tries to make his friend Rick, a sick bear, feel better.
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