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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
440 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When her father impulsively moves the family to mid-1970s Alaska to live off the land, young Leni and her mother are forced to confront the dangers of their lack of preparedness in the wake of a dangerous winter season.
2) One summer
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her "stand-in mother," a bold black woman named Rosaleen, insults the three biggest racists in town, Lily Owens joins Rosaleen on a journey to Tiburon, South Carolina, where they are taken in by three black, bee-keeping sisters.
5) The rescue
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Reluctant to take chances in the world of romance, volunteer firefighter Taylor McAden experiences a dramatic change of heart after a near-fatal automobile accident leads to a fateful encounter with Denise Holden.
6) Two by two
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive and an expansive home. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is the center of that. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear, and no one is more surprised than Russ when he finds every aspect of the life he took for granted turned upside...
7) Every breath
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six, she's been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family's cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to ready the house for sale and mull over some difficult decisions about her future. Tru Walls has never visited North Carolina but is summoned to Sunset Beach by a letter...
9) Sunset
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
As John Baxter plans to marry Elaine, other members of the Baxter family confront new challenges as they deal with memories of the past, the changes of the present, and preparations for the future.
10) Fall of giants
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 52
Language
English
Description
Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English and Welsh--as they move through the world-shaking dramas of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
11) The four winds
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Description
"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...