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Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A tour de force novel about a troubled marriage and the one old forgotten promise that might be able to save it. Quinn and Graham's perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart. The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair. All Your Perfects is a profound novel about...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Unfolding over the course of a single emotionally fraught day, this stunning novel encompasses a lifetime of dreams, regrets and reckonings. Maggie and Ira Moran are on a road trip from Baltimore, Maryland to Deer Lick, Pennsylvania to attend the funeral of a friend. Along the way, they reflect on the state of their marriage, its trials and its triumphs - through their quarrels, their routines, and their ability to tolerate each other's faults with...
3) Matched
Author
Series
Matched trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
369 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her, so when Xander appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate--until Ky Markham's face appears for an instant before the screen fades to black.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two years after losing her husband of twenty-five years, Lisey looks back at the sometimes frightening intimacy that marked their marriage, her husband's successes as a novelist, and his secretive nature that established Lisey's supernatural belief systems.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Promising to be the debut novel of the season The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of violence against her husband?and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive... Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel...
Author
Series
The Glittering Court volume 3
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 24
Physical Desc
479 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tamsin Wright will do anything to reach the Glittering Court's top ranks and, even after a shipwreck exposes her to new cultures and beliefs, holds tight to the secret that would unravel everything if uncovered.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko is targeted by bandits who wish to stop her arranged marriage, a situation that compels her to infiltrate the gang, disguised as a boy, to track down the person responsible for the target on her back.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. In the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Cathedral. She has produced a monster of stick and snow who will do her bidding-- and exact her revenge. Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, fled to the human world and lives in the woods. When she is chased through the streets by the hag Bogdana, Suren is saved by Prince Oak, the heir to Elfhame-- and the boy...
10) The wedding
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
With the preparations for his daughter's wedding serving as a catalyst, Wilson Lewis realizes that his relationship with his wife of thirty years is threatened, and sets out to make his wife fall in love with him once again.
11) The caged graves
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Returning to her hometown of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, in 1867 to marry a man she has never met, seventeen-year-old Verity Boone gets caught up in the a mystery surrounding the graves of her mother and aunt and a dangerous hunt for Revolutionary-era gold.
Author
Series
[We set the dark on fire volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society. Depending on her specialization, a graduate will one day run a husband’s household or raise his children. Both paths promise a life of comfort and luxury, far from the frequent political uprisings of the lower class. Daniela Vargas is the school’s top student, but her pedigree is a lie. She must keep the truth hidden or be sent...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nujood Ali's childhood came to an abrupt halt in 2008 when her father arranged at age 10 for her to be marrried to a man three times her age. Nujood tells of abuse at her husband's hand and of her daring escape. Nujood's courageous defiance of both Yemeni customs and her own family has inspired other young girls in the Middle East to challenge their marriages.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Lady Victoria Aston, obsessed with Jane Austen and content to stay home, is suddenly expected to enter society and find a husband, preferably one who cares for her more than her dowry.
15) Serpent & Dove
Author
Series
Serpent and Dove volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
519 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two years ago Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all magic. Sworn to the Church as a Chasseur, Reid Diggory has lived by one principle: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Then a wicked stunt forces the two into holy matrimony. Lou is unable to ignore her growing feelings, yet powerless to change what she is. A choice must be made... and love makes fools of us all. -- Adapted from jacket.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Naila's vacation to visit relatives in Pakistan turns into a nightmare when she discovers her parents want to force her to marry a man she's never met"--
17) Requiem
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
391, 27 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"While Lena navigates the increasingly dangerous Wilds, her best friend, Hana, lives a safe, loveless life in Portland."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
354 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jessica, adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is descended from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that she is betrothed to a vampire prince, who poses as a foreign exchange student while courting her.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After the American Revolution, newlyweds Alexander and Elizabeth Hamilton find themselves in New York City, with Alex facing off against a rival lawyer and Eliza struggling to make a home and feeling neglected by her husband.
20) All for one
Author
Series
The Alex and Eliza trilogy volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alex and Eliza's household continues to expand as they prepare for an arrival of their own, but new developments in their lives bring unforeseen consequences.