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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Storied matchmaker and Nantucket resident Dabney Kimball has her own life and match turned upside down when her true love of twenty-seven years prior returns to the island.
"48-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others - like her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man - call it meddlesome,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times–bestselling novel about a peasant farmer and his family in early twentieth-century China.
The Good Earth is Buck’s classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the couple’s fortunes improve over the years: They have sons, and save steadily until one day they can afford to buy property...
The Good Earth is Buck’s classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the couple’s fortunes improve over the years: They have sons, and save steadily until one day they can afford to buy property...
3) Commitments
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
408p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
Available as an eBook for the first time, New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky's classic novel, Commitments, about the ties that bind and the love that remains.
Sabrina Stone is struggling to be a good mother and to do what's best for her young, handicapped son. When she meets investigative reporter Derek McGill, who's doing a feature story about special-needs children, Sabrina is immediately struck by his tenderness toward Nicky...and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Growing up under an assumed identity after accidentally shooting her mother and escaping her abusive father, Liza Barton, still fearful that her past will reclaim her, is shocked when her husband inadvertently buys her childhood home.
8) Vanity fair
Author
Language
English
Description
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles—military and domestic—are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of First Comes Love and Something Borrowed, a woman is forced to choose between her family and her most deeply held values. Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville's elite. Her husband's tech business is booming, and her adored son, Finch, is bound for Princeton. Tom Volpe is a single dad working multiple jobs. His adored daughter, Lyla, attends Nashville's...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Jessie Sullivan is summoned home to tiny Egret Island, where she meets Brother Thomas, a monk who is about to take his final vows, and encounters the legend of a mysterious chair dedicated to a saint who had originally been a mermaid.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (9 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One enemy spy knows the secret of the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin--code name: "The Needle"--who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely English woman on an isolated island, who is coming to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life.
14) The summerhouse
Author
Series
Summerhouse volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Best friends for nearly twenty years, three women, all with the same birthday, plan to get together at a summerhouse in Maine to celebrate their approaching fortieth birthdays by taking stock of their lives, loves, choices, and dreams.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A story of friendship set in nineteenth-century China follows an elderly woman and her companion as they communicate their hopes, dreams, joys, and tragedies through a unique secret language.
16) Leap of faith
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Growing up desolate under the eye of a resentful great-aunt on an Iowa farm, Marie-Ange Hawkins dreams of returning to the French chateau where she lived before she was orphaned, but when she finally does so, she learns a devastating truth.
17) Never too late
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
While recovering from a car accident, recently divorced Clare Wilson takes stock of her life and begins a transformation into a confident single woman who is happy to be on her own, which soon makes her the center of male attention.
18) The great Gatsby
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"In a single, engaging volume, The Great Gatsby presents a helpful literary guide to one of America's most prized classic novels. First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby captured the spirit of the Jazz Age and examined the American obsession with love, wealth, material objects, and class. Considered one of the great novels of the 20th century, Fitzgerald s famous work remains relevant for its observations on the pursuit of...
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First paperback edition, Quirk Books.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime. At these meetings they’re as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about their own families.
One...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A missing woman receives a second chance at life, thanks to her billionaire husband--but the consequences are deadly in this gripping psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Before. Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The man by her side claims to be her husband. He's an icon of the tech world, the founder of a lucrative robotics company. He tells...