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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
Formats
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
Series
Language
English
Description
It's autumn in Harmony, and Pastor Sam Gardner has vowed to be ready for Christmas. Determined to redeem a dreadful history of gift giving, Sam enrolls in a scrapbooking class to make a Christmas gift his wife will never forget. However, Sam's absence from their home every Wednesday night, coupled with his fishy alibi of attending a men's group, raises her suspicions.
Meanwhile, Sam struggles in the class and must attempt to complete his project...
Author
Series
Regalo grande volume 2
Publisher
Fleming H. Revell
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In an attempt to rediscover joy in her life, Colleen Bradley takes an antiquing road trip down the East Coast with her old friend Bitty and teenager Tamara, where the three women learn about true friendship.
15) An Italian wife
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
283 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An Italian immigrant watches her six children grow up while she searches for her seventh, the product of a love affair who was given up for adoption.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1920s Ceylon, a young Englishwoman married to a widower and tea plantation owner discovers he is keeping terrible secrets about his past, including the fate of his first wife, forcing her to make a devastating choice.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
To save her marriage, Rosemary gives herself over to a newly formed Christian sect, run by charismatic young pastor Papa Jake, where she struggles to survive in this strange community plagued by fires that Papa Jake declares to be God's will.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
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Description
"Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright...Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University,...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Lights of Lowell volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004.
Edition
Paperback.
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lights of Lowell book 1. Tapestry of Hope weaves together the heartrending and hope-building stories of two young women. Jasmine Wainwright is the sheltered daughter of a Mississippi plantation owner. When her father strikes a deal to sell his cotton to Lowell mills through businessman Bradley Houston, he throws an arranged marriage with Jasmine into the bargain. Kiara O'Neill and her brother escape starvation in Ireland by traveling to America as...