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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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For as far back as he can remember, the dream of becoming a writer has burned brightly in Thorliff's heart. But when he arrives at college, things are not as he had imagined. Thorliff longs for the familiarity and nurture of his loved ones back home. The distance has created a rift between Thorliff and his childhood sweetheart. The only bright spot in his life is his job at the town newspaper. Will he be forced to leave one dream behind to pursue...
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Language
English
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Laugh-Out-Loud Historical Fiction! Ruth Caldwell has always tried to live up to her mother's expectations of what a lady should be...often with less-than-impressive results. But when she's forced to journey west to meet the father she's never seen, Ruth hopes that this might be the place she'll finally fit in. But her arrival brings about more mayhem than even Ruth is used to. She soon meets Josh McCain, the son of her father's business partner, but...
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Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
Bestselling author B.J. Hoff will delight readers as her unforgettable characters from A Distant Music and The Wind Harp reunite for a dramatic conclusion to The Mountain Song Legacy trilogy.
When a shadow falls over the MacAuley family, newlyweds Jonathan and Maggie Stuart find their faith and newly discovered happiness tested in unforeseen ways. An abrupt summons to return from their honeymoon wrenches them from the joy of their early days of marriage...
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Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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With Prince Albert dying of typhoid, Queen Victoria summons Irish barrister Patrick Fitzgerald to Windsor, a request that results in his beautiful ward narrowly escaping a murder attempt and leads him to believe that dark secrets threaten the queen's troubled court.
10) Love's denial
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
275 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
639 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Laura Joh Rowland's samurai detective novels have enthralled tens of thousands of readers. Now the author turns her gifts for historical fiction to Victorian England and the famous and fascinating Bront? family with this critically acclaimed new thriller. Upon learning that she has been falsely accused of plagiarism, the normally mild-mannered Charlotte Bront? sets off for London to clear her name. But when she unintentionally witnesses a murder,...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
675 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is spring in the year 118, and Hadrian has been emperor of Rome for less than a year. After his long and reluctant investigation of the murders of a handful of local prostitutes, Gaius Petreius Ruso needs to get out of town. With that in mind, he has volunteered for a posting with the army in the far reaches of Britannia-a calmer place for a tired man.But the edge of the Roman Empire is a volatile place; the independent tribes of the North dwell...
13) Web of destiny
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
457 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Language
English
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Living in 1915 near Niagara Falls, seventeen-year-old Bess Heath, who is struggling to cope with the death of her sister and the disgrace of her family, and Tom Cole, whose sixth sense of the river and the falls aids him in daring rescues, are the key players in a transformative love story.
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
539 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's London, 1857, and everything is at stake for Serafina Trent, a woman of means, but not the typical Victorian lady who feels her place is to be seen and not heard. Wealthy widow of a nobleman and daughter of a famous scientist, she's a skeptic who only trusts what can be proven. When her brother's most recent female dalliance, a beautiful actress, is found murdered, all evidence points to him. Especially since the actress had just rejected him...
18) Outlaw marshal
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
435 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
20) Band of Sisters
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Lrg
Physical Desc
683 p.
Language
English