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Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jeremy Marsh is now living in Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, and awaiting the birth of their daughter. But, just when things are looking good, an unsettling and mysterious message brings trouble from the past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man. Light in August is the story od Lena Grove's search for the father of her unborn child, and features one of Faulkner's most memorable characters: Joe Christmas, a desperate drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.
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Language
English
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Description
New York Times best-selling author Shannon Hale makes her adult fiction debut with The Actor and the Housewife. When Becky, a housewife with screenwriting dreams, attracts the interest of Felix, a Hollywood star, the two quickly become friends. Though the sexual tension is obvious, Becky has no intention of cheating on her husband-but would Felix cheat on his wife? As their friendship blossoms, rumors and suspicion threaten to derail their platonic...
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Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Midwife Murders comes a twisted psychological thriller about a mother-to-be trying to find proof that she's being stalked, even when everyone around her distrusts her mother's intuition. Emily Atkinson leads a complicated life in New York City. She's a successful marketing executive who lives in a luxury apartment and enjoys a glamorous existence until she lands in the hospital with a double diagnosis:...
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English
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Description
"In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl, Bridie, procured by the nuns from their orphanage as an extra set of hands. At first, this Bridie seems unschooled...
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Series
Language
English
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After a comedy of errors on Christmas Eve, a five-month pregnant woman, traveling to Cedar Cove to search for her child's father--who doesn't know she's pregnant--finds herself lodging in an apartment above a barn. The residents of Cedar Grove come to her rescue as an early labor begins.
12) Strange but true
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home--a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse--but John's not here. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb. Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's master storytellers"--...
17) The family tree
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
When their new neighbor who happens to be a young widow becomes pregnant, each of the three wives on the cul-de-sac in suburban Connecticut examines her own marriage and "the loyalties that perhaps have been taken too much for granted."--Jacket.
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