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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Jim, living with his mother and three uncles in the small hamlet of Aliceville, North Carolina, comes of age in the Depression years and begins to realize the largeness of the world outside his happy home.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A second chance at love. The setting is 1910s Maine, the heroine, Roberta Jewett, a divorcee and a man hater. In those days a divorcee was the equivalent of a slut and Roberta must put up with opprobrium from the town and lechery from men. Luckily, there is Gabriel Farley, a widower, and his children like Roberta's children. By the author of Home Song.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jolyon Chadwick, despite long odds, has become a veritable success story. He's a famous television presenter, and the company that he started is thriving despite his mother Maria's disdain for the project. Now Maria, who abandoned Jolyon and his father long ago, has been widowed from her second marriage and returns to ask forgiveness for her transgressions. Can Jolyon trust her motives? Does she really want a relationship with her son, or does she...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories unfolding against the backdrop of American life over the last thirty years includes "College Town 1980," "The Little Boy," and "Mirror Ball," in which a young man steals a girl's soul during a one-night stand.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In a loving tribute to her father, who worked his own lifelong magic as a telegraph operator, the bestselling author of "Like Water for Chocolate" pens an enchanting, bittersweet story touched with graphic earthiness and wit. It is the tale of Jublio, who has a gift for hearing what is in people's hearts, and what happens when he puts that gift aside as an old man. Spanish-language events.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Cautious Grace Singleton, uncertain of her place in an intimidating world. Outspoken Hannah Parrish, harboring a private fear that may change her life. Fragile Amelia Declose, shattered by devastating grief. Circumstance has brought these disparate women of "a certain age" to a Pennsylvania boardinghouse where three square meals and a sagging bed is the most any of them can look forward to. But friendship will take them on a startling journey to a...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
The anti-hero of this novel, Johnny Panuzio, an Italian-American advertising executive from Connecticut, seeks refuge from today's problems by daydreaming of old-country values. When he finally decides to act by writing a series of articles on inequality for the local paper, his bravery costs him a demotion at work.
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taking a vacation together to grieve over the death of one of their group, five friends are dismayed by the ramshackle mansion they find instead of the garden villa they expected, and the unexpected appearance of the new girlfriend of the widowed husband.
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Updike's seventeenth novel begins in 1910, and traces God's relation to four generations of an American family, beginning with Clarence Wilmot, a Presbyterian clergyman in Paterson, New Jersey. He loses his faith, and becomes an encyclopedia salesman and a motion-picture addict. The remainder of Clarence's family moves to the small town of Basingstoke, Delaware, where his cautious son, Teddy, becomes a mailman. Faithless himself, Teddy marries...
34) Wild Decembers
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"Charts the quick and critical demise of relations between Joseph Brennan and Mick Bugler, 'the warring sons of warring sons,' in the countryside of western Ireland." -- Jacket.
Author
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Covenant of Water: A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of Ethiopia and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. • “Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist.” —USA Today
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful...
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount. And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary Beth becomes focused on him, and is blindsided by a shocking act of violence.
37) Independence day
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Like most people Frank Bascombe of New Jersey, a divorced realtor, has plans for the Fourth of July weekend: find a new home for a client, see his semi-girlfriend and take his son to a sports hall of fame. Instead, one disappointment follows another, but he takes them in his stride--philosophically. By the author of The Sportswriter.
39) Reunion
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
This touching story allows us to see into the lives of the Baxter family as Erin and Sam attempt to adopt a child. As the family looks forward to a heartwarming reunion, they find out that Mr. and Mrs. Baxter have a secret that could change their lives forever.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us--whose writing is "emotionally wrenching and utterly original" (Sarah Shepard, New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars series)--delivers 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...
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