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1) Jo's boys
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Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Recounts the further adventures, successes, and failures of the numerous young men of Plumfield school. Sequel to "Little Men."
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
Librarian Martha Storm has always found it easier to connect with books than people--though not for lack of trying. She keeps careful lists of how to help others in her superhero-themed notebook. And yet, sometimes it feels like she's invisible. All of that changes when a book of fairy tales arrives on her doorstep. Inside, Martha finds a dedication written to her by her best friend--her grandmother Zelda--who died under mysterious circumstances years...
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
In a look at mental illness that weaves togther three timelines, Greyson Todd leaves his successful Hollywood career and wife and young daughter to travel the world, giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he has been forced to keep hidden for almost twenty years.
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English
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Description
Judd Foxman's wife, Jen, has left him for his boss, a Howard Stern-like radio personality, but it is the death of his father and the week of sitting shivah with his enjoyably dysfunctional family that motivates him. Presided over by their mother, a celebrated parenting expert despite her children's difficulties, the mourning period brings each of the family members to unexpected epiphanies about their own lives and each other.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"Readers will be swept up by well-drawn characters, each with her own romantic predicament, in this deft fictional examination of fragile and frayed familial bonds."—Shelf Awareness on The Island Villa
A messy family drama and a steamy little romance unfold under the Mediterranean sun for the perfect summer escape...
Celebrated romance...
A messy family drama and a steamy little romance unfold under the Mediterranean sun for the perfect summer escape...
Celebrated romance...
Author
Series
Runnymede volume 3.5
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A life-changing lesson about family and the pleasure and heartbreak that comes with it is told in this story of Juts and Wheezie Hunsenmier, Jut's daughter Nickel, their cousin Leroy, and their day-trip to the shores of Chesapeake Bay in August, 1952.
Author
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Swindled out of his home by his gold-digging wife, successful accountant Gus Hollister returns to his grandmother Rose's Virginia farmhouse where he helps the residents of Blossom Farm expand their business and finds the courage to love again.
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Language
English
Description
Sometimes the happiness were looking for has been there all along. Adele and Justine have never been close. Born twenty years apart, Justine was already an adult when Addie was born. The sisters love each other but they dont really know each other. When Addie dropped out of university to care for their ailing parents, Justine, a successful lawyer, covered the expenses. It was the best arrangement at the time but now that their parents are gone, the...
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Language
English
Description
Mackenzie Dienes seems to have it all--a beautiful home, close friends and a successful career as an elite winemaker with the family winery. There's just one problem--it's not her family, it's her husband's. In fact, everything in her life is tied to him--his mother is the closest thing to a mom that she's ever had, their home is on the family compound, his sister is her best friend. So when she and her husband admit their marriage is over, her pain...
11) Shadow tag
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Irene America, having discovered that her artist husband Gil is reading her diary, begins making things up for him to find, placing their marriage on even shakier ground, and while she drinks and works on her doctoral thesis about a painter of Native American subjects, Gil begins the defining work of his career, and their three children suffer the consequences of their parents' failed relationship.
Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Plantagenet Palliser must face new challenges and a changing world if he is to hold his family together in the final installment of the Palliser Novels. After losing his devoted wife, Glencora, Duke Plantagenet Palliser takes on a task he has never had the time or skills to bother with before: dealing with his children. Palliser has never been a doting father, what with the responsibilities of title and duty constantly beckoning him away, but now...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
A stranger came to town and stole her heart Sue Pringle has never met anyone like John Darnay before. A painter who roams the countryside with brush in hand, Darnay is so absorbed in his art that he can barely remember to feed himself-a stark contrast to the practical shopkeepers and shepherds of her tiny village. Working as his housekeeper allows Sue to observe the eccentric Darnay unnoticed as he goes about his work translating the beautiful Scottish...
Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
For an ambitious, keenly intelligent woman, lying proves to be the easiest way to get through life, in this Victorian-era classic. Lizzie Greystock is a woman of rare cunning and determination-both of which she uses to better her lot in life. This is especially true when she manages to convince the ailing Sir Florian Eustace to marry her shortly before his demise, leaving Lizzie both a wealthy widow and the mother to Florian's young son. A born...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
In the wake of his mother's death, Harry doesn't know where to start. To call his mother a hoarder is being kind. To complicate matters, his ex-girlfriend shows up on the doorstep with a letter sent by his mother just before she died which contains instructions to help him find priceless jewelry box hidden among the mess.
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Language
English
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Julie Pike is getting better at starting over. Living on Seabreeze Island has been a challenge, but now that she has a budding relationship with Dawson, a better relationship with her sister and a new job, things are looking up.
That is, until Dixie's long lost - and quite angry looking - son shows up at her door on Christmas Day.
As she worries about her Dixie's new medical diagnosis, she has no idea what drama is about to surround her,
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Series
Hopeless volume 02
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In Hopeless, Sky left no secret unearthed, no feeling unshared and no memory forgotten, but Holder's past remains a mystery. He is haunted by the little girl he let walk away from him and he has spent his entire life searching for her. He had hoped that he would finally gain closure and be able to rid himself of his guilt the moment they were reconnected. But he could not have anticipated that the exact opposite would occur and even more guilt and...
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Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Keith Weston nearly lost his life in an act of arson. He survived--but with devastating physical and emotional scars. Without his mother, he has no one to help him heal, no money, nothing to live for but the medications that numb his pain. Isolated and angry, his hatred has one tight focus: his half-sister, Maggie Lockwood. Nineteen-year-old Maggie spent a year in prison for the acts that led up to the fire. Now she's back home. But her release cannot...
19) The Moffats
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Series
Language
English
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The adventures of the four Moffat children and their widowed mother in New England.
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