Anna Fields
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
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From bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons comes a bittersweet and finely wrought story of friendship, family, and Charleston society.
At twelve, Emily Parmenter knows alone all too well. Left mostly to herself after her beautiful young mother disappeared and her beloved older brother died, Emily is keenly aware of yearning and loss. Rather than be consumed by sadness, she has built a life around the faded plantation where her remote father and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe.
New York Times Bestseller Ann Patchett's award winning, bestselling novel that balances themes of love and crisis as disparate characters learn that music is their only common language-now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe.
Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful...
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Chicago stars volume 7
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Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard is the luckiest man in the world: a bona-fide sports superstar and the pride of the NFL with a profitable side career as a buff billboard model for End Zone underwear. But life in the glory lane has started to pale, and Dean has set off on a cross-country trip to figure out what's gone wrong. When he hits a lonely stretch of Colorado highway, he spies something that will shake up his gilded life in ways he...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
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Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber, as a word, was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound, but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it; especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer. Late in the afternoon the sun slanted down into the mossy yard belonging to Francie Nolan's house,...
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Edith Wharton was an American novelist, poet and short story writer whose works display her mastery over the realistic fiction genre. In 1922, two years after winning the Pulitzer Prize for "The Age of Innocence", Wharton wrote "The Glimpses of the Moon". The novel centered around two young newlyweds, who arranged their marriage in order to take advantage of their wealthy friends' generosity. However, things do not end quite as they planned when they...
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Truth volume 1
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Twenty-six years ago, even before a series of brutal murders rocked the idyllic town of Bowers Inlet, Cassie Burke lost her parents, her sister, and nearly her own life to a transient befriended by her father. Back then, Cassie was a scared kid--now, she's a homicide cop. Back then, the suspect was caught and convicted; he died in prison. But now the killing has started again. And all signs indicate that the Bayside Strangler has come back for more....
7) The Falls
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Harper Audio
Pub. Date
2004
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It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, "the Widow Bride of the Falls," begins a relentless seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found. At her side is confirmed bachelor and pillar of the community Dirk Burnaby, who is unexpectedly drawn to her. What follows is a passionate love affair, marriage, and family -- a seemingly perfect...
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Truth volume v 3
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More than twenty years after her father was convicted and executed for killing several college students, a woman returns to Stone River, Maryland to investigate a killing spree that bears a striking resemblance to those for which her father was executed.
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Truth volume 2
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Two children who mysteriously disappeared twenty-one years ago are the last thing on Lorna Temple's mind when she returns to her Pennsylvania hometown to sell the old family property in the wake of her parents' passing. But instead of memories, the fields where Lorna grew up yield something utterly chilling, the body of Jason Eagan. Jason is was the prime suspect in the murder of his sister Melinda. The local police consider the case closed but Lorna...
11) Bette
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Series
Women of Ivy Manor volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2005
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Elizabeth “Bette” Leigh Black comes of age in the years before World War II. Although money is scarce in the aftermath of the Depression, her home life is happy and filled with love, and Bette dreams of one day having her own family. But as the war taints their sheltered world, Bette begins to realize life is sometimes cruel—and not everyone has the happiness she does. Eagerly and secretly, she becomes involved in anti-Nazi espionage, even though...
13) Hot ice
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International jewel thief Douglas Lord hijacks heiress Whitney MacAllister's Mercedes, then brings her on as a partner in a race to find a lost treasure in the wilds of Madagascar.
15) Alone
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An elite sniper is forced to question his instincts when he is accused of shooting the wrong man.
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In dire need of a job, Todd Fielding accepts the offer to work at The Brindle Times—even if she has to move to the lackluster town of Brindle. As she settles into her new home, Todd is fully prepared to adapt to the boredom of small-town life, but her preconceptions of Brindle are completely shattered when a local girl disappears. Even more shocking to Todd is the town's sheer indifference to the incident. No one—not even the police—appears...
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1991
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A mystery writer must solve the puzzle of her past when she meets the South Carolina family she never knew existed. Popular mystery novelist Molly Hunt knows all about the twists and turns of fiction, but real life has thrown her for a loop. Raised by adoptive parents on Long Island, Molly has just made a stunning discovery: She's the daughter of South Carolina blue bloods and was kidnapped as an infant from their ancestral home in Charleston. Now,...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1990
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New York clinical psychologist Lynn McLeod has never backed away from a child in need. But a plea for her services in Blue Ridge country tries Lynn's compassion. Ten-year-old Jilly is no random traumatized girl. She's the daughter of Lynn's unfaithful ex-husband, Stephen. Despite the turbulent emotions it stirs in her, Lynn can't say no. Perhaps this is her last chance to heal her own wounds . . . From the outside, the Ashe's cliffside home is an...
20) Wild justice
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Series
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2000
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Seven years ago, Phillip Margolin seized the imagination of thriller readers everywhere with his chilling breakout bestseller, Gone, but Not Forgotten. After five subsequent New York Times bestsellers, Margolin now returns to the haunting terrain of Gone, but Not Forgotten with a mesmerizing tour de force of psychological suspense, an electrifying tale of revenge and retribution that shows a master storyteller at the very peak of his craft.
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