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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
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Late one night, a teenage couple drives up to the big white clapboard home on the Blessing estate and leaves a box. In that instant, the lives of those who live and work there are changed forever. Skip Cuddy, the caretaker, finds a baby girl asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep the child . . . while Lydia Blessing, the matriarch of the estate, for her own reasons, agrees to help him. Blessings explores how the secrets of the past...
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Kerstin Kvist, a young nurse fresh out of school has been hired for a position with the Cosway family, residents of the Old Hall in Essex for generations. She is soon introduced to her "charge, " John Cosway, a thirty-nine-year-old man whose strange behavior is vaguely explained by his mother and sisters as part of the madness that runs in the family. Bitter wrangling among Julia Cosway and her four grown daughters becomes increasingly evident. But...
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New American Library
Pub. Date
c2005
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In order to save her beloved home at Friarsgate, Elizabeth Meredith find a suitable husband in the court of King Henry VIII. Impatient with fancy manners and careful speech, she befriends Anne Boleyn and flirts with Flynn Stewart, bastard brother of King James of Scotland. Her admitted weakness for Scots sends her into the arms of Baen MacColl, but she fears that his loyalties may lie elsewhere.
6) Blessings
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Delacorte Press
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Skip Cuddy, caretaker of the Blessing estate, finds a baby asleep in a box and decides he wants to keep her. The secrets of the past, how they affect the decisions and lives of peoople in the present are at the center of this work.
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Norton
Pub. Date
2002
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"Set in early 1941 in Britain when the war seems endless and, perhaps, hopeless. London is on fire from the Blitz, and gardener Gwen Davis has fled the devastated city for the Devon countryside. She volunteers for the Women's Land Army, an organization devoted to growing crops for the war effort." -- Jacket.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006
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"Summoned to the Marquis d'Arc's remote French chateau in 1882 as companion to his daughter Lucy, twenty-year-old American Ellen Edmon finds intrigue, romance, adventure, and danger there and in Paris, heart of the French fashion scene. Once there, Ellen discovers that everything is not as it appears on the surface, and also finds herself falling for the attractive estate manager, who carries secrets of his own. As the tension grows more unbearable,...
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2018.
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Irish thoroughbred : There's nothing left for Adelia Cunnane in Ireland. The aunt she cared for has passed, and the family farm has been sold for taxes. But her uncle Paddy has written her: Come to America... Dee has always had a magical touch with animals, and she finds employment with her uncle on the Maryland horse farm owned by Travis Grant. It's a joy to ride Travis's chestnut thoroughbred--and to spend her first paycheck on luxuries she never...
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