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1) Jane Eyre
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"In early nineteenth-century England, poor and plain, Jane Eyre begins life as a lonely orphan in the household of her hateful aunt. Despite the oppression she endures at home, and then later at a harsh boarding school, Jane manages to emerge with her spirit and integrity unbroken. She becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she finds herself falling in love with her employer, the dark, impassioned Mr. Rochester. But an explosive secret tears...
4) Sweet talk
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Pub. Date
2012
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When his carefully planned FBI sting is foiled by IRS attorney Olivia MacKenzie's efforts to untangle an elaborate Ponzi scheme, agent Grayson Kincaid becomes the woman's protector against dangerous and corrupt adversaries.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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To Kill a Mockingbird has become one of the best-loved classics of all time since its publication in 1960. It has sold more than 30 million copies, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, was a New York Times bestseller for more than 40 weeks, was made into an enormously popular movie starring Gregory Peck, and has been translated into 20 languages. Now, 40 years after it was first published, HarperCollins is issuing a new hardcover edition at a reasonable...
6) Two by two
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
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"At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive and an expansive home in Raleigh. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is the center of that. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear...and no one is more surprised than Russ when he finds every aspect of the life he took for granted...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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A serial killer is kidnapping young girls, breaking their bones, and leaving them to die. Ryan Evans is an intelligence officer who is alienated from his own family. When the BoneMan kidnaps Ryan's daughter, Ryan must take on this deranged killer himself to save her.
8) Don't go
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Pub. Date
2013
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Fleeing home from his military service in Afghanistan when his wife dies in an apparent freak household accident, Dr. Mike Scanlon struggles with the tragedy, his inability to bond with his new baby daughter and a downsizing in his medical practice only to discover a shocking secret that changes his understanding of everything.
10) Empire falls
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 34
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Milo Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once-successful logging town of Empire Falls, Maine, with his partner, Mrs. Whiting, who is the heir to a faded logging and textile legacy.
11) The Tuscan child
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"In 1944, a wounded British bomber pilot parachuted into German-occupied Tuscany and found refuge in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. Nearly thirty years later his estranged daughter finds a letter addressed to Sofia and embarks on a journey to Tuscany to discover his secrets and a past some would prefer be left undisturbed"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
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"A stirring classic of love, revenge, and resurrection, the novel's hero, Sydney Carton, a lazy alcoholic -- but honorable attorney who is in love with Lucie Manette, a beautiful woman brought up in London. When Lucie marries Charles Darney, a man condemned to death for his ties to the aristocratic Evremonde family, Carton makes the supreme sacrifice on the bloodstained streets of Paris. In this rousing historical romance, Dickens exposes his severe...
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Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember, hitting the high notes like no one else. When she is twelve, her father convinces the owner of a bar in Lake City, Texas, to let her perform, and she stuns the audience. In the ensuing years, never staying anywhere for long, father and daughter move from one dusty town to the next, her passion for music growing every time she takes the mike in another roadhouse. But it is not an easy life for...
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Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2008
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Whisked away to America when her father is falsely accused of slave trading, Catherine Newbury disguises her identity and becomes a sought-after seamstress in Philadelphia, where she catches the eye of an architect who met her before she went into hiding.
16) Thick as thieves
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"Twenty years ago in the dead of night, four seemingly random individuals pulled the ultimate heist and almost walked away with half a million dollars. But by daybreak, their plan had been shot to hell. One of them was in the hospital. One was in jail. One was dead. And one got away with it. Arden Maxwell, the daughter of the man who disappeared all those years ago, presumably with the money, after murdering his accomplice, has never reconciled with...
17) The bone box
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Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2009
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Multiple Gold Medallion winner Bob Hostetler whisks listeners away to ancient and modern Israel for an Indiana Jones-like adventure. When an agnostic archaeologist unearths the ossuary of a first-century high priest, he discovers compelling evidence of Christ's resurrection. But this incredible find soon pits him against Jewish factions, jealous rivals, frenzied media- and his own beliefs.
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After the death of her father, Isabel Archer, a young American woman, travels to England to stay with her aunt, where she finds herself an object of affection for several men. When she is left a large legacy by her ailing uncle, she also attracts the attention of those with an interest in her substantial fortune. Faced with decisions about her future, Isabel must live with the consequences of the choices she makes, as her life is forever altered.
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