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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"There was one passenger in the coach,-a small dark-haired person in a glossy buff calico dress. She was so slender and so stiffly starched that she slid from space to space on the leather cushions, though she braced herself against the middle seat with her feet and extended her cotton-gloved hands on each side, in order to maintain some sort of balance. Whenever the wheels sank farther than usual into a rut, or jolted suddenly over a stone, she bounded...
3) Little women
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Little Women is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic. The March girls are shown throughout as real people and not mere moral examples as we follow them from childhood through Little Women and Little Women Part Two (known in Europe as Good Wives). The portrayal of the strains and delights of family life is unsurpassed in literature...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Navigating fashionable society, wealthy heiress Rose and her closest friend Phebe find their new paths derailed when their loved ones are put in harm's way by illness and reckless decisions, forcing them both to rise to the occasion and show everyone what they're made of.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Out of the blue, Siân Richards receives a letter from her first love, a boy she met at summer camp-and she sees no reason why she can't write back to Charles Callahan. After all, it's been thirty years and they are both married with families.
But when they decide to meet again, an innocent correspondence becomes a dangerous intimacy. Swept up in the past and consumed by an obsessive love, Charles and Siân risk everything to be together. A heart-wrenching,...
6) Cape Light
Author
Series
Cape Light novels volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel by the American artist journeys to the picturesque village of Cape Light on the coast of New England, a hamlet populated by colorful inhabitants who share a strong sense of community and caring for their neighbors.
Author
Series
Cape Light novels volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emily Warwick struggles to build a new relationship with Sara, the daughter she had given up for adoption two decades earlier, while dealing with her regret over their years apart and falling for newspaper publisher Dan Forbes.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abandoned by his mother in an Acadia National Park campground, Jack tries to make his way back to Boston before anyone figures out what is going on, with only a small toy elephant for company.
Author
Publisher
Regan Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 46
Language
English
Description
With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of...
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
As Stone Cove Island, a quaint New England resort community, struggles to recover from a catastrophic hurricane, seventeen-year-old Eliza cleans out the island's iconic lighthouse and stumbles upon new evidence in an unsolved thirty-year-old murder case.
Author
Series
Bailey Weggins mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Author
Series
Cape Light novels volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Confined to her bed with a bout of pneumonia while the other inhabitants of Cape Light prepare for the holidays, curmudgeonly Lillian Warwick reminisces about the holiday season of 1955, when she met her future husband, Oliver Warwick.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the small town of West Annett, Maine in the 1950's, the minister Tyler Caskey is still grieving two years after the death of his wife. One daughter, Jeannie is sent upstate to live with his overbearing mother. The other Katherine has become antisocial. Tyler turns to his housekeeper Connie Hatch when her teacher suggests Katherine speak to the school counselor. This starts gossip about Katherine's stability and Tyler's possible affair with the...
Author
Series
Sparrow sisters volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When her herbs and tinctures are believed to be implicated in a local tragedy, and Granite Point is consumed by a long-buried fear, healer Patience Sparrow must find a way to turn the tide and return life to this seaside New England hamlet with the help of the town's women.
20) Pruning the dead
Author
Series
Garden Squad volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company/Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"With hundreds flocking to her inaugural garden party, meticulous Lilly Jayne hasn't left a single petal out of place. But the picture-perfect gathering turns unruly upon the arrival of Merilee Frank, Lily's ex-husband's catty third wife. Merilee lives for trouble, so no one is surprised after she drinks too much, shoves a guest into the koi pond, and gets escorted off the property. The real surprise comes days later-when Merilee is found dead in...
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