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81) Grace
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
An old man reminisces about his first love, a young runaway who taught him more about life than anyone had before or since.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Just when Charity's wild imagination failed her, a flesh-and-blood hero walked into her life. Best-selling author Charity Anderson returns to her hometown of Kings Meadow to defeat a bad case of writer's block. She imagines she'll spend a lonely summer writing and then return to her home in Boise. She soon finds herself caring for Buck Malone, a wilderness guide -- and the object of her unrequited teenage crush. But what else can she do? Her dog...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Waking up in parallel "what if" world where she's with her high school sweetheart and her daughter Libby is still alive, Celine is forced to face the problems in her real life and the hard truth that not everything can be fixed by a mother's love.
85) Snowflake Bay
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Interior designer Fiona McCrae has left fast-paced Manhattan to move back home to peaceful Blueberry Cove. Now she's hooked into planning her big sister Hannah's Christmas wedding-- in less than seven weeks. The last thing she needs is for her first love, Ben Campbell, to return to neighboring Snowflake Bay! As kids, Fiona was the bratty little sister Ben mercilessly teased, while pining after Hannah. Will Ben notice her now? More importantly, with...
86) Sweet on you
Author
Series
Bradford sisters volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Britt and Zander have been best friends since they met thirteen years ago, and Zander has been in love with her all those years. When Zander's uncle dies of mysterious causes, he returns to Merryweather, Washington. As they work together to uncover his uncle's tangled past, will the truth of what lies between them come to light?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Whiskey Creek novels volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unable to prove her innocence, Phoenix Fuller was sent to prison for running down a romantic rival. Now, after serving her 17-year sentence, Phoenix wants to return to Whiskey Creek and get to know her son, Jacob. But Jacob's father, Riley, isn't exactly welcoming.
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ariel is a beautiful mermaid princess with an even more beautiful voice, who just happens to be enthralled with the human world so much that she disobeys her father to visit the surface. When she rescues a handsome prince from drowning, the sea-witch Ursula recognizes an opportunity to tempt the naive girl and overthrow the kingdom at the same time.
Author
Series
Hidden Springs volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Elsie Miller has witnessed - and experienced - Levi Wyse's forgetfulness too many times to count. But even after they broke things off, Elsie never forgot the handsome Amish toymaker or her love for him. So when Levi's sister asks her to help keep him organized for the busy Christmas season, Elsie agrees. But she didn't expect working alongside Levi to reignite those old feelings. Secretly, Levi's heart will always belong to Elsie. But she deserves...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves. Five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva's feet, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fever's history...
91) The paper palace
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"A story of summer, secrets, love and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades. Set against the summer backwoods and beaches of Cape Cod, The Paper Palace unfolds over 24 hours and across 50 years, as decades of family legacy, love, lies, secrets, and one unspeakable childhood tragedy lead wife and mother Elle Bishop to the precipice of a life-changing decision....
92) Serpentine
Author
Series
Serpentine volume 1
Publisher
Month9Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
"In the beginning, Owen's story was blank . . . then he was befriended by Lily, the aspiring author who helped him find his voice. Together, the two have spent years navigating first love and amassing an inseparable friend group. But all of it is upended one day when his school's administration learns Owen's secret: that he was sexually assaulted by a classmate."
Author
Series
Holland family saga volume 3
Language
English
Description
On its surface, life in Houston is as you would expect: drive-in restaurants, souped-up cars, jukeboxes, teenagers discovering their sexuality. But beneath the glitz and superficial normalcy, a class war has begun, and it is nothing like the conventional portrayal of the decade. Against this backdrop Aaron Holland Broussard discovers the poignancy of first love and a world of violence he did not know existed. When Aaron spots the beautiful and gifted...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"'See Naples and die.' To Heddi those words ring true. There is nothing more heartbreakingly beautiful than this city built on Roman ruins and set against a sleeping volcano. Despite years of navigating the narrow, winding streets of Naples's Spanish Quarter, the city never fails to instill in her the pain of longing, a desire to belong. A place she wants to call home despite being l'americano or the American. For Heddi's group of university friends,...
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"English professor Athena Murphy is an authority on the novels of the Brontë sisters. But as they say in academia, publish or perish. To save her job, Athena decides to write a biography of C.L. Garland, the author heating up bestseller lists with spicy retellings of classic literature. Tracking down the reclusive writer and uncovering her secret identity, though, means Athena must return to her small midwestern hometown where Garland--and her ex-boyfriend,...
97) Renegade cowboy
Author
Series
Rocky Mountain riders novels volume 3
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A third installment in the best-selling Rocky Mountain Riders series features ruggedly sexy bull-riding brothers who are searching for the right women to tame their wild hearts.
98) The Amish nanny
Author
Series
Women of Lancaster County volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When Ada Rupp has the chance to travel to Switzerland as the caregiver of a young child, she leaps at the opportunity. Anxious to learn more about her forebears, Ada enlists the help of a young Mennonite scholar named Daniel, but even as she develops feelings for him, she cannot get her first love, Will, out of her head or heart.
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 5
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Three teens chase their own version of the American Dream during the Roaring 20s in this YA remix of The Great Gatsby"--
New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest in the city's glamor. Going to New York is all about establishing himself as a young professional, which could set up his future -- and his life as a man -- and benefit his family. Nick rents a small house in West Egg from his...
Author
Series
The billionaire builders volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
HGTV's Property Brothers meets The Marriage Bargain in this third volume in the Billionaire Builders series, an all-new, heart-wrenching, and sexy contemporary romance from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst.
Tristan Pierce left the family business to carve out a life of his own, but never forgot his passionate affair with the much younger, inexperienced Sydney Greene, or the hurtful breakup that tore...
Tristan Pierce left the family business to carve out a life of his own, but never forgot his passionate affair with the much younger, inexperienced Sydney Greene, or the hurtful breakup that tore...
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