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"At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril's son Danny, as he and his older...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
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The Nolans lived in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn from 1902 until 1919. Their daughter, Francie, and their son, Neely, knew more than their fair share of the privations and sufferings that are the lot of a great city's poor.
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Four young cousins seek their own paths in life, propelled by their strong heritage and the power of their faith. An honest portrayal of the explosive problems of the sixties and early seventies, this final chapter of Hearts of the children offers the hope that families can hold together and that good people, with the resources the Lord offers, can not only survive but prosper.
5) Take me home
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Hearts of the children volume 4
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English
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Hearts of the children, the sequel series to Children of the promise, continues the story of the Alexander and Bea Thomas family during the tumultuous 1960s and '70s.
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Covenant Communications
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The Chandler family and the young woman with a dangerous secret that they agreed to chaperone to New York City are forced to work on a steamship bound for Panama as they inch closer to their goal of the Great Salt Lake valley via a San Francisco route.
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The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house has seen thirteen children grown and gone--and some returned; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit's East Side, and the loss of a father. The house still stands despite abandoned lots, an embattled city, and the inevitable shift outward to the suburbs. But now, as ailing matriarch Viola finds herself forced to leave her home and move in with her eldest...
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Barrington family saga volume 4
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Covenant Communications
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English
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In Iowa City, Casey Harrison joins the Barrington family and the wounded but spirited Iris as they prepare to make the journey to the Salt Lake Valley and claim the promise of Zion.
10) Miguel Street
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Blackstone Publishing
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[2018]
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English
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A novel set during World War II and narrated by an unnamed, but precociously observant, neighborhood boy living in derelict corner of Trinidad's capital.
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From internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier, a riveting drama of a pioneer family on the American frontier1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck-in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from a local tree man known as John Appleseed so they can cultivate the fifty apple trees required to stake their claim...
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Blackstone Publishing
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[2019]
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English
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A Cambodian farming family struggles against the extreme patriarchal attitudes of their society and a cruel and dictatorial father, within a rural community that is slowly being exposed to the modern world and its values. A mother must fight against memories of her father's death at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, and her powerful desire for revenge. A daughter is married off at sixteen to a wandering husband and his domineering aunt; another daughter...
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