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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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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.
6) Allegiant
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
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The highly anticipated conclusion of the #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent series.--The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered. When offered a chance to explore the world, Tris is ready. Perhaps she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Tris must battle to comprehend...
7) After you
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
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In the wake of an accident that leaves her back at home and in a support group, Louisa meets paramedic Sam Fielding, a man who might finally understand her, but she is forced to change her plans when someone from her past reappears.
10) Red at the bone
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"Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. Moving forward and backward in time, with the power of poetry and the emotional richness of a narrative ten times its length, Jacqueline Woodson's extraordinary novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of this child."--Provided...
13) Imagine me gone
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When Margaret's fiance?, John, is hospitalized for depression, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic, and the story of how, over the span of decades, his younger siblings--the responsible Celia...
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Seasons of the heart volume 2
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As the agreeably long Indian summer wears on, fifteen-year-old Josh stands on the brink of manhood. Living with his Aunt Lou, great Uncle Charlie, and his grandfather, he spends most of his free time either studying for school, loafing with his friends, or fishing. But when the town's schoolteacher leaves unexpectedly, and a replacement teacher arrives with a pretty daughter, strange new feelings begin to stir in Josh's heart.
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"After my son Kyle Ferriera van Leer declared his major in Egyptology at Yale in 2010, he mentioned the Book of Two Ways in passing. Without knowing a thing about it, I said, 'That's a great title for a novel.' It was only after he began to explain what it actually was that I realized what I needed to write about--the construct of time, and love, and life, and death"--
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Teenage Wen-shan was taken from her family home in mainland China during the Cultural Revolution to live with her great-uncle, a former general in the Chinese army who became one of the first converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hong Kong. For ten years, Wen-shan has carried the sorrow of abandonment in her heart, with few memories of her life before. But at the death of Chairman Mao, Wen-shan receives a mysterious wooden...
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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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One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. Halfway across the country, the plane crashes. Edward...
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2020.
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"The 16th novel ... finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light. On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand's godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on...
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