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A Denver neurosurgeon relocates to the small rural town named after her ancestor in the aftermath of a wrongful malpractice suit to recover and reconnect with her estranged father--
Maggie Sullivan has hit a wall in her high-stress career in neurosurgery. After an emergency high-risk procedure, Maggie is in the middle of a wrongful death lawsuit. She returns to Sullivan's Crossing to slow down before she burns out completely. Her eccentric father,...
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IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, some modern editors have relabeled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances. Some critics consider it to be one of Shakespeare's "problem plays", because the first three acts are filled with intense psychological drama, while the last two acts are comedic and supply a happy ending.
The play has been...
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"Jillian James has never had a place she could call home. So when she lands in the sleepy Texas town of Laurel Springs, she's definitely not planning to stay -- except to find a few clues about the father who abandoned her and destroyed her faith in family. Connor Larady is desperate: he's a single dad, and his grandmother, Eugenia, has Alzheimer's. He's the only one around to care for her, and he has no idea how. And now he has to close the quilt...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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These mass market editions of six of Shakespeare's plays feature freshly edited text based on the best early printed versions of each play, full explanatory notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, a key to famous lines and phrases, an introduction to reading Shakespeare's language, and illustrations. Reissue.
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Ramona Quimby volume 4
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
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The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.
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The Golden Bowl comes in the first years of the 20th-century: the publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, decided never to serialise it and published it in New York in December 1904 in two volumes. After just a few months, in February 1905, also Methuen published the novel in London in a one-volume edition.
In 1909, a revised edition appeared as volumes 23 and 24 of the New York edition, and James this time also prepared the preface, in which he reflected...
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House of secrets (Brad Meltzer) volume 1
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When Hazel Nash was six years old, her father taught her: mysteries needed to be solved. Hazel's father is Jack Nash, the host of America's favorite conspiracy TV show, The House of Secrets. Now, years later, Hazel wakes up in the hospital and remembers nothing. She's told she's been in a car accident that killed her father and injured her brother. Then a man from the FBI shows up, asking questions about her dad - and about his connection to the...
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"Loo is twelve when she moves back to the New England fishing village of her early youth. Her father, Hawley, finds work on the boats, while she undergoes the usual heartaches of a new kid in school. But lurking over Loo are mysteries, both of the mother who passed away, of the grandmother she's forbidden to speak to. And hurtling towards both father and daughter are the ghosts of Hawley's past. Before Loo's birth, he was a professional criminal engaged...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race,...
11) Whirlpool
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When an exquisitely crafted, authentic imperial Faberge egg mysteriously shows up at Laurel Swann's home studio, she knows it can only be from one person-her father, who has drifted in and out of her life for as long as she can remember. But this time Jamie Swann leaves her something too many people will kill for.
Out of her league and desperate, Laurel is forced to accept help from the very man who is trying to ensnare her father in his own web of...
12) The scent keeper
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Emmeline lives on a remote island with her father, who teaches her about the natural world through her senses. What he won't explain are the mysterious scents stored in the drawers that line the walls of their cabin, or the origin of the machine that creates them. One day the unforeseen happens, and Emmeline is vaulted out into the real world-- a place of love, betrayal, ambition, and revenge. To understand her past, Emmeline must unlock the clues...
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[Freida McFadden]
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[2021]
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311 pages ; 21 cm
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When one of her surgery patients is found murdered, Nora realizes the manner is eerily similar to her father's serial killings decades earlier.
"When eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Decades later, her father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet existence. When Nora discovers that one of her young female patients...
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How far will a father go to get back his only daughter? And how will he survive in a legal system that crushes those who can't afford to fight back?Mark Gillen has the storybook life other men dream of, complete with a beautiful wife and an adoring five-year-old daughter. Then his wife announces she's leaving him. And taking their daughter with her. The other man is a famous film director with unlimited funds and the keys to stardom and wealth for...
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America’s #1 bestseller!
There are some places you visit, and some places you never leave behind. Danielle Steel’s new novel follows a devoted father and the daughter he raises in the fascinating upstairs-downstairs world of a glamorous Manhattan hotel.
HOTEL VENDÔME
The hotel was old, run-down. But to Swiss-born hotelier Hugues Martin, it is a rough...
There are some places you visit, and some places you never leave behind. Danielle Steel’s new novel follows a devoted father and the daughter he raises in the fascinating upstairs-downstairs world of a glamorous Manhattan hotel.
HOTEL VENDÔME
The hotel was old, run-down. But to Swiss-born hotelier Hugues Martin, it is a rough...
17) Yours and mine
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Enjoy again this classic heartwarming romance by one of the genre's most popular authors, #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.
Marriage is an experience that single mom Joanna Parsons doesn't plan to repeat, no matter what her eleven-year-old daughter thinks. Tanner Lund feels the same way. Like Joanna, he got divorced after a short, disastrous marriage. And like her, he's raising his eleven-year-old daughter alone. But the girls...
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Christmas Tree Ranch volume 2
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"Veterinarian J.T. "Rush" Rushford isn't looking forward to Christmas. A year ago Rush's wife divorced him for another man, then broke his heart by revealing that four-year-old Claire was her lover's child. Now he's in Branding Iron, Texas, with his mobile vet practice, just hoping to get through the season. Then something like a Christmas miracle happens: Claire's parents are going on an extended cruise, leaving Rush to take her for the holidays....
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How can you know someone you've never met? Justin Hitchcock is divorced, lonely and restless. He arrives in Dublin to give a lecture on art and meets an attractive doctor, who persuades him to donate blood. It's the first thing to come straight from his heart in a long time. When Joyce Conway leaves the hospital after a terrible accident, with her life and her marriage in pieces, she moves back in with her elderly father. All the while, a strong sense...
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Happily Inc volume 6
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"Wynn Beauchene has a thriving business, a great kid, and a mildly embarrassing crush on the guy next door - local cop Garrick McCabe. She's a strong, independent woman who can't help dreaming what-if about a man she barely knows. Until he needs her help ... Garrick's pregnant daughter will be home for Christmas, and his house needs a woman's touch. Garrick and his little girl were tight once and he's hoping a small-town Christmas will bring her back...
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