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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife, and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants. Yet it's been a decade since she disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind her small daughter, husband, and the animals to which she devoted her life. All signs point to abandonment... or worse. Still Jenna -- now thirteen years old and truly orphaned by a father maddened by grief -- steadfastly refuses to believe in her...
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Language
English
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In Lydia Kiesling's debut novel, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Bucking under the weight of being a single parent--her Turkish husband is unable to return to the United States because of a "processing error"--Daphne takes refuge in a mobile home left to her by her grandparents in hopes that the quiet...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Metal artist Katie Mack is living a lie. Nine years ago she ran away from her family in Raleigh, North Carolina, consumed by the irrational fear that she would harm Maisie, her newborn daughter. Over time she's come to grips with the mental illness that nearly destroyed her, and now funnels her pain into her art. Despite longing for Maisie, Katie honors an agreement with the husband she left behind--to change her name and never return. But when she...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
After Matthew Bishop leaves his wife in Milwaukee, who has sent him off to recover her baby cradle from her estranged mother who left her as a child, but along his journey, Matt learns an astonishing truth that will change his wife's life.
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Grace Lowell's husband abandoned the family after gambling away their life savings. Now, she wants to find a safe haven and make a fresh start with her two kids-- Not a simple thing when left penniless, alone and with a dangerous thug trying to shake her down to recoup her deadbeat husband's debts. Noah Patterson, bitter from his fiancé's betrayal, has sworn off women. Instead, he pours his heart and soul into his construction business. Unprecedented...
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