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Sam and Holly Foster and their young son James seem to have a perfect life until Sam loses his job and James has a life-threatening accident. Hopelessness and constant caring for James takes their toll on Sam and Holly and they begin to drift apart. It takes the miracle of the rediscovery of James's toy boat and the appearance of a mysterious man to remind them of what is important in life, and that love and heaven are not far away.
4) The gift
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English
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On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town. She doesn't intend to stay. She is just passing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a story that you will never forget.
The time is the 1950s, when life was simpler, people still believed in dreams, and family was, very nearly, everything. The place is a small midwestern town with a high school and a downtown,...
The time is the 1950s, when life was simpler, people still believed in dreams, and family was, very nearly, everything. The place is a small midwestern town with a high school and a downtown,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 26
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English
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Pen /Hemingway Award-winning novelist Jane Hamilton follows up her first success, The Book Of Ruth, with this spectacularly haunting drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives. Praised by reviewers for its intimate portrayal of the minds of its characters, a novel by the author of The Book of Ruth chronicles one family's decay through guilt and betrayal. Reprint. K. PW.
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English
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A “subtle and poignant” novel about unexpected friendships, second chances, and dark secrets—from the international bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things (Good Housekeeping)
“Despite tackling such huge topics as bereavement and cancer, Hogan’s work is filled with hope and the power of friendship.” —Evening Standard
They say friends make life worth...
“Despite tackling such huge topics as bereavement and cancer, Hogan’s work is filled with hope and the power of friendship.” —Evening Standard
They say friends make life worth...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Fifteen-year-old Emily has six siblings, but she was also close to her best friend, Lizzie Porter, who died nearly a year ago, and she is still grieving; but Lizzie's family are also grieving, so much so, that they use Lizzie's younger sister, Chloe, as a lure and kidnap Emily, forcing her to dress, talk, and act like Lizzie, and threatening to go after Emily's family if she does not become the replacement for the daughter they lost--and Emily is...
12) Traded
Publisher
Status Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1880s Kansas, sharpshooter turned rancher, Clay Travis, goes from happily married father of two to a man on a mission after the tragic death of his son and the disappearance of his daughter. Determined to bring his daughter home, and to protect what little family he has left, Clay leaves his quiet ranch and heads to Wichita and on to Dodge City with help of unlikely companion Billy, leaving a trail of gun smoke and dead bodies in their wake.
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Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
A compulsively readable and electrifying debut about an ambitious young female artist who accidentally photographs a boy falling to his death--an image that could jumpstart her career, but would also devastate her most intimate friendship. Lu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer struggling to make ends meet. Working three jobs, responsible for her aging father, and worrying that the crumbling warehouse she lives in is being sold to developers,...
Publisher
Alchemy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An innocent woman, accused of murdering her son and hanged as a witch, curses a tree and the children who play around it. The effects of this act of revenge echo through the centuries, and restless spirits haunt the house where the bodies of the cursed children have been buried. A family moves into their new home, and begin to uncover the terrible truth behind the witching tree and the murdered children upon which they unknowingly sleep.
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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For the Hempsteads, two sisters who married two brothers and had three daughters each, summers were idyllic. The women would escape the city the moment school was out to gather at the family house on Lake Waseka. The lake was a magical place, a haven where they were happy and carefree. All of their problems drifted away as the days passed in sun-dappled contentment. Until the summer that changed everything. After an accidental drowning turned the...
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Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Life is rewarding for Samuel Truelove. He's a gifted hearsurgeon, he's married to the love of his life, and he has a beautiful daughter. But he misdiagnoses his daughter's illness and a deadly cascade of events is set in motion.
17) Bodily harm
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni returns with his most exhilarating legal thriller to date, a pulse-pounding story of corporate greed, espionage, and the lengths one man is willing to go for justice.
Bodily Harm opens with a big win for David Sloane and his new partner, Tom Pendergrass, in a malpractice case centered on the death of a young child. But on the heels of this seeming victory, an unlikely character—toy...
Bodily Harm opens with a big win for David Sloane and his new partner, Tom Pendergrass, in a malpractice case centered on the death of a young child. But on the heels of this seeming victory, an unlikely character—toy...
18) The letters
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Sam and Hadley West are both trying in their own ways to survive after the unthinkable loss of their only son in Alaska. Sam goes to the arctic wilderness to find the place where Paul died. Hadley rents a cottage off the Maine coast where she begins to paint again. At opposite ends of the country, waiting for their divorce to be finalized, they begin to exchange letters, missives filled with longing and truths they've never before voiced, as they...
19) The returned
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Series
Language
English
Description
When their son Jacob, who died tragically at his 8th birthday party in 1966, arrives on their doorstep, still 8 years old, Harold and Lucille Hargrave must navigate a strange new reality as chaos erupts around the world as people's loved ones are returned from beyond.
20) Wake Wood
Publisher
Dark Sky Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Still grieving the death of nine-year-old Alice, who was killed by a savage dog, Pat and Louise relocate to the remote town of Wake Wood where they learn of a pagan ritual that will allow them three more days with Alice. The couple find the idea disturbing and exciting in equal measure, but once they agree to the terms with the village's leader, a far bigger question looms: what will they do when it is time for Alice to go back?
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