Kristin Hannah
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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"An epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II"--Provided by publisher.
"Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. When World War II strikes and Antoine is sent off to fight, Viann and Isabelle's father sends Isabelle to help her older sister...
2) The women
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English
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"When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Texas. 1921: A time of abundance. Elsa Wolcott meets Rafe Martinelli and changes the direction of her life. Her only choice: marriage to a man she barely knows. 1934: Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. Elsa Martinelli, like so many of her neighbors, must make an agonizing...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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"Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America's last true frontier. Cora will do anything for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown. Thirteen-year-old Leni, caught in the riptide of her parents' passionate, stormy relationship, has little...
5) Fly away
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English
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After her best friend Kate, dies, Tully Hart vows to keep her promise and tries to help Kate's family, but Kate's daughter is inconsolable until she meets a man who brings her into his dangerous world, and Tully's mother comes back into Tully's life to finally explain her dark secrets.
6) Magic Hour
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Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Dr. Julia Cates child psychiatrists whose career was ruined and confidence shattered is called back to her hometown by her sister Ellie, a police chief, when a six year old girl emerges from the heart of the Olympic National Forest. The child is locked in a world of unimaginable fear and isolation. The media descend on Julia and once again her competence is challenged, but nothing is more important to her than saving the child.
7) Home front
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English
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"From a distance, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid marriage, two exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years together, the couple has lost their way; they are unhappy and edging toward divorce. Then the Iraq war starts. An unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harm's way and leaving the other at home, waiting for news. When the worst happens,...
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Ballantine
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Divorced Joy flees to Rain Valley when her sister, the same sister she found in bed with her husband appears. There she meets a widower and his son, but is having a hard time trusting again. A plan crash on Christmas Eve, forces her to make a choice, between her old life and new.
10) Winter garden
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Reunited when their beloved father falls ill, sisters Meredith and Nina find themselves under the shadow of their disapproving mother, whose painful history is hidden behind her rendition of a Russian fairy tale told to the sisters in childhood.
11) Night road
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2011
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"For eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her children's needs above her own, and it shows-her twins, Mia and Zach-are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, quickly becomes Mia's best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable. Jude does everything to keep her kids on track for college...
12) Firefly Lane
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Girls of firefly lane volume 01
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Inseparable best friends Kate and Tully, two young women who, despite their very different lives, have vowed to be there for each other forever, have been true to their promise for thirty years, until events and choices in their lives tear them apart.
13) Between sisters
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Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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With her wedding day approaching, Claire Cavenaugh prepares to confront her estranged older sister and self-absorbed mother after more than twenty years apart and find out how to transform themselves in to a family.
14) Angel falls
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Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2000
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English
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Liam Campbell faces a difficult choice when he discovers that his beloved wife, Mikaela, trapped in a coma after a riding accident, was once married to international movie star Julian True, and seems to be responding only to her first love's name.
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Portuguese
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"Os leitores vão apreciar a profundidade dos personagens, a forma como eles caminham em direção a um bem amarrado e comovente desfecho" - Publishers Weekly
- Mesma autora de Jardim de Inverno, título que já vendeu mais de 30.000 exemplares e foi destaque nas principais listas do país.
A morte de Kate desestrutura todos à sua volta: o viúvo, Johnny, se vê
sozinho com os fi lhos. Tully, uma famosa apresentadora de talk show,
que perde a melhora...
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Portuguese
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Meredith e Nina Whiston são tão diferentes quanto duas irmãs podem ser. Uma ficou em casa para cuidar dos filhos e da família. A outra seguiu seus sonhos e viajou o mundo para tornar-se uma fotojornalista famosa. No entanto, com a doença de seu amado pai, as irmãs encontram-se novamente, agora ao lado de sua fria mãe, Anya, que, mesmo nesta situação, não consegue oferecer qualquer conforto às filhas.
A verdade é que Anya tem um motivo...
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Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012, �1996
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English
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Struggling with her rebellious daughter and her conflicting feelings for a soul-seeking priest and a cynical man, cardiologist Madelaine learns to overcome past betrayals when a tragedy brings them all together.
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Deutsch
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Die einmalige Kraft einer Frauenfreundschaft.
Im Sommer 1974, zum Sound von Fleetwood Mac und Abba, lernt die Außenseiterin Kate die schöne, aufregende Tully kennen, die alles zu haben scheint, was ihr fehlt. Aus den sehr unterschiedlichen Mädchen werden Freundinnen, die weder Tullys Karrierestreben noch Kates Entscheidung für Kinder und Familie trennen kann. Jahrelang umschiffen Tully und Kate die Klippen jeder engen Freundschaft - Eifersucht,...
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Deutsch
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Ich bin hier und werde niemals aufhören, auf Dich zu warten.
1974: Als Lenora Allbright mit ihren Eltern nach Alaska zieht, ist die Familie voller Hoffnung, das Trauma des Krieges, das der Vater in Vietnam davongetragen hat, hinter sich zu lassen. In Matthew, dem Sohn der Nachbarn, findet Leni einen engen Freund, und aus ihrer Vertrautheit entwickelt sich bald eine junge Liebe. Doch auf die Schönheit des Sommers in Alaska folgt unweigerlich die...