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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A thoroughly modern woman, Sarah Cain has long disdained her sister's Plain lifestyle. But when news comes of her sister's death, Sarah is stunned to learn she has been named guardian of her children. How can Sarah sacrifice her successful career and a life she enjoys to raise five Amish orphans she barely knows? Besides, Sarah is harboring a secret grief of her own...Will the sorrow that divides them ultimately unite the new family?
2) The proposal
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Series
English garden series (Lori Wick) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Distraught to learn that her tyrannical brother has been granted custody of three children, Lydia and her husband Frank offer advice to William, who finds that the challenge of raising children offers unexpected rewards.
3) Fin & Lady
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Language
English
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In the Greenwich Village of 1964, eleven-year-old Fin moves in with his glamorous, careless older sister, and it's hard to tell who's raising whom.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer"--
Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. He loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, When Maisie and Grant lose their mother and...
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Language
English
Description
Stone Hammond is the best tracker in Texas and a wealthy railroad investor has hired Stone to find his abducted granddaughter. Charlotte Atherton, former headmistress of Sullivan's Academy for Exceptional Youths, promised Lily's mother she'd keep the girl away from her grandfather, and nothing will keep her from fulfilling that pledge. Not even the handsome bounty hunter with surprisingly honest eyes. And when Charlotte produces a document that shows...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. Their relationship and its fallout, played against a backdrop of a lost America will haunt Helen for the rest of her life.
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Series
Sullivan's Crossing volume 5
Language
English
Description
When her best friend died suddenly, Hannah became guardian to a five-year-old named Noah. Terrified she is not up to the challenge, she rents a country house in rural Colorado, so she and Noah have time to get to know each other. Arriving at the house they are greeted by the owner, Owen Abrams, who promises to stay out of their way. But his clumsy Great Dane, Romeo, has other ideas and Noah immediately bonds with the dog. Hannah learns to become a...
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English
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Melinda Hollister is a society lady, intent on finding a rich husband. Nick Bryson is all business, focused on making a name for himself in his father's steamship line. Despite their siblings' marriage, they rarely gave each other a second glance - until a tragic accident results in Melinda and Nick becoming co-guardians of their three-year-old niece. And as their love for Nell grows, so does their attraction to each other.
9) Dark tribute
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Series
Eve Duncan novels volume 24
Language
English
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New York Times bestseller Iris Johansen is back with another high octane thriller that will leave your mind racing and your heart pounding. Despite her tragic childhood, violin prodigy Cara Delaney has finally found peace in her career as a professional musician and stability in her relationship with her guardians, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and ex-Navy SEAL Joe Quinn. If only Jock Gavin, Cara's lifelong friend and a man with his own twisted history,...
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English
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Gentlemen don't court feisty straight shooters like JoBeth McCoy. Just as she's resigned to a lifetime alone, a misunderstanding forces the spunky telegraph operator into a marriage of convenience. Wedding the town's handsome new marshal offers JoBeth a chance at motherhood, caring for the orphaned little girl she's come to love. Garrett Cain will lose guardianship of his niece, Cora, if he stays single, but he knows no woman could accept the secrets...
11) False conclusion
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First World edition.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bea Abbot is looking forward to spending the summer with her fourteen-year-old ward, Bernice, but her plans go awry when one of Bernice's schoolfriends finds herself in trouble. Evelina Trescott's uncle has died in a mysterious accident at their country house, and her aunt, Mrs Trescott, is keen to hide Evelina away from the police. Evelina arrives on Bea's doorstep catatonic, heavily drugged up on epilepsy medication and unable to remember finding...
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English
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"When a wagon train is attacked leaving women and children alone and vulnerable, churches throughout the Ozarks take them in. Maggie Lynn and her wards, along with three other women, end up in an out-of-the-way town in Arkansas. Maggie has seen her fair share of loss, but now she's responsible for raising her orphaned nieces and must find a way to support them. Sensible small-town sheriff, Owen Sommers, tries to keep the peace when a wagon full of...
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Series
Secrets of Bliss Valley volume 3
Language
English
Description
"After losing both her fiancé and the happy life she anticipated, Amish maedel Grace Coffman is still stitching the pieces of her life back together. But between working in a quilting shop with an unscrupulous Englisch boss and caring for her ill parents, her threads keep unraveling. At first, the arrival of a kind, attractive stranger feels like a coincidence. But the more Grace learns about Joel Beachy and his story, the more their meeting seems...
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English
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"After taking guardianship of his late friend's siblings and baby daughter, minister Levi Wallin hopes to atone for his troubled past on the gold fields. But it won't be easy to convince the children's wary elder sister to trust him. The more he learns about her, though, the more he believes Callie Murphy's prickly manner masks a vulnerable heart...one he's starting to wish he was worthy of. Every man in Callie's life chose chasing gold over responsibilities....
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English
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It was spring on the Llano Estacado, the Staked Plains of Texas, the time for the cattle drives to push north to the rail heads in Kansas. The "Lost Cause" of the South was still fresh in the mind of Southerners, including fifty-five-year-old Ben Albright, a pioneer of the Texas cattle drives, who was well familiar with the trail and its dangers -- he had made the drive successfully five times in the past. This spring he was in charge of two thousand...
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English
Description
At the break of dawn, Caroline Shelby rolls into Oysterville, Washington, a tiny hamlet at the edge of the raging Pacific. She's come home. Home to a place she thought she'd left forever, home of her heart and memories, but not her future. Ten years ago, Caroline launched a career in the glamorous fashion world of Manhattan. But her success in New York imploded on a wave of scandal and tragedy, forcing her to flee to the only safe place she knows....
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