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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date. But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life--and Atlas Corrigan is the...
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Cedar Key novels (Eva Marie Everson) volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Kimberly Tucker's life hasn't turned out the way she thought it would. While her ex is living it up, she struggles to understand what went wrong. When her two sons end up spending five weeks of summer vacation with their father, Kim plans a respite at the family vacation home on tiny Cedar Key. As she revisits the long-forgotten past, she discovers that treasures in life are often buried, and sometimes you do get a second chance at love.
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"A Cedar Cove Christmas: Mary Jo Wyse finds herself in Cedar Cove on Christmas Eve stranded, pregnant and alone. And there's no room at the local inn... So Grace Harding brings Mary Jo home to her ranch, where they've got a spare room over the stable. And luckily a paramedic name Mack McAfee is there to help when Mary Jo goes into labor. 1225 Christmas Tree Lane: Beth Morehouse expects ths Christmas to be one of her best. But someone leaves a basket...
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English
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When a single mom becomes an "empty nester," she spreads her wings to rediscover herself -- and her passions -- in this heartwarming novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Jenna Boltz's life is at a crossroads. After a messy divorce nearly twenty years ago, she raised her two children on her own, juggling motherhood with her beloved job as a Seattle intensive care nurse. Now that Paul and Allie have gone to college and moved...
5) Swan Point
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"Determined to build a new life for her family after her divorce, Adelia Hernandez has bought a home in the historic Swan Point neighborhood of Serenity. Promoted to manager of Main Street's most fashionable boutique, she feels revitalized and ready for a fresh start as a single mom. But barely into this new independent phase, she crosses paths with a man who will change everything. Gabe Franklin, back in town to make amends for past mistakes, has...
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English
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"In this new heart-pounding standalone from the internationally bestselling author that People calls "razor sharp," a single mother suspects her young daughter has witnessed a horrible crime when the girl draws a disturbing picture--but the deadly path to unravel the truth could cost her everything. Maybe Tess is overprotective, but passing her daughter off to her ex and his new young wife fills her with a sense of dread. It's not that Jason is a...
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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In 1956, Ava Lark rents a house with her twelve-year-old son, Lewis, in a desirable Boston suburb. Ava is beautiful, divorced, Jewish, and a working mom. She finds her neighbors less than welcoming. Lewis yearns for his absent father, befriending the only other fatherless kids: Jimmy and Rose. One afternoon, Jimmy goes missing. The neighborhood--in the throes of Cold War paranoia--seizes the opportunity to further ostracize Ava and her son. Years...
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Moonlight Harbor novels volume 1
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English
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"Once happily married, Jenna Jones is about to turn forty, and this year for her birthday--lucky her--she's getting a divorce. She's barely able to support herself and her teenage daughter, but now her deadbeat artist ex is hitting her up for spousal support...and then spending it on his "other" woman. Still, as her mother always says, every storm brings a rainbow. And when she gets a very unexpected gift from her great-aunt Edie, things seem to be...
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Cedar Cove series volume 12
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English
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"The people of Cedar Cove know how to celebrate Christmas. Like Grace and Olivia and everyone else, Beth Morehouse expects this Christmas to be one of her best. Her small Christmas tree farm is prospering, her daughters and her dogs are happy and well, and her new relationship with local vet Ted Reynolds is showing plenty of romantic promise. But-- someone recently left a basket filled with puppies on her doorstep, puppies she's determined to place...
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Series
Fairlawn volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Prolific Christy Award-winning author Angela Elwell Hunt, recipient of the Holt Medallion and eight Angel Awards, writes novels that percolate with cutting-edge Christian themes, including Uncharted. Now divorced and unemployed, a senator's no-nonsense chief of staff learns she has inherited a funeral home in Florida. Soon she'll learn some profound lessons from people dying to give her their business?
12) Ava's place
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Sometimes starting over is the best way home…
Most days, divorced mom Ava Olson is just trying to keep it all together. With three school-age children and only a part-time job at a local newspaper, she barely has time to juggle the small stuff, much less stand back and consider the big picture. Besides, dreaming about what-ifs is a dangerous habit, especially when her real concern should be the competition from a much younger new editor….That...
Author
Series
Fairlawn volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Angela Hunt's compelling sequel to her Christy Award nominee Doesn't She Look Natural? delivers a revealing look at friendship and family, life and death. Now living in the Victorian funeral home she inherited, Jennifer struggles to rebuild her post-divorce life in Florida. But when this busy mother, mortuary student, and embalmer's apprentice learns her new friend's true identity, her faith is severely tested.
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Series
Off season volume 2
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Ria and Drew Martin's chemistry had always kept their marriage together-until suddenly it didn't. Now a single mom, hotel manager Ria is at a loss when one of her teen daughters starts spiraling. Panicked, she calls on her estranged ex-husband for backup, but she's not prepared for the man he's become-or the unresolved emotions that still linger between them. After his divorce, Drew pulled away from everyone when he lost his eyesight and his job...
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Can you ever really know someone? Six years after her ex-husband is sentenced to death for a series of gruesome murders, Leigh Wren has almost succeeded in putting her past to rest. But her assumed identity quickly unravels when the father of one of her ex-husband's victims begins stalking her and publicly exposes her past. As Leigh grapples with memories of her marriage to a man whom she exposed to the world as a deviant serial killer, a more deadly...
16) Hanging Hill
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After a popular Bath teen's murder, police detective Zoe Benedict looks beyond the usual motives to solve the crime; while her divorced sister, Sally, takes a housekeeping job for a wealthy entrepreneur who behaves in increasingly suspicious ways.
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English
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"With her divorce settlement about to run out and a mortgage she can't afford, Robyn Caldwell needs a plan. But how's she supposed to think when her daughter has become the most demanding bride ever, her son won't even consider college, her best friend is on the brink of marital disaster and her ex is making a bad decision that could bring everything crashing down on Robyn's head? When her great-aunt Lillian invites her to Santa Barbara for the summer,...
Author
Series
Fairlawn volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The novels of New York Times best-selling author Angela Hunt have garnered the Holt Medallion, Christy Award, and countless other honors for their cutting-edge Christian themes. In this compelling sequel to She Always Wore Red, a busy single mom runs a Florida funeral home. But her mortuary work becomes even more poignant when her assistant discloses his terminal illness.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Popular podcaster and ex-reporter Faith Byrne has made a name for herself telling stories of greatness after tragedy-but her real life does not mirror the stories she tells. When she's asked to spotlight her childhood best friend's missing person case on her podcast, she uncovers desperate secrets and must face the truth before she can move forward"--
20) The schoolhouse
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Series
Publisher
Publishing in the Pines
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Becky Linden needs a fresh start. Her family is miles away. Her ex-husband is remarried. Her son is off to college. With an early mid-life crisis looming, Becky is at a crossroads: keep working dead-end jobs to survive, or take a leap of faith. During a visit home, she stumbles across the abandoned one-room schoolhouse where she played as a child and had her first kiss a teenager. With her family's encouragement, Becky decides to stay in town and...
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