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1) Neverwhere
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A man goes to the aid of woman pursued by assassins and discovers an alternative City of London, a subterranean, medieval world populated by "people who fell through the cracks" from the real city above. A fantasy tale, replete with demons and wizards. By the author of The Sandman.
Series
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
This I Believe features eighty Americans-from the famous to the unknown, completing the thought that the book's title begins. Each piece compels readers to rethink not only how they have arrived at their own personal beliefs but also the extent to which they share them with others.Featuring many renowned contributors and essays by some not-so-famous people: a Brooklyn lawyer; a part-time hospital clerk in Rehoboth, Massachusetts; a woman who sells...
4) Claim
Author
Series
Publisher
David C Cook
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Sent West by their father to make a new life, the St. Clair siblings have done so -- but hardly as he imagined. Moira, beautiful but severly burned, remains in Colorado, trying to pull together the pieces of her life ... as well as fight for a chance at love. Odessa and her husband, Bryce, are rebuilding their ranch and negotiating new challenges. And Nic, the prodigal son, is slowly making his way home -- dead broke and haunted by unmet promises....
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Jolene Yoder returns to Indiana to teach lip reading and sign language to the newly deaf Amish man Lonnie Hershberger. As she begins falling for Lonnie, Jolene wonders if she'll ever see "signs" of his love for her. Lovelorn Lonnie is fighting his attraction to Jolene, especially since she seems smitten by Jake Beechy. And Ella Miller is worried the roving Jake will end up breaking her cousin Jolene's heart, never realizing that Jake has really set...
Author
Series
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In this moving portrait of a timeless romance, the young former High Queen, Isolde, and her friend and protector, Trystan, are reunited in a new and dangerous quest to keep the usurper, Lord Marche, and his Saxon allies from the throne of Britain.
8) Firethorn
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Tasked with reassembling the Nightshade black ops team, Kazi Faron breaks former member Griffin Riddell out of prison, and the two must overcome their mutual distrust in order to save the team.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"What makes up a family? For Casey it's sharing a house with her fiancé, Michael, and his three children, whom she intends to nurture more than she ever took care of herself. But Casey's plans have come undone. Michael's silences have grown unfathomable and deep. His daughter Angel seethes as only a teenage girl can, while the wide-eyed youngest, Jewel, quietly takes it all in. Then Michael's son, Dylan, runs off, and the kids' mother, a woman never...
11) Daybreak
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Viola Keim starts working at a Mennonite retirement home and soon finds herself torn between her attraction to Ed, missionary son of a resident, and her Amish values that require her to remain near home to care for her needy family members. Can she leave them behind to begin a new life abroad with Ed?
12) Heart like mine
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Thirty-six-year-old Grace McAllister never longed for children. After meeting Victor Hansen, divorced father of two, Grace decides she could learn to be an excellent part-time step mom. How hard could it be, since the kids live with their mother, Kelli? At thirteen Ava Hansen has been the one taking care of her emotionally unstable mother and her little brother. Ava still has hope that her parents would get back together and they could be a family...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Gambling everything, including the family farm, Cullen McNamara travels to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with his most recent invention. But the noise in the fair's Machinery Hall makes it impossible to communicate with potential buyers. In an act of desperation, he hires Della Wentworth, a teacher of the deaf, to tutor him in the art of lip-reading. The young teacher is reluctant to participate, and Cullen has trouble keeping his mind on his lessons...
Author
Language
English
Description
At Blueberry Bay bed and breakfast in Maine, Louise Bessire and her fifteen-year-old daughter, Isobel, anticipate an exciting summer. Louise is hosting an important wedding that could make her business. Isobel is looking forward to writing her style and fashion blog and getting to know charming nineteen-year-old Jeff Otten. As the wedding draws closer, Louise has little time for her daughter. Feeling isolated, especially after her father cancels a...
16) The well
Author
Series
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"For the women of the Samaritan village of Sychar, the well is a place of blessing--the place where they gather to draw their water and share their lives--but not for Mara. Shunned for the many sins of her mother, Nava, Mara struggles against the constant threats of starvation or exile. Mara and Nava's lives are forever changed with the arrival of two men: Shem, a mysterious young man from Caesarea, and Jesus, a Jewish teacher. Nava is transformed...
Author
Publisher
B&H Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Daphne Ballinger is required to marry within the next year in order to inherit her eccentric late aunt's sizeable estate. She also must take over Aunt Dee's newspaper advice column. Though a socialite neighbor tries to help Daphne find a perfect man even if it includes speed dating, she finds greater rewards in helping a young, parentless girl with an ailing grandmother.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
On the day of her sister's death, Rebecca Troyer took her first step away from the Amish, abandoning the community to attend nursing school. When she stops in West Kootenai, at the home of a lapsed Amish friend from her youth, Rebecca finds a lot more in Montana than she had bargained for-- namely a handsome working man named Caleb Hooley. A daredevil bachelor with high standards, he has decided he'll never find an Amish woman who can quench his thirst...
19) Little mercies
Author
Language
English
Description
Veteran social worker Ellen Moore is a fiercely dedicated children's advocate and a devoted mother and wife. But one blistering summer day, a simple moment of distraction will have repercussions that Ellen could never have imagined, threatening to shatter everything she holds dear, and trapping her between the gears of the system she works for. Meanwhile, ten-year-old Jenny Briard suddenly finds herself on her own, forced to survive with nothing but...