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2023.
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English
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Adalyn Reyes has spent years perfecting her daily routine: wake up at dawn, drive to the Miami Flames FC offices, try her hardest to leave a mark, go home, and repeat. But her routine is disrupted when a video of her in an altercation with the team's mascot goes viral. Rather than fire her, the team's owner--who happens to be her father--sends Adalyn to middle-of-nowhere North Carolina, where she's tasked with turning around the struggling local soccer...
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Chicago celebrity Charles James can't shake the nightmare that wakes him each night. He sees himself walking down a long, broken highway the sides of which are lit in flames. Where is he going? Why is he walking? What is the wailing he hears around him? By day, he wonders why he's so haunted and unhappy when he has all he ever wanted--fame, fans and fortune and the lavish lifestyle it affords him. Coming from a childhood of poverty and pain, this...
6) Beloved
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With her husband Tyson missing for eight years, Diana Brennan seeks to declare him legally dead in order to remarry, but when Tyson returns as a supposedly changed man, Diana must decide if he has really changed for the better.
7) What light
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HL 690L
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English
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Sierra's family runs a Christmas tree farm in Oregon it's a bucolic setting for a girl to grow up in, except that every year, they pack up and move to California to set up their Christmas tree lot for the season. So Sierra lives two lives: her life in Oregon and her life at Christmas. And leaving one always means missing the other.
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Haven Point volume 2
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English
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"McKenzie Shaw would do anything for her hometown of Haven Point. It may be small, but it's never let her down... unlike gorgeous, infuriating Ben Kilpatrick. He was her childhood hero until he closed his family's factory, leaving the town's economy in shambles. Now his tech firm is considering opening a local facility. For Haven Point's sake, McKenzie has to grit her teeth and play nice. What could a town filled with painful memories ever offer...
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"Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. When his wife dies suddenly, he is unable to cope. Leaving his job and his old life behind, Harry makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, determined to lose himself. But fate intervenes in the form of a fiercely determined young girl named Oriana. She and her mother, Amanda, are struggling to pick up the pieces from their own...
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Pub. Date
2009
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English
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When her black sheep brother disappears, Amanda Janvier eagerly takes in her sixteen year-old niece Tally. Tally and her cousin Chase bond as they interview two Holocaust survivors for a sociology project, and become startlingly aware that their whole family is grappling with hidden secrets, with the echoes of the past, and with the realization that ignoring tragic situations won't make them go away.
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2010
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English
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"Welcome To Redemption, Oklahoma The idyllic little town Cheyenne Rhodes has chosen for her fresh start is almost too welcoming. After all, she's come here to hide from her past--not to make new friends. But single dad Trace Bowman isn't about to let Cheyenne hide away her heart. He can't ignore the special way she has with his daughter, Zoey-- or how she's reminded him of the power of real love. Now he needs to convince Cheyenne that Redemption is...
12) Eve: a novel
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"When a shipping container washes ashore on an island between our world and the next, John the Collector finds a young woman inside--broken, frozen, and barely alive. With the aid of Healers and Scholars, John oversees her recovery and soon discovers her genetic code connects her to every known human race. She is a girl of prophecy and no one can guess what her survival will mean... No one but Eve, Mother of the Living, who calls her "daughter," and...
13) Dollbaby
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"When Ibby Bell's father dies in a tragic accident in the summer of 1964, her mother unceremoniously deposits Ibby with her eccentric grandmother, Fannie, and throws in her father's urn for good measure. Fannie's Victorian house is like no place Ibby has ever been--and Fannie, who has a tendency to end up in the local asylum every once in a while--is like no one she has ever met. Fortunately, her black cook, Queenie ... and Queenie's feisty daughter...
14) Take a life
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Kane Miller
Lexile measure
HL 710L
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467 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
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Dom is desperate to be rid of this debt, but at what cost? Could he put a friend out of their misery? Or defend himself to the bitter end? And if he does flush out who is behind this monstrous organization, is he ready for the truth?
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A trucker's angels volume 1
Publisher
[Name of publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2023]
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212 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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When Las Vegas truck stop waitress Cami Wilkins receives an unexpected offer from her favorite customer, over-the-road truck driver, Ken Jamison, she perceives it as an opportunity to escape from her past and allow herself to fall in love with the man with whom she had already forged a friendship. But the dark secret she thinks she has left behind in Nevada soon follows her to Minnesota, threatening to destroy their promising relationship, and once...
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Blessings novel volume 9
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English
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"A little help from the good people of Henry Adams, Kansas, may give both Mal and Gary the best second chance at the happiness they missed the first time around with the women they still love"--
Malachi 'Mal' July's reputation as a player is making trouble for him, even though he's now a recovering alcoholic trying to redeem himself in the eyes of his family and the citizens of Henry Adams, Kansas. He's turning his diner into a profitable business,...
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2024.
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English
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"Driven by survival to a life at a house of ill repute, Birdie Clarkson now longs only for escape. So when Reverend Isaiah Overly and his son, Ephraim, appear and offer a better life, she jumps at the chance. Ignoring the furious raging of the madam, Birdie climbs into the back of the preacher's wagon. The men take her to Hope Hill, the haven the reverend and his wife, Ophelia, founded so women like Birdie can be taught skills to help them rise above...
19) Carry us all
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Publisher
WestBow Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Forgiveness comes in many forms, from many places, and for many reasons. But often the hardest forgiveness to accept is the forgiveness you sometimes need to give yourself. Kevin Ahern is a lost and broken man. Faced with crushing guilt over something he could not have foreseen nor controlled, Kevin sets out to find his own redemption. He hops to bring back to life on of the things his daughter loved most--a carousel. The restoration of an antique...
20) The Valley
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Publisher
Fremantle Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : genealogical table
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English
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The past casts long shadows in the Kimberley's high country. A murder in the remote bush in 1916 sparks a chain of events that will haunt a family for generations. Hidden in the refuge of a secret valley, their tiny community lives unknown to the world. When, a century later, Broome schoolboy Dancer falls foul of the local bikie gang, he and his father head up the Gibb River Road. Here, in a maze of rugged ranges and remote communities, Dancer begins...