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61) The last Noel
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Michael Malone's The Last Noel is a beautiful gift to American fiction. In a deeply touching tale, The Last Noel captures the exuberance and poignancy of a lasting friendship between a man and a woman from very different backgrounds. Noni Tilden and Kaye King grow up and grow close as their lives come dramatically together through four decades of tumultuous change in a small southern town. The story begins in 1963 when Kaye first...
Author
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
Embarking on a solo Paris vacation after being dumped by her husband of twenty-five years, cautious Grace unexpectedly bonds with Audrey, a daring young woman from London, who helps her forge new understandings of family, love, and self-confidence.
65) Bird in hand
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train comes a novel about the choices we make, how they shape our lives, and how they can change them forever.
Four people, two marriages, one lifelong friendship: Everything is about to change.
It was dark. It was raining. It was just an accident. On the drive home from a rare evening out, Alison collides with another car running a stop sign, and-just like that-her life turns upside down....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kate, Aubrey, and Jenny. They first met as college roommates and soon became inseparable, even though they are as different as three women can be. Twenty years later, one of them is standing at the edge of a bridge, and someone else is urging them to jump. How did things come to this? As the novel cuts back and forth between their college years and their adult years, you see the exact reasons why these women love and hate each other--but can feelings...
68) Bink & Gollie
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of how compromise helps two roller-skating best friends, who often do not agree, remain the best of friends.
69) Each kindness
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Ms. Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making fun of new student Maya's shabby clothes and refusing to play with her.
70) The other side
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Two girls, one white and one black, gradually get to know each other as they sit on the fence that divides their town.
71) Stick and Stone
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Stick and Stone are both lonely until Pinecone's teasing causes one to stick up for the other, and a solid friendship is formed.
Author
Series
Blossom street novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
Bethanne Hamlin takes a road trip with her daughter, Annie, and her former mother-in-law, Ruth. They're driving to Florida for Ruth's 50th high school reunion. A long-time widow, Ruth would like very much to reconnect with Royce, the love of her youth. Bethanne's ex-husband, Grant, would like to reconcile, so she also has a major life decision to consider. And Annie is out to prove to her onetime boyfriend that she can live a brilliant life without...
73) Code name flood
Author
Series
Edge of extinction volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sky receives a letter from her long-missing father, who informs her that she must save the world by securing vital information left in the dinosaur-ruled world above ground.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Legendary storyteller Barbara Taylor Bradford presents a spellbinding story of four women transformed by old memories and surprising revelations when they meet again at a school reunion in Paris.
As students at the prestigious Anya Sedgwick School of Decorative Arts in Paris, Alexandra Gordon, Kay Lenox, Jessica Pierce, and Maria Franconi share the challenges and excitement of developing their various artistic talents to the fullest under Sedgwick’s...
As students at the prestigious Anya Sedgwick School of Decorative Arts in Paris, Alexandra Gordon, Kay Lenox, Jessica Pierce, and Maria Franconi share the challenges and excitement of developing their various artistic talents to the fullest under Sedgwick’s...
76) Number the stars
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the spirit of How to Make an American Quilt and The Joy Luck Club comes this novel about friendship and redemption. After the sudden loss of Stella, her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island. Seeking a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days, she little realizes that the circle will change her life. Alice, Scarlet, Lulu, Beth, Harriet, and Ellen welcome Mary into their circle despite her reluctance to open...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Cecilia Ross is looking for a change. She has decided to take time off from her job as a successful motivational speaker and sell her home. She moves in to a beautiful old house in St. Paul, Minnesota, complete with a big front porch, a wild garden, a chef's kitchen--and three roommates. The four women are different ages, but all are feeling restless, and want to take a roadtrip to find again the people and things they miss. One woman wants to connect...
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