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3) The touch
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English
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"Andrew Jones is a young doctor with an amazing gift: his abilities in surgery are astonishing. But when he cannot save a young woman at the scene of a fatal car accident, Jones abandons his gift and shuns the operating room. Lara Blair owns a Chicago-based biomedical engineering company developing a surgical tool that will duplicate precisely the movement of a surgeon's hands, eliminating human error during surgical procedures. Lara has pursued the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Dual perspectives reveal the aftermath of seventeen-year-old Michael MacKenzie's birthday celebration during which he discharges an antique Winchester rifle and unknowingly kills the father of high school classmate Jenna Ward.
7) Bonechiller
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Four high school students face off against a soul-stealing beast that has been making young people disappear their small Ontario, Canada, town for centuries.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Mothers and daughters, sisters and cousins--they lived for summers at the lake house until a tragic accident changed everything. The Summer That Made Us is an unforgettable story about a family learning to accept the past, to forgive and to love each other again. That was then ... For the Hempsteads, two sisters who married two brothers and had three daughters each, summers were idyllic. The women would escape the city the moment school was out to...
10) Missing May
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
Author
Publisher
B & H Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Desperate people make desperate choices. 29-year-old Lisa Newberry can barely make it through the day. Suddenly widowed and the survivor of a near-fatal attack, she is wracked with grief and despair. Then, she hears of a medical trial for a tiny brain chip that emits electrical pulses to heal severe depression. At ropes end, Lisa offers herself as a candidate. When she receives her letter of acceptance for the trial, Lisa is at first hopeful. But...
Author
Series
Summerhill secrets volume 10
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When the wounds from an old tragedy reopen, Merry gradually learns that storms don't last forever and that with God's help she can face the future without her twin sister.
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English
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Jamie Riehl is busy running his Amish farm and doing volunteer work at the local fire department. He has no time to find someone to date. But when he meets Kayla Dienner, he is smitten. Kayla has spent the last year discouraging her younger brother, Nathan, from becoming a firefighter. After the death of their older brother in a fire a year ago, she can't bear the idea of putting her heart on the line every time the sirens blare. When tragedy strikes...
16) Blue: a novel
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English
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Ginny Carter was once a rising star in TV news, married to a top anchorman, with a three-year-old son and a full and happy life in Beverly Hills-until her whole world dissolved in a single instant on the freeway two days before Christmas. In the aftermath, she pieces her life back together and tries to find meaning in her existence as a human rights worker in the worst areas around the globe. Then, on the anniversary of the fateful accident-and wrestling...
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English
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"The sun beamed down on Melissa Henderson's shining dark hair, pinned up on her head in a loose knot, as sweat ran down her face, and the muscles in her long, lithe arms were taut with effort as she worked. She was lost in concentration, sanding a door of the house in the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts that had been her salvation. She had bought it four years before. It had been weather-beaten, shabby and in serious need of repair when she found...
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English
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The youngest of the Riehl children, Cindy has watched her siblings find love and happiness in Lancaster County. But Cindy continues to grieve her mother, whose death left an enormous hole in her heart. When a handsome and kind Englisher named Drew crosses Cindy's path, the two become fast and easy friends. As they spend more time together, often in secret, Cindy is drawn further from the Amish community and the family she loves. Will she ever find...
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English
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"Camille Gardener is a grieving--and angry--mother who, five years after her daughter's death, is still obsessed with the privileged young man she believes to be responsible. When her rash actions draw the attention of a secret group of women--the collective--Camille is drawn into a dark web where these mothers share their wildly different stories of loss as well as their desire for justice in a world where privilege denies accountability. Fueled...
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