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41) The family tree
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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In the 1800s, a man clearing land in a beautiful forest to build a home leaves one special tree, but many years later the tree is in trouble, and the man's great-great grandson enlists a host of animal friends to try to save it.
42) The Witch Elm
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English
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Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life--he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family's ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree...
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Series
Amgash novels volume 3
Language
English
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I would like to say a few things about my first husband, William. Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she confesses, has always been a mystery to me. Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. They just are. So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret?one of those secrets...
44) Jack and Jill
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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"Jack Minot and Janey Pecq are next-door neighbors and best friends so frequently seen together that Janey earns the nickname Jill after the rhyme "Jack and Jill." Unfortunately, the sweet moniker proves prophetic when a wintry day spent sledding ends ina terrible fall that leaves both young people seriously injured"--
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English
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"You've met the partner of your dreams and have gotten your happily ever after, but now you've taken on a new role: stepmom. And you have no idea what you signed up for. Or maybe you've been a stepmom for a while now, but things are getting you down. Who do you turn to for help? Where is the stepmothering support group that'll give you the advice you need? Who actually gets how hard being a stepmom can be?"--Amazon.com.
48) Another brother
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Davy the sheep wishes he had time alone with his parents, as he did before his twelve brothers came along and started imitating his every move, but when his wish comes true Davy misses playing with the youngsters.
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English
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"Tom Brokaw is known as one of the hardest-working, most successful people in broadcast journalism. His success is attributed to his work ethic, his instinct for identifying the significance of the news in the lives of ordinary people, and his reputation for always showing up for others. In this heartfelt family story, Tom shows the values and lessons he absorbed from his ancestors, parents, and others who settled in South Dakota and worked hard to...
52) Solar bones
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English
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"On All Souls Day, the late Marcus Conway returns home. Solar Bones captures in a single relentless sentence the life and death of this rural Irish engineer, and his place in the globally interconnected 21st century. The book takes in local municipal failures and global financial collapse, the quotidian pleasures of family, ancient history and the latest headlines, the living and the dead. A vital, tender, acerbic, warm, and death-haunted work one...
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English
Description
Willa Knox has always prided herself on being the embodiment of responsibility for her family. Which is why it's so unnerving that she's arrived at middle age with nothing to show for her hard work and dedication but a stack of unpaid bills and an inherited brick home in Vineland, New Jersey, that is literally falling apart. The magazine where she worked has folded, and the college where her husband had tenure has closed. The dilapidated house is...
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English
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"Grace M. Cho grew up in a small, rural American town as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. When Grace was fifteen, her Korean mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue for the rest of her life. Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, TASTES LIKE WAR is a hybrid text about a daughter's search through intimate and global history to understand herself...
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Series
Thatcher sisters volume 1
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English
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It's been ten years since Payton Thatcher's twin sister died in an accident, leaving the entire family to cope in whatever ways they could. No longer half of a pair, Payton reinvents herself as a partner in a successful party-planning business and is doing just fine-as long as she manages to hold her memories and her family at arm's length. But with her middle sister Jillian's engagement, Payton's party-planning skills are called into action. Which...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 22 min. 51 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
Traditional, single parent, blended or extended - there are many ways we define a family. Our families help make us the people that we are today. Learn the different types of families and the developmental roles they play, including physical, emotional, intellectual, social and moral development.--Kanopy.
57) Alone
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Series
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English
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When Bobby Dodge, a sniper with the Massachusetts State Police SWAT team, saves a woman and her young son from her armed husband, he finds himself investigating the shooting of a man who had accused his wife of poisoning their son.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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In the summer of 1974 Nellie turns thirteen, her best friend has a crush on a boy, her mom has run off, the money for their family road trip to see Mt. Rushmore is missing, and her dad has crawled into bed and will not get up, but when Nellie decides thetrip out West will fix her family, she will do almost anything to come up with the cash.
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Publisher
Urim Publications
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (144 pages)
Language
English
Description
Providing a religious lens on the topic, this book directly addresses the problem of spousal abuse in the Jewish community, in hopes of confronting the truth and taking definitive steps to end this violation of all that Judaism stands for. A leading rabbi and psychiatrist reveals with striking candor, firmness, and compassion what may have been closely kept dark secrets in many Jewish families and offers urgently needed advice and direction. Rabbi...
60) Family album
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
All Alison ever wanted was a blissful childhood for her six children, with summers at the beach and birthday parties on the lawn at their family home. Together with Ingrid, the family au pair, she has worked hard to create a real old-fashioned family life. But beneath its postcard sheen, the picture is clouded by a distant father, Alison's inexplicable emotional outbursts, and long-repressed secrets that no one dares mention.
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