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Navigating fashionable society, wealthy heiress Rose and her closest friend Phebe find their new paths derailed when their loved ones are put in harm's way by illness and reckless decisions, forcing them both to rise to the occasion and show everyone what they're made of.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"There was one passenger in the coach,-a small dark-haired person in a glossy buff calico dress. She was so slender and so stiffly starched that she slid from space to space on the leather cushions, though she braced herself against the middle seat with her feet and extended her cotton-gloved hands on each side, in order to maintain some sort of balance. Whenever the wheels sank farther than usual into a rut, or jolted suddenly over a stone, she bounded...
5) Little women
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
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English
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Little Women is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic. The March girls are shown throughout as real people and not mere moral examples as we follow them from childhood through Little Women and Little Women Part Two (known in Europe as Good Wives). The portrayal of the strains and delights of family life is unsurpassed in literature...
6) Ethan Frome
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenies vivacious cousin enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.
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Sparrow sisters volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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When her herbs and tinctures are believed to be implicated in a local tragedy, and Granite Point is consumed by a long-buried fear, healer Patience Sparrow must find a way to turn the tide and return life to this seaside New England hamlet with the help of the town's women.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A New England boarding school is rocked in the wake of a sex scandal in which participants were caught on videotape, a situation that derails the innocence and best intentions of students, parents, and others in life-shattering ways.
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Cape Light novels volume 8
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English
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Christmas comes again to the little town of Cape Light. Molly Willoughby-Harding has a beautiful home, a husband, family, and friends, and a blossoming new business-so why is she unhappy? Just as her life is starting to take off, she's pregnant again-and she's going to have to confront her previous notions of what she truly needs to be happy, in order to recapture that elusive Christmas spirit ... Meanwhile, Miranda Potter has found an injured man...
12) Little women
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English
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When their father is away serving as a chaplain in the American Civil War, the March sisters are faced with the trials and tribulations of life, forcing them all to grow up in more ways than one. Follow Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy over the course of one eventful year in 19th Century New England, as they learn the importance of family, friendship and courage. Through adventure, romance, sadness, and joy they discover their individual strengths and weaknesses...
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Cape Light novels volume 7
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English
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Confined to her bed with a bout of pneumonia while the other inhabitants of Cape Light prepare for the holidays, curmudgeonly Lillian Warwick reminisces about the holiday season of 1955, when she met her future husband, Oliver Warwick.
14) The summer wives
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams brings us the blockbuster novel of the season--an electrifying postwar fable of love, class, power, and redemption set among the inhabitants of an island off the New England coast...In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful...
15) Cape Light
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Series
Cape Light novels volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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A novel by the American artist journeys to the picturesque village of Cape Light on the coast of New England, a hamlet populated by colorful inhabitants who share a strong sense of community and caring for their neighbors.
16) All girls
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A keenly perceptive coming-of-age novel for fans of Sally Rooney, Curtis Sittenfeld, and J. Courtney Sullivan, All Girls captures one year at a prestigious New England prep school, as nine young women navigate their ambitions, friendships, and fears against the backdrop of a scandal the administration wants silenced. But as the months unfold, and the school's efforts to control the ensuing crisis fall short, these extraordinary girls are forced to...
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Cape Light novels volume 5
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English
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Arriving in Cape Light to spend the holidays, James Cameron, a minister who runs a mission in Central America, finds himself falling for fellow visitor Leigh Baxter, a young woman searching for a hiding place from the dark secrets of the past.
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Cape Light novels volume 9
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English
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In a town like Cape Light, there's always room in the inn. But when hardships bring people together under one roof, things don't always go smoothly.
19) Snow drowned
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Gracie Hutchinson has lived on Fall Island her whole life and knows there's some truth to those words. Fall's snowstorms have a spooky way of claiming people, making them disappear without a trace or driving them mad. Now, with a hundred-year-storm approaching, most of Fall's residents have fled to the mainland. But not Gracie. Left behind her with physician father, she braces for landfall. Gracie's not the only one stuck on Fall for the storm. Her...
20) Cold river
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Black Falls volume 2
Language
English
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A smalltown Vermont café owner and a man out for vengeance track down a killer in this romantic suspense novel by a New York Times–bestselling author.
Hannah Shay has finally shown the town of Black Falls what she's worth. Her Three Sisters Cafe is a success, and she's soon to become a prosecutor. When the cafe becomes an epicenter for investigators trying to pierce a violent crime ring that's leaving bloody trails on nearby Cameron Mountain,...
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