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Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can't move. She can't speak. She can't open her eyes. Though she can hear everyone around her, no one knows because she's in a coma. But she doesn't remember what happened. And she has a sneaking suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, the narratives build and collide for an...
3) Romola
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A fictional account of the charismatic religious leader Savonarola in Renaissance Florence
7) Dear John
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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An angry rebel who dropped out of school to enlist in the Army, a man meets the girl of his dreams, discovering a mutual love that is threatened by the events of September 11, his decision to re-enlist, and her marriage to another man
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Anna Karenina is a beautiful and intelligent woman, whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties--to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. Her love affair with Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance between Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical...
10) Rejoice
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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A woman who has accomplished everything in life finds her newfound faith and her shaky marriage challenged by overwhelming loss
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Other Press
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2014.
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English
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"All Days are Night is the story of Gillian, a successful and beautiful TV host, content with her marriage to Matthias, even if she feels restless at times. One night following an argument, the couple has a terrible car accident: Matthias, who is drunk, hits a deer on the wet road and dies in the crash. Gillian wakes up in the hospital completely disfigured. Only slowly, after many twists and turns, does she put her life back together, and reconnects...
12) The lying room
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"In this thrilling standalone from the internationally bestselling author of the Frieda Klein series, a married woman's affair with her boss spirals into a dangerous game of chess with the police when she discovers he's been murdered and she clears the crime scene of all evidence. One little secret between a married woman, her lover, and a killer. It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered....
14) Madame Bovary
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In Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert masterfully unravels the tale of Emma Bovary, a young, disillusioned woman yearning for passion and excitement beyond her provincial French life. As Emma strives to escape the monotony of her existence through indulgence in romantic fantasies and lavish spending, her relentless pursuit of fulfillment drives her deeper into turmoil.
Set against the backdrop of 19th-century provincial France, this novel explores...
15) The odd women
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Two elderly spinster sisters in Victorian England eke out a living in a boarding house while their younger sister escapes into a loveless marriage and feminist friend falls in love
16) Man and wife
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The story of a young English couple caught up in the consequences of lax marriage laws during the Victorian era
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Under the Milky Way
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2014.
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Français
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When Jocelyne, a seamstress in the northern French town of Arras, finds out that she won EU18 million in the lottery, she only has one fear: losing her modest way of life made up of simple pleasures which she cherishes more than anything. But fate can be obstinate, and by renouncing this fortune for too long, Jocelyne triggers a hurricane in her life that changes everything -- everything except her.
19) Mrs. Kimble
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English
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Follows twenty-five years in the life of a charismatic opportunist as seen through the eyes of his three wives
20) River's edge
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English
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A news reporter and the police chief investigates the murder of the wife of a mayoral candidate on the island of Cape Refuge, as scandals come to light and a psychic makes an unsolicited prediction
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