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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Coming into the possession of a photograph of a smiling woman he has never met, a man experiences a chain of fortuitous events that causes him to regard the photograph as a lucky charm, a belief that prompts a heartfelt search for the woman.
4) The notebook
Author
Series
Calhoun family saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a testimony to the lasting power of love, a man tells an elderly woman a story from a faded old notebook, his voice relating the heartbreaking tale of two lovers and their fifty-year journey to happiness.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
373 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A year after his family is shattered by the disappearance of his twin sister, thirteen-year-old Johnny Merrimon risks everything in a final, desperate search through the dark side of his hometown with the aid of a giant-sized man.
6) Mean streak
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Literally. Fog and ice encapsulate the mountainous wilderness and paralyze the search for her. While police suspect Jeff of "instant divorce," Emory, suffering from an unexplained head injury, regains consciousness and finds herself...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina, a young mother desperately tries to hold her family together when she joins a union to reclaim her dignity and rights.
8) The guardian
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Four years after her dying husband gave her one last gift, a Great Dane puppy, and promised to always keep her safe, twenty-nine-year-old Julie Barenson is finally ready to love again, but danger lurks as she tries to decide which of two men will make her happy.
9) Iron house
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Two decades after a pair of orphaned brothers are separated when one of them flees after a murder accusation, the runaway brother, now a seasoned killer, returns to North Carolina to protect his brother and solve the mystery of their past.
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two people on the mend from broken marriages go to Rodanthe, North Carolina to figure out a way to start over again. When a storm starts moving in, they turn to each for safety and comfort and find feelings strong enough to last a lifetime.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
13) Sooley
Author
Language
English
Description
This time. John Grisham takes you to a different kind of court. In the summer of his seventeenth year, Samuel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basketball tournament. He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on a airplane. The opportunity to be scouted by dozens of college coaches is a dream come true. Samuel is an amazing athlete, with speed,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In 1944, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina, a small town struggling with racial tension and the hardships imposed by World War II. Tess's new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night, hides money from his new wife, and shows no interest in making love. Tess quickly realizes she's trapped in...
15) First frost
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Featuring characters from her beloved novel, Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen's new novel picks up ten years after that eventful summer when Claire Waverly's wild half-sister Sydney returned to Bascom and Claire met her now-husband Tyler. Things have settled down and Claire finds she has slipped back into a place of tightly sequestered sameness. It's comfortable. She likes it. But when her father Russell shows up he brings with him information...
17) Necessary lies
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Description
Caring for her family on their mid-20th-century tobacco farm after the loss of her parents, 15-year-old Ivy connects with Grace County social worker Jane, who strains her personal and professional relationships with her advocacy of Ivy's family, whose dark secrets test Jane's resolve against racial tensions and state-mandated sterilizations.
18) See me
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Colin Hancock, a young man with a dark, destructive past now focused on keeping his life straight, has his plans to remain single challenged by Maria Sanchez, a hardworking lawyer.
19) A new song
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recently retired, Episcopal priest Father Tim and his wife, Cynthia, discover new challenges and adventures when Tim agrees to serve as interim minister of a small church on Whitecap Island
20) At first sight
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Finding himself happily married, living far from his New York City origins, and anticipating the birth of his first child, Jeremy Marsh receives a mysterious message that reopens wounds from the past and changes the course of his marriage.