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Series
Long road home volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Having nowhere else to go, May decides to return to the Amish community she lived in as a child before her parents died. There she is taken in by Clara, who helps her reintegrate into the community, but she sinks into depression. Will May ever see her brother, Oba, again? How can she heal from her past? Can she ever open her heart to another man?
2) Abyss
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Claudia seeks the attention of her melancholic mother, also named Claudia, who occupies her days reading gossip magazines and tending to the family's teeming collection of house plants in their Cali, Colombia, apartment. The mother is particularly obsessed with the deaths of famous women such as actor Natalie Wood, who died in 1981, and tells the narrator they took their own lives to escape from domineering men. The older Claudia married the narrator's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Faith and Romance from an Indiana Amish Community On a quiet September weekend, plans for a fun outing turn tragic when a vanload of Amish teenagers from Indiana is struck by a semi-truck. Four young women are forever changed by the event. A Cousin's Promise Loraine Miller's fiancé is severely injured and breaks their engagement. Will he sacrifice his happiness to give Loraine a better life? When her ex-boyfriend returns, Loraine's heart is torn....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Journey hadn't planned for a future, but when her suicide attempt fails she finds the life she never meant to live challenging in more ways than before: her parents don't trust her, her friends have moved on for their own good, her bipolar disorder is overwhelming. At odds with herself and lacking concrete goals, she begins volunteering at a local helpline, where she finds a community as strong yet broken as she is.
Author
Series
Buck Fineday volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Buck, government name Michael Fineday, Ojibwe name Miskwa' doden (Red Deer) is on the brink of suicide. He has just been served divorce papers by his wife Naomi, who is fed up with his savior complex and the danger it often attracts to their door. Living on the border of Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community reservation, Buck makes a living as a boatbuilder and carpenter. He spends his days alone, trying to win the trust of a feral cat ... until a...
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Carley Mattea never expected to meet a boy as handsome as Kyle Westin. Seventeen year old Kyle was blinded when a chemistry experiment exploded. He's in the hospital and is deeply depressed. They become friends, but Carley is worried that once Kyle's bandages come off, if he can see, he won't like her, because she has a facial deformity.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can't live without them? These questions lie at the heart of Jente Posthuma's deceptively simple What I'd Rather Not Think About. The narrator is a twin whose brother has recently taken his own life. She looks back on their childhood, and tells of their adult lives, and of how her brother tried to find happiness, but lost himself in various men and the Bhagwan movement,...
11) Covet
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Chris and Claire Canton's marriage is on life support. Out of work for a year, Chris retreats to a dark place where no one can reach him. When he's offered a job that will keep him away from home four nights a week, he dismisses Claire's concern that time apart could be the one thing their fragile union can't weather. Police officer Daniel Rush goes home to an empty house every night. He pulls Claire over during a routine traffic stop. When Claire...
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