Julia Whelan
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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In 1974, a former Vietnam POW, suffering from flashbacks and nightmares, moves his family to Alaska to live off the grid in an attempt to find peace, restoration, and freedom. They will also face dangers, both internally and externally, as they face the ultimate test of the human spirit.
2) Most wanted
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Language
English
Description
Using a sperm donor to conceive when she learns that her husband is infertile, a happily pregnant woman is shattered to learn that a man arrested for a series of brutal murders is the biological father of her baby.
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Language
English
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Discovering an old and strikingly unusual musical composition that causes her to black out and has a violently transformative effect on her daughter, Julia Ansdell travels to Venice to find the man behind the music and uncovers a dark secret dating back to the Holocaust.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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When a beautiful woman goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, her diary reveals hidden turmoil in her marriage and a mysterious illness; while her husband, desperate to clear himself of suspicion, realizes that something more disturbing than murder may have occurred.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Volunteering for Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library in small-town Kentucky, an English bride joins a group of independent women whose commitment to their job transforms the community and their relationships.
7) The grownup
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Language
English
Description
When a charlatan "psychic" visits her Victorian home to find the source of her terror and grief, Susan, the psychic, and her teenage stepson are soon forced to confront the truth about ghosts.
8) Vox
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Marginalized in a near-future America where the government limits women to no more than 100 spoken words daily before outlawing women's education and employment altogether, a former doctor resolves to be heard for the sake of her daughter.
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Language
English
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Working as a public relations hotline consultant for a once-prestigious culinary magazine, Billie Breslin unexpectedly enters a world of New York restaurateurs and artisanal purveyors while reading World War II letters exchanged between a plucky twelve-year-old and James Beard.
10) A thread so thin
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Series
Language
English
Description
While New Bern, Connecticut, lies under a blanket of snow, the Cobbled Court Quilt Shop remains a cozy haven for its owner, Evelyn Dixon, and her friends. But when Evelyn's son Garrett rolls out the red carpet for a super-romantic New Year's Eve--complete with marriage proposal--for Liza, the young woman finds herself torn between a rare career opportunity and love for Garrett.
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Series
Language
English
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A family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings is set against the backdrop of the turbulent summer of 1968 in Martha's Vineyard, where twenty-two-year-old Whitney Dane begins questioning her goals and sense of independence at the side of a fiercely ambitious, underprivileged man.
12) Fates and furies
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Marrying in a whirlwind amid predictions of future greatness, Lotto and Mathilde are shaped throughout a subsequent shared decade by complications, secrets, and powerful creative drives.
13) The passenger
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1980 Mississippi, salvage diver Bobby Western, after a plane crash, discovers that the pilot’s flight bag, the plane’s black box and the 10th passenger are missing, submerging him in a conspiracy beyond his understanding as he is shadowed in body and spirit by the past and present.
15) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Told entirely through the transcripts of the narrator’s psychiatric sessions, this intimate portrait of grief and longing follows 20-year-old Alicia Western as she, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, contemplates the nature of madness, her hallucinations and her own existence in 1972 Black River Falls, Wisconsin.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Eschewed by her wealthy Smith College classmates, a former scholarship student reluctantly volunteers to join a group of graduates who travel to Europe to help World War I French civilians before finding herself surrounded by desperate families in villages decimated by German bombs.
17) Since We Fell
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Retreating from the world in the aftermath of a traumatizing reporting assignment, Rachel finds happiness with a businessman before witnessing activities surrounding a conspiracy that tests the limits of her fragile psyche.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
When one of two teen sisters who disappeared three years earlier returns with an astonishing tale about how they were held on a mysterious island, skeptical forensic psychiatrist Dr. Abby Winter investigates the young woman's family and uncovers disturbing evidence of violated boundaries, betrayals and narcissistic parenting.
19) Speak no evil
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Language
English
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Description
An athlete from a private school in Washington, D.C., and his friend, the daughter of government insiders, struggle with the responses to the young man's sexual orientation before finding themselves speeding toward a violent future.