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English
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Living a seemingly idyllic life of luxury with a husband who is privately oppressive and demanding, Molly reflects on her early life with her twin brother and neglectful mother in a run-down Florida trailer park, where an act of vengeance compelled her to flee and reinvent her identity.
2) Lucky
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English
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When talented grifter Lucky Armstrong discovers that a lottery ticket she bought on a whim is worth millions, she must find a way to cash in the winning ticket without the police arresting her for her past crimes.
6) The walk
Author
Series
Walk novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Richard Paul Evans is well known for his moving, best-selling novel The Christmas Box. In The Walk, the first in a planned series of five books, Evans pens a touching story about one man's journey to find hope. After losing all that is dear to him, Alan Christoffersen decides to take a walk—from Bellevue, Washington, all the way to Key West, Florida.
7) Little Bee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.
10) The leavers
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When his undocumented immigrant mother disappears, eleven-year-old Deming Guo is adopted by a family that attempts to make him over as an American teen while he struggles to reconcile his new life with memories of the family he left behind.
13) Dear child
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Follows the experiences of a kidnapping victim who struggles to escape her abductor and prove her identity to doubting relatives 14 years after her disappearance.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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The fig tree in her parents’ garden, which unbeknownst to her bore witness to their secret meetings decades ago, is her only knowledge of a home she has never known as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world.
16) Good as gone
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English
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When a young woman appears on Anna Whitaker's doorstep claiming to be her long-lost daughter, kidnapped at the age of thirteen, Anna has nagging doubts and turns to a private eye for help.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Newly divorced, Iris Prince moves to a new neighborhood where she, a proud second-generation Mexican American, is plunged into a climate of fear and hate-fueled violence after the launch of a mandatory identification wristband, forcing her to confront how far she’ll go to protect what matters to her most when second-generation immigrants become second-class citizens.
20) Cherry
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Rashly marrying his college girlfriend to keep their relationship active during his tour of duty, a college dropout turned army soldier is overwhelmed by the realities of war, PTSD and opioid addiction before forging a desperate plan.
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