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"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...
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Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when their beloved father falls ill, Meredith and Nina find themselves together again, standing alongside their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, who even now, offers no comfort to her daughters. As children, the only connection...
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Single mother Vida Avery, having earned a reputation as a strict, but brilliant English teacher at the private Maine academy where she has lived and worked for fifteen years, inexplicably agrees to marry a local widower with three children, and while her son Peter relishes the idea of a real home and family, Vida, never a fan of the real world, begins to self-destruct.
6) The betrayal
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Abram Ebersol and wife, Ida, expect their daughters to carry on their Amish heritage in the cloistered Lancaster County community; however, the oldest girl finds little appeal in her Amish life compared to the excitement of the outside world.
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The Palmer sisters couldn't be more different. Karen, the eldest, is the responsible one the one who got the grades, married the perfect guy, and has two wonderful, high-achieving children. Cassie is the rebellious one, who got pregnant right after high school and married the wrong man, despite her family's misgivings. And Nicole is a free, creative spirit, who's always been indulged and pampered as the baby of the family who could do no wrong. These...
9) Animal farm
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Animal farm was George Orwell's satirical shot at the then-new totalitarianism of the left. It is so accurate that no one has been able to do it better or more effectively, or even come close. Who can forget "All Animals Are Created Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others." By putting wisdom in the mouths of animals, Orwell uses an age-old artifice and proves again how the pen can be mightier than the sword.
13) The great alone
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Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
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Caroline Wimbley Levine never expected to assume the role of her late mother, a force of nature who ruled Tall Pines Plantation in South Carolina's Lowcountry, but with her son taking up with an older single mom, her sister-in-law indulging in alcoholic binges, her brother in love with another woman, and her nieces behaving like heathens, she knows someone has to take control.
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One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly-thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia,...
17) Farm animals
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Briefly describes some of the most common farm animals: chickens, cows, pigs, sheep, goats, and horses.
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Allison Glenn is released from prison and sent to a halfway house, where she tries to reconnect with her sister Brynn, the only one who knows the truth about the terrible events that ruined Allison's life, and their secrets soon threaten the life of one little boy who is caught in the middle.
19) Stoner
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William Stoner, the son of a dirt-poor Missouri farming family, embraces the scholar's life after attending college, but his education and marriage to a privileged young woman estranges him from his family.
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