Lisa Wingate
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
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HL 760L
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English
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"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived...
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"Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane, her illegitimate free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie, Lavinia's former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following dangerous roads rife with ruthless vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war...
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When Hatteras Island old-timer Iola Anne Poole passes away at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage finds herself charged with cleaning out Iola's rambling Victorian house. Running from a messy, dangerous past, Tandi Jo Reese never expects to find more than a temporary hiding place within Iola's walls. But all that changes when she discovers eighty-one carefully decorated prayer boxes. Hidden in the boxes is the story of a...
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English
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When successful New York editor Jen Gibbs discovers a decaying slush-pile manuscript on her desk, she has no idea that the story of Sarra, a young mixed-race woman trapped in Appalachia at the turn of the twentieth century, will both take her on a journey and change her forever. Happy with her life in the city, and at the top of her career with a new job at Vida House Publishing, Jen has left her Appalachian past and twisted family ties far behind....
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Tending roses volume 2
Language
English
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In a time of crisis, two women come together and set off down a road of hope in this novel in the Tending Roses series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours.
Twenty-year-old Jenilee Lane, whose dreams are as narrow as the sky is wide, doesn’t imagine any good could come out of the tornado that has ripped across the Missouri farmland where she makes her home. But...
Twenty-year-old Jenilee Lane, whose dreams are as narrow as the sky is wide, doesn’t imagine any good could come out of the tornado that has ripped across the Missouri farmland where she makes her home. But...
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Moses Lake volume 2
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English
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Heather Hampton returns to Moses Lake to help sell the family farm but finds herself on an unexpected journey into the area's history, hope, and heart.
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Moses Lake volume 4
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English
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"While working as a costuming assistant on a docudrama, Allie Kirkland has discovered strange connections between herself and a teacher who disappeared a century ago in the legendary frontier settlement of Wildwood. Is history about to repeat itself?"--
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English
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An ordinary summer brings about an extraordinary change of heart in the first novel in the Blue Sky Hill series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours.
Changes aren’t in Rebecca Macklin’s plans when she receives a long-distance call from the Dallas police. Her aging father has been found repeatedly wandering the city...
Changes aren’t in Rebecca Macklin’s plans when she receives a long-distance call from the Dallas police. Her aging father has been found repeatedly wandering the city...
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Series
Tending roses volume 3
Language
English
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Karen Sommerfield has been hiding form life - immersing herself in a high-powered job - until the terrible day the company downsizes her out, and the doctor tells her that she may have cancer.
10) Word gets around
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English
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A well-written, delightful novel set in small-town Texas that blends sweet romance with a moving story of God healing wounded hearts.
11) Larkspur Cove
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Moses Lake volume 1
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English
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Social worker/single mother Andrea Henderson and Moses Lake game warden Matt McClendon are drawn together in the search for the identity of a little girl who is seen with the town recluse.
12) Talk of the town
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English
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A charming tale of small-town Texas with a twist of romance as the producer of a reality show attempts to keep secrets from the locals.
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Tending roses volume 4
Language
English
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Once a gifted ballet dancer, Julia Costell buckled under the demands of a professional dance career, and has landed with a thud in an unglamorous job as a guidance counselor at a performing arts high school. Living back home with her parents and feeling lost, she is afraid she'll never soar again.
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Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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From the #1 New York Times author of Before We Were Yours!
Elizabeth Gallagher has been balancing on the ragged edge for a while now. Then a rough case on the boards of her 911 operator's job collides with a family conflict at home, and Elizabeth finds herself finally coming apart at the seams. A four-state road trip—trapped in a car with her mother—is the last thing she needs. Their destination may be beautiful Hatteras...
Elizabeth Gallagher has been balancing on the ragged edge for a while now. Then a rough case on the boards of her 911 operator's job collides with a family conflict at home, and Elizabeth finds herself finally coming apart at the seams. A four-state road trip—trapped in a car with her mother—is the last thing she needs. Their destination may be beautiful Hatteras...
16) Beyond summer
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English
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When soon-to-be college student Tam Lambert learns that her family's finances are collapsing, the privileged life she's known is forever changed. Tam and her family must move to a tiny house owned by her father's company, Householders, in the Dallas neighborhood of Blue Sky Hill. Shasta Reid-Williams and her husband have just purchased their first home in Blue Sky Hill, and it's the perfect place to raise her children. Even better is having a great...
18) Sisters
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Sea Glass Sisters : "A mother-daughter road trip is the last thing Elizabeth Gallagher needs. But with an impending hurricane, they are determined to convince Aunt Sandy to abandon her seaside store and return home. Instead, they discover that sisterhood can change hearts, lives, and futures ... often in unpredictable ways."--Page 4 of cover.
Tidewater Sisters : "Tandi Reese and her sister, Gina, have complicated ties. Faced with legal papers for...
19) Tending roses
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Series
Tending roses volume 1
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
20) Lone Star Café
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Series
Texas Hill country volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A woman finds herself having the worst day of her life, marooned at a crossroads in "nowhere" Texas, until two very strange, elderly ladies convince her to come inside their little cafe where they serve up their special coffee, homemade buttermilk pie, and one delectable, home-grown cowboy.