Kristin Hannah
1) The women
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"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
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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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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
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"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
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"An epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II"--Provided by publisher
"Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. When World War II strikes and Antoine is sent off to fight, Viann and Isabelle's father sends Isabelle to help her older sister...
5) Fly away
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A follow-up to Firefly Lane returns readers to the world of Tully, Kate, and Tully's mother, who explore their understandings about love, family, loss, and redemption while turning to each other in the hopes of salvaging their lives
6) Night road
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
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After a string of foster homes and the death of her heroin-addict mother, Lexi Baill is taken in by a newly discovered great-aunt who lives a spartan life near Seattle. Lexi soon meets Mia and her loving twin brother, Zach. The friendship flourishes, and Mia's mother draws Lexi into the family circle. A slowly growing attraction between Zach and Lexi begins, but then Lexi, Mia, and Zach collectively make a bad decision that results in a tragedy with...
7) Firefly Lane
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 22
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A story of friendship that endures everything, from girlhood dramas to bitter betrayal, to be the touchstone in two women's lives
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After Annie Colwater's husband finds another woman, she goes home to the Olympic Peninsula and falls in love with a widower with a daughter. On discovering she is pregnant--by her husband--she returns to the husband, but he wants no part of her, or their child. Will the widower take her back? By the author of Home Again
11) Comfort & joy
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Newly divorced, Joy Candellaro decides to break from her ordinary life and embark on a holiday adventure. A miraculous twist of fate lands her in the charming Northwest town of Rain Valley, where she meets Daniel O'Shea and his young son, Bobby. Thrown together by chance, these three souls will be touched by the true spirit of Christmas and discover what it means to be a family.
12) Home front
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2012
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"From a distance, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid marriage, two exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years together, the couple has lost their way; they are unhappy and edging toward divorce. Then the Iraq war starts. An unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harm's way and leaving the other at home, waiting for news. When the worst happens,...
13) El ruiseñor
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Dos hermanas buscan su propio camino hacia la supervivencia, el amor y la libertad en la Francia ocupada durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. 50 semanas en el TOP10 del New York TimesMás de 4.000.000 ejemplares vendidosUnode los 10 libros más vendidos en USA en 2015Premio Goodreads Mejor Novela de Ficción Histórica Francia, 1939. En el tranquilo pueblo de Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac se despide de su marido, Antoine, que debe marchar al frente. Ella...
15) Winter garden
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2010
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The dying wish of a loving father ignites a family drama that brings two sisters and their acid-tongued, Russian-born mother together in a story that reaches back to WWII Leningrad
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Suma/Penguin Random house Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021
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Español
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Texas, 1921. La Gran Guerra ha terminado y Estados Unidos parece entrar en una nueva era de optimismo y abundancia. Pero para Elsa, considerada demasiado mayor para casarse en una época en la que el matrimonio es la única opción de una mujer, el futuro es incierto. Hasta la noche en que conoce a Rafe Martinelli y decide cambiar la dirección de su vida. Con su reputación arruinada, solo le queda una opción respetable: casarse con un hombre al...
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Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2024
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Español
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"±Las mujeres tambǐn pueden ser her̕onas¬. Cuando Frances, estudiante de enferme̕ra, oye por primera vez estas palabras, siente una revelac̤in. Y cuando su hermano parte rumbo a Vietnam para combatir, ella se une de manera impulsiva al cuerpo de enfermeras del eǰrcito estadounidense para seguirlo. Al̕l se sentìr igual de inmadura e inexperta que los ̤jvenes enviados para luchar en medio del caos y la destrucc̤in de la guerra; adèms,...
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20) Summer Island
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Great Alone returns with a poignant, funny, luminous novel about a mother and daughter—the complex ties that bind them, the past that separates them, and the healing that comes with forgiveness.
“[Kristin] Hannah is superb at delving into the characters' psyches and delineating nuances of feeling.”—Washington Post Book World
Years ago,...
“[Kristin] Hannah is superb at delving into the characters' psyches and delineating nuances of feeling.”—Washington Post Book World
Years ago,...