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A year ago mutual attraction flared between Sister Louise Keating and Dr. Matt Forrester, and a whirlwind marriage soon followed. But finding time for each other in their busy work schedules proved impossible, and they separated. Now they're working together again in the special-care baby unit. As the lives of their tiny patients hang constantly in the balance, Louise and Matt ride a roller coaster of emotions that takes them to a new level of intimacy....
42) Missing Okalee
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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"When Pheobe's sister, Okalee, drowns in the river during their annual spring celebration, Phoebe is wracked with guilt to the point that she loses her singing voice"--
43) Naming ceremony
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It is time for her baby sister's naming ceremony, and Amira has a name picked out, but as friends and family pronounce the names they have brought, Amira starts to wonder if her chosen name is really the blessing she thought it was. Includes a note about West African tradition of the naming ceremony.
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A sister is a friend for life, and a friend can be a sister. Sisterhood is one of the most liked topics for the 3.5 million Happiness Is...fans on social media and this cute-ascan- be book captures 200 beautiful moments of sisterhood among friends and friendship between sisters. From sharing clothes and hosting parties to making pinky promises and staying close when you're far apart, this book says "I love you" in 200 different ways. Featuring the...
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I promised her I'd protect him... and I'll do anything to keep him safe. Five years ago, my sister Rachel left her baby boy on my doorstep. A little bundle wrapped in blankets. I loved him. I cared for him. I called him Noah and raised him as my own. Rachel was full of secrets, and the truth about Noah was one we shared. A secret just between sisters. Now, my sister is dead. The police say it was an accident... But, I'm convinced that's a lie. I owe...
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A coming of age story of two American sisters in Hong Kong during the late 1960s. Summer 1967. The turmoil of the Maoist revolution is spilling over into Hong Kong and causing unrest as war rages in neighboring Vietnam. White Ghost Girls is the story of Frankie and Kate, two American sisters living in a foreign land in a chaotic time. With their war-photographer father off in Vietnam, Marianne, their beautiful but remote mother, keeps the family nearby....
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2014.
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The aging patriarch and matriarch of the Ghosh family preside over their large household, made up of their five adult children and their respective children, unaware that beneath the barely ruffled surface of their lives the sands are shifting. Each set of family members occupies a floor of the home, in accordance to their standing within the family. Poisonous rivalries between sisters-in-law, destructive secrets, and the implosion of the family business...
48) Double dare
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Twintuition volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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"Identical twins Cassie and Caitlyn Waters may be able to see into the future, but with a teacher who suspects they have powers waiting to catch them midvision and the grandmother they just met in town to teach them how to better control what they foresee, the last thing they need is more trouble. Luckily, a class-wide game of Truth or Dare has begun and the twins are having fun competing. When a vision shows the girls' friend getting hurt, Cassie...
49) The night sister
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Once the thriving attraction of rural Vermont, the Tower Motel now stands in disrepair, alive only in the memories of Amy, Piper, and Piper's kid sister, Margot. The three played there as girls until the day that their games uncovered something dark and twisted in the motel's past, something that ruined their friendship forever. Now adults, Piper and Margot have tried to forget what they found that fateful summer, but their lives are upended when...
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Two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in Brooklyn, Zora and Sasha Porter, drifting apart as they bear witness to their father's violence and their mother's worsening illness, must come together to answer to something more ancient and powerful than they know--and confront a long-buried family secret.
51) Double trouble
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Twintuition volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
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"In Double Trouble, identical twins Cassie and Caitlyn Waters have adjusted to small-town life in Aura, Texas, but they're still not used to seeing visions of the future. And their Sight is only getting stronger as their twelfth birthday nears! But even with this new gift, neither girl could have predicted what the mysterious package they received would contain--a connection to the father they know nothing about and the grandmother they never knew...
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Every child who has ever visited the Peter Pan statue in Bowring Park, St. John's, swears it is magic. They know that the mice, squirrels, rabbits, and fairies are never in the same place as the last time they visited. Some say they've seen Peter wink at them, and others believe they've heard the soft whispering sounds of a flute. Are the stories true? Is the Peter Pan statue really magic? Or are the tales just childhood fantasies? The Secret of Bowring...
53) April's Rayne
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April's Rayne is the gripping story of a woman who wants nothing more than a love to call her own. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, Darren, their budding relationship makes a certain someone jealous. Including, her best friend Mallory. This creates disharmony in their already damaged friendship. A sixteen- year-old bond between sister-friends crumble. Meanwhile, Mallory's marriage is challenged by another woman. Her husband Jeremy becomes...
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In this collection of eloquent and moving essays, Ana Veciana-Suarez explores many of the topics closest to our hearts. In "Stitchwork," she expresses her mixed feelings about a mother who devotes all of her attention to her family. In the title essay, she examines, with unflinching honesty, the loss of her first husband, then gives us a humorous and compelling account of her remarriage in "Second Time Around." Veciana-Suarez offers wise reflections...
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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From TV stars Tia and Tamera Mowry comes Double Dare, the third book in their popular Twintuition series about the super-special-and sometimes supernatural-bond between sisters!
Identical twins Cassie and Caitlyn Waters may be able to see into the future, but with a teacher who suspects they have powers waiting to catch them midvision and the grandmother they just met in town to teach them how to better control what they foresee, the last thing they...
56) Little universes
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Two sisters struggle with the secrets brought to light in the aftermath of their parents' sudden death.
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The planning.
The dress shopping.
The wedding ceremony.
When Rachel and Joe decide on a winter wedding, the planning gets underway. They pick their officiant, they have the place, and they make their guest list.
Rachel, Kathy, Abby and Marilyn make it a girl's night away and go shopping for dresses in the city. As fate would have it, the very bridal shop where Rachel finds her dream dress is owned by Joe's biological mother, who he hasn't seen...
58) The good sister
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Jennifer and Catherine-sisters who have inherited equal shares of power in Pegasus Satellite Services, one of the biggest communications empires in the world-could not be more different. While Catherine is an extraordinary beauty whose looks attract the most handsome and powerful men, her sister is a plain-Jane, no-nonsense gal who prefers running the company to walking the red carpet.
But Jennifer's aversion to the spotlight becomes secondary after...
60) A thread so fine
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"St. Paul, Minnesota, 1946: As little girls, the Malone sisters relied on each other for companionship and affection as their mother remained distant, beating back the demons of her own mysterious childhood. Now, as young women ready to embrace promising futures, Eliza plans for a life of intellectual fulfillment beginning with college at nearby St. Catherine's, while far simpler hopes for family and happiness occupy Shannon. Instead, the closely-knit...