Redeemed: The Missing

 by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Jordan wakes to find he has an identical twin, Jonah; his parents are teenagers again; and his sister, Katherine, can time travel.  Then Jordan and his siblings are sent into the future.

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A Shiloh Christmas

 by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

When a fire divides the community, a new minister unfairly blames Judd, Marty’s dog’s former, abusive owner.  Marty wonders why people can’t see that Judd has changed.

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The Bear Report

 by Thyra Heder

After Sophie half-heartedly completes her homework, a polar bear named Olafur appears and transports her to his Arctic home.  “It’s better in person,”  he promises.

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A Step Toward Falling

 by Cammie McGovern

Emily knows she needs to step up and take responsibility for failing her disabled classmate, Belinda, in a moment of need.  Meanwhile, Belinda’s realizing she’s ready to take charge of herself.

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The Japanese Lover

By  Isabel allende

The love affair starts in a San Francisco mansion as the Nazis invade Poland.  When Alma Belasco is sent to America in 1939, she meets and falls for soft-spoken Japanese gardener Ichimei Fukada.  The Japanese bombing of Pearl harbor tears the lovers apart when Ichimei’s family is sent to an internment camp.  Alma continues to receive gifts and letters from her beloved decades  later, sharing her passionate tale with a fellow nursing home resident.

 

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The Golem of Paris

By  Jonathan Kellerman

Jacob Lev is drinking again.  Over a year after the LAPD detective discovered the shocking truth about his family, Jacob is struggling to keep his head above water.  Then he finds the file for an unsolved murder with jarring ramifications.  The gruesome cold case takes Jacob to Paris, where he must face the terrifying past to put a case to rest…and his mind at ease.

 

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Circling The Sun

By  Paula McLain

An author and a safari hunter give a lost woman wings as aviator Beryl Markham finds her true calling after an unusual upbringing.  Abandoned by her mother and raise by both her father and the Kipsigs tribe that occupy her father’s land, Beryl Markham succumbs to an irresistible love triangle involving Karen Blixen, the author of “Out of Africa” and safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton as Beryl finally realizes her fate: She was born to fly.

 

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Dance of the Bones

By  J.A. Jance

An open-and-shut case of death in the desert sends retired sheriff Brandon Walker back into the line of fire when Walker learns that the prospector’s alleged killer, arrested years ago, may be innocent.

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