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Published:
Hachette Audio 2011
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Edition:
Unabridged
Street Date:
10/11/2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781611139051
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Level 6.2, 15 Points
Lexile measure:
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Nicholas Sparks. (2011). The Best of Me. Unabridged Hachette Audio.

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Nicholas Sparks. The Best of Me. Unabridged Hachette Audio, 2011.

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"Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen."
In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in their small town in North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths.
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Forced to confront painful memories, the former lovers will discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made. And in the course of a single, searing weekend, they will ask of the living, and the dead: Can love truly rewrite the past?
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