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Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
At night, in Huda's fragrant garden, a breeze sweeps in from the desert encircling Baghdad, rustling the leaves of her apricot trees and carrying warning of visitors at her gate. Huda, a secretary at the Australian embassy, lives in fear of the mukhabarat--the secret police who watch and listen for any scrap of information that can be used against America and its allies. They have ordered her to befriend Ally Wilson, the deputy ambassador's wife....
522) Happiness Key
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
536 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her husband's imprisonment leaves her to manage five beach houses on the Florida Gulf Coast, Tracy develops a friendship with her female tenants while they search for the family of a dead tenant.
523) Ladies' night
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
458 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Cut off from her palatial home and checking account after an act of post-divorce rage forces her to move in with her widowed mother and attend court-mandated group therapy, rising media star Grace Stanton bonds with three fellow patients who she helps plot respective pursuits of justice and closure.
524) Stargazing
Author
Publisher
First Second
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
208 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Moon is everything Christine isn't. She's confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American suburb, Moon is somehow unlike anyone Christine has ever known. When Moon's family moves in next door to Christine's, Moon goes from unlikely friend to best friend--maybe even the perfect friend. The girls share their favorite music videos, paint their toenails when Christine's strict parents aren't around, and...
525) Sunny rolls the dice
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
215 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sunny's just made it to middle school . . . and it's making her life very confusing. All her best friend Deb wants to talk about is fashion, boys, makeup, boys, and being cool. Sunny's not against any of these things, but she also doesn't understand why suddenly everything revolves around them. She's much more comfortable when she's in her basement, playing Dungeons & Dragons with a bunch of new friends. Because when you're swordfighting and spider-slaying,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
416 p.
Language
English
Description
In this 1920s version of Sex and the City, Dorothy Parker and three other extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship as they help each other get over setbacks while jazz music flows through the air and bathtub gin fills their glasses.
527) Remarkable creatures
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
471 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
529) An American duchess
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
495 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Kent, England, the arrival of Beranger Northcott, Duke of Brightshire, causes a stir. Because with the duke comes his new American bride, who isn't quite what anyone expects. By accepting the hand of her beloved, Emma Brinkman went from hardworking Colorado rancher to duchess. Now she's expected to comport herself as nobility. Overnight. For Emma-stifled, homesick, and unable to shake the feeling she's being watched-the metamorphosis is a challenge....
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ariana Ruiz wants to be noticed. But as an autistic girl who never talks, she goes largely ignored by her peers--despite her bold fashion choices. So when cute, popular Luis starts to pay attention to her, Ari finally feels seen. Luis's attention soon turns to something more, and they have sex at a party—while Ari didn’t say no, she definitely didn’t say yes. Before she has a chance to process what happened and decide if she even has the right...
531) Firefly Lane
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Inseparable best friends Kate and Tully, two young women who, despite their very different lives, have vowed to be there for each other forever, have been true to their promise for thirty years, until events and choices in their lives tear them apart.
532) Positively Izzy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
On the day of the school talent show, the lives of shy Bri and dreamer Izzy converge to create an event even more dramatic than either could even imagine.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Phoebe and Suze used to be closer than sisters. Growing up in a quiet and wildly beautiful coastal town in Oregon, they shared everything. Until the secrets they couldn't share threatened their bond and complicated their lives. Now, decades later, Suze, a famous actress desperate for safe haven following a brutal attack, is back in town. Phoebe, a successful illustrator and fabric designer, has discovered keeping a secret means she can't let anyone...
534) Thin, rich, pretty
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three women--Holly, Nicola, and Lexi--learn the path to true contentment and save each other in this humorous story about old rivalries, deep secrets, and the three things all women wish they were.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things. Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one, the careful one, always the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when Lucy...
536) The front porch club
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
489 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The drawback to having a picture-perfect life is that there's nowhere to go but down--and Annalise Haverford is falling fast. Once, she was the self-proclaimed queen bee of Magnolia, North Carolina. Now her husband has been arrested for fraud, and she's become an outcast in the shallow circles she used to rule. There's only one affordable rental in town, and it's owned by the woman Annalise got fired from a lucrative job. Much as single mother Shauna...
537) The coworker
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
463 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dawn Schiff is strange. At least, everyone at work thinks so. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m. So when Dawn doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrel--beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running--is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything. Now, Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she finds...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed author of Summer Darlings and On Gin Lane returns with the story of two former friends who after a chance reunion in the Hamptons are compelled to confront the traumatic incident that severed their bond.
539) The moonlight child
Author
Publisher
Nightsky Press]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
313 pages 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a cold January night, Sharon Lemke heads outside to see a lunar eclipse when she notices something odd at the house behind her backyard. Through her neighbor's kitchen window, she sees what appears to be a little girl washing dishes late at night. But the Fleming family doesn't have a child that age, and even if they did, why would she be doing housework at this late hour? It would be easy for Sharon to just let this go, but when eighteen-year-old...
540) Sarah's Song
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Sarah knows first-hand the heartache that results from making wrong choices. But will she be able to convince a troubled young woman before time runs out? For when the twelve days of Christmas have passed, it is possible that the melody of Sarah's song might bring out not one, but two miracles.