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English
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Three best friends--Heather, who finally sees the beauty of family; Daphne, who is trying to fix her marriage after an emotional affair; and Tori, who has fallen in love with a longtime friend, navigate the joy, and heartache of letting people into their hearts for the very first time.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Returning home when Gran, the treasured matriarch, falls in a coma after a car accident caused by her mother, Maggie finds Sullivan’s Island is holding even more secrets as she feels herself changing like the Atlantic tides, rediscovering the roots she left behind and finding love.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Desperate to reinvigorate her career, a Detroit mergers & acquisitions executive must convince her aging parents to sell their iconic Michigan Christmas store by the start of the New Year but when she reconnects with the magic of the store, her parents and the holidays, her misguided plan backfires.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody's Fool and Everybody's Fool"--
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Publisher
Random House
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Annie Brown, a fun-loving woman, suddenly dies, her husband, best friend, and her children all struggle to find ways to go on after the loss of the woman who was the center of their lives, and who made life happy, fun, and secure. Her husband is overwhelmed with four children to raise, and turns to his teenage daughter for help, and to an old girlfriend for solace. Annie's best friend struggles again with opioid addiction, having depended on...
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Newly married and with a baby on the way, Jacy and her new husband, Jed, embark on their first road trip together to visit his father, Dr. Ash, in Michigan's far-flung Upper Peninsula. The moment they arrive at the cottage snug within the lush woods, Jacy feels bathed in love by the warm and hospitable Dr. Ash, if less so by his house manager, the enigmatic Mrs. Brandt. But their Edenic first days take a turn when Jacy has a health scare. Swiftly,...
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah parents, who came to America twenty years earlier with little more than an education and their new marriage, this move represents the culmination of years of hard work and dreaming. For their children, born and raised in America, success is not so simple. For the most part, these differences among the five...
9) Good as gold
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Suddenly an outcast from her popular squad after her father loses his job, Casey and a new group of friends search for her town's rumored sunken treasure to save her family and her future, unwittingly bringing a dangerous truth to the surface.
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English
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"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm-except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
198 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of interconnected short stories follows a family across multiple generations and explores machismo, mental health, and identity.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Determined to finish her final book and reverse her fortunes before her mind goes, Dora Frenhofer uses fascinating real characters from her own life, including her missing brother, her estranged daughter, her erstwhile lover, and her last remaining friend, that results in an unforeseen twist.
14) Sincerely Sicily
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Sicily Jordan learns to use her voice and to find joy in who she is--a Black Panamanian fashionista who rocks her braids with pride--while confronting prejudice both in the classroom and at home.
15) Extra normal
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Un-super" in a household of supernatural siblings, Charlie Greer is convinced that her "too nice and too normal" new neighbors are up to something and must uncover the truth, proving you don't need special powers to stop evil.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"To save their father's life, a brother and sister must journey across a land full of magical beings from Colombian folklore and find the most powerful and dangerous of them all--the Madremonte"--
Author
Series
Housemaid volume 2
Language
English
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"It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want. It's almost perfect. But I still haven't met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I'm sure I hear her crying. I...
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Publisher
Marysue Rucci Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Marysue Rucci Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1945 Malaya, when her family is in terrible danger due to a choice she made 10 years earlier, Cecily Alcantara, who was lured into a life of espionage for the invading Japanese forces during World War II, finds her actions catching up with her and will do anything to save those she loves"--