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Author
Language
English
Description
"Beloved bestselling author Susan Mallery brings readers an emotional, witty, and heartfelt story that explores the nuances of a broken family's complex emotions as they strive to become whole in this uplifting story of human frailty and resilience. Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she's raising will always feel loved and wanted. Unlike how she felt after her mom left to pursue a dream of stardom, and when the grandfather who was left to...
2) Freedom
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 36
Physical Desc
562 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head–thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf. That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football team, the Wolves. And she has a murdered father to avenge—if she can survive the killers all around her.
An unforgettable family drama by two writers at the top of their craft
Author
Series
The diaries volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
7) I refuse
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A chance encounter between two childhood friends, including one who escaped an abusive father, reveals how their fortunes have reversed.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
406 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Kylie Galen thinks her misbehavior in the wake of her grandmother's death and her parents' separation are the reasons she has been sent to Shadow Falls Camp, but learns it is a training ground for vampires, werewolves, and other "freaky freaks," of which she may be one.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An unforgettable novel about the power of friendship and kindness by the New York Times bestselling author of Pay It Forward. In the summer of 1969, fourteen-year-old Lucas Painter carries a huge weight on his shoulders. His brother is fighting in Vietnam. His embattled parents are locked in a never-ending war. And his best friend, Connor, is struggling with his own family issues. To find relief from the chaos, Lucas takes long, meandering walks,...
10) Little Paula
Author
Series
The Eden volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Little Paula is the sequel to Eden's Children. Trevor and Faith's mother, Paula Eden, has died and their father, Big John, has had a serious trucking accident and is paralyzed. Faith's child, Little Paula, has been given to a wealthy couple unable to have children of their own. Trevor is obsessed with getting the child back"--
11) The wrong family
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An off-kilter narrator witnesses the slow unraveling of a couple's strained marriage that erupts in unexpected ways, in a chilling tale of domestic suspense.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This beautiful novel tells the love story of young Arthur Moses and Nola, and how a young man grew up to become the wise old man known as Arthur Trulove. Set in the 1950s in the warm community of Mason, Missouri, Arthur is a shy, unathletic teenage boy, in love with the most beautiful girl in his class. He is thrilled when they become friends, but he wants more than friendship. Alas, he learns that Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses--Arthur's older...
Author
Publisher
Tiny Reparations Books
Language
English
Description
"After their father dies of an overdose and the debts incurred from his addiction cause the loss of the family home in Detroit, Kenyatta Bernice (KB) and her sister, Nia, are sent by their overwhelmed mother to live with their estranged grandfather in Lansing. Over the course of the summer, KB attempts to get her bearings in a world that has turned upside down. Pinballing between resentment, abandonment, and loneliness, she is forced to carve out...
15) Eden's children
Author
Series
Eden volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When former teacher Paula Eden adopts Faith and Trevor, she is astounded by their natural intelligence and decides to homeschool them to nurture their brilliance. But as the years go on, Faith and Trevor itch for more independence. When Faith sets her sights on a handsome young man visiting from out of town, Paula grows increasingly desperate to preserve her small family and her plans for the children to carry on her legacy. Luckily, she has a cohort...
16) Magpie Lane
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers.As Dee looks back over her time in the Master's Lodging - an eerie and ancient house - a picture of a high achieving but dysfunctional family emerges: Nick, the fiercely intelligent and powerful father; his beautiful Danish wife Mariah, pregnant with their child; and the lost little girl, Felicity, almost...
17) Girl A
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Room and Dear Edward, a propulsive and psychologically immersive novel about a young girl who escapes captivity--but not the secrets that shadow the rest of her life"--
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Christmas has never brought out the best in the MacDougal family. Still, year after year, they gather together in the Blue Ridge Mountains to try to make the season merry and bright. But this year is an especially strained one, between Shayne's impending divorce, Morwenna's slavish devotion to work, and Bobbie's reluctance to face what life has to offer. Then, in the midst of a snowy sibling shouting match, a mysterious stranger appears.
19) My sunshine away
Author
Language
English
Description
A man reflects on the summer of his fourteenth year, where in Baton Rouge he fell in love with a golden-haired girl across the street before an unspeakable crime shattered illusions in his seemingly idyllic neighborhood.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An emotionally damaged seventeen-year-old boy in Pennsylvania who was once an infamous reality television show star, meets a girl from another dysfunctional family, and she helps him out of his angry shell"--