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English
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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 raise them abandoned her and her sister, Sloane, when they needed him most.
Author
Series
House of Wolves volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Jenny Wolf's murdered father has left her in charge of a multi-billion-dollar empire--a newspaper, a football team, a holding company...and a dysfunctional family that knows no bounds.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When her triplets, who have no strong familial bond and cannot wait to go their separate ways, leave for college, Johanna, faced with being alone for the first time, decides to have a fourth child and wonders what role the “latecomer” will play in her already fractured family.
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Series
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English
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Arthur becomes friends with the hottest girl in his class even though she has a crush on his older brother and must come to terms with grief and how to go on when a sudden tragedy changes his world. Tells how Arthur Moses, a shy young man, becomes the wise and compassionate person readers loved in The Story of Arthur Truluv.
6) Decimate
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Language
English
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Fourteen years after a mysterious blinding light bowled over her and her brother in a Montana forest and possible explanations caused a family rift, Claire agrees to join her estranged father in his ongoing investigations of a paranormal force.
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Miniature golf becomes an escape for Malcolm during a time when his home life feels tumultuous and he must navigate tournaments, new friendships, and growing tensions at home.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started"--
Ernie...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Alongside the challenges of parenting, married couple Jack and Elizabeth encounter cults disguised as mindfulness support groups, polyamorous would-be suitors, Facebook wars and something called Love Potion Number Nine as they undertake separate, personal excavations in their quest to find health and happiness.
10) Sam: a novel
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Language
English
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Description
Grappling with self-doubt and insecurity as she grows into her teens, Sam, yearning for her climbing coach’s attention, dealing with her father’s absence and raging against her mother’s constant pressure, must decide who she wants to be in the face of what she’s expected to do.
Author
Series
Moonglow Cove volume 3
Language
English
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Description
To inherit a lighthouse from their grandmother, two estranged sisters must live there, work out their issues and compete in baking challenges with a hundred-year sourdough starter—if they fail, they lose everything.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A young woman returns home to Illinois from Manhattan to introduce her Chinese immigrant parents to her white fiancé, in a disastrous weekend where she runs into her unrequited high school crush and complicates matters further.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from the perspective of almost 11-year-old Kenyatta Bernice, this coming-of-age novel follows KB as she is sent to live with her estranged grandfather where she, as everything and everyone changes around her, is forced to carve out a different identity for herself and find her own voice.
14) Her deadly game
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After a failed romance with a coworker, a Seattle prosecutor must return home to her family’s failing law firm to work for her father until she accepts a high profile case in which the prosecutor is her ex.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two brothers in a family of professional killers, Otto and Cecil find it hard to continue the family legacy due to a series of escaped convicts showing up at their door, a lecherous new tutor with disturbing hobbies, their mother’s burgeoning opioid addiction and the disappearance of their father.
16) A million things
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Used to her mother’s frequent absences and subsequent returns, 10-year-old Rae looks after herself and her dog and begins a relationship with her grumpy, elderly neighbor who needs her help after she suffers a fall.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When a DNA test to diagnose a mystery illness reveals she is related to the Full Moon Killer, who has terrorized the Pacific Northwest for decades, Ivy Hon seeks to unmask a murderous relative by reaching out to what’s left of a family of strangers.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Just as Gio is getting his life together, he must deal with the return of his mother, who abandoned the family years ago, while dealing with his crush on a basketball player who is giving him mixed signals.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1951, Blackburn Gant, the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery, is charged with caring for his best friend’s wife, Naomi, when he is drafted to serve overseas, and as Blackburn and Naomi grow closer and closer, a shocking revelation upends numerous lives.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After her mother is hospitalized for a mental health crisis, Gabrielle, a young black and indigenous woman who has the ability to change the color of her skin, is drawn to her piano instructor who embodies everything she's missing in her life--creativity, confidence, and a nurturing sense of love.
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