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Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After a catastrophic Antarctic expedition, Robert Wright is so distressed he becomes unable to communicate the truth and must learn a whole new way to be in the world. While Anna, his wife, navigates the sharp contours of her new life as a caregiver.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
With help from his storyteller son, Charlie Barnes, a lifelong schemer and eternal romantic who would like out of his present circumstances, is granted a second act and, at last, through an act of selflessness and love, becomes the man his son always knew he could be.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Alix St. Pierre, a spy during World War II, finds her new position as director of publicity for the yet-to-be-launched House of Dior threatened by the arrival of a figure from the war, making her realize only she can right the wrongs of the past—and finally find justice.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, Mariel Prager and her husband Ned, who’s having an identity crisis, lose almost everything they hold dear and unexpectedly find salvation in their failing business—the Lakeside Supper Club.
248) The gulf
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Ever since Oli found a pamphlet for a remote island commune as a kid, it's all she can think about. Now that she's nearing the end of high school, feeling frustrated with the mounting pressure to choose a career, the desire to escape it all has been steadily increasing. Everything comes to a head when Oli's relationship with her best friend goes south and she claps back at a school bully with more than just words. Oli flees to find the commune, taking...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Relocating from London to New York City with her family in the aftermath of her mother's death, Kitty struggles to adjust to a different culture, before an unlikely friendship inspires alternate perspectives on how to keep her mother's memory alive.
250) My flawless life
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Known as a fixer, but unable to fix her own life after her politician father ruins everything, Hana is hired to expose the dark secrets of her supposedly flawless classmates at the most elite private school she’s attending in Washington, D.C.
251) Snowflake: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Earning a place at Trinity College Dublin, Debbie, who was raised on a rural dairy farm, finds herself pulling away from the comfort of home until a tragic accident upends her close-knit family's equilibrium and her next steps may no longer be hers to choose.
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In a hilarious true story of a quarter-life crisis that led to love, adventure and a boatload of weirdness, the author shares his experiences living on a remote island in the Pacific, covering such topics as loincloth-tying, monkey-diapering and the effects of global capitalism of the island paradise of Yap.
254) Long way home
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Peggy Serrano couldn't wait for her best friend to come home from the war. But the Jimmy Barnett who returns is much different from the Jimmy who left, changed so drastically by his experience that he can barely function. When his parents check him into the VA hospital, Peggy determines to help the Barnetts unravel what might have happened, starting by contacting Jimmy's war buddies and trying to identify the woman in the photo they find in Jimmy's...
255) In this moment
Author
Series
Timeless volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Hollingsworth inherited a gift from her time-crossing parents that allows her to live three separate lives in 1861 Washington D.C., 1941 Pearl Harbor, and 2001 Washington D.C.. Each night she goes to sleep in one time period and wakes up in another. Until she turns twenty-one, when she will have to forfeit two of those lives -- and everyone she knows in them -- forever. In 1861, Maggie is the daughter of a senator at the outbreak of the...
Author
Publisher
Black Rose Writing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
With all his family and friends gone, one-hundred-year-old Murray McBride is looking for a reason to live. He finds it in Jason Cashman, a ten-year-old boy with a terminal heart defect and a list of five things he wants to do before he dies. Together, they race against the limited time each has left, ticking off wishes one by one. Along the way, Murray remembers what it's like to be young, and Jason fights for the oppotunity to grow old. But when...
258) The Willberry Inn
Author
Series
Oak Harbor volume 1
Publisher
Kimberly Thomas
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Cora was living the dream; until…it all came crashing down like a stack of cards. Starting over was never in her plans— not when she’d spent more than half of her life with a man she’d planned to grow old with. Yet here she was in her prime getting divorced from a husband who’d ignored their vows. Old wounds return when she receives word of the passing of her estranged father. Making the trip back to her childhood hometown of Oak Harbor,...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Sunny, Arianna and Molly are having three different but equally terrible Christmases. Sunny is a newlywed with two new stepkids who want nothing to do with her; Arianna is newly divorced and hates having to send her daughter off to spend the holiday with her dad; for Molly, nothing is new, but her job at the post office is getting very, very old. The whole Christmas season has been a bust all around. But Sunny and Arianna have a wild idea: What if...
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