Rachel L. Jacobs
Author
Series
Waiting for Tom Hanks volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A romantic-comedy-obsessed woman waiting for her perfect leading man learns that life doesn't always go according to a script when a movie starts filming in her neighborhood and she gets a job on set.
Author
Language
English
Description
Lucy Hart has come a long way since feeling the cold neglect of her parents, whose attention always centered around her chronically ill sister's needs. Now a twenty-six-year-old teacher's aide, Lucy is able to share her love of books with bright, young students, and one in particular, a seven-year-old orphan named Christopher, has her yearning for a family of her own. The Clock Island books were Lucy's passion and refuge as a child, and now she shares...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Library Fish is very happy in her bowl on Mr. Hughes the librarian's desk. She listens to story time and watches Mr. Hughes teach children the alphabet. He says the alphabet is made of letters, letters make sounds, those sounds make words, and words make stories. Library Fish wants to read, too! Can Library Fish become a reader all on her own?
4) Stella
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Stella used to be a bomb-sniffing dog, but after a terrible accident, she goes to live on a small family farm to recover from her fear of loud noises.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1956 New York City, Marion Brooks, one of the famous Radio City Rockettes, is unwittingly drawn into the police search for the “Big Apple Bomber” and may be forced to sacrifice everything she’s worked for, as well as the people she loves most, to catch this elusive criminal.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Despite her parents' divorce, her father's coming out as gay, and his plans to marry his boyfriend, ten-year-old Bea is reassured by her parents' unconditional love, excited about getting a stepsister, and haunted by something she did last summer at her father's lake house.
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Christmas sparkles from every bough and window at the cozy Four Winds Ski Resort, where single-mother Eden Kendall and her eight-year-old son are spending the holiday. A surprise marriage proposal from her boss's son wasn't on her Christmas list, but it's the perfect excuse to get away and weigh her options. She never imagined her son's ski instructor/Santa impersonator would be the gorgeous, charismatic dreamer she left behind years ago, the one...
10) Mind Games
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
A teen programmer at a school for geniuses must join forces with a boy she can't remember to stop a hacker from deleting their memories in Shana Silver's action-packed YA debut, Mind Games.
Arden sells memories. Whether it's becoming homecoming queen or studying for that all important test, Arden can hack into a classmate's memories and upload the experience for you just as if you'd lived it yourself. Business is great, right up
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
If you love kids like: 1. Anatastia Krupnik; 2. Ramona Quimby; and 3. The Penderwicks, then you will love Annie! For Annie, lists are how she keeps her whole life in order. And there is a lot to keep track of! Annie's a shy fifth grader with an incredible memory and a love of making lists. It helps her keep track of things when they can seem a little out of control, like her family, her friends, and her life in a new place. Annie has: 1. An incredible...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
An NPR Books We Love selection for 2023
"An unforgettable read that should be at the top of every TBR list."—NPR
In 1934, a luxury cruise becomes a fight for survival as two women’s pasts collide on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's page-turning new novel inspired by the true story of the SS Morro Castle.
New York heiress Catherine Dohan...
"An unforgettable read that should be at the top of every TBR list."—NPR
In 1934, a luxury cruise becomes a fight for survival as two women’s pasts collide on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's page-turning new novel inspired by the true story of the SS Morro Castle.
New York heiress Catherine Dohan...
13) No two persons
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When a devastating event breaks her heart open, aspiring writer Alice creates a stunning debut novel in which her words find their way to readers, from a teenager hiding her homelessness to a widower rent by grief, who, due to her book, find new paths forward.
15) Crown of Bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Raise. Your. Phantom. In a world on the brink of the next Great Dying, no amount of training can prepare us for what is to come . . . A young heir will raise the most powerful phantom in all of Baiseen. A dangerous High Savant will do anything to control the nine realms. A mysterious and deadly Mar race will steal children into the sea. And a handsome guide with far too many secrets will make me fall in love. My name is Ash. A lowly scribe meant to...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A woman learns to follow her own road in this heartwarming novel inspired by The Wizard of Oz by New York Times bestselling author Virginia Kantra.
Dorothy “Dee” Gale is searching for a place to belong. After their globe-trotting mother’s death, Dee and her sister Toni settled with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in Kansas, where Dee attends graduate school. But when Dee’s relationship with a faculty...
Dorothy “Dee” Gale is searching for a place to belong. After their globe-trotting mother’s death, Dee and her sister Toni settled with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in Kansas, where Dee attends graduate school. But when Dee’s relationship with a faculty...
17) Narwhal and Jelly Books 1-5: Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea; Super Narwhal and Jelly Jolt; and more!
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The first five books in this bestselling series are now available in a "fintastic" audiobook collection!
The Narwhal and Jelly books are delightfully silly graphic novels full of heart, friendship and playful adventure. Adapted for audio with sound effects and a full cast—including a special appearance by the author—listeners can now get the first five books (Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea, Super Narwhal and Jelly Jolt, Peanut...
The Narwhal and Jelly books are delightfully silly graphic novels full of heart, friendship and playful adventure. Adapted for audio with sound effects and a full cast—including a special appearance by the author—listeners can now get the first five books (Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea, Super Narwhal and Jelly Jolt, Peanut...