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When she was a child, Melody Browne's house burned down, destroying all her family's possessions and her memories. Ever since, Melody has had no recollection of her life before she was rescued from the flames. Now in her early thirties, Melody is a single mother, living in the middle of London with her teenaged son. She hasn't seen her parents since she left home at fifteen, but Melody has no desire to reconnect until one night, while attending a...
102) The snow hare
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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A woman dreams of becoming a doctor until World War II leads her instead into an astonishing love—and a fateful choice. Exploring motherhood, marriage, consequences, and our incredible human capacity for hope, The Snow Hare is the story of a woman who dares to love and to dream in the face of impossible odds, and of the peace we each must make with our choices, even long after the years have gone by.
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Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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A young feminist economist rehearsing her speech, Abby finds herself straying from her prepared remarks as she confronts her own future at a time of global darkness and wonders what a better world would look like if we told our stories with more honest and hopeful imaginations.
104) Great house
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Connected solely by a desk of enormous dimension and many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or give it away, three people--a lonely American novelist clinging to the memory of a poet who has mysteriously vanished in Chile, an old man in Israel facing the imminent death of his wife of 51 years, and an esteemed antiques dealer tracking down the things stolen from his father by the Nazis--struggle to create a meaningful permanence...
105) The hollow dead
Author
Series
Gravekeeper novels volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
To stop a shadowy organization profiting off spectral energy to extend their power and reach, Keira and her friends prepare to fight for the souls of the tormented dead but Keira soon discovers what she doesn’t know about her past may ultimately come back to haunt her.
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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On the same day every year, everyone around him forgets he exists, and he grows up enduring his own universal Reset. That is until something extraordinary happens: Tommy Llewellyn falls in love. Determined to finally carve out a life for himself and land the girl of his dreams, Tommy sets out on a mission to finally trick the Reset and be remembered. But legacies aren't so easily won, and Tommy must figure out what's more important—the things we...
107) Poor Deer: a novel
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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died. No one blames Margaret. Not in so many words. Margaret wills herself to forget these unbearable memories, replacing them with imagined stories full of faith and magic--that always end happily. Enter Poor Deer: a strange and formidable creature who winds her way uninvited...
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Haunted by memories of the Great War, failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family's old estate--the Savoyard Plantation--and the horrors that occurred there. At first their new life seems to be everything they wanted. But under the facade of summer socials and small-town charm, there is an unspoken dread that the townsfolk have lived with for generations....
109) Slated
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Series
Slated trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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In a future England, sixteen-year-old Kyla is one of the "slated," those whose memories have been erased usually because they have committed serious crimes, but as she observes more and more strange events, she also gains more memories which put her and her boyfriend, Ben in danger.
110) The kingdoms
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Joe Tournier has a bad case of amnesia. His first memory is of stepping off a train in the nineteenth-century French colony of England. The only clue Joe has about his identity is a century-old postcard of a Scottish lighthouse. The postcard is signed only with the letter “M,” but Joe is certain whoever wrote it knows him far better than he currently knows himself, and he’s determined to find the writer. The search for M, though, will drive...
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Ursa possesses a very special gift. She can travel through memory and revisit her past. After she flees her hometown for the counterculture glory of 1950’s California, the intoxicating potential of her unique ability eventually draws a group of women into her orbit and into a ramshackle mansion in the woods outside Santa Cruz. Yet Ursa’s powers come with a cost. Soon this cultish community of sisterhood takes an ominous turn, prompting her son,...
Author
Series
Cam Jansen mysteries. Main series volume 31
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Cam Jansen and her photographic memory help her friend's grandfather retrieve his missing bag with an important graduation gift in it.
114) Baumgartner: a novel
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Still struggling nine years after his wife’s death in a swimming accident, a soon-to-be-retired philosophy professor becomes lost in the memories of their relationship.
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