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Author
Publisher
Lake Union Pub
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Vega Jones escapes an abusive relationship with nothing but her two-month-old baby and the van she grew up in. Her destination is a small Ohio town her late vagabond mother left years ago. It’s one full of nobodies, her mother warned. That makes it the ideal refuge for Vega to lie low, feel safe, and maybe learn more about a past her mother never spoke of.
Vega warms to the town and to new acquaintances like Heff, the young deputy and artist who...
Author
Publisher
Scribe
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The second novel by Booker Prize-longlisted author Anna Smaill. A lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Tokyo, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and two women meet, changing the course of one another's lives. Dinah has come to Japan from New Zealand to teach English and grieve the death of her brother, Michael,...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm--and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the madness that led to Susanna Farrow's disappearance, leaving June to be raised by her grandmother and haunted by rumors. It's been a year since June started seeing and hearing things that weren't there....
Author
Series
Adventures of Sik Aziz volume Book 2
Publisher
Disney Hyperion, an imprint of Buena Vista Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition ;
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
What would you do if you could change the past? What mistakes would you correct? What injustices would you prevent from ever happening? What do you want more than anything?
There's only one thing Sikander Aziz wants: to have his brother, Mo, back.
When Sik gets his hands on the mythic tablet of destinies, his wish is granted. Sik is overjoyed... until he learns that it's not only his brother's destiny he changed, but everyone's.
The more Sik tries...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel Garca Mrquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generation in the making.In 1895, Antonio Sonoro is the latest in a long line of ruthless men. He's good with his gun and is drawn to trouble but he's also out of money and out of...
Author
Publisher
Crocodile Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
223 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Every time violence erupts in the Middle East, Ida knows what's coming next. Some of her classmates treat her like it's all her fault--just for being Palestinian! In eighth grade, Ida is forced to move to a different school. But people still treat her like she'll never fit in. Ida wishes she could disappear.
One day, dreading a final class project, Ida hunts for food. She discovers a jar of olives that came from a beloved aunt in her family's village...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"I've loved every one of Susanna's books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly's delicate touch with characters—sure recipe for historical fiction that sucks you in and won't let go!"—DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlander
In an intricate balance of past and present, Susanna Kearsley offers a story of French historical fiction full of breathless suspense, Gothic romance, and priceless
...Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
223 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A living legend roosting in the backyard. An unmissable game. A hair-raising mystery. A road trip full of adventure and danger. And all the overlapping circles that connect us throughout Creation.
Melanie “Mel” Roberts and Ray Halfmoon may be from different Indigenous Nations, but the friends have become like siblings since the Robertses moved in with the Halfmoons. And they soon welcome a distinguished guest: Great-grandfather Bat, whose wing...
11) Mapmaker
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Walt and his family relocate to Blackbird Bay, Walt thinks it's the most boring place on earth. While his twin sister, Van, likes to spend her time skateboarding, Walt prefers to hide out in his room and work on his beloved map world, Djaruba. But shortly after their arrival, Walt discovers something extraordinary: He has the ability to make maps come to life.
Suddenly his new hometown doesn't seem so boring after all. And when a magical heirloom...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Years after spending a lonely childhood at the side of a make-believe best friend named Michael, theater maven's daughter Jane encounters a loving flesh-and-blood Michael who is exactly like the figure of her childhood imagination.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1844 Ireland, Liam O'Connor, a rogue and a thief, fell madly in love with a squire's daughter and unwittingly altered the future. Shy and naive Cora McLeod thought Liam was the answer to her prayers. But the angels disagreed and they've been waiting for the right moment in time to step in. Now Liam finds himself reunited with his beloved Cora in Providence Falls, North Carolina. The angels have given Liam a task. He must make sure Cora falls in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her wedding reception is interrupted by the sight of a dead body in the Niagara River, Charming Books owner Violet Waverly recognizes the woman as a recent customer with a valuable book in her possession, and she sets out to solve the case.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
International Latino Book Award Gold Medal Winner!
"A beautiful book about family, memories, and the power of stories." —BuzzFeed
"Mystical, masterful storytelling." —Ms. Magazine
A gorgeously written family saga about a Puerto Rican woman who finds herself gifted (or cursed?) with a strange ability.
There was always an old woman dying in the back room
...16) Fast Forward
Author
Publisher
Escape Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fun romantic comedy about rediscovering the important things in life.
Aspiring supermodel, Kelli Crawford seems destined to marry her hotshot boyfriend, but on her twenty–fifth birthday she wakes in the future as a fifty–year–old suburban housewife married to the now middle–aged high school nerd.
Trapped in the opposite life of the one she wanted, Kelli is forced to re–evaluate her life
...17) As You Wish
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In Madison, a small town in the Mojave Desert, everyone gets one wish that will come true on his or her eighteenth birthday, and Eldon takes his very seriously.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
436 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It will take something extraordinary to show four women who they truly are . . . October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in the English countryside as a huge pair of impossible wings rip themselves from her shoulders. In London, rumors of a "fallen angel" cause a frenzy across the city, and a surgeon desperate for fame and fortune finds himself in the grips of a dangerous obsession, one that will place the women he seeks in the...
Author
Series
Warriors super edition volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
As a young warrior, Crookedjaw pledges his undying loyalty to RiverClan in exchange for the promise of power, not realizing that his pledge will haunt him when he becomes the leader of his Clan.
20) Bellewether
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
It's late summer, war is raging, and families are torn apart by divided loyalties and deadly secrets. In this complex and dangerous time, a young French Canadian lieutenant is captured and billeted with a Long Island family, an unwilling and unwelcome guest. As he begins to pitch in with the never-ending household tasks and farm chores, Jean-Philippe de Sabran finds himself drawn to the daughter of the house. Slowly, Lydia Wilde comes to lean on Jean-Philippe,...
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