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"Joan Sample is not living the life she expected. Now a widow and an empty-nester, she has become by her own admission something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to reengage with the world. With her support, Joan gathers the courage to take some long-awaited steps: hiring someone to tame her overgrown garden, joining a grief support group, and even renting...
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Nearly thirty years ago, in the wake of a personal tragedy, June Moore bought Camp Holly Springs and turned it into a thriving summer haven for girls. But now, June is in danger of losing the place she has sacrificed everything for, and begins to realize how much she has used the camp to avoid facing difficulties in her life.
June’s niece, Daphne, met her two best friends, Lanier and Mary Stuart, during a fateful summer at camp. They’ve all helped...
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Series
Friendship letters volume 2
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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"Doretta Schwartz used to be so happy and passed her positive attitude along to friends in several letters she wrote each month. But that all changed the day she learned of her fianc�e's death and a heavy weight of depression fell upon her. Feeling empty, she puts away her letter writing and won't even respond to calls from friends. William's twin brother, Warren, is also grieving his loss, while at the same time, trying to be supportive to...
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Little, Brown and Company
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English
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Hollis Shaw's life seems picture-perfect. She's the star of the popular food blog, Hungry with Hollis, and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, Matthew leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis's perfect life-her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her daughter, Caroline-grow deeper. When Hollis hears about something...
5) Rock bottom
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Series
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Isabelle "Izzy" Flanders and Yoko Akia are beginning a new project--an indoor/outdoor caf�e that will be the cornerstone of a market village. Izzy knows just where to get the project off the ground: her old college classmate, Zoe Danfield, now vice president of a huge construction corporation. But the Zoe that Izzy reencounters doesn't seem like her old, confident friend. This Zoe is tense and stressed, and Izzy eventually learns why. Buildings...
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Canary Street Press
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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In the small town of Los Lobos, California, three women join a local indie bookstore's summer book club-devoted entirely to romance novels-and become life-long friends as they navigate the messiness of motherhood, second chances and becoming the person you've always wanted to be.
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits--torn between their commitment to religion and their desire to explore the world beyond their small Baptist community. It is two romantic relationships that will rend their friendship, and in the wake of this rupture, Thomas develops an obsession with a vanished nineteenth-century astronomer...
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Tyndale House Publishers
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369 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"When she is forced to leave her beloved Prince Edward Island to attend Lakeside Ladies Academy after the death of her parents, the last thing Adelaide Rose MacNeill expects to find is three kindred spirits. The "Ladies of the Lake," as the four girls call themselves, quickly bond like sisters, vowing that wherever life takes them, they will always be there for each other. But that is before: Before love and jealousy come between Adelaide and Dorothy,...
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English
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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
10) Who to believe
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Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"When popular restaurateur Laurel Thibodeau is found brutally murdered in her own home, and her husband is the prime suspect, six friends gather together, sharing theories about Laurel's death, soon realizing they each have something to hide as jealousy, revenge, adultery and greed converge"--
11) Memory piece
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Three Asian American teenagers meet in the New York suburbs in the 1980s. Drawn together by their shared sense of alienation from their conventionally domestic immigrant families, each wants to live a meaningful life. They envision a future defined by freedom and creativity, but on the brink of adulthood in New York City, their fortunes quickly diverge. Giselle Chin is a performance artist, pushing the boundaries of the form while socializing with...
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Publisher
Harpervia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Harpervia edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When their best friend Avishay, who is dead, is up for the Nobel Prize for Economics, his four closest friends conspire to conceal Avishay's corpse until the committee's announcement and must decide how far they'll go to help their friend die a winner.
13) Santa & Company
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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When longtime friends Amy, Frankie, Rachael and Nina reunited for a holiday singles cruise, it not only deepened their bond, it changed their lives. Now they're getting together for another adventure, and what better winter setting than a fabulous ski lodge? Crisp snow and fresh air by day, cozy fires and delicious food by night, capped off by meeting up with their significant others for a New Year's Eve celebration it's perfect. At least, it's perfect...
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Series
Komi volume Volume 5
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First Printing ;
Physical Desc
187 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Komi volume Volume 10
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First Printing ;
Physical Desc
189 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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Series
Komi volume Volume 6
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First Printing ;
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184 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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English
Author
Series
Komi volume Volume 8
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First Printing ;
Physical Desc
185 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
18) Marshmallow
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Edition
Rev. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A cat who is used to living alone befriends a little bunny that at first he found to be strange, but now treats like his own kitten.
Author
Series
Wings of Fire Legends volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First printing ;
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
496 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Icy doesn't trust the dragonslayer. He may be her father and the beloved ruler of Valor, but she knows he's hiding more than the treasure from the sand dragon he killed two decades ago.
Leaf doesn't trust dragons. They're the reason his favorite sister, Wren, is dead, and now he'll do whatever it takes to slay even one.
Wren doesn't trust anyone. She swore off humans after her village tried to sacrifice her to the dragons. She only has one friend,...
20) Penny & Pip
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's Penny's first trip to the natural history museum, and she's preeetttty sure something is watching her. She looks; nothing. She looks again; nothing. She looks a third time and glimpses a verrry long neck and a verrrry long tail.
"Pip!" Penny hears. And... it seems to be following her!
"Pip-Pip!" AND... it's all alone! Oh no! What can Penny do now? Oh yes! She's got an idea...