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Author
Series
Wishing Tree volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Until Camryn Neff can return to her "real" life in Chicago, she's in Wishing Tree to care for her twin sisters. She's not looking for forever love, not here. But handsome hotelier Jake Crane is a temptation she can't resist, so she suggests they pair up for the season. No golden rings, no broken hearts. At his side, she sees her hometown through Christmas-colored eyes. The cheer is cheerier, the joy more joyful. She thought she had put her future...
2) The rainbow
Author
Publisher
Vintage International/Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters--born to the same father but different mothers--struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become obsessed with locating a third sibling, while also experiencing love for the first time. While Momoko, their father's first child--haunted by the loss of her kamikaze boyfriend and their final,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"When white silver screen icon Kitty Karr Tate dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the three Black St. John sisters, it prompts questions. A celebrity in her own right, Elise St. John would rather focus on sorting out Kitty's affairs than deal with the press. But what she discovers in one of Kitty's journals rocks her world harder than any other brewing scandal could--and between a cheating fiancé and fallout from a controversial...
Author
Series
Divine traitors volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
391 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her sister Elara forms an unbreakable bond with an enemy dragon, seventeen-year-old Faron, who once wielded the magic of the gods to save her island from those same dragon-riding colonizers, must find a way to save her sister and the fate of their world in the face of impossible odds.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A short novella based on the beloved characters from the graphic novel Heartstopper and Alice Oseman's debut novel Solitaire, which was praised as 'The Catcher in the Rye for the digital age' by The Times. The festive season isn't always happy for Tori Spring and her brother Charlie. And this year's going to be harder than most. I used to think that difficult was better than boring, but I know better now... I'm not going to think about the past few...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
151 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
After the death of her mother, eleven-year-old Gopi, who has been playing squash since she was a small child, is enlisted in a quietly brutal training regimen by her father, and soon the game becomes her world as she slowly distances herself from her sisters in hopes of becoming the best.
7) Ferris
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Uncle Ted moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
8) Unstuck
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lyla sets out to write the perfect fantasy novel in her creative writing class, but discovers some unexpected twists and turns, both on and off the page. Includes twenty-five ways to overcome writer's block.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
379 pages : illustration ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rerouted to Cuba, two sheltered Jewish sisters fleeing World War I arrive in the sultry, hedonistic world of 1920s Havana in the new novel from the award-winning author of The View from Stalin's Head"--
10) Fallout
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2013].
Edition
First Margaret K. McElderry Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
663 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
11) Karen's haircut
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deciding a new haircut will give her the boost she needs, Karen is devastated when the hairstylist cuts her hair all wrong and wonders if she will ever get back to feeling like her usual confident self.
12) The scarlet veil
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
627 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After being sworn in as the Chasseurs' first huntswoman, Célie wants to protect Belterra alongside her fiancé and captain, Jean Luc, but her past haunts her -- like how she failed to protect her sister -- and a new evil is rising, with its mesmerizing eyes locked on her.
Six months have passed since Célie took her sacred vows and joined the ranks of the Chasseurs as their first huntswoman. With her fiancé, Jean Luc, as captain, she is determined...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family that is the story of a fifty-something woman who goes home-reluctantly-to Maine after the death of her mother. Can you ever truly go home again? An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years. Divorced and childless in her middle age, she's a true...
Author
Series
Senior sleuths volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a typically closed-off Peg attempts online dating at Rose's strong urging, the experience plays out like an embarrassing mistake. At least, until she matches with Nolan Abercrombie -- intelligent, attractive, and a self-proclaimed dog lover. The two share an instant connection that has Peg cautiously excited to finally bring someone special into her busy world of Standard Poodles and conformation shows. Before Peg can admit that Rose was right...
Author
Series
Bittersweet in the hollow volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a girl goes missing in her secluded Appalachian town, seventeen-year-old Linden, who can taste other people's emotions, recovers haunting memories of her own disappearance and explores the legend of the Moth-Wigned Man, leading her to wonder if there are some secrets best left buried.
Author
Series
Jordan Manning novels volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Journalist Jordan Manning delves into the case of a mother in danger and uncovers a dangerous web of secrets that could lead right to the missing woman--or put Jordan in the crosshairs of her abductors.
Author
Series
Shadow Lake novels volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
429 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As the holidays approach, Collette King is eager for Matthew Mueller's return to Shadow Lake. Especially now that she has finally surrendered to the truth-that the friend she has known forever, the first man she ever kissed, is the one she longs to spend her life with. So when Mattie shows up at her sister's wedding with another woman on his arm, Collette's hopes are shattered. To heal her broken heart, she begins a quilt honouring her memories of...
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Haunting of Hill House meets found-footage horror in this edge-of-your-seat thriller that explores the power of family ties and the trauma that lurks there. When Sophia Galich was twelve, she starred in her older sister Layla's amateur horror movie Vermillion, which recorded raw footage of her very real reactions to scenes her sister concocted in their old Californian house on the coast--Cashore House. In the years after the film's release, Sophia's...
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While their mother entertains lovers and friends in her cottage on the Isle of Wight, refusing to ever speak of her painful past, sisters Rachel, Imogen, and Sasha find her silence keeping them from finding true happiness, in a novel that asks whether children can ever be free from the mistakes of their parents.
Forbidden, passionate and all-encompassing, Margo and Richard's love affair was the stuff of legend--but, ultimately, doomed. When Richard...
20) Here in Avalon
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rose investigates the disappearance of her irresponsible and impetuous sister who fell followed a cult-like cabaret troupe that only appears at night on a mysterious red boat that sails around New York and is blamed for several disappearances"--
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