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Author
Series
The bookish life of Nina Hill volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A young woman moves to Los Angeles to escape her life and discovers she doesn't have to leave all of herself behind to make a fresh start, from USA Today bestselling author Abbi Waxman. When Laura Costello moves to Los Angeles, hoping to finally get away from her overprotective family, she doesn't expect to be homeless after a week. (She's almost certain she didn't start that fire . . . right?) When she's rescued by a charming but eccentric bookseller...
82) Finding Langston
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The plan is to leave. As for how, when, to where, and even why--she doesn't know yet. So begins a journey for the twenty-four-year-old narrator of Days of Distraction. As a staff writer at a prestigious tech publication, she reports on the achievements of smug Silicon Valley billionaires and start-up bros while her own request for a raise gets bumped from manager to manager. When her long-time boyfriend, J, decides to move to a quiet upstate New...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages : genealogical table ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A young New York City couple with a boy and a baby in tow, Ben and Caroline Tierney had it all, until Ben's second novel missed the mark, Caroline lost her lucrative banking job, and something went wrong with 8-year-old Charlie. When Ben inherits land way upstate from his grandmother, the two of them began to believe in second chances. But upon arriving in Swannhaven, a town that seems to have been forgotten by time, they're beset by strange sights...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
221 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Klawde, the exiled ruler of the planet Lyttyrboks, and Raj, who just moved from Brooklyn to tiny Elba, Oregon, forge an unlikely friendship as they find their footing in a strange new world.
88) Bitter and sweet
Author
Publisher
Goundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Despite her grandmother's wise words about how moving to a new place can be both bitter and sweet, Hannah feels only bitterness as she tries to get used to her new house. But when she sees the new home in the soft light of the Shabbat candles and a new friend reaches out with a special gift, Hannah begins to realize that sweetness can come from unexpected places. Includes author's note about Jewish traditions.
"When Hannah's family has to move, her...
89) Ghosts
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, and Maya sets her heart on meeting one.
90) Zenobia July
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Zenobia July, an excellent coder and hacker, investigates a mystery while wrestling with the challenges of a new school, a new family, and presenting her true gender for the first time.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Dorothea Benton Frank novels are filled with smart and witty fiction that every reader wants on their bookshelf: soulful, edgy stories about realistic characters familiar to us all that explore the most deeply felt moments of life with wry humor and heart. All Summer Long follows one charming New York couple - prominent interior designer Olivia Ritchie and her husband Nicholas Seymour, an English professor and true southern gentleman. They are seemingly...
92) Moving day
Author
Series
Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
228 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Allie Finkle has rules for everything and is even writing her own rule book, but her world is turned upside-down when she learns that her family is moving across town, which will mean a new house, school, best friend, and plenty of new rules.
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Liv Silver, fifteen, has lived in six countries in eight years and she and her sister yearn for a real home and normalcy, but soon after moving in with her mother's boyfriend in London, Liv's dreams turn bizarre, filled with talking stone statues, mysterious corridors, and strange rituals conducted by four boys who happen to be her new classmates and they seem to know things about her that they could not possibly know unless they actually are in her...
95) The other Mrs
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sadie and Will Foust have only just moved their family from bustling Chicago to small-town Maine when their neighbor Morgan Baines is found dead in her home. The murder rocks their tiny coastal island, but no one is more shaken than Sadie. But it's not just Morgan's death that has Sadie on edge. And as the eyes of suspicion turn toward the new family in town, Sadie is drawn deeper into the mystery of what really happened that dark and deadly night....
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old brilliant but socially-challenged Stewart and mean-girl Ashley must find common ground when, two years after Stewart's mother died, his father moves in with his new girlfriend--Ashley's mother, whose gay ex-husband lives in their guest house.
97) Sweetbitter
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
"A lush, thrilling debut--a publishing event already the subject of an article in The New York Times--about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young woman, set in the wild, alluring world of a famous downtown New York restaurant. "Let's say I was born when I came over the George Washington Bridge ..." This is how we meet unforgettable Tess, the 22-year-old at the heart of this stunning debut. Shot like a bullet from a mundane past, she's come...
98) Ttfn
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Now high school juniors, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela continue to share "instant messages" with one another as one of them experiments with marijuana, another gets her first boyfriend, and the third moves three thousand miles away.
99) Spirit hunters
Author
Series
Spirit hunters volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: We Need Diverse Books founder Ellen Oh returns with Spirit Hunters, a high-stakes middle grade mystery series about Harper Raine, the new seventh grader in town who must face down the dangerous ghosts haunting her younger brother. A riveting ghost story and captivating adventure, this tale will have you guessing at every turn! Harper doesn?t trust her new home from the moment she steps inside, and the rumors are that the Raine...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Coley is still grieving her mother's death when she moves to rural Oregon and feels more alone than ever, but when she meets Sonya, Coley considers risking it all and opening up her heart to love again.
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