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Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah parents, who came to America twenty years earlier with little more than an education and their new marriage,this move represents the culmination of years of hard work and dreaming. For their children, born and raised in America, success is not so simple. For the most part, these differences among the five...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Victorian socialite Clara Stanton strives to protect her eccentric family's reputation, but that proves to be difficult when her grandfather takes off on a flight of fancy. Thrown together with vagabond tinker Theodore Kingsley, Clara sets off to followher grandfather's whimsical adventure and finds love along the way"--
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Esther's family has always believed they were descended from a great, though scandalously underappreciated Impressionist-era artist. But when questions arise about her ancestor's greatest work-The Lady with the Dark Hair-her once-solid family history rests on shaky ground as a search for the truth begins"--
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Publisher Annotation: In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges, the death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the heir of not just the family restaurant, but her own destiny. DEBUT NOVEL 319pp.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Sisters Rose Tillman and Marvina Nash haven't spoken in decades -- not since Rose sent Marvina forty dollars to register their business and Marvina used that money for her own personal purposes. Now retired, Rose wants to open the restaurant they'd once dreamed of. But to her horror, Rose realizes she's forgotten their mother's secret spice mix recipe, known to only one other person in the world. With no other option, Rose embarks on a two-hour...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Isaiah "Ice" Abernathy has always worshiped his older brother, Seth. For years they've been not just brothers but best friends--and as Seth starts his senior year, Ice is eager to spend as much time with his brother as he can, making memories before Seth goes to college. But when Seth announces he's leaving much earlier than expected, and then he misses an important event--one he'd promised to attend--it causes a major fight. Filled with regret,...
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Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019, 2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"Against all odds, Sawyer befriends a group of debutantes and quickly learns that her family is not the only mainstay of high society with skeletons in their closet. As she navigates the twisted relationships between her new friends and their powerful parents, Sawyer discovers there are secrets people will kill to keep buried."
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature. A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of twenty-two, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s and '60s America. In this...
Author
Series
Battling Harrigans of the frontier volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Spring, 1850. After a brutally long winter in the Rockies, Mack Harrigan and his growing family have learned to manage the harsh realities of frontier life. Their new friends, the Shoshone, have taught them the skills they need to survive in this rugged land, from tracking and hunting to fishing and foraging. But when their camp is attacked by an enemy tribe, the skills the Harrigans need most are those of a Shoshone warrior. Sometimes there is a...
Author
Publisher
The Story Plant
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"The Mozinskis experience music like no family you've ever met. Struggling musicians Vincent Mozinski and Grace Klinefelter marry in the early 1960s, drawn together by the shared ability to see the music they play. The two pass this unique skill along to their ever-growing family of musical prodigies: Clara, Ellington, Bix, Allegro, Thelonious, and Viola. After the children record a radio commercial for a local business, Vincent realizes the best...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Orphaned during the Second World War, Aelish and Isabel McGuire--known as the twins of Belfast--are given over to the austere care of the Sisters of Bethlehem. Though they are each all the other has, the girls are propelled in opposite directions as they grow up. Rebellious Isabel turns her back on the church and Ireland, traveling to Newfoundland where she pursues a perilous yet independent life. Devout Aelish chooses to remain in Northern Ireland...
Author
Series
Seven sisters volume 5
Publisher
Hope Holloway
Pub. Date
2024
Description
"Sadie Wingate has been keeping secrets...from her family and from her brand new husband. But once the truth is revealed, her whole world melts like a truffle in the sunshine. Can Sadie finally settle for a sweet life on Amelia Island...or will stability send her searching for the next adventure? Raina nears her delivery date and signs the papers ending her marriage, but there's one thing missing in her life. Despite being the fixer in her family,...
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Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Taro Sakamoto was once a legendary hit man considered the greatest of all time. Bad guys feared him! Assassins revered him! But then one day he quit, got married, and had a baby. He's now living the quiet life as the owner of a neighborhood store, but how long can Sakamoto enjoy his days of retirement before his past catches up to him?! Shin faces off with a strange assassin who's targeting Mr. Sakamoto, but how will he manage against a foe whose...
16) Stay
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
I simply slung my rucksack on my shoulder and climbed into the car-and into the life-of perfect strangers. It was meant to be Caitlin's perfect summer, but betrayed by her best friend and her boyfriend, she finds herself hitchhiking home alone, heartbroken, and penniless. When a smiling family pulls up on the roadside to help her on her way, she's relieved-they seem so friendly, safe. And when they offer her a warm bed in their isolated house for...
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